lots....but not right now.

hello everybody.
i haven't been around.
but i've got lots to say.
nothing super important....just some fun stuff.

here is a funny thing from anne:
hey mom, is miss lisa (our hair dresser) coming tonight.
me-why, yes. she is, she will cut daddy's hair and my hair and color mine.
anne-thank goodness!  because your brown is showing!
me-well, good thing she is coming then.
ugh.

**disclaimer**our hair stylist (or whatever they are called) comes to our house.  ONLY because I used to go to her house, but she moved and her house isn't conducive for hair cutting....someone I know refers to me as the housewives of st. louis. not so.  it's just how the chips fall. and they happened to fall in a convenient pile in my favor!

35.

in 35 years i have.

laughed
birthed
wed
learned
taught
gained
lost
observed
loved
trudged
tried
failed
succeeded
learned
sighed
molded
consumed
watched
gained
danced
wished
held
fallen
praised
attempted
bettered
wounded
hurt
stomped
smiled
hugged
celebrated
orchestrated
led
followed

I am so thankful for this list.  Here's to another 35 things, huh?!
~chat soon!

got nothin'

seriously, so little is going on that i thought i would post pics from our oh-so-wild-in-bed-by-10:30-newyearseve... 

 

 

love the little tounge

making sure everything is right

deliberate

yum

shake shake shake

SHAKE IT UP

so that was it.
a little pizza (they make their own, we make our own...)
a little bubbly (for the parents)
a board game
the movie zoo keeper.
that's just us folks.
hopefully things start picking up a bit around here. 
it's about as slow as they come.
and it's buggin' me.
~chat soon!

i like this...

i've always loved a good quote. i get a daily quote in my inbox each day.  this was yesterday's.  it fit the day perfect.

 

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
~ Frank A Clark

Raise your hand....

if you want to be four again.
the biggest choice of the day...
the pattern to paint your toes!
happy monday to you and your's...
~chat soon

motherhood

heavy title, huh?
i love being a mother.  i really, really, really do.
i was in the car this weekend with my mother in law, the kids were so stinking wound up it was nuts.  we had taken them to a movie and then to get pizza with a coupon anne had for a reading incentive.
adam was out of town this past weekend, so i was solo.
no big deal.  we have two kids. it's not too terribly hard.
UNTIL THEY TURN AGAINST YOU.
something went amiss.  i don't know what.
maybe i let my guard down. maybe they sensed my vulnerability.
who knows. but it was clear.
i.was.screwed.  (pardon  my bluntness...)
as i said in a prior post, this week we had 2 snowdays.
i spent one day in bed, with a rotten tooth.
went to work 2 days.
got 2 root canals, have i mentioned that before? quite traumatizing...
woo hoo.  a wild week, huh?
it was most unproductive.
nothing can get under my skin more.
point of this rant...
sometimes it's hard. motherhood is.
everything you do is wrong.
the surprise you had planned when you pick up your first grader, not appreciated.
the movie you rented from the dollar rental box, they don't like.
the fact that they have to come home with you and not go to their maw-maw's because you didn't have to work due to weather, a disappointment.
it can totally get to a gal, can't it?
i found myself in the past 36 hours really beating myself up.
wondering what i could have done to make this a more 'memorable weekend....'
the answer is.....NOTHING.
it's hard. it's unpredictable, it can be unrewarding, overwhelming, and psychotic at any given point in a 1 hour period....
it's even harder when you hear someone say
'i just don't know how you do it....'

I DON'T KNOW EITHER!

then i read this
i have never read this blog before and i ran across a link on a facebook post.   it laid it out, plain and simple.
she said what i have been thinking.  i even cried.  that's how much it rang true in my head.
as a mom, you want to make sure that you don't miss a thing, write everything down, be accountable for every holiday, birthday bash, fart that is made...
if you don't...you will have to answer to those ladies who say

DON"T WISH THESE DAYS AWAY...THEY WILL BE THE BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE!

i get nervous, sweaty, panicked.
anne is turning SEVEN.
WHAT HAVE I MISSED?
WHAT DID I NOT WRITE DOWN, TAKE A PICTURE OF, REMEMBER FOR A STORY MUCH LATER IN LIFE...
while i don't wish the days away...sometimes i am just happy i made it.
~chat soon!

family fun night....

check out the tongue...so excited!

who's this?  she looks so big!

so proud of herself

so in love....with each other.

she loved organizing the balls

don't have a clue...

his bowling technique was smokin'....

final score

apparently a bowling model...

last weekend, adam and i decided we were long over due for a family fun night. (like a year overdue...)

adam sprung the idea on the girls and they were thrilled.

we grabbed a coupon out of our coupon book and off we went.

i always forget how much fun bowling is with the kids.  or with anyone really.

i truly stink at it, but i'm good with that.  it's just fun.  

anne just KNEW she won second place.

we let it go.  really, who cares.

she was pleased with her number...

adam smoked us all...

he was really pleased with himself.

i had already started with a toothache so i really could have cared less who won.

BUT 

anne says-mommy?

me-yes.

a-is it hard to be a mommy?

me-no, well, yes, well, i guess it just depends.  but it is good most of the time, why?

a-because it just seems like moms always lose! 

me-HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

a-i mean, you lose at candyland, checkers, flipover, guess who...and you always go last.  and sometimes you even give us what you were eating.  

me-well, it's okay. it's just being a mom.

a-oh.

ha.

funny.

then we went to a fun little joint called happy joes.  the girls love it there.  anne had a blast playing the quarter games.  we won 200 tickets total.  anne even got to drink SPRITE. (big deal in our house...)

anne yells, MOM GET THE CAMERA...

i said, i didn't have it with me.  it was in the car.

she says, but we gotta get a picture of this!  i have 100 tickets, a SPRITE and PIZZA we gotta take a picture of the best night EVER.  

too cute.

wish everyday could be a family fun night...but then the family fun nights wouldn't be as fun, right?

~chat soon.

in celebration....

i am celebrating...
that it's friday.
this week has been something. (mainly 2 different trips to the dentist, to have 2 different root canals, on 2 different teeth...sick, i know!)
i'm glad it's the weekend. (only 2 days of work this week...because of 2 snow days) the number 2 is a little out of control here.
on tap for tonight....
a red box movie, or two,
grocery store fried chicken,
and a splash of wine.
~chat soon!

wednesday.

today is wednesday.
the 11th of january.
again, this first month of the year has proven to be soooo s.l.o.w.
but it's good.
things are starting to pick up with our schedule so that will help get us to february a little quicker, maybe.
doubtful.

a couple things i realized today....
never, under any circumstances take katherine elizabeth to the undergarment section in target.
never.  i mean it.
she has never been our quiet one.
now that she is 4...it seems she is louder.
she says.  OH MOMMA THESE BOOBIES ARE  BIG!  as she grabs the largest cup size bra off the shelf and throws around in the air.
Mom...
Yes Kate.
Are you going to get the CHEETAH PANTIES?
um, no!
well, maybe, they are just in this pack of ....
why in the WORLD am i explaining this to her??????????????????

i quickly picked my plain old lady undies and bolted.
THEN i came upon the most beautiful red clutch purse on the clearance rack and thought...
WHY NOT....when you shop with kate....sometimes you need a band aid!
hahahahhaha
hope your wednesday was wonderful!
and you got to go with a 4 year old to the underwear department at target!
~chat soon!

a good read.

sometimes things just fall into your lap, don't they?
you didn't even know you were thinking or feeling a certain way and then you come across ssomething and you say OHMYGOSH that was written for me.

well, here it is.  

my favorites were....#1, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27...what are yours?

it is perfectly perfect for anyone and everyone i think.
read it.  use it.  i think it is a great direction for this first month of the new year!

~chat soon!

hello...new year!

whew!
that's all i have for today.
today is quiet.  a good quiet.
anne went back to school, which means the girls are fighting, or teasing, or squealing or....
the decorations are down and packed up.
the house has regained its normal look.
report cards are done.
lesson plans are waiting to be written.
some drawers and closets have been cleaned out.  it's always hysterical to me how much i get done in the last 36 hours of the break...i have only had 14 days to do it. 
i'm ready to get back into the swing of things.
adam has had a cold/flu for a couple days.
when that happens.
katy bar the door.
everything gets out of whack.

 this video is just a peek at what our house looks like when the 'man cold' hits! :) 
i think today he is better.  so like i said.  it's a good kind of quiet.
in the past i always had a 'word for the year'.  i think i have a couple for this year, but i haven't decided for sure that i will share.  i might.  still thinking about that.
well, the truth is, i have a couple.  that defeats the purpose.  so after i figure out what word it will be...maybe i will tell.  maybe.
it's a cold, sunny, january day.  the kind that makes you take a deep breath in and say...
i've got this! (i think...)
~chat soon!

May 2012 be filled with as many great memories as 2011!

 It was a great year!  We are excited to see what the new year brings!

~chat soon!