I think they look SO much alike. I love HAPPY kids!
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Last night we took a few kids and my dad out for some sushi, or in my case, a salad, and a movie. We saw Alice In Wonderland. Not the best movie I have seen, but it was an enjoyable evening none the less.
On the ride down the street Hunter was recalling one of his worst memories of living here in California. It was the typical "remember when" chit chat and Hunter chose to "remember when" the sewer backed up and filled our bathtub. He recalled the floating poop and toilet paper in the sewer water and Brandon wading through it with a bucket and roto-rooter at our house till after midnight…. It was a memory that I would never choose to recall. I clearly pushed that one deep in my mind, but Hunter seemed to remember every stinking detail of the entire evening. Kids are extremely weird that way, add poop to any occasion and the memory will be firmly stuck in their minds for the rest of eternity.
After the movie, we were loading the car and Bronson shut his seat belt in the door and couldn't re-open the door to fix it. I had his door child-locked because I had taken Pickle with me earlier that day to pick up Hadley from school. My dad was curious about this child-lock thing and found it fascinating that I could enable or disable the child-lock feature at will. I reminded him of the time that I ran over Ty with the car (that is a post for another time, or not, since I like to forget it ever happened.) and explained why I always engaged the child-lock whenever Pickle was a passenger.
Hunter piped up from the back seat. "That (running over Ty) was one of the most disturbing things that has ever happened."
I said, "Oh Hunter man, I am so sorry, That must have been awful for you to witness as such a little guy. I feel terrible that you were there. You had a hell of a childhood. Between that and your parents getting divorced, its a wonder you turned out okay."
Hunter's respond to that, "Honestly, the poop in the tub was worse than anything."
…. We laughed till our guts hurt. If that right there doesn't show the resilience of kids….
I stew and stress and worry constantly about the things my kids will have to deal with and the scary world we live in and whether or not they are going to turn out okay living in this day and age…. And the worst effing thing that has ever happened to Hunter is to watch poop shoot out the tub drain? I think my kids may be worse off than I ever imagined!
08
Mar
place holder
Since I think that very little is cuter than babies in a sink. I am going to let you all enjoy these two while I work on my next post.
03
Mar
Typical Pickle
I went upstairs to wake Pickle up for dinner and I couldn't open the door. This is a typical thing she does, she falls asleep in front of her door often. Normally I can carefully push the door open and slide her little fanny along the floor with the door. But today, she wasn't sliding. I ran down the stairs to get my camera, so I could assess the situation.
This crack wasn't big enough to get my head through, but I could stick my arm through and take a picture and see how hard to push and/or why she wasn't rolling or sliding with the door.
Look at this baby. She looked like something off of CSI. (not that I watch that shit.)
Crazy Pickle. We had to wait it out. She rolled over eventually and removed her face from the door.
I am just glad it was me that went up to get her. I shudder at the thought of Kate bursting through that door to wake her up. These stupid things are the things I am grateful for. The "little premonitions" and "Pickle alarms" that go off in my head are blessings to me.
Mothers intuition is coursing through my veins and as unnerving as it is at times, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
22
Feb
more sunshine and rainbows
Because even if I've lost my groove, I still have cute kids and live in paradise.
24
Dec
Merry Christmas 2009
I was so excited about my picture. I took about fifteen and got one good one. I sat down at the computer to upload and counted my adorable children. Then I counted them again. And then I flipped a shit, because now they are all in bed and Ty was missing from my Christmas picture!! He just got moved to the naughty list.
09
Dec
Wednesdays are my favorite
I love Wednesdays. They are a little bit different than the other days in the week for multiple reasons. But this post is about early out day. You see all my elementary aged kids get out early on Wednesdays. That means I pick up Jace, Jazzi and Kate BEFORE I pick up Hunter. I don’t have time to take them home before I have to get on the freeway so they come along for the ride and I always get them a drink or a shake on Wednesdays to make up for being stuck in the car for an hour.
Personally, I love it. I am never more entertained than I am on Wednesday afternoons listening to those three. This past Wednesday, we pulled right up next a car being driven by a young girl, maybe early twenties. She was beautiful. BUT she had a cigarette in her mouth.
Jace started, "That girl is ruining our environment. When she is done smoking that thing, she is going to toss it out the window and it will never go away. It will get in our oceans and kill our fish."
Kate said, " That girl is ruining her lungs. She is going to die you know. Every time she sucks in, she is breathing poisonous stuff into her body. It will give her cancer or make her die."
Jasmine sat listening for a minute while Kate and Jace argued back and forth over what was worse, her dying, or the fish dying.
Jazzi finally piped up with, "I’ll tell you both what she is going to ruin….. HER LIPSTICK."
And the light changed and we drove away.
if that little conversation in the back seat didn’t sum up my three…..
I chuckled all the way home.
Two more hours until pick up. I can’t wait to hear what they will talk about today. I love my monsters.
29
Nov
stellar day *UPDATED*
Two kids peed their pants,
one kid broke his arm,
two kids got into a knock down drag out fight in my front room,
and none of these were related. Just the children… The children are related.
More details later. Now, I have to take Bronson to the airport. He is going back to school and he isn’t very happy about it. He has been sicker than a dog all week. It used to be easy to return him, because he loved Asheville so much. Today, he is dragging his feet and making me feel like telling him to just stay home for a few more days. Being a mother to adult children SUCKS! I just want to make it all better and tuck him back in bed, but it doesn’t seem to be an option. I have to let him go and do the right thing and I hate it. Give me five two-year-olds any day of the week. But one 18-year-old is kicking my ass!
UPDATED- Bronson is still home. Thanks to Continental who had a broken plane. Brons will fly out tomorrow.
27
Nov
Small blessings
I am thankful to have my big kids home to help me with this these little Benson’s.
18
Nov
NEW CAMERA
This post is going to look like a week in pictures, but it’s truly one hour in pictures. I am so excited and happy with this camera. I have a blog friend that is a professional photographer so I called her and said, HELP, I need a new camera, I don’t know how to do anything other then turn them on and zoom, but I want one that takes amazing pictures.
She said, get in the car right now and go buy the Canon G10.
and I tried to do that, but they were sold out EVERYWHERE! So I came home and ordered it online.
It arrived yesterday and so far, I am thrilled with it. Granted, I haven’t read the manual, or figured out a damn thing, but I put the battery in and turned it on and this is what it has generated so far.
One more thing to add. I have never been able to take good pictures in the house. The flash and my camera didn’t do what I excepted them to do. I am sure there was a setting it was supposed to be on or something and I am clueless when it comes to this stuff. But this camera is AWESOME! Inside and out. I walked into the kids rooms last night in the dark and got right in their in faces. no lights, just flash. I am still in shock how good they look.
Check out what I have so far.
What do think? I am thrilled with the way this baby works. If any of you need a new camera for Christmas…. This one is awesome.
$449 on amazon.