Don't eat the Poop!

Create a list of playground dos and don'ts



So I am doing this writing prompt differently! I am doing it from a mom's point of view to a toddler...(if only they could understand).

1. Don't eat the poop! Seriously, I mean really? REALLY! I know it looks like mud, and you just want to play with it but sheesh....leave it alone!

2. Stop with the dirt throwing. It gets everywhere...in your hair, in your shoes and even in your diaper. I particularly do not like washing your hair 3 times a day, and I really don't like cleaning sand out of your butt crack. Thanks.

3. If their is a mysterious liquid on the slide...don't touch it. It's pee. Guarantee you!~ Mom knows best....

4. Us moms cringe when you dig in those little rocks...we all know their are sickos who come to the playgrounds...I don't want you picking up band-aids, condoms, or syringes...um-kay.

5. Don't pick up the band-aids...I don't care if you LOVE spongebob..it's still gross.

6. Please do more then swing...I do not like standing in one spot pushing you for 3 hours...please mix it up!

7. Please don't talk to the creepy guy sitting on the park bench whose at the park with no children...yuck...

8. Don't play with the little girl in the dress whose mommy didn't put underwear on her...ewww...ewww....ewwwww

9. Last but not least...when it's time to go...DO NOT THROW A MASSIVE TANTRUM! It's embarassing...

Those would be my advice to the two year olds if they could understand!

Now the parents....ugh...could go on for days!!!

Okay parents...here goes....

1. Please don't bring your sick kid just because they "were tired of being couped up".

2. Don't let them continue to play AFTER they've wet their pants...really? I know that mess on the slide was theirs...

3. If they throw dirt at my kid one more time......

4. Please keep the 12 year olds from running over the 2 year olds on the playscape....okay....please

5. Please don't tell all the other moms how advanced your kid is when they are setting there with one hand down their pants and the other in their mouth....umm...yeah...we're not fooled...you call it artistic...we call it...anyway...

6. Save the high heels for else-where....your at the park....

7. Please have your kiddos use manners and wash their hands after peeing...thanks!

That's not all...but I'm tired...sheesh.

Pieces of My Heart!

List the pieces of you that have come from those around you?



I'm a little stumped at this writing prompt, so we will see!

I'm going to do this a little different, I think I will start by listing my boldest qualities, the qualities that I think define me and who I am, and I will then write who I think they came from! (positive, and negative)

Stubborn: I definately get this from my father's "i'm always right"attitude. It's a good quality, and a very bad one. Plus, I have successfully passed this on to my sweet sassy little Lily.

Controlling: Unfortunately, I am a very "my way or no way" type person which I also think comes from dear dad. And once again, miss Lily now holds this torch.

Worriful/anxious: I am bad with the anxiety (can you say OCD). Yeah, thats me. I worry non-stop...and therefore, I am an insomniac...blah. Also comes from dear dad.

compassionate: I'm the one who gets crazy sad when I see an old person eating alone, or kids in the store who aren't cared for properly...wish I could adopt them all!! I would say my grandmother and grandfather, and since the kiddos have been born...from them too.

maternal: I would mother a thousand kids, if money and science would let me! I tend to find myself "mothering" my husband, sister, blah...lots of people that I think I need to take care of...that I don't!! lol. I think this comes from my grandmother. She's very caring.

un-trusting: yes, it's bad...but true. Dear dad and dear mom.

grudge-holding: yes, another awful one. Mom gave me this...

messy: I try soooo hard to not be messy....but I too got this from my mother!

analytical: I will analyze everyone and everything....I'm the first to say "she should have gotten more hugs as a child". This comes from grandma!

Good friend: I try anyway! Will go out of my way! Maybe my sister? She seems to be nice to her friends! ??

Loving: Last but not least...I dont' feel like I was a "loving" person until the babies were born! Love them, and thank them!

wow, that was a boring writing prompt! Sorry for wasting your 5 minutes ....sheesh...ugh

God is so good!!

Just wanted to let everyone know that Lily's abdominal ultrasound and all lab work came back normal...without cause for concern!! THANK you GOD! Do you know how much it stinx to freak out for a week worrying that your sweet little 5 year old may have something insanely horrible?! Ughh...worst feeling in the world! Very anxiety inducing. :( But it' s done....and they are still sticking to the "chronic constipation" diagnosis. You have never seen two parents more happy when their kid poops! yayy for poop!

Other then that...we had a good weekend, nothing out of the ordinary. Andy is still volunteering at the church, which we LOVE! It was a very ordinary weekend. Life is good. :)

Write a list of ten things on your mind this week.

So...ten things on my mind this week:

1. Lily's ultrasound results:  these have been stressing me out! But...I got the call 2 minutes ago...and they were normal! PRAISE GOD!!!

2. Lily's lab results:....stilllll waiting! ... :(

3. My friends lab results: :(

4. My choice deadly sin this week is SLOTH> err...I feel soooo lazy and unmotivated...

5. School. Really hoping I get to go back!!! Excited..but wondering if it will happen!

6. Money, money, money..isn't that bad?! It's always money! Not enough...how much we need...yada yada

7. My dads visit today...yay for hearing about how much he hates Texas! (sense the sarcasm?)

8. The weather...yuck...cold...brrrrr....just YUCK!

9. laundry...nuff said

10. hmmm....?????....my mind is a messy place....

Prompted from:

A Man's Diet...haha!

Anyone know of what consists of 4 rowdy little boys, alot of noise, and crazy mayhem? River's cub scout troop!! Lots of fun!

So, last nights activity was a cut and paste activity. The kids were to cut out different foods from the various food groups and paste them onto a piece of paper to somewhat resemble the infamous food pyramid. Well, between the boys talking loudly, going crazy and Hollyn in the background...well, I wasn't really paying attention to what exactly River was doing.

When I looked at River's finished work...I saw a piece of construction paper that had the following things glued on it: cookies, pie, Cereal bars, cake, and.......(drumroll please..).....BEER. Yes, my kid decided to cut out some beer for his food pyramid. What a rebel. Funny thing being, Andy and I don't really drink. I say really, because Andy absolutely does not, and I will on occasion. Goes to show though, the man's diet is consistent upon those things. Starting young! I will definately post a picture later to show everyone his wonderful masterpiece!!

10 things I believe in...

So, to keep this blog from being solely about babies...which is all I really have to write about. I found an online writers workshop that prompts you with different ideas to write about. Today my topic is "10 things I believe in and why". Here it is:

1. GOD--I KNOW theirs a God for so many different reasons. Holding three beautiful babies for the first time..the way they look, smell, feel. Answered and unanswered prayers. Did I really want to end up with that idiot I dated in high school that i was sooooo in love with? no. The things children say!

2. FORGIVENESS--As much as it stinks...and I'm bad at this. It is too much to carry around. You really feel "lighter" without feeling so much hate.

3. LOVE--not just guy/girl love. Baby love. Friend love. All of it.

4. TRUST IS IMPORTANT--once its gone...it's gone forever...trust me

5. MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL--yap. Hubby and I fight about this ALLL the time. :(

6. GUARDIAN ANGELS--strangely, I still feel my grandpas presence. Weird as it sounds.

7. REAL LIFE SAINTS--My grandma Lyman...my hero...everything i want to be.

8. NEGATIVITY IS CONTAGIOUS--when my dad is around...I tend to be an awful person.

9. POSITIVITY IS CONTAGIOUS--positive people bring positive feelings. :)

10. SOME PEOPLE NEVER CHANGE--my brother, mother, the list goes onnn...and onnnn.....

and that is my list!

CHAOS

The Definition of Chaos in the Dictionary reads: "A condition or place of great disorder or confusion. 2. A disorderly mass; a jumble".

Personally, if I were to re-write the dictionary..I would post a picture of my house. And that ..without words..would define it perfectly! It would be the greatest thing. Therefore, illiterate people ( so many....) would be able to see!

What would you see....well, let me give you the full picture of "chaos" aka my house. If you were to walk through the front door right now you would see lots of things. You would see piles and piles of clean laundry on my sofa, you would see a mountainous pile of dirty laundry sitting outside the laundry room. (keep in mind we are still in the living room). You would see a pile of dogfood that Hollyn was diligently "snacking/playing " with. And onto the kitchen. Dinner dishes...EVERYWHERE...,  a puddle of juice that Holly dumped on the floor, etc. etc. It is AWFUL! It disgusts me, fills me up with utter frustration. Drives me CRAZY. And strangely....I clean all day. It's hard to do dishes when theirs a 1 year old holding onto your leg, screaming "MOMMY"..."MOMMY" 100x over and over. It's hard to have clean clothes when Holly is eating cookies in the laundry basket. (Although, that's minor to me, and they will still get hung up).

Is this the way it is supposed to be???! When I got pregnant with River I had this Picture perfect little picture in my head! So excited! I was going to be supermom. I was going to have an immaculately clean home, that always smelled like cookies, long days of nothing but playing! Awww....where exactly does this world exist??! Their are the "fairy tale" days...where everything is clean, we have no homework, and everything works just the way I want it to...but they are few and far between!

I know this sounds like a complaint..but it's not! I LOVE my chaotic life! LOVE it! I love having 3 kids...would definately have more if we could afford it. Hubby says no...but hey, maybe when Im out of school? 5 years down the road? Or....maybe not! I literally love being around kids! LOVE it. In spite of Lily and River beating the crud out of each other, Hollyn being super needy, River whining about homework, Lily throwing the most massive tantrums EVER...I LOVE being a mom! I do! Just wish we had more "fairy tale" days and less evenings where I want to pull my hair out. "Enjoy these moments..they go so fast". Everyone says it! So it makes me sad when we have less then enjoyable evenings. Makes me sad to count down hours till bedtime. Craziness! I love craziness. I set myself up for it, I really do. I volunteer to be room parent, theme basket coordinator, girl scout snack coordinator, PTA, playgroup organizer, church volunteer...dun-dunnn-dunn! Supermom! What I always wanted!

Be careful what you wish for.....

you just might get it......

now I'm going to go cuddle with my teensy little one year old, and enjoy this mommy stuff the way I'm supposed to....I'll get to this "mess" later. :)

Trying this again!

Okay...so I am attempting this blog thing again...because our family has so much to share!!!! So, I will keep everyone updated...and hopefully this can be fun! :)