Thankfulness And Learning To Laugh...

I am what you might call over obsessive about order and cleanliness. I haven't always been this way, but the last 10 years, I have become this way and I have no idea how to change that. Oh well, the plus is that I have a clean presentable house, but I have determined that I need to learn to laugh and not forget to have fun in my own home. And who really cares if it's a wreck, right?? Halee helped me out with this the other night. Isn't she completely lovely covered in white? Does it look as though you could reach your finger out and taste sugar and sweets? Not this time....try shaving cream. This is definitely out of the ordinary for Halee, but for whatever reason she did something that would normally really make me angry. However, she looked so funny and so puffy white cloudish that all I and Chris could do was laugh. Boy she got off the hook. I think I will try laughing more often in stressful situations. It was serious therapy.

I am so thankful for Thanksgiving. I have every reason in life to be grateful. I have a great husband, my beautiful children, a secure future (at least I think) and I have the Lord in my life. I'm sorry to sound cheesy, but I am so blessed as I am sure so many of you are!!! Enjoy this Holiday...I know I will. I love to eat!

Not enough eyes to see....

This is what happens when you're the mother of six, and your two year old has all access to the kitchen because you're too busy taking care of everyone else. I'll have her know that I JUST bought that roll of paper towel!

This is a no no!

My baby is growing up on me. This is absolutely and positively not okay on ANY level.

Good Times With Kids...

If I could come up with one activity that I absolutely adore doing with my kids, it would hands down be reading. I am really bad because I raid the library and then take forever to return the books. Chris gets really annoyed because I always have late fines. I try to remind him that I am being a good mommy by expanding our kids' minds. I took them there today in fact, and I always feel a calm happy feeling while at the library. I don't get people staring at my large family as much there. Why is this? Oh well, I like it!! The kids were really terrific most of the time, but maybe there's something in the air because they have been AT each other a lot lately. At the end of our outing they started to fight, and I spanked them all (not really) then said "Okay I'm out of here" (really.) All in all I was happy to be there! And I have to say that I am very sad because here soon our library is closing due to low funding. :( I will be buying books at that point because reading is a gift I refuse to deprive my children of.

Funny? Not So Much...

Okay so a few seconds ago I'm sitting here looking at my email and Chris I guess must have been feeling deprived of attention because all of a sudden he's looking in the fridge and he drops to the floor as though he's had a heart attack. I of course (being that I'm a neurotic over obsessive worrier) jumped down and was like "CHRIS!!!!!!!!" He felt instant regret when he saw that I actually thought he might be dead. He ran over and kept saying "I am so sorry!" Meanwhile my heart was beating out of my chest. Was I a happy wife? Um, no. Oh well, it's only been 15 minutes and I am starting to think it was just a tad funny.

Halloween, 2009

My children being funny and oh so scary. I was too lazy to post this on Halloween, but better late than never! :)

Kiss My Foot!

Growing up this was one of my moms favorite things to say to us kids when she wasn't going to take any you know what from us! This is what I felt like saying to my brood today. We went to visit my parents in my hometown because Chris was due to take some continuing education courses, so I thought I would hang out with my family. We had a great time. I was able to visit one of my best friends that lives an hour from my parents which was very refreshing and fun! Plus she made me chocolate chip cookies...darned girl!! They were yummy. Anyway, it wasn't until the drive home today that I wanted to exclaim to my children "Kiss my foot!!" It was one of those days where the fighting was NON STOP. Constant exclamations of "Her feet are in my face!" or "He poked my back!" or "She spit on me!" (That one really made me mad.) I literally felt like I needed to run far away to another land. In fact at one point I stopped at a red light, looked over and there was an old lady all alone in her car, and I said under my breath..."can I get in your car?" Chris took the "fix" it approach as he watched me crumple before his eyes. He kept saying things like "Oh come on, you know you love them" and "One day you'll laugh at this." Hmmmm...I told him it would be a LONG time before I laugh! Bless Chris' heart for trying to talk me out of my mini breakdown, but you would think he would realize after 12 years that this approach never works for me! I do believe that I will one day laugh though...especially when I am the little old lady sitting in a car all alone....probably even wishing the kids were driving me crazy. Yay for tomorrows...lets hope there won't be any foot kissin'.