World Record

I think I just broke a world record by eating about eight pounds of peanut butter on one teeny celery stick.  Pretty sure I could have had a career as a structural engineer after getting all that peanut butter to stack up that high without falling off!!

Poptart

(2013) Life With Boys ... again:  I walked in my bedroom and found Dylan eating a bunch of PopTarts on my bed.  There were crumbs all over Skeet's side of the bed!  I said, "Dylan don't eat in our bed! No one wants to sleep all over crumbs at night!"  Of course I hoped Dylan would quickly jump up and brush off the crumbs and say, "OK, Mom."  Instead, he took another crumbly bite and said, "It's ok, Mom, Dad can just wear a shirt to bed."  There's 8 year old logic for you!

Napkin

(2012) Lily was painting with her little watercolors and got some paint on her hands.  She came out to the family room and proceeded to wipe her hands on one of our nice throw pillows on the couch.  I said, "Lily, don't wipe your hands on our pillow!"  She answered, "It's ok, Mom, I'm pretending it's a napkin."  Sigh.

MLK

(2013) Lily Claire came home all excited today because she had just learned that Monday is MLK Jr.'s birthday!  She asked me if we were going to his party and then said, "But, Mamma, I hope he is going to have a GIRL cake, because I do NOT like boy cakes!"

All Out

Well, when I do something, I go all out ... I burned some popcorn so badly in the microwave that we have to buy a new one.  The bag AND microwave are charred.  Nice.

Mother of Necessity

(2011) I love creative problem solvers!  The spinner to our Sesame Street Chutes and Ladders game is broken, so Dylan decided we could spin one of his mini- wrestlers instead.  Wherever the guy's head landed was your number!  Too funny ... it did work, though!

Brothers

(2011) This is what happens when you have two big brothers!  A room full of princesses and a wrestling mask!

Remix

(2010) Just made the boys some chocolate chip muffins, which inspired Lily to entertain us with "remixes" of some old favorites.  Currently she is singing, "Do you know the muffin man ... his fleece was white as snow."

Beast

(2011) The other night, Skeet was telling Lily goodnight and he said, "Goodnight Rapunzel" (we had just seen the Tangled movie and of course Lily loves princesses).  Lily said, "I'm not Rapunzel, I'm Belle"  So Skeet replies, "Ok, goodnight Belle."  After a short pause, Lily replies to Daddy in all seriousness, "Goodnight, Beast."

Shrimp

(2014) I bought shrimp at the grocery store to make for dinner one night this week.  When we got the bags in the car beside Lily, she sniffed and said, "Yuck!  It smells like flamingos in here!"  Pretty accurate, actually!

Homeschool

Brandon goes back to Emmanuel tomorrow. 😢😢
Our conversation last night ...
Me: I’m sad you’re leaving tomorrow.
Bran: Yeah, me too.
Me: I could home school you.
Bran:  ummm ... no, that’s ok.
Well, I tried. 😂😂😂😂😂

Mensa

Every male in my house wears the same size and everything they own is black Nike. You need to be a member of Mensa to  figure out the laundry around here!!! #whoseisthis????

Freedom

Made a HUGE step towards personal freedom this year ... I threw away ALL the mismatched socks in the laundry basket that have been there the entire year!  You will curse me NO longer, darn socks!  Feeling a sense of peace and triumph already .... hahahaaaa!!!  :)

Tooth

(202) Today's episode of LIFE WITH BOYS:  As I am cleaning up the boys' messy bathroom this evening for the hundredth time, I find a TOOTH just lying on the counter.  In the midst of being creeped out by that, Dylan barges in and says, "MOM!  Look at my spit beard!!!"  BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!

Holiness Table

(2016) Lily asked if she could go with me tomorrow to church to decorate the "stage of righteousness" for Sunday. Ummm ... it's called the "Holiness Table," Lil.