So, I sit down with a nice warm cup of coffee today, after getting all of the kids off to school, and I realize....I never washed my 6 year olds face!! Usually not that big of a deal BUT she had decided yesterday afternoon to paint whiskers and a black nose on her face to be a kitty!! So, now I have sent my daughter to school with the leftover make up on her face!!!! UUUGGGHHHH!!!! A few minutes pass of me going over and over in my head on how "I can't believe I did that" when I realize...she is going to a friends house for a play date right after school!!!! So now I have not only sent her to school with the remains of whiskers and a black nose but I have also sent her to a friends house where she will be able to show off those nice whiskers and nose to her friends parents!!! And that is why, I AM THE MOTHER OF THE YEAR!!!!!!

Listening to my children play house today and my 7 year old is the mother. The other kids keep calling, "Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!" and my 7 year old yells back, "wait a minute I am having a little meltdown!"

My husband was quizzing myself and my 10 year old about general social studies. One question he asked was, "How many continents are there?" I of course knew that answer so I let my 10 year old answer, she says, "There's Hawaii, Alaska, umm...." I stopped her there and said, "North America, South America......" She says in return, "Oh, I know, North America, South America, that one that starts with U....." I again stopped her, this time laughing out loud at her and said, "Do you mean Europe honey?"

While writing the last post I thought of another priceless moment at the store with my kids that I thought I would share! It was about 3 years ago, So my 7 year old was about 4 and my whole family was walking through the store and at the time my brothers and Mom were walking with us. Well, my sweet 4 year old at the time, called her Uncle a douche bag. I was absolutely appalled but also chuckling under my breath because it caught me off guard. Well, my husband was furious and says, "Where did you hear that word? Probably from the punks that live nearby?" and her response to him was, "No, from you in the parking lot!" Well the chuckling under my breath turned into a burst of laughter, she showed him!!! He had showed a little road rage towards someone in the parking lot and had called someone a douche bag and as you all know, little ears hear everything!!!

Last night, while taking a quick trip to the store, after baseball practice, my husband told my 3 year old NO about something. Well, that just made my 3 year old so mad that he runs to me crying and says, "Daddy's being a meany weiney!" My response, "He is?" My 3 year olds response, "Yesh, (with his little lisp) I am going to pee in his bed tonight!" My response, "hahahahahahaha!" Then he must have realized that Daddy's bed is also my bed because he says to me, "but not on your blankets or your sheets Mommy!" Another priceless moment!!

This morning we are getting ready for a mini vacation and the girls are so excited so they are all up early and a little wound up. Then their little brother comes down the stairs and my 7 year old starts right off by chanting that he is a butt head. So I immediately say do not bug your brother, he is not a happy camper when he wakes up. Her response was, "OK Mom!" and then she starts chanting "I love my brother because.....he is a butt head!"

My 7 year old (she was 6 at the time) came home and said to me, "i love our house Mom, it's the best house! I mean I like the white house too, but ours is the best." I asked her what white house she was talking about and she said, "You know the one where the president lives." Absolutely precious!

This is what a note I received from my 7 year old says, "Dear Mommy, I love you more than my sisters!" I think that is so sweet!

I have recently found out that the kids don't know how to us a "real" manual can opener. So, while teaching my 10 year old and her cousin how to use the can opener and laughing at them as they are having to work as a team to get the can of Spaghetti O's open (another healthy lunch for us) my daughter slices her thumb open, bleeds through 4 band aids and her only concern was why they would not put her to sleep to get stitches (by the way she didn't need stitches).

The simplicity of truth

My 7 year old recently had her pinky finger closed in a bedroom door. It was an awful mess that called for a trip to the Emergency Room. While waiting for the doctor she was a little nervous about the whole thing and when we were talking about how her Dad used to work in that hospital, she says, "If Daddy was my doctor that would be ok with me Mom." Very sweet and innocent BUT...my husband is not a doctor! When the doctor finally did come in to visit and looked at her finger he had explained that she would need an x-ray to make sure that the finger was not broken. Her response to that was, "I would be OK if it was broken. Really I just told my Mom that I wanted to break something the other day!" I have to admit she did tell me that! Again very sweet and innocent. Then we waited, and after three hours of waiting, we had the radiologist, the nurse, and the Doctor come into the room to tell us that they were waiting on the official radiology report before they could discharge her. (no bones were broken, Phew!) The doctor was the last to come in and tell us this and as he was leaving the room my daughter says, "Why do we keep having to hear the same thing over and over again!" She was saying exactly what we, as adults, were thinking the whole time. We could never say it for fear of being disrespectful!! I love the innocence and simple truth that comes out of the mouths of children!!

making-up

After a very long weekend, my husband and I were lying in bed mid-afternoon, taking in all that had happened over the weekend and the kids were sent downstairs to get ready to go outside. My 10 year old says to her sisters, "Where are Mom and Dad?" My 6 year old responds, "They are making up." My 10 year old then asks, "What are they making up for?" and the response from her 6 year old sister was, "You know they are kissing and stuff!" Needless to say, we were not "making up" but that conversation did make a happy ending to the otherwise stressful weekend we had!!

The Tooth Fairy

My 7 year old had lost her third tooth! She misplaced the tooth and so she wrote a note to the tooth fairy explaining what had happened. Well, that tooth fairy forgot to stop that night. At first she was a little upset but I explained that sometimes the tooth fairy just can't make it every where in one night. The following morning she wakes up and checks under her pillow and guess what....still nothing from that darn tooth fairy. Now she was just getting mad and so I explained that maybe the tooth fairy just forgot and that she should leave that note under her pillow for one more night!! The third morning she woke up, came down the stairs with the note in hand, tosses it on the table in front of me, and walks away rolling her eyes.......I had no explanation this time. I just couldn't believe that I had forgotten three nights in a row! So while my 7 year old was at school, my oldest daughter came home and reminded me that the tooth fairy still needed to leave something under her sisters pillow so she wrote the note for me. She kindly explained that the tooth fairy had been sick for three whole days but she was feeling better now so she was able to leave her some money!! How smart my 10 year old is!!!! So everyone was happy with the explanation from the tooth fairy and she was forgiven for taking so long. Well.....my 6 year old lost her tooth and placed it under her pillow last night and that darn tooth fairy forgot AGAIN!!!! Can you even believe that!! But the best part is my 7 year old says to her younger sister, "It's OK, but I hope that she isn't sick again!"

My 3 year old son brings me the top to his McDonalds cheeseburger today with all of the onions on it and says "you want this, its yucky?" I answer,"sure honey you don't like it? I love the onions" So he hands it to me and I take a couple of bites and then my 3 year old nephew comes up to me and says; "That's yucky Aunt Mol" so I say, "You don't like the onions either, I love them." My nephew responds, "No, it was on the floor!!"

My 6 year old had a beautiful black kitty she had received for her 5th birthday! Her kitty's name was Jude and she loved her so much. Well, last week Jude chased a squirrel into the road and ran in front of a car and was hit. I had a really hard time deciding how to explain to my daughter what had happened to Jude kitty but when the time came I told her exactly what happened. She was devestated and heart broken. After less than 10 minutes my 6 year old was calling her Aunt and left her a message that Jude Kitty had died but it was all OK because now Jude is with Grandma Donna and Grandpa, and Grammy's dog Scooter. That is when I realized that it was all OK and that she was already at peace with it. What a sweet little girl she is~I had a part in that :)