sign

a sign that you may force your children to watch nerd tv...

2 weeks ago Saturday...
scene: mom in living room folding clothes and watching American Pickers*

boy child enters scene & sits on couch
boy child-"what'cha watching?"
mom-"American Pickers"
boy child-"YES, that is my favorite grown up show!"

this Sunday afternoon...
scene: boy and girl child sitting on couch playing their DSI's
boy child-"hey did you know one of the American Pickers needed to get glasses?"
girl child-"really, which one?"
boy child-"the tall skinny one, he needed it to see the junk they pick better!"

*important blog note-American Pickers is an educational show on the history channel this is not one of moms 'teen porn' shows talked about in past posts...
**American Pickers is available for streaming on Netflix
I was not compensated in anyway by American Pickers, Antique Archaeology, or the History Channel for this post

confessions

*I heart yarn
....like really really love the stuff

*I try to justify it by saying things like I can decorate with it

....bowls of yarn are totally.100%.home decor....

toothless

boy child lost a tooth last night...
...no literally...
     HE LOST HIS TOOTH

big ol' gap...top tooth lost a few weeks ago
& then bottom one last night

we're sitting at dinner talking about loose teeth
...both boy and girl child have multiple loose teeth right now...

boy child had dad feel all 3 of this loose teeth...
    girl child wanted to have dad feel her loose teeth but then chickened out
...dinner continues...
    boy child is eating a chicken leg...
         gets some grisly grossness in his mouth and I tell him to go spit it out...
...dinner continues...

lovely

...just lovely....
simply wonderful...

I have dinner in the crock pot
waiting for my Beau to get home from work

the kids have finished their homework
    girl child is getting her math
    & the boy child finished his first 'chapter' book


and they remembered something...
...something just amazing...
they have a backyard...
and they have been playing out there for the past hour...
    playing unicorn and dragons 
         with walkie-talkie's and 'disguise glasses' 
               (not sure how that works)

I have all the ingredients for a cake ready to bake
....when the girl child gets in from playing we will put it together....

and rather than spend my time on facebook or pintrest or in blogland
....gasp I know...there really is a life outside of the computer...
I have been crocheting my lovely afternoon away.....

Them

I'm fighting a war...

a war against...

them

this is my life right now...

'kill one and two take it's place'

they've been found in the living room 

     we don't eat in the living room

the master bedroom 

     no eating there

the office 

     occasional eating there

the bathroom 

     the opposite of eating there

the dining room eat-in-kitchen floor and wall 

     yes we eat in there...

     and yes there was applesauce on the wall, no comment

the entry way 

     no eating

the hallway 

     no eating

the laundry room/garage/clothes hamper...icky...

     no eating

the linen closet 

     seriously...GIVE ME A BREAK!

this means WAR...

I'm armed with the best I could find

and I'm given' them all I got...

I really can't take much more of this...

I'm going to end up with PTSD....

every little tickle on my skin and I flinch

oh...and bonus...

home with a sick girl...

so ants and sick kid and rain equals one stir crazy mom!

silver lining...my linen closet got the clean-out-purge-organization it needed!

BLOG UPDATE:  so it is to be my lot in life...my cross to bear (or is it bare?)...that as long as we live in this house I will be battling a war with ants...but do not fear...Terro-liquid ant baits are the best...you might see some scout ants, place a Terro ant bait in their path...then the grosses-of-all-grossness happens and you will have hundreds...no thousands...maybe millions of ants...they will form a little army to take back as much Terro to their nest as possible...do not fear...do not spray them with Raid although it is so tempting...just hold up in your happy place rocking back and forth and wait...they are taking the bait back to their nest and it will kill them there!!

word

okay, so I'm pretty sure the whole

pick-a-word-for-your-year thing started last year (2011)

I didn't pick one last year...

wasn't going to pick one this year...

trying to get a pic of the kids
dressed for their Christmas concert @ church

but this pesky word just keeps popping into my head and heart 

it stared back in early December

I kept hearing this word 

softly hearing it whispered in my heart

the girl and I bought matching purple flats
she can wear women's sizes now!

and I decided ...

when I kept hearing in into January...

it must be my 2012 word...

or maybe it's my word for the 2011-2012 winter season...

maybe it's until our children graduate

maybe it's my lifetime word....

we raked leaves yesterday...middle of January

you may have noticed...all 3 of my readers

joking- I know I have like 7 people that read...

that I haven't been posting/writing a lot of blogs

the reason is my new word...

the girl child has always wanted a yard, with trees and leaves
so we can rake piles of leaves for her to jump into...
yesterday her dream came true...

I spent December enjoying our kids

soaking up the simple cozy memories

of just hanging out

the girl baked her first cake

we did nothing hugely important

no major trips (besides to the in-laws)

no major events took place

Gingerbread House competition 2011...
boys vs girls...in a blind voting the grandparents voted for the boys
so the girls house was consumed and the boys went on display

we spent December just being

lots of down time

lots of reading

lots of cuddling

lots of tv watching

lots of nice hanging out just being family time

and every time I started to write a blog post, I'd get interpreted to just hang out

and this word kept being whispered in my ear

before New Year's resolutions started

before 'what's your 2012 word?' conversations and blogs were being shared

this word kept settling on my heart

in this season of my life...
maybe the next few months
maybe days or even weeks
maybe the whole of 2012
maybe the next few years, or even decades...
the word that I want to...need to...cling to, hold close to my heart and remember is simply
cherish....
cherish my kids
cherish their laughter
cherish their words
cherish my marriage
cherish my family
cherish my God
cherish my health
cherish my friendships (new and old)

and that's that...
oh, and cherish my blog isn't part of that...
so I have some ideas, some blogs I've written in my head
some recipes I want to share
some crafts I want to finish and blog about
but if sitting down to write that blog takes time away from cherishing any of the above listed items it will probably go unwritten...

thanks for understanding....

lettered cottage linky party

professional pictures

 it's always a great day when you get professional pictures taken
decided to leave the family out of these shots and make them all about me...
yep, I scheduled my very own photo shoot...

it's a lovely little place
maybe you've heard of them,
I've heard talk that they are very popular and hard to get an appointment with

well gotta run,
California DMV is waiting for me!