Wordless Wednesday - Hello!

................to be continued

TST - Recycled Ashton

Rachel says it is OK to dig in to the blog archives and use a previous post for True Story Tuesday. So today, that's what I'm gonna do. Nothin' miraculous, amazing or outrageous but mostly hilarious and totally true!

This was originally posted on 6/9/2009:

You may remember, from a previous post, that I enjoy killing birds! And if I can get rid of two of them with only one stone I am a happy camper. So close your eyes and imagine my joy from this day: (um, you may want to read this before you close your eyes! tee hee!) Ashton, Daisy and I were in the family room watching a little Spongebob. The room looked like a disaster area. Blocks and lego discs all over the place. There were also crumbs everywhere from snack time gone bad! I was trying to figure out how I was going to get the place cleaned up. Then it hit me: Ashton LOVES to vacuum. Every time we are vacuuming around the house he asks if he can have a turn. So I said to him "Hey Ash, I'll let you vacuum in here if you clean everything off the floor." His eyes opened wide and a huge smile came over his face. He immediately started picking things up off the floor and had finished the job in about 5 minutes! He then spent the next 20 minutes vacuuming.
Happy kid: check
Clean family room: cha-eck!

Yesterday(6/8/09): I decided to start having one-on-one time with each of the kids. Every Monday, I will take one of them to swim all by themselves at Grandma's. No competing for Mommy to watch their pool tricks! Last night was Ashton's first turn. When we got in the car he was smiling from ear to ear! And he kept saying "I don't know why I'm so happy!" Cute boy! He had a lot of fun having Mommy, Grandma and Grandpa all to himself.


Today(6/9/09): Ashton is mad at me because I wouldn't let him have cookies for breakfast. He said "If you don't let me have cookies I'm not going to listen to you!" Then he locked and slammed every door upstairs. Cute boy! I am taking deep breaths and trying to ignore him!!


Now you should go visit Once Upon a Miracle for more true stories and maybe post a story of your own! Old or New!

IheartFaces - Week 9 - Hilarious Outtakes

Just thought I would reminisce about these recent outtakes.

Miss Daisy trying to pull down the tree instead of sitting with her siblings for a quick pic by the tree.

Yelling (in Daisy jibberish), pointing an angry finger at me AND throwing teacups in my direction just cuz I was trying to get some Valentine shots! Sheesh!

This is why Daisy's photo in the above header has a different back-drop than the other kids. Instead of sitting by the beautiful greenery, she decided it would be more fun to dive in to this little  fountain. Because of her soggyness we had to immediately end the photo shoot.

Cute little Daisy is the most recent cause of outtakes only because she has not yet learned that it is easier to just grin and bare my photo taking attempts. The older kiddos already have a lot of experience and they are now very cooperative for me. If I had time, I would go through the last 10 years of photos and find similar outtakes from when they were in the learning process!

Go visit IheartFaces to see more hilarious outtakes!

Thank You Very Much - 2/25/10

It's Thursday! *happy dance*
Free Therapy Day courtesy of  Kmama at The Daily Dribbles.

To Ashton for saying unbelievabley horrible WORDS while we were at the doctor's office. I don't need this distraction while I am discussing your sister's no-symptom-ear-infection problem, Thank You Very Much!

And just in case the Dr. and I didn't hear it the first time, Thank You VERY Much Bailey for making sure by tattling on Ashton and REPEATING the words right in front of the doctor. Now there is absolutely no way I will get my Mother of The Year Award!

Thank You Very Much boys for reminding me that I am most likely the one who taught you these words. In my defense, I can not help myself when I am yelling at bad drivers!

To my energy for sucking all of the motivation right out of my body and forcing me to lounge on the couch and watch tv instead of keeping up with  my Blog Roll! I have friends to visit Thank You Very Much!

Go visit Kmama and receive your free therapy, TODAY!

Wordless Wednesday - Pasta Salad

With broccoli and basil from the garden

True Story Tuesday - Stupid Parent Tricks

I wish I could say that this incident was caused because I was an inexperienced, first time mom, but this was not the last time I performed similar stupid tricks!

Thanksgiving 2001
Lily was 19 months
I actually scrapbooked this event in an attempt to always remember my mistake! Here is the actual journaling I included on the layout.

I was looking forward to a nice, relaxing, eating all day Thanksgiving. I should have known that trying to make it to both sides of the family's parties was going to be difficult!

Lunch with my Dad's side of the family started at 1pm. Before we left the house, DaddyO changed a messy diaper for Lily. So, I assumed that since we had to be back to my Mom's by 2:30pm and Lily had already had her dirty diaper for the day, that it would be ok if I left the diaper bag at home (we were living at my Mom's at the time).

I was very very wrong.

As soon as we arrived for our first dinner, Lily had another stinky diaper, but we had NO diapers! Normally there would have been many families with many babies that could have shared a diaper with us. Unformately they were all spending this holiday with the other side of their families!

DaddyO and I didn't know what to do. We decided to go in to the bathroom to see if we could just scoop the poop out.  Once we got the diaper open we realized that wasn't going to be possible and I didn't want to put the messy diaper back on Lily. We wiped her up (with wet tp cuz I didn't bring wipes) and DaddyO went out to see if by any chance there was a diaper in the car.

Lily and I were hiding in the bathroom. She was running around naked! With nothing covering her bum, and to add to the fun we were already having, she peed on my Aunt's bathroom rug.

I could not believe this was happening and wanted to slap myself for not bringing the diaper bag!

DaddyO came back from the car with a cloth diaper and since we had absolutely nothing else, I searched through every drawer, in my Aunt's bathroom, for some safety pins. After seeing much more than I wanted to, I finally found some pins and put the cloth diaper on Lily!

While we were partying in the bathroom, EVERY ONE at the party was waiting for us to join them so they could say the prayer for dinner. On his way out to the car, DaddyO had instructed them to NOT wait for us. They did not listen!

We finally made it out of the bathroom and everyone was standing around drooling because we made them wait so long to eat. The prayer was said, we ate in about 5 minutes and then we ran out the door!

When we got home Lily was soaking wet from peeing in the cloth diaper minus any plastic pants. We got her changed and in a real diaper and went to eat some more Thanksgiving dinner!

And then I wrote:

I guess I'm thankful that this happened because I will NEVER forget the diaper bag again!!!

I am such a dope!! I DID NOT learn my lesson on this day! It took me 8 years to figure it out and now there is ALWAYS a completely stocked diaper bag in the car AT.ALL.TIMES!!!!

We had even bought Lily a special Thanksgiving outfit. Here she was BEFORE my disastrous trick!

Now, hurry on over to Once Upon a Miracle for more true stories!

Just a Few Photos

I tortured the entire family the other day and made them pose for pictures!

The older kids are always very helpful and smile and hold still for their pictures. So I only have to take a few pictures of them to get good results. As you know, Daisy is not quite as accomodating. When I take her pictures, I just shoot and shoot and shoot and hope that I get atleast 1 good shot. Check out my options from this photo shoot:

I tried to get a group shot. Yeah right Mom!