Star Wars

Lily and I were watching a Christmas movie tonight and a TON of Star Wars commercials kept coming on.  Finally Lily groaned and said disgustedly,"Why does everything have to be about Star Wars??? Why can't it be about Peppa Pig?!  Star Wars is OLD ... It's been around since I was three!"

Burned Out

There is no tired like the tired of an elementary school teacher at the end of the week before Christmas break! As we were dragging home late tonight from school, we passed by our neighbor's nativity scene out in their yard.  I noticed that Mary wasn't lit up as usual, and I turned to Lily and said, "Uh oh. Mary is burned out."  After considering that for a minute, I yelled out the window at plastic Mary, "GIRL, I CAN RELATE!!"  I was cracking myself up, but Lily was looking at me like I'd truly gone off my rocker!  Actually, I think I have!!!  Hahahaaaaa!!!

Good Grief.

Last night I decide I was looking old and tired so I decide to do one of those charcoal masks. Skeet, Dyl, and Lily were all asleep so while I’m waiting on it the thick, black goop to harden, I go downstairs to straighten up the kitchen. I’m in the pantry sweeping when I hear Bran come home. As I come out of the kitchen to say “Hi Bran!” there stands his best friend Justin with him!  I’m in old pink pjs with kitty cats all over them, a broom in my hand, a black charcoal mask all over my face, my hair pinned back off my face, and my glasses!!!! They both stared for a second in shock, then started cracking up!! As I’m scolding Bran about not letting me know he was bringing someone home with him, Justin says, “Don’t worry, Ms. Jen. I don’t judge.” 😂😂😂. Good grief.

Gingerale

(2015) Brandon Taylor is ALWAYS drinking MY special green tea ginger ale that I can only find in North Carolina, and I am always fussing at him about it! Sooooo when he opened the downstairs fridge door tonight, there was a special message waiting for him!!

Favorite

(2010) I was helping Dylan with his homework tonight and it was a questionaire about himself. He had to tell me his favorite subject in school. Quickly he screamed "Recess." I said, "No, it has to be a subject." He thought and shouted, "Lunch!" Again I said "No." Then he said, "PE!" After explaining once again that it had to be a SUBJECT he said "Social Studies." Encouraged I said, "Why?" He answered, "Because we go to recess right afterwards!" Such is the mind of a third grade boy!!!

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.