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Asking YOU a Question Blog Hop - Help! Teacher Gift Ideas

If I hadn't been dealing with cute little sickos for a week and if I wasn't so tired, I probably could have come up with a truly profound question. However, I really would love some ideas/help in this area:

What are you giving/have you given for teacher gifts (christmas, end of the year)? I especially need some help with PE Coach gifts!

Thank You Very Much!

It is time for my weekly therapy session. If you need to get some aggravations off your chest, head on over to The Daily Dribbles. Try it, you'll like it!

To the flu shot, Thank You Very Much for doing such a good job at protecting us from the flu. Lily and I are both sick today with symptoms that YOU are supposed to prevent. I guess I can look forward to the entire family NOT being protected by you!

To the flu, Thank You Very Much for making me feel like crap. It is so sweet of you to make me sick while my kiddos are sick so I have to take care of said sickos while feeling sick (how many times can you use the word "sick" in a sentence?). Thank You So Much, FLU, for keeping me up all night, so instead of having an elaborate and witty Thank You Very Much Post, I have to go take a nap instead!

Thank you Kmama for allowing me to yell at my imaginary friends. I do feel better having given them a piece of my mind (what's left)!

Recycled Wednesday

I am feeling a bit under the weather today, so I am going to re-publish a post from last year. Back then, only family members were reading my blog. This is one of my favorites!

A Musical at the Oswald Theater
The other day the kids put on a play for me. It was called "Thunder Mountain"

Lily was a princess who lived on top of the mountain and she was waiting for a prince to come and marry her.
Ashton and Bailey were cowboys "Smith" and "Big"
They had horses and little pistols.
The first musical number was Smith and Big singing about how they were going to marry the princess:

"I'm going to marry the princess" sang Smith

"No, I'm going to marry the princess" sang Big

"No I am"

"No I am"

"No I am"

"No I am"

Lily had music from her piano playing and she would whisper the words to the boys before they sang.

Then both the cowboys raced up the mountain to ask the princess to marry them.

Next the princess sang about how she couldn't marry the cowboys because she wanted to marry a prince. And she was sorry but she wasn't that "in" to horses. Lots of singing "I'm sorry!" over and over! Eyes closed, arms outstretched.
The same music as the cowboys' song played on the piano, just different words.

And that was the end. I really had to contain my laughter! They did a great job with very little rehearsals. Oh, my silly kids!

This is just a silly picture, not from the performance.

 
For more funny kid stories, visit Marianne at Family American Style.

Wordless Wednesday

WW - Three Wise Monkeys

Blog Awards

I've received a couple of awards over the past month and it is time for me to acknowledge and thank the bloggers who awarded them to me!

Ave from Made in Canarias awarded me with the "Best Blog Award." If you have never been to Ave's blog you should check it out. She is SO cool and she is currently having HUGE giveaways on her blog! Thanks so much for this award Ave!!!

Rules: To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link. Pass the award to 10 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award. I REALLY love receiving blog awards but it is so hard to follow the rules sometims. I am gonna show some love to everyone who commented on my last post. Thank you so much for visiting my blog, taking the time to read my posts AND leaving me a message! I love you man!

The Best Blog Award goes to:

My Three Bubs
The Tran Clan
He & Me plus 3
Foursons
The Merritts
a day in the life of a girl named Kimber
Desires of the Heart
Unfailing Love
a nut in a nutshell
Pair' Slices
Guessing All The Way
Personalized sketches and Sentiments
By His Hands, We Are Fed

I would award this to Ave if she didn't already have one and I would also award it to my Mom if she had a blog!

The second award is from Maria at Personalized Sketches and Sentiments. Maria always has fun photo slide-shows of her family and friends and she creates the most AMAZING sketches. Go check it out!! Thanks for this cute award Maria!

I am going to follow Maria's lead and award this to EVERYONE who follows my blog. If you visit my blog and made it through my awards post, please take this darling award and add it to your blog! I appreciate you and you deserve it! I say make up your own rules if you want to! I wish I had the time to link to all of my followers but Daisy is going to wake up from her nap at any minute and I need to get dressed!

Normal Days

 Most days, I am able to enjoy or atleast find the comedy in all the good/bad moments of our lives. But some days all I can think about is "how much longer until bedtime!" 

Some days Lily won't go to sleep unless DaddyO or I are sitting at the computer right outside her bedroom and most nights ends up sleeping on the floor in our room.

Some days Ashton shrieks in pain if someone barely brushes their hand next to his body.

Some days Bailey sneaks in to the pantry and we find his half eaten, moldy snacks behind the couch.

Some days Daisy wakes up 4 times per night to eat.

Some days Lily plays school or tag or barbie's or pirates for hours with her brothers OR plays with Daisy while I make dinner.

Some days Ashton says "this is the best day ever" because you are taking him to swim at Grandma's ALL BY HIMSELF.

He actually fell asleep like this!

Some days when everyone is fighting over who gets to sit next to me at the table, Bailey volunteers to give up his seat or when everyone wants to hold my hand, Bailey happily skips up to hold his dad's hand.

wearing his skeleton gloves to bed

Some days Daisy lays her head on my shoulder and just lets me rock her.

I saw the following quote on Ali Edward's blog a few weeks ago. I think I am going to frame it and hang it in a very visible part of the house, so I can get a slap in the face always be reminded to truly appreciate every ordinary day!

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. - Mary Jean Iron