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When you add

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:24:29 GMT

cream cheese spread, a coffee table, and a 22 month old what do you get?

Yet another missed photo opportunity.

As an aside, the cream cheese was not my idea.

A lesson in futility

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:55:42 GMT

Overheard argument~

My 13 year old son (who should know better): Claire, don't say no to me

My 22 month old: NO

13yo: Claire, don't say no to me

22mo: NO

13yo: Claire, don't say no to me

22mo: NO

13yo: Claire, don't say no to me

22mo: NO

13yo: Claire, don't say no to me

22mo: NO

Guess who won?

Not me...

So We're not Fashion Forward

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:29:49 GMT

One of her big sister's leos + one of her big sister's pairs of underwear (over the leo) + plus an afternoon walk = a third child whose mother has learned that there is more to life than being a fashion forward 22 month old. Sometimes you must just enjoy the moment.

What Goes Around Comes Around

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:52:54 GMT

My son taught his 21 month old sister to hit today...who'd she hit first? Him!

Lesson mastered apparently.

The Descent Has Been a Long One

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:02:05 GMT

I just said this to my 21 month old...

"Wanna go brush our teeths together?"

Wow! And to think A&M gave me an education degree.

Sometimes

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:47:36 GMT

Sometimes I get excited at the thought of being a good wife and mother. Making dinner, folding laundry, and getting lesson plans ready.

and then sometimes I let my 21 month old play with my cell phone and call people and then I don't care.

Sometimes I make sure my littlest is eating everything she should ~ fruits and veggies and dairy.

and then sometimes she eats an entire pack of gum and only chokes a little.

Sometimes I work from dusk til dawn like a good Proverbs 31 woman should.

And sometimes I admit that the last sentence only happens occasionally.

Rhymes with Cracker

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:55:52 GMT

Sermon is contained in "audio" look towards the top of the blog. I was going to secretly upload it to the church's website like had been suggested but then I had a flashback of awkward pastoral visits and thought the better of it.

There is another track. I'll put it up later.

"cracker" is code

Things That Make me Laugh

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:07:34 GMT

For starters, my high school class is having their twentieth reunion according to my watch about ten years too early. I know, for a fact, I did not graduate twenty years ago. That would make me a grown up of sorts.

I also have to laugh at the fact that the committee wants me to pay $115.00 for John and I to go and chit chat with people who a) I don't know -- my graduating class was 657 people strong b) didn't like in high school or c) knew me far too well in high school and could share a story or two with my husband -- it wouldn't be pretty.

So the reunion will be skipped although as I was telling the only friend I keep up with that it would be so fun just to go and sit at the hotel bar and watch for the comings and goings of folks that we knew.

I also laugh at folks who think that they can cut in front of me when they failed to merge after four signs warned them of the eventual lane ending. You have to realize that when you see bumper to bumper traffic in two lanes and several signs saying lane ends in 1000 ft. that you need to get over. But speeding down the evaporating lane only to cut in front of 20 or so cars gets me a tad irritated and my SUV is old enough that I just don't care anymore and you are not getting over -- try the guy with the new BMW behind me ~ he looks ripe for the picking.

VBS went of virtually hitchless. That in and of itself made me a little nervous. We did forget to invite people back to the church ~ but we're amending the situation now. My favorite VBS award of the year went to our church's resident neonatologist. She got the reaching her professional pinnacle award. After all that schooling -- we made her craft aide. On the flip side -- it really boosted the self esteem of the lady we had in charge of crafts.

One final thing ~ I was talking to John about the fact that Styx, Def Leppard and Foreigner are coming to town at the end of the month. I enjoy all three. I was hoping he would say something like...hey you wanna go...where can I get tickets to that show....wow here's my credit card order me up two tickets. This is what he did say..."What, is the geriatric tour coming to the CWMP?" Guess who's not getting to party like it was 1999 when he gets home from being out of town.

Can You Find the Humor in This?

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:44:33 GMT

Today my eldest daughter was flip flopping around the living room as gymnasts are want to do and my youngest daughter was absolutely entranced. She loves her big sis and she loves staring while her big sis performs. So on this particular day I said to my big D, "Here, put Clairebear in her chair so that she can see you better." As my big D dutifully did this for me she remarked how much Claire loved to watch her. Oddly enough though, when the tasked was completed she turned to me and said, "I am going to go do my hair now." "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

As John said to me last night: "I ask for so little and yet I get even less."

Six Weird Things About Me

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:24:32 GMT

I was tagged by relatively new friend Ning (or bgag) to write about six weird things about myself. As I thought about this, my first reaction was -- I'm cool not weird. Then I thought some more and well --- I'm weird.

1. I think rooms look messier in the morning than they do at night. I can go to bed (last) thinking that everything wasn't too bad and wake up (first-ish) and think "what a sty" about the same exact room.

2. I honestly believe that folks from other states are jealous that they aren't from Texas. I distinctly remember sitting beside a car on a Virginia freeway thinking to myself -- they are soo lucky sitting next to folks from Texas. I bet they wish they were from Texas, too.

3. I started watching the soap opera As the World Turns when I was ten or so. My pastor's wife got me into it. She was later convicted about the wrongness of soaps ~ she just forgot to tell me and I spent several more years watching the comings and goings of the Oakdale upper crust. I don't watch it hardly at all anymore -- I had to give it up when my bigger kids stopped taking naps. And now once in a blue moon I tune in to check on Lucinda and Margo and Tom and the rest.

4. I count when I am in stressful situations. I figure most things don't last the length of time it takes to count to a hundred. I was talking to my BFF today and she related a story about how one of her children was clamoring for a break from school and when she calculated the actual amount of time they had worked it came up to about eight minutes -- and we all know how exhausting eight whole minutes of school can be. We both got a good laugh ~ but then I realized that is how life works. The hard stuff seems stinking long and the good stuff goes by way too fast.

5. If I had to pick my favorite dessert it would be potato chips and french onion dip -- I am not a sweets person.

6. I still consider myself a recent college graduate. One year not too long ago we received something form the Twelfth Man Association advertising half price football season tickets for recent grads. I called to my husband saying we're in luck until I read the fine print...you had to have graduated in 2003/2004. Us -- not so much.

Bonus...

7. I like my country music mixed with a lot of rock and roll. I especially like songs that don't say too much deep stuff because sometimes I listen to relax not to contemplate. And I like it very loud -- it is actually more relaxing that way.

8. I have alot of hang ups about grocery stores -- but that is for another day

Anyone that reads me can consider themsleves tagged...but I'd especially like to hear from my Movie Star looking friend Mazy.