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'.

Why I Love The People I Love...Part VII

Okay, I really feel sorry for those of you who can't stand your mother in law. This would be a horrible feeling. I am so blessed to have a good mother in law because I have heard of a few really scary, overbearing, controlling, nosy mother in laws!! (Sorry to sound harsh...but they DO exist!) My father in law passed away 16 months ago, and I loved and still do love him so very much too! I can honestly say that I am so grateful for these two for many reasons, but for the most part because they raised Chris to be a wonderful person! They raised him with the same core values I was raised with. Chris and I both come from different backgrounds. I am more of a city girl and he is really kind of a country bumpkin, but it goes to show you that as long as you share the same values and you love another, then none of that really matters! The thing that really matters is the fact that our parents loved us, and raised us to be good people. We make lots of mistakes, but we keep trudging ahead and attempting to raise our children with values that will lead them to have a life that brings them joy. I am grateful to my in laws (mother, father, and siblings too!) because they contributed in the making of my dear sweet husband. I will be indebted to them forever for just that.