awesome quotes

Ok so normally I put these in a nice little box off to the right here >>>>>

But today I have to get more than one and I didn't want them to get swept under the rug and not properly acknowledged.

All of them are classic Groucho Marx . Which C'mon!! Classic humor is way better than most of the drek you find today. And with that I give you some of the best one liners.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.


Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?


I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.


Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Finally a nice day!!

So a couple of days ago we had a nice day and the kids were itching to get outside and enjoy it as they have been cooped up in what seems to be like the longest winter ever. I know we have quite a bit left still, but everyone was beginning to miss what it is like to play outside. We have just come off of a 2 week rain pattern. So some fresh air was a nice change. It still was pretty cold though. Notice the progression of the pictures. As we get to the last couple, the kids noses get redder and redder :)

Maniac on a tricycle

So i have said it before and I'll say it again. This kid is fearless! This was a couple days ago we actually had a brake in the rain so we got the kids out and playing.

Notice here how her feet hardly even touch the petals. She's like a freak road warrior. Flying down the street at mach speeds.

Update...

Ok I know this is totally me patting myself on the back and all....but I just thought I'd take a picture of what a sparkeling clean kitchen should look like. ...Look mom...I even cleaned all the pictures off the cabinets! You've been trying to get me to do that for months!

Another exciting and productive day in the life of me!

I even have dinner in the crock pot! And now I need to go spend the next hour in the car picking Bug up from school and my husband up from work. Off I go!

This is why....

So I love that you all care what I have to say, but I'm going to have a "Real" moment here. This is the real reason why I haven't posted anything in a couple days. I don't have any life threatening drama or deep contribution I have to give the world. I have just been over run by my own filth.

I'm trying desperatly to get a hold of the clutter that is my house. I put up 24 auctions on Ebay last night and I'm trying to down size. Althought all of my listings are Tupperware. (I have a lot of Tupperware. Have I mentioned that I love Tupperware? Truth is I sell it just to get my own discount :) I have a problem. Somebody help me)

Anyhow... I haven't written a new post , because this is what my kitchen looks like at this very moment. I know you can't hear it ( what with the series of tubes that is the internet) but it is in fact screaming at me. My kitchen that is. So I must go and take care of it.

Sorry I'm not more interesting, but this is the "Real" life of a stay at home mom. I may make it sound interesting, but most of it is pretty much everyday stuff. It's all about making everyday stuff interesting ;)

Snow morning!!

So around these parts, it dosen't snow very often. But when we get even the smallest dusting, the whole city shuts down. last night we got some freezing rain which with a little bit of snow. So naturally all schools were delayed by 2 hours this morning. We didn't realize this until we got to school and they turned us away. It really is pretty riduculous. Just take your time when driving on ice!!! Ask anyone who has ever lived in Alaska. You just learn to get around in it. otherwise we would all be shut ins.

Anyhow, this is what the kids did in the extra time this morning. They played pirate and turned his bed into a pirate ship.
By the way... he's in the big rubbermaid container in the bottom picture, but in actuality....it is his rescue boat. You know, the one that he had to catch when his scallywag sister made him walk the plank.
;)

What a draining day!

I woke up this morning thinking it would be a day much like any other. But a day in the life of a mother never is just a mellow day.

We had an incident yesterday in church that left us a little shaken. A parent of one of the kids was helping out in Bug's Sunday school class. We have seen this parent around and had a few run ins with him as his son and Bug are also in the same 1st grade class. Let me just preface this by saying (in the most Christian like way I can) that this man is not a very pleasant man to be around. He has little patience with children and especially mine. In his opinion his son can do no wrong. What is sort of funny about this, is that his son is just as rambunctious and high spirited as Bug is. They (for the most part) get along really well. But like all kids this age they do have silly little dramas and they do squabble. They sort of have a love/hate relationship.

Thus far it has always been my opinion to let kids learn to fight their own battles until they seek my help. Or tattle and then I have to get involved. So I have stayed out of their squabbles.

Then enters this Father. Now a little in his defense...I do enjoy talking to his wife. She and I have become friends just by proxy. We drop off and pick up kids at the same time and our kids are in church activities together. However.....this Dad is always rude to me and makes a point of asking me questions like "So I wonder what Bug did to my kid today" or " It sure would be nice if Bug didn't teach my kid such terrible behavior" or "gee...maybe if you didn't have so many kids you could get his behavior under control". (Ok I added that last one in. but that's the way he looks at me. It feels like that is what he is thinking. He is an only child and has a only child so that makes him an expert of child behavior)

Well let's cut to the chase here. So yesterday we go to pick Bug up after the church service and his teacher pulls my husband aside. Apparently this guy was helping out with the Sunday school class and had seen enough of Bug's "behavior" and decided to take matters into his own hands.

He took him aside , got in his face and yelled at him telling him" not to ever talk to his kid again." Now to a 6 year old this was really traumatic and really shook Bug up. He said that the way he was acting, he thought he was going to punch him or something. The teacher told us that she was really uncomfortable and thought this was very inappropriate.

We were LIVID!!!!

So we calmed Bug down and reassured him that whatever he did, no matter how bad, did not warrant that. We felt awful that this happened. Especially at church where we are taught to resolve things peacefully and talk it out.

So we got up today and I had to go in and talk to his teacher and let her know that Bug and this other boy can't have any contact. It seems so ridiculous, but I honestly just don't want to provoke him. After this, I would be scared to think what he would do to Bug if he found out that they were still talking.

So my husband gave this man a call tonight and told him "Look, the boys won't talk as long as we can help it. We have done everything we could do on our end. ...Oh and by the way....don't you EVER talk to my kid again unless it is in a heart felt apology. If you have an issue with him....you come to us. " Big man!!! Scaring the pants off a 6 year old child! He didn't even believe that Bug was bothered by the whole thing. He didn't say he was sorry or anything. He had no idea what he had done. He told my husband "sometimes you just have to speak sternly to boys" My husband was like "Yeah ok fine, talk to your own boy like that but leave mine alone!"

I'm trying really hard here just to turn the other cheek. But it gets tricky when your kid is in the middle of it. The mama bear in me just wants to rip this guys eyelids off. But in the meantime all I can do is just sit back and pray that he will realize what he has done and apologize so that the boys can be friends again. Because out of all of this...Bug really only had one friend at this school and now he lost him. Thats the saddest part.

Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Today's sassy look

Well as I have mentioned before Sunshine can't seem to do anything without some sort of sporty costume accessory. Today is no exception.

And here we have a fabulous crown with the 23rd Psalm printed out on it. However you wouldn't know that, mainly because she has covered the words with foam stickers.

So basically she sits around eating lunch wearing her paper,Psalm, foam sticker crown.

Sure...why not.

Cowgirl Sunshine

Ok I know....third video of the day. But I promise I'll stop here.


This one sort of pulls it all together though. Sunshine has been on this Horses/cowgirl kick for ...oh....about 3 1/2 years. Add in her love of the death defying.....an this is what you end up with.

By the way...I just want to take this moment and apologize for the crummy video quality here. I know my Dad is somewhere screaming at his screen right now. But I just don't have very good light in this room and I was more interested in catching the moment than I was about making it perfect. I can see now that I chose poorly :(

Look out Sugar Ray...

Ok, so i know I have talked a lot about the wonders and greatness of the Wii. But I really had to give you a visual of just how amusing it really is. It's fun just to watch other people play it.

Mind you, this is my 6 year old beating the snot out of a virtual punching bag. It seems innocent enough, but what cracks me up here is the intensity in which he does it.

And of course the victory dance at the end doesn't hurt either ;)