Poinsettias

(2013) Skeet and Bran left a few minutes ago to pick up all the poinsettias they sold for Bran's baseball team.  Lily asked me where Daddy was and I told her he had gone to pick up some poinsettias.  Lily said, "Oh.  Is that what we're having for supper?"  Guess she thought that was like picking up Chinese!

Squirrel Breath

(2014) Only Dylan!  He told us this evening that he wants to quit his basketball team.  Of course we said NO and gave him a big speech about making commitments and keeping them and not letting your team down, etc.  We finally asked WHY he wanted to quit, thinking it was because he thought his team wasn't good or because he wanted to stay home and play video games or something.  His exact words for wanting to quit were ... "Because the coach’s breath smells like a squirrel."  What?!!!  How does he even know what a squirrel smellls like?!!!  Dylan definitely keeps life interesting around here!!!

All I Want For Christmas...

A direct quote from my 14-year-old son tonight: "Mom ... all I want for Christmas is a mini-fridge for my room ... full of sweet tea."  Yep, he's a Southern boy.

Slurp

There is no denying the Lily is my child! I bought her a drink at QT on the way to get groceries and heard all this loud slurping in the back seat. I turned around and asked her what in the world she was doing!  She said,"I'm just slurping along with the music."  Sure enough, when I listened, she was perfectly slurping along on beat with The First Noel! Oh dear.

11 PM

When you have a 14 year old son, this is the story of your life. In the last week, I've been informed by Dylan on three different nights at 11 PM that he needs $10 cash for the next day, a three subject spiral notebook for the next day, and a button down dress shirt and tie FOR THE NEXT DAY. Do I have any of these at 11 PM?? Noooooooooooo!!!

Love Is Doing The Laundry

As you know, I am loving watching my favorite Christmas movies on Hallmark this season, but you can totally tell that women write these scripts.  Case in point, the guy in the movie just said, "True love to me is doing dishes together and doing the laundry. It's making even ordinary things extraordinary."  Why do I not recall Skeet EVER saying something like that, especially when he's folding the 100th basket of laundry for the week???? Hahaaaa!!!!

Black Friday

Funny memory of Bran and I doing some Black Friday shopping, which included a stop at my favorite store, Kirklands!  Needless to say, it isn't Bran's favorite store and he was cracking me up trying to figure out what half the stuff in the store even was!  When I picked out this adorable decoration for the house, his exact words were, "Why are we getting an old, rusty Santa?!"  He obviously has no taste in cute decor!!

Priceless

(2011) Made a priceless memory today when I went over to help Mom decorate the tables for Thanksgiving ... Lily Claire and Grammie were two peas in a pod mixing and stirring and baking together in the kitchen.  Grammie had lots and lots of "help"!  I think Lily licked more of the frosting than she put on the cake and I don't think Grammie stopped laughing!  It was so much fun watching the two of them together!  Today and EVERY day, I am so thankful for our "Grammie and Papaw."

Plans

(2015) Nothing like having your 17 year old son wake you up on vacation to show you all his plans and ideas for the "sleeve tattoo" he is NOT getting.  I told him he could choose food or a tattoo.    Every day is an adventure around here.

Just Say No ...

I just feel the need to say that I hate any Christmas movie that (A) has the same day repeating itself over and over again until the character learns some lesson and changes his ways, (B) stars Meredith Baxter Bernie, or (C) involves any type of storyline where someone is sick or dying and the whole town rallies to give them one last tear-jerking holiday. All I want is complete, total, 100% predictable, happy fluff for the holidays! NO REALITY, PLEASE!  I know I can always count on you, Hallmark Channel.

Incognito

(2013) Skeet made the boys' day yesterday when he came home and told them that a friend had given him FOUR tickets to the GA/GA Tech game this weekend!  As you may know, Skeet went to Tech so we are huge Tech fans, and of course, Katie is a freshman there this year.  Anyway we were all shouting and cheering and talking about our Buzz face tattoos when Skeet said, " Ummm ... about the Buzz tattoos ... the tickets are on the Georgia side."  SILENCE.  Guess we'll be going incognito ... we better stop by Walmart to get a Georgia shirt to disguise ourselves!  Hope we don't forget ourselves and scream, Go Yellow Jackets!!!!!

Dead

(2015) Tonight we walked all around Bass Pro Shop with the kids and Dylan kept trying to scare Lily about the "stuffed" taxidermy-ish animals that were all around.
She screamed when he shouted, "Look, Lily, there's a REAL bear ... but he's DEAD!!!!!" And, of course, there stood a huge, growling bear on its hind feet staring down at us.
 "Dylan," I scolded, "Stop telling Lily that the animals are 'dead'. You are scaring her!"
 I should have known better. The next thing we passed was a huge "stuffed" moose. When Lily cringed at the sight of it, Dylan whispered reverantly, "Lily, there's a REAL moose ... but it passed away." Only Dylan.

Not Allowed

(2013) Dylan keeps going in Lily's room to jump and wrestle around and he keeps messing up her bed and knocking over all her dollhouse furniture, etc.  She is getting REALLY mad about it, so tonight, this sign (meant for Dylan) was hanging on her door!  I laughed out loud!  It says, "You are not allowed in my room ever again!" Ah, yes, ... brotherly/sisterly love.  

Economics

(2014) Shoot me now ... Dylan "forgot" to tell me about a test he has tomorrow in economics until ten o'clock tonight. Nothing like a grumpy, tired mom trying to teach a grumpy, tired eleven year old about command and market economies and the factors that affect the Gross National Product at eleven at night.  Ug! Is it Thanksgiving break yet??

Get Well Soon

Someone felt the need to put a helium balloon that said "Get Well Soon" on a dead dear on the side of the road! Sick humor, I know, but I am cracking up!!!