Called Out

I got called out by my daughter in the car the other day on the ride home from school. There was tons of traffic and it was taking us forever to get home! This one lady at a light in front of us was looking down at her phone and not paying attention that she was blocking the entire turn lane. I was getting super annoyed and  yelled out (inside our car, of course, where the lady couldn’t hear me), “MOVE IT, DORK!”   From the backseat Lily gasped. “Mom!” she said,  “you yelled that while we are listening to the FISH!”  (Christian radio station). “Oops,” I said, “What I MEANT to say was ‘God bless you, sister’...”  Lily stared at me a moment with a very skeptical look on her face, then we both started cracking up! Guess I’ll have to be a bit nicer driver with my accountability group sitting in the back seat!! 😂😂😂

Whoppers

(2010)  Dylan was disappointed that his team lost their baseball game tonight, but apparently "Whoppers heal all wounds" when you're a ten year old boy!

 

Cussing

I had a funny memory today of a time my kids were shocked because they thought I had done something much worse than I really had.  In our house, the kids weren't allowed to say "shut up" because we told the it was a VERY "bad word" (and just rude, really!).  Well one day, Bran and Dylan were in the back seat (Bran was probably 11 and Dylan 6 ... at the height of their arguing stage) and they had been arguing and fighting NONSTOP the whole day.  The arguing and tattling and shoving and pestering  and yelling continued in the car and I  was about to blow a gasket.  I had HAD it.  I pulled the car over, jerked to a stop, whirled around at them, and YELLED SUPER loudly at them, "JUST SHUT UP!!!!!!!"  You could have heard a pin drop in that car, and I still remember the absolute SHOCK on their faces.  Then, Dylan croaked out in disbelief, "Mommy cussed!"  Not my finest parenting moment, but now I laugh thinking of all the damage control I had to do after that so they wouldn't go to school (where I taught, I might add) and tell their teachers that their mom was "cussing" at them in the car!!  Sheesh!!

Gummi Bears

(2011) After school, I surprised the kids and took them to the park to play for a while ... they had a blast.  It was so much fun watching them running around, screaming and laughing.  Then I won the prize for Mom of the Year because I let them stop at the drugstore to buy some gummy worms on the way home.  Life is good.

UnAmerican

I feel un-American .. I've been on Facebook all these years and I just today "liked" Jell-O.  How could I have taken so long?!!

Winter Blues

When winter blues start dragging me down and I am tired of all the cold and the rain, I know it's time for TWO important, surefire fixes ... highlight my hair and watch a big dose of my idol, DORIS.  Pillow Talk, here I come.

Like A Mom

Sweet conversation in my classroom yesterday:

All the students in my morning class are on the reading rug around my big moon chair getting ready for read-aloud. I hear ...
Myha (whispering):  Go ahead, tell her!  Tell her.  Mrs. Taylor won't mind.
Me, to the two students:  Is everything ok?  Do you guys need something?
Myha:  (Nudging her best friend Ayan again) It's ok ... tell her!
Ayan remains quiet.
Myha:  Ayan is afraid to tell you that she is so hungry she feels like she might get sick.
Me: Oh no!  Go get a snack from under my desk.  There are Goldfish and crackers.  Take whatever kind you like.
Myah (whispering to Ayan as they are going to my desk to get the snack):  See!  I TOLD you she loves us like a mom.

BEST part of my day!

Chicken Pox

I was fussing a little bit at Lily Claire tonight because when I came downstairs she had put stickers all over her dolls!  I said, "Lily, don't put stickers on your nice babydolls!" to which she replied, "I didn't. They have chickenpox."

Jive Talkin’

(2016) This still makes me laugh! Torturing my teenager with some groovy texts! 😂😂

Snowflake

(2013) Lily and I actually saw ONE SNOWFLAKE today!!!  We both screamed with excitement!  We were ready to lay down right then and there in the Walmart parking lot and try and make some angels!!!  Yes ... we are Southerners.

Delicious

(2011) Lily went running around the house last night after her bath squealing, "Mommy, I smell DELICIOUS!" She cracks me up!

Purple Marker

(2011) I walked into the kitchen this evening to find that Lily had drawn a big flower right on the refridgerator with a purple marker!!!! Thankfully I only buy washable markers! When I said, "Lily Claire, Don't draw on Mommy's refridgerator with marker!" Liily answered sincerely, "I didn't do it, Mommy ... the marker did it." Reminded me of a time Dylan drew all over my CAR with a black Sharpie pen and then told me that a bunch of ants had drawn it! Uh huh. Three year olds!

Best Friend

(2015) Lily just told me, "Mom, you can come to my birthday party because you're my best friend."  Sniff. Sniff.  Love that little girl!

Obscure

(2014) Bran wasn't sure if I could help him with his Language Arts homework last night because it was about some obscure, little known book called "To Kill A Mockingbird" ... had I ever heard of it?  Ummm ... yes, Bran.  I've heard of that "new" book.

Perks

(2014) Bran thinks he has hit the BIG TIME being on his highschool baseball team.  Why?  Because he gets FREE sweet tea AND lemonade at practices and games!  WHOA!!!!  Who needs the major leagues with these kinds of perks?!!  You gotta love 14 year old boys!