Kisses Straight To The Heart

Every night, Julia gives me a kiss goodnight. After a kiss, she usually tells me, "Mom, this one went straight to the heart."

Tonight was only a little different.

I had been trying REEEEEEEEALY hard to get the kids to go to bed. It wasn't an easy task. They had "this" to do and "that" to do next. I was a tad bit frustrated when I gave Julia her goodnight kiss.

After I kissed her, Julia said, "Mom, that kiss went straight to my heart............the dark side of my heart."

WTH?? I gave her an evil look at that point. She responded to my look of death with, "Well Mom, you have been acting a little mean tonight."

OMG...THAT GIRL!!!!

Kamron's Cereal Shakes

So Kamron like his milk REALLLLLLLY cold. He adds ice to it just like Poppy does. That's nothing new. I grew up with my dad drinking his milk with ice in it. It's actually really good that way...with a slice of warm cake too....OMG YUMMMM!

Anyway, once Kamron figured out that he loved milk really cold, he took it to the extremes (as my kids usually do). He started adding ice to his cereal! At first I thought it was gross, then I realized that it was no different than adding ice to a glass of milk.

The other morning, Kamron was having his usual breakfast: Chocolate O' Mateys (aka nonamebrand chocolate Lucky Charms) with milk and ice. (My kids aren't strange much). And then he had an epiphany!

Kamron: "Mom, what if I took this bowl of cereal with ice in it and dumped it in a blender with more ice and made a SHAKE. Wouldn't that be awesome!"

Me: "Ummm no Kamron, that would be disgusti.........hang on.....that's ACTUALLY not such a bad idea."

I mean, really....what is a shake? Milk. Ice. Flavoring of some sort. This "sort" just happens to be "Chocolate O' Mateys". So we gave it a try. I HAD to see what this would taste like.

If anyone would like to duplicate this recipe, here it is:

STEP 1: First make your bowl of cereal (any kind of cereal will do).

STEP 2: Put cereal and milk in blender. (Isn't your mouth watering already)

STEP 3: Add 8-10 cubes of ice. (Well, technically, mine aren't cubes, they're more like half-moons. Ya know, the kind of ice that you never want to drink out of a round cup because they block all of the liquid that is heading for your mouth so you have to shake the ice all around and hope that the liquid makes it in your mouth before the ice forms a Diet Coke Dam again.....{ahem}. Yeah, that kind.)

STEP 4: Blend till your heart's content.

STEP 5: Enjoy your cereal shake. The breakfast of CHAMPIONS! DELICIOUS!!

Who says your can't have your ice and eat it too? LOL! Great invention Kam!

PHS Jamboree!!!

GO #63!!! GO JAY!!!

I am so excited and so full of pride today. Everyday after school, Jay goes to Pickering Jr. High football practice. He also plays for Ft. Polk simultaneously. He is an extremely busy boy. Today was a little different though. It was a short, "light" practice because tomorrow is the Jamboree. He's never played sports for his school before. It is very different. It is so much more serious and yet so much more rewarding.

He said that practice would end at 4:30. So I was there....at 4:30. And I waited. And I waited some more. Good Lord! Where were they? What was taking so long? And then I saw him. Finally, there he was, #63 was walking towards me with a sense of pride in every step. He was strutting through the parking lot wearing his most awesome, brand spankin' new PHS football jersy!



Omg, it was definitely a moment to remember. My thoughts were, "How the heck did this happen? How did my 'busy' little 3 year old turn into a 13 year old and how did I manage to miss that?" No seriously. It's really a question that I would like someone to answer for me.






He got into the truck and was so excited and proud. I was proud of him. I asked him for details such as what time he needed to be at the game tomorrow. His response was, "I don't even leave school tomorrow. We ride the bus there." WHAT??? I forgot totally that the football players all go together on the bus.

Wow. For some reason, that just hit me hard. He's getting all grown up and before I know it, this will all just be memories and stories and "remember when's".



Could time just stop please? Really? No seriously, this is going by way too fast and I'm not buckled up.



I'm so so so proud of #63. I love you Jay and good luck tomorrow night!

Words With The Ending Sound "-le"

We always have the most interesting car rides. With four kids with four VERY different points of view, conversations are NEVER boring. At least to me they're not. Most of the time they are annoying and infuriating, usually ending with me saying something along the lines of "Seriously! Enough!". Yep. That's how it usually ends. Sometimes they end up all getting a gag order imposed on them, in which NO ONE is allowed to speak. Trust me. It's necessary-for my own sanity. And I have an unusual amount of tolerance most of the time.

Anyway, this morning the kid's conversation wasn't annoying. It was hilarious and kept me laughing all the way to school. Guess who started this one off?.........Julia. Here is how this went:

Julia: "Mom, people can usually tell when I'm lying because my circles get big."

               {Thanks for the tip Julia}

Me: "Circles? What's that?"

Julia: "You know...the black circles in my eyes."

Seth (annoyed): "Oh JULIA, those are not circles. They are pimples."

                {Oh yeah, you heard right...he said pimples}

Me (laughing): "SETH, they are not pimples....."

Julia (on her high horse interupted me to say): "Yeah SETH! They aren't PIMPLES. Pimples aren't on your eye. Pimples are on your BOOBS."

Me: "Oh My God!!!" HAAAAAHAAAAA

I then proceeded to explain the difference between "pimples", "pupils", and "nipples".

They get it now. We seriously laughed all the way to school. I wonder if Julia explained this anatomy lesson to her teacher? Probably.

June Bugs....Who Knew?

It is TOTALLY June Bug season right now. Those gross needless things are EVERYWHERE! I sweep up a dozen a day. What are they here for and why do they feel the need to invade every nook and cranny of my little space that we call home???? I don't know. Maybe I'll Google what their purpose is later and let y'all know.

Anywho, earlier in the week, we came home from a super fun weekend in Lake Charles. But after having been gone for a few days, the June Bugs had taken over the kitchen floor. Gross. I know. Soooo, I was cleaning and sweeping and complaining about them. While I was doing that, Seth says, "Hey Mom, is the reason that June Bugs are called June Bugs is because they are here in June?" I stopped sweeping. Huh? What? I never thought about it before.

I Googled it (cause that's how I roll) and sure enough, that's why they are called June Bugs! Who knew? Not me! I have called them that my entire life and never once stopped to think about why they were called that. I love his brain and how it works :)