Bane of my existance

How is it possible that 5 people wore these many clothes in one week? How is it possible that as soon as I get this folded and put away, there will be a full laundry basket to wash again? How is it possible that we even own these many clothes? (don't answer that.)

I think that's why motherhood is so hard. As soon as you get done, you get to do it all over again. I'm actually not complaining so much as I'm just observing. I might as well not complain about any of this. Like air, it's always there!

You should see my kitchen. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Breakfast, Chick-fil-A, dinner. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

And so it goes.....

Why I had more than one kid

Busier than a one armed paper hanger...

Sorry. I watched "Steel Magnolias" the other night, so I'll be full of Southern expressions for a while to come.

Zane loved "his" new bike. Oh boy...

JUDE loved his new bike. Jude's. It's Jude's bike. Wanna take a guess how many times we've said that the past 24 hours???

Zane also wanted Jude's helmet. Which warranted an emergency visit to Walmart, where I gladly forked over $20 for an ELMO helmet. There. Issue resolved. I keep forgetting you can't reason with a 2 year old. It seems like forever since I've had a 2 year old. Guess what? This is the last 2 year old I will ever have. *grinning*

They rode round and round in circles in the garage.

"I have super powers. I can make Mommy fly to Walmart in a single bound..."

SEE how clean the garage is??? SEE? SEE? SEE? :)

WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO?????

We knew going into Saturday, we had a LOT to do. I mean, A LOT. I scampered off to the one, single, solitary yard sale in the tri city area, feeling a little silly for doing so, since we had so much to do. I'm so very glad I went, though, because besides clothes for the kids for next year, some games (Connect Four, anyone?) and some great jeans for me (*ahem* that don't fit yet)and I found bikes for the kids!! Laney had two bike rejects, and Jude didn't have a big boy bike at all. So the kids were crazy excited to see their new bikes. They ended up coming in very handy that day, too.

We had to tackle the garage. We cleared out a bunch of stuff, as you saw, in the garage sale, but our garage was dirty, disorganized and just plain neglected. The bad thing about having a huge garage sale is that you have to have a place to store the stuff you want to sell, and so our garage became a dumping ground for the last year. No more. We worked, sweated, toiled and nearly killed ourselves. But, at the end of a long day, we had a clean garage. Allen even wanted to sit out there on his miraculous Saturday night off and just look at it. I passed on that idea.

Along with riding bikes, the kids played in the rain. Well, Zane didn't. He doesn't like to get messy. (Yes, I see the irony.) Laney and Jude had a blast, though. And it cooled things off in the garage for us too.

There was one other monumental thing we had to do Saturday. Firm up our interior paint color choices and buy the darn paint. I've been dreading it, and although I'm not usually an indecisive person, I just didn't want to make a mistake with the colors. So it was a painful process, but it is DONE. And thank you to those who worked through this process with me. I know you're as relived as I am that it's over. Oh and get this. We made $370 at the garage sale, and guess how much we spent on paint most of the supplies???? $360. I couldn't have planned that if I had tried!!!!!

Now, I have four weeks to get this house painted. And no, I'm not stressing. Heh.

We topped the day off with cool showers, Tortuga's pizza and the Daytona 500. I got Laney's new curriculum all organzed and put away. All and all, it was a good, yes busy, day.

A quick 4th

Jude started out the day with his first ever guitar lesson!

Zane insisted on having his hair just like Daddy... (Well, before Daddy's last hair cut.)

Jude rocked the spiky look too.

See, they do look alike...



Allen called it "Birds A Million" We thought that was hilarious. Daddy is the funniest person we know!



It was bright after that dark theater!

Allen had to play on the afternoon of the Fourth, so we knew our time was limited. We decided to let Full Moon BBQ do the cooking for us for lunch, and that's one of our favorite places to eat anyway. SO good. After that, we ran a few errands, then hit the movie theater to take in a flick! We hadn't seen "Kung Fu Panda," so we decided to see that. It was absolutely hilarious, and I really liked it. We all did! Zane tried hard to hang in there, and after a good thirty minutes of talking to the screen (Think, "uh oh!" and "Look, Ma!") and eating popcorn, he conked out in my lap. I'm sure the people in front of us were thankful for that.

We wanted to go swimming, but we just didn't have enough time. We came home and puttered around the house while Allen went to work. I was hoping Laney would stay awake to see the fireworks on television, but she was asleep before they came on. Zane, on the other hand, was plenty rested after his late nap, so he and I enjoyed some late night quality time together!

I'm hoping next year we can take in some fireworks. Since Zane is absolutely terrified of so much right now, even of the ice cream man, I figured that fire works would be pushing it this year! Next year we'll try it!

It was a good, albeit quick, Fourth! And Ijust have to say, I just love having all of these fun things to do in the great metropolitan city of Alabaster. Makes things so much easier!

It's never worked for me

But hey, it might work for you!! Try it, at least for awhile. With all the cost cutting that we are all trying to do, it's a great time to try it!!!!!

http://babyslime.livejournal.com/174054.html

Please listen

Maybe you could open the link and play it while you are doing other things on the computer. Please listen. I want to chat with someone about it!

http://brookhills.org/media/files_audio/080629.mp3

Turning Japanese

Okay, maybe that's not politically correct. But I watched "The Last Samauri" this weekend, and now I want to be Japanese.

I love how they are so gentle and precise. Yet so reverential of the Earth. I love how they live. Or lived. I'm sure our super awesome Western influence has seeped in to their once pure culture. We do that sort of thing, you know.

That movie was beautiful. I'd love to visit Japan and see all that first hand. I'm sure they need missionaries, since Buddhism is prevalent there.

And I have a small movie star crush on Ken Watanabe.

It was a nice way to spend an evening. And I want to live there now. Or maybe I want to live there in the mid to late 1800's. That would be kinda hard. Maybe I'll just visit Japan. That would be easiest...