Seriously?

Ummm .... If anyone if looking for the entire snack aisle from Quick Trip, I just found it under the boys' beds.  There are also a few mismatched, dirty sports socks thrown in there as a nice finishing touch. Seriously, guys???? Totally getting a HUGE extra star in my heavenly crown for raising boys!!!

Sick

Robert Skeet Taylor is sick for the third time this month, so I did what a Southern wife with any sense would do. I rushed out and bought the best remedy I could find… Brunswick stew and blackberry cobbler from Tipsy Pig. He sitting by the fire with both as we speak. Pretty sure he’ll be on the mend quickly now. ❤️🐷

Basketball

(2015) I am the WORST basketball mom EVER.  I hate EVERYTHING about it. The uniforms are ugly, the balls thud and echo nonstop, the middle school gym stinks like old sweat socks, we are sitting on the dirty gym floor, balls keep hitting us from all the kids playing around on the sidelines, the buzzer blares in my ears and startles me every single time, the constant ref whistles are shrill and nerve racking, babies are crying, the super enthused mom sitting next to me is screaming "Defense" in a  piercing pitch a dog could hear, the coaches are bellowing "Hands Up" over and over like it's an armed robbery, and if the dad with anger issues next to me shouts,"Make it happen" or "Pass the ball" one more time, I may just lose it.  Did I mention I absolutely HATE it here?? But ... I happen to love one of the players, so here I sit, smiling at Dylan like this is the best place on earth!  Football and baseball I can do, but I'm pretty sure there is a level of hell called "Middle School Rec Basketball," and believe me, that's enough to keep me saved from now to eternity.

True Love

(2012) Lily Claire just informed me that she has a boyfriend.  When I asked her his name she replied, "I forgot."  Sounds like true love!

Batman

(2012)  
We happened on this cable station this week that only shows all these old sitcoms from the 60s/70s ... like Gidget, That Girl, Here Come the Brides, Mary Tyler Moore show, etc ... but I'm cracking up because Dylan has gotten HOOKED on the old Batman show with Adam West!  I've actually enjoyed watching those with him, too!  They are so dated which make them really fun to watch and they have all those written "word" sound effects! Dylan says he likes the 60s Batman and especially LOVES the old Batmobile , but commented that "new Batman is much more buff because he has a six pack and old Batman doesn't." Don't feel bad, Old Batman, I'm guessing most guys from the 60s don't have a six pack these days either!

Crumbs

(2012) A Dylan memory 😂😂😂...
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 big crumbly bite and said, "It's ok, Mom, Dad can just wear a shirt to bed."  There's 8 year old logic for you!

Muffins

(2011) 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."  Hee!  Hee!

Flamingo

(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!

Black

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????

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.

Scale

(2012) Lily Claire just stepped on the bathroom scale and asked, "Mama, how much do I cost?"

Slip

So I am cracking up while watching a whole bunch of DVR'd holiday romance movies I didn't get to before Christmas (though I don't know HOW that is possible since I watched Hallmark 24/7 this month!).  Anyway, there is always a moment in the movie where the guy and girl (who don't like each other at first) end up liking each other and then, by chance, the girl happens to fall or slip or something during a walk and the guy falls down on top of her for this long awkward moment.  I feel like I'm missing out because in 23 years, this has NEVER happened to me and Skeet! HOW can that be??! I thought about orchestrating a "faux slip" magical moment when he gets back home, but I'm pretty sure at this point we'd break a hip or not be able to get back up!!!!  Hahahahaaa!

Mistake

"What a nice surprise," I thought when my cell phone rang and the caller ID showed it was Brandon Taylor, who is in Orlando at a baseball tournament.
"Hey Bran!! So glad you called! 😄" I gushed.
"Hello?  Hello?  Mom?  Is this Mom?  Oh. Sorry. I didn't mean to call you."
Nice.

Fire Alarm

Life with a 15 year old son .... Skeet and I leaping out of bed at 1 AM to the fire alarm screaming and the smell of smoke. Run downstairs to see Dylan standing guiltily over a smoking pan of burned scrambled eggs. Without blinking an eye he says, “Buddy did it.” Nice try!! I told him that the next time he needs a middle of the night snack, it should be a PBJ. 😮😂

Nativity

(2015) Tonight I was reading several stories to Dylan and Lily, one of which was a book about the nativity.  Dylan was super disappointed that it wasn't a "scratch and sniff" book ... WHY we would want to scratch and sniff a donkey, I just don't know!!!!