FBI

 (2016) Hmmmm... I wonder what happened to my cute yard decoration?!  NOT that I'm a professional FBI agent or anything, but MAYBE I should interrogate the 17 year old who lives with me who owns a BB gun ... Just a wild shot in the dark! (No pun intended!!!) 

Mystery

(2015) Easter mystery  ... WHY will my children gleefully pick up 100 plastic eggs from the lawn, but groan when they have to pick up one sock off the floor of their room?!  Maybe I should give them cute Easter baskets for collecting their dirty clothes and trash and dishes!  :) 

Rituals

 (2013 I love tucking in my little girl into bed every night.  We have our nighttime rituals before she falls asleep, which always include sipping a small cup of chocolate milk, then pretending we are a mommy and baby bunny in our warm rabbit hole, and then telling the same made-up story together about three kittens who live in a pink and white house and throw a party for all their kitten friends.  I'm going to miss these days!

Car Wash

 I had a sweet memory today. I was cleaning the master bathroom this morning, and as I was scrubbing the sink on Skeet’s side, I noticed all sorts of scratches in the sink. It reminded me that when Brandon was little I used to let him play “car wash” in that sink with his Hot Wheels. He would take all his cars outside and get them real dirty running them through the dirt and grass and then we would line them all up to go into the car wash in sink in the bathroom. He would zoom the cars all around in the bubbles and water and play for hours! Yes, I have scratches all in the marble sink, but I’m glad I do. ❤️ 

Vase

 (2016) You know you live with a 12 year old male when .... you enter his room after a sleepover and find that your flower vase was used as a Coke glass sometime during the night.  One. step. above. animals.  Barely.

Trash

 (2014) OF COURSE on the week that we had a huge anniversary party, did LOADS of yardwork, cleaned out the garage, AND had a kid birthday party, the trash guys FORGET to pick up only OUR trash, which is loaded to the sky!  Know our neighbors are going to be LOVING us tomorrow when it gets super hot outside and "trash mountain" is baking by the curb.  Nice.  Maybe it's some sort of evil, trashman April Fools joke!

Price tags

 (2015) Murphy's Law: Found 24 heavy tea glasses at the Dollar Store today to use on Easter Sunday. Yay! Just finished scraping and scrubbing off 24 sticky price tags that were stuck like glue to the bottom of each one. Boo!! Why does anything need a price tag at the dollar store, anyway?!

Pan

 (2016) Lily just saw this picture of the day she was born and asked, "Why was I in a pan?"  Hahahaa!

Grandparents

 (2015) Today we were going over a reading assignment in class and I skipped one of the questions by accident. One of my students encouragingly said,”It’s ok, Mrs. Taylor, my grandparents make mistakes a lot, too.” Grandparents?! 😂😂😂 Felt a bit older after that comparison!

Lion

 (2020) I had to go by the grocery store tonight and Lily went with me. I was complaining a little to her that I was tired of not being able to find ground beef. Right about that time Lily gasped and spotted this huge beef brisket, something she had never seen before. In all seriousness she turned to me and said, “What in the world?!! They don’t have ground beef, but they have lion?!!” I about died laughing! She had never seen such a big piece of meat and honestly thought it was from a lion!! 😂😂😂 

Tires

 (2013) Got home from the store to see my husband on his hands and knees in our new Indian neighbors' driveway surrounded by their four adorable little girls and their mom.  He was pumping up the tires of all of their bikes and tricycles.  I love that guy.

PGA

(2015)  After 24 years of living with Skeet Taylor, I've been "conditioned" to turn on PGA golf in order to take a Sunday afternoon nap, even when he's not around!  The announcers' low, lulling voices are like Pavlov's bell ... They speak and I instantly fall asleep!

Blind

 (2015) Guess I was cheering too loudly for Dyl at his ballgame because Lily turned to me and said, “Sshhhh, Mom! You’re making my ears go blind!!” 😂😂😂

Crazy

 True story. Some twenty-something girl behind me on the way home was riding all over my tail and honking at me wanting me to go faster. When we got to the light she pulled up beside me and rolled down her window and started yelling and going berserk! I did not roll down my window or engage with her, but I think when she saw a mad, tired, glaring old lady wearing Piggy and Gerald earrings with a bobblehead felt beagle wearing a sombrero velcroed to the dashboard, she wisely decided to roll up her window and be quiet. She obviously didn’t wanna mess with THAT level of crazy! 😂😂😂😂

The South

 You know you're in the south when you pass a restaurant called Big D's BBQ Trough situated amongst a trailer park, a baptist church, and Sharky's Firework and Moccasin Emporium.  Now to find that roadside stand of boiled peanuts....