Sleep

(2008) Oh my heart. My little Dyl. He never slept, but when he did, it was where ever he landed. ❤ So love this boy. 

Alaskan Bushmen

I am watching some show called Alaskan Bush Men and on this episode they are going to town to find girls at the "Grizzly Pizza" hangout. Their names are Bear and BamBam, to name a few of the five guys, and they just washed up to go "hunt women" (their words) with a plastic pitcher of rain water poured over their heads and a pocket knife to clean their nails. Poor Bear's pick up line with the "ladies" was "Who likes to climb trees?!"  One asked for a girl's number but then remembered he didn't have a phone since they live on the ground in the forest.  Oh dear. Surprisingly they didn't have a lot of success, and no woman wanted to come back home with them to their one room "trappershack" that they all five share with their elderly parents. Not sure why!!?  :). In Alaska, there is one woman to every seven men, but as the saying goes, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."  Definitely.

Lucky Lady

(2014) Dylan "likes" a little girl in his fifth grade class so he picked this extra special Valentine to give to her on Friday at the Valentine exchange.  What a lucky lady ....

Coyote

We got a message from our HOA that a coyote was spotted walking around our neighborhood!  Yikes!  Guess the Roadrunner will be the next to move in!

Peppermint Lotion

I made the HUGE mistake of putting Peppermint scented lotion on my feet tonight before bed! Buddy has been licking my feet nonstop and there’s no escape!! It’s tickling me to death and would be super annoying if it weren’t so darn funny!!  #puppyproblems 😂😂

Mean

(2013) As we were all getting ready for bed tonight, we were talking about all of our Valentines and cupcakes and chocolate and fun from the day.  Dylan asked Skeet,"So how was YOUR Valentine party at work?"  Skeet said, "We didn't have one."  Dylan said, "WHAT?  What did you do all day?"  Skeet replied, "Work."  Dylan angrily replied, "That is MEAN!  I am NEVER working there!"

Dreams

I always have vivid dreams, but I've had a fever the past two or three nights, and my dreams have been CRAZY! Case in point ...
1.  I dreamed that we had a Cyber Day for school, but all my students had to come to my house for their lessons.  The nighbors called the sherrif because we were too loud!(that's not far from the truth!)
2.  I dreamed that an emergency vet team showed up at my door and told me that Buddy had contracted a horrible disease at the pet store from being fed tainted caulifower and it'd cost $10,000 for him to be treated and cured.
3.  I dreamed that I replaced all the carpets in my house with turquoise shaq rugs and then regretted it.
4.  I dreamed that I was at the wrong school one morning and when I tried to tell the principal that I was at the wrong place, I had to swim to reach her because the faculty meeting was taking place in a huge pool.
5. I dreamed that a friend was showing me his new house and we had to slide down a creepy, dirty laundry chute to get inside.
Needless to say, I don't feel very RESTED.  Pretty sure I"ll be laying off the Muxinex tonight!

Freshen Up

(2011) Me:  Lily, let's go upstairs and freshen up before we go to Bran's basketball game.
Lily:  Ok, Mama ... let's freshen down, too!

Pink Chicken

(2014) Lily Claire has been sick this week so as we were snuggling in her bed and she asked me to tell her a story.  When I asked what story she wanted, she replied, "The Pink Chicken Who Has To Do Everything."  Finally figured out she meant "The Little Red Hen"!  I'm feeling a bit like that pink chicken myself these days!

Baseball

WOW!  Anyone up for some baseball this spring?  Between Dylan's team and Bran's team, there are 80 dates on our family calendar for baseball games between February and May! Peanuts and cracker jacks, anyone?!

Compliment

(2013) I received the HIGHEST compliment possible from a nine year old boy last night.  Before going to bed, Dylan hugged me and said, "Mom, I love you more than baseball."  WHOA!  That's huge!

Heartaches

(2016) Poor Dyl .. he was so excited that his basketball team was in the playoffs for the championship game, and when they lost tonight, he was SO crushed.  Fortunately, being an eleven year old boy, he was feeling better after a warm bath, an episode of Spongebob, and a surprise run to McDonalds before bedtime by good old Mom for chicken nuggets and a root beer.  Wish I could keep him this age forever and all his heartaches would be that easy to mend.  Sure love that kid.

Goodest Dream

(2014) This morning Lily woke up and told me she had the "goodest" dream EVER!  She dreamed that she and a bunny and a kitten were sliding down a rainbow into a pot of gold!  Such are the happy dreams of little girls!

Surutha Ghandi

(2016) Conversation at our house this evening ...
Lily:  Guess what?  We are learning about Jackie Robinson in Social Studies.  He's a famous baseball player!
Dylan:  We are learning about a guy named Surutha Ghandi.
Me:  Surutha?  I thought his name was Mahatma Ghandi ..
Dylan (dead serious):  Well, that's probably his twin brother.

Priceless

(2016) Today at school, I brought in a few colorful beanbag chairs for the kids' book corner. They were SUPER excited!! One of my third graders ran over and hugged me and said, "Mrs. Taylor, you may have the mind of someone 46, but you have the heart of an eight year old."  Priceless. ❤❤