Monday Mugs - Barefoot

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs are for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and not being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Barefoot

Here are photos from our favorite place to be barefoot!

July 2003

April 2004

October 2006

October 2009

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Next week's theme is: Play

Teacher Gifts and Friday Follow

Well, School is O.U.T. I am really excited about sleeping in, swimming lessons, days at the pool and maybe a quick Staycation. Hopefully I can keep the fighting and bored kids to a minimum. Just thought I would show you guys what I got for teacher gifts.

Personalized Handsanitizer and a homemade card. Thanks Kmama, for the great gift idea!

I even got gifts from the boys' teachers. Ashton's teacher gave me some antibacterial hand soap from Bath & Body Works in delicious peach scent. And Bailey's teacher made me a perpetual calendar to keep track of  birthdays and special events. I am really going to miss their teachers!

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Have a GREAT weekend everybody!

TYVM - 5/27/10

Free Therapy courtesy of Kmama!

Thank you very much to the late night soccer games, talent shows, award assemblies, water days, game days, preparing teacher gifts and many other random end-of-school activities that have made it impossible for me to keep up all of my blog reading this week. I apologize everybody! Today is the last day of school so I am hoping to catch up on Friday........night, since I will be home with my ENTIRE pack-o-kids!

Thank you very much to the ginormous spider that ran across our kitchen floor at lightning speed the other night. Um, I told you if you came in the house you would be sorry! My #1 Protector was right around the corner and immediately rescued me from your eight,very long, hairy legs!

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Monday Mugs - Yellow

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs are for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and not being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Yellow

I had grand plans to go through ALL of my photo cd's to pick out "yellow" pictures but I just couldn't spend ALL of the time required! This is supposed to be an easy post!! So, I just used pictures that were already saved on my computer. I was surprised by my choices!

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Next week's theme is: Barefoot

TYVM - 5/20/10

Yay Yay, it's Free Therapy Day!

To the spider that decided to show up while Protector #1 (daddyo) was not home and Protector #2 (bailey) was sound asleep! Thank You Very Much for hiding in the corner and forcing me to throw a hacky sack at you for 5 minutes before you finally fell to the floor so I could squish you with a shoe after chasing you along the edge of the floor! This is a warning to any other disgusting bugs that decide to crawl around inside my house: STAY OUTSIDE.......or you'll be sorry!

To the cold/flu that has made 1 member of the family at a time sick every week for the last four weeks. Thank You Very Much for causing me to spend ridiculous amounts of money on fever reduction medication to help alleviate the whining and crying coming from all my sick kids (including DaddyO).

To Kmama for publishing a post about adult acne problems. Thank You Very Much! Your blog is contagious! After reliving my lifelong acne troubles and proceeding to have an anxiety attack remembering high school, I now have a huge, blind zit on my neck! It is very painful AND very unattractive. Maybe if I didn't have so many wrinkles, people would just think I was a pimply teenager! Ha Ha Ha! I ♥ ya Kmama! Just letting you know you are not alone!

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WW - Trip North

TST - Lily's Ears

When Lily turned 7 years old, she decided that she wanted to get her ears pierced. DaddyO and I thought it would be a good birthday present so we took her to get it done. Once she hopped in the chair the tears and hysterics began. I was really loving that it seemed like we were forcing her to get her ears pierced! Lily survived the drama and she left the store with pretty little flower earrings. Due to all the commotion, I didn't get any pictures.

This is one of the only pics I have of Lily with her ears pierced.

Shortly after the piercings, DaddyO and I went on a little trip to Hawaii. Without Kids! I was so excited to shop around for some new earrings for Lily and I was on a mission to find a starfish pair (anyone see Aquamarine?).

After much searching I did find a pair of starfish earrings and not long after our trip, it was time for Lily to remove the original studs and start wearring regular earrings. We tried the starfish pair first and of course her ears became incredibley infected! I had to take the earrings out and Lily absolutely refused to let me put anything back in! So, the holes closed up.

Fast forward to Lily's 10th birthday (that's how long it took to recover from the first piercing). Lily received a gift certificate to Claire's. I casually mentioned that she could use it to get her ears pierced. She thought about it for a few days and finally decided that she DID want to get her ears pierced again. We took her to the mall and she picked out a pair of earrings that were almost identical to the pair she picked out when she was 7.

There were no hysterics, but there were a few tears!

There was still the feeling that everyone else in the store thought I was forcing her to get her ears pierced!

But, she survived and happily ended up with pretty pierced ears!

Then she paid for her siblings to ride this little merry-go-round.

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Monday Mugs - Flowers

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs are for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and not being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Flowers

Here are my beautiful flowers!

Lily as a sunflower.

Daisy as a daisy.

Lily smelling the pansies.

Daisy smelling the gerraniums.

Daisy smelling the alyssum.

 

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Thank You Very Much - 5/13/10

It's Free Therapy Day!


First, I would like to thank myself for failing to notice that I had absolutely no gas in my car! This wouldn't have been such a big problem if it were not for the 'below' Thank You. Pay attention, Thank You Very Much.

To the lovelies who arranged the 'Muffins for Moms' get-together at the school. Last year an event with the exact same name was for Mothers and their children, but someone failed to mention that this year it was a 'volunteer appreciation' breakfast. I didn't feed my kids breakfast, Thank You Very Much. So now, I have hungry kids who want donuts, no gas in my car and we have 20 minutes until school starts. Yeah, we're going to be late!

To the 'snowbirds' who are still driving around town, Thank You Very Much for consistently driving 15mph BELOW the speed limit and BREAKING for green lights. It's hot already! Isn't it time for you to go back to the cooler areas you came from?

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*REMINDER* The theme for the next Monday Mugs is: Flowers

WW - First Swim

Monday Mugs - All About Mom *updated with photos*

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs are for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and not being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: All About Mom
Here are my first 10 celebrations of being a Mom!

2000

2001(bad scan)

 

2002( I must have had my bangs trimmed the day before. Why?!)

2003-5 mo. pregnant with A and B

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008-5 mo. pregnant with Miss Daisy

2009

 Stay tuned for 2010 Mother's Day photos!
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Next week's theme is: Flowers
I think I have a couple of my own flowers that will be perfect for next week!