Screaming your "bleep" off! lol

Poor Harrison he was so embarrassed!  The conversation is with his younger brother Caleb who is three.  It happened while Josh was playing Halo 2 which apparently has zombies in it??

Caleb: I don't want to watch this.  I want to watch dolphins (Planet Earth).
Harrison: Because it has zombies in it?
Caleb: I don't like it.
Harrison: Yes because you'll be screaming your ass off.

Picture all of us with shocked looks on our faces and then promptly we all burst into laughter and gently tell Harrison, that is a swear word and he shouldn't use it.  He had no idea where he heard it from, maybe school...one of the kids typed the word on the computer, but he didn't know what it was or that it was a swear word...or maybe from Simpsons...or whatever else he's seen as far as movies or heard at school, not that it matters.  It was just so darn funny.  :D

Happy Thanksgiving

I am especially thankful this year, mostly because it is the first year in a long time that I have felt at peace with everything and everyone around me.  It has been hectic the past couple of days just like usual--trying to get ready for Thanksgiving.  Getting the kids to make their pies, keeping the kitchen clean for all the baking and cooking that needs to be done, getting all the stuff that we need for food and such (being short one egg for pies and realizing this right as I got back from the store should have totally messed up the evening but it just wasn't that big of a deal), all of this should have been an experiment in frustration, but for the first time I'm not cranky, I'm just really happy.  I'm grateful for my kids and good friends.  The general feeling in the house is overwhelmingly happy, what a great thing to have happen in the midst of such craziness as the holiday season. So a big THANK YOU to all my family and friends...near and far, it is because of you that life is good!!  My life wouldn't be the same without any of you and you give so much to me, asking so little in return.  Thank you for your unconditional love and support.  I love you all. xoxoxo

Irony :D

Picture this:  I'm too lazy to get real shoes on to go out to see a movie, so I just slip on flip flops.  Yes I know it's the end of November, yes I know it's cold...but how bad can it be, I'll just be walking from the parking lot to the theater and then back out again?  At home my car is parked in my garage so no worries about really going outside there.  I walk out the door and notice that there is the occasional snowflake dropping from the sky.  And when I say occasional I really mean it!  I stutter in the doorway debating on whether to go all the way up the stairs to my room to change shoes...Naw! it's not that bad, so I decide to leave the flip flops on.

The movie:  2012 the summer disaster movie that for some inexplicable reason decided to not only release in the winter (good cuz there are never any good movies in the winter time) but also the same week as New Moon releases (bad cuz that is movie death).  I enjoyed the movie, my expectations weren't high to begin with so maybe that had something to do with it.  It was just fun...I know that is probably a bad thing to say about watching a movie where 98% of the human population is killed and Yellowstone is blown up in a volcanic explosion, along with most of the rest of the planet, but none the less it was enjoyable.

The irony: Walking out of the movie theater I stare in disbelief at the door of the theater which is so covered in snow I can barely see the blizzard that is raging beyond it.  Snow is blowing sideways, people can barely make it in the door with out looking like they are going to fly away, and the doors look like they are going to be ripped off their hinges everytime someone opens them which not only lets the cold air come blowing in, but little temporary snowdrifts form in the entryway each time.  I can't help it I start to laugh and then look down at my feet and laugh harder.  Go to watch an end of the world movie in flip flops...finish...come out and it looks like the beginning of the end in the real world too.  I laughed all the way home, which is unusual for me in white out conditions.

She has her moments

I got out of the shower this morning and walked over to my dresser to get some clothes.  I noticed that there was a piece of folded paper under one of my pillows.  I love it, this is what Mira does.  I've gone to sleep before and woken up in the middle of the night wondering what the crinkley sound under my pillow is.  She drew a picture of us holding hands and wrote.  "Dir Mom I love you Mom love mira"  Awwww how cute is that!!  It is moments like this that make being a mom worth all the other stuff that you have to go through--whining, temper tantrums...etc... I love you too girlie girl!! :)