Talk or Text

TGIF & ALOHA FRIDAY

So this week has been crazy for me.
Everyday this week it has been the same routine:

• Work
• Vacation Bible School
• Bed
• Repeat
• (except today (FRIDAY) I took a vacation day because I need a break)
  

My house is a total wreck and I don't understand why. We haven't been home except to sleep.

So as Kailani says, it is Friday and lets take it easy.
Question: TALK or TEXT? Simple enough!

My Answer: I am slowly getting into texting. I always thought a text was very impersonal but I now feel like it is a quick way to get an answer with out a long drawn out conversation.

When I say slowly, it is literally. Tiny buttons and I don't know the codes to make things simple so I am slow at sending a message.

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WHERE, OH WHERE

Something always keeps me from leaving the house on time.

Yesterday I am frantically running around trying to find Thomas’s shoes.

15 minutes later & I find them here…

Happily perched on the handles of the rocking horse in the dinning room.

Seriously!

I swear my boys intentionally do this stuff just to make me crazy.

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A NEW RIDE

So this week is Vacation Bible School at my church. My son is very excited about it and he is actually bringing some friends this year. All the more reason for him to get excited.

Our church is in a very small "don't blink" or you will miss it type of town. It is about 20 minutes from where we live. Because our church is a fair distance to travel I have volunteered to commute some of the kids to help parents out. Unfortunately for me I have volunteered my services a bit to much because I now have more kids than I have space for in my vehicle.

So what do I get to do to solve this problem. I get to trade my little SUV in for my mom's MINI-VAN for the week. Can I just say.... I hate mini-van's. I don't like driving them and they make me feel like I am my mom.

I actually find it funny that when I grew up I loved that my mom had a mini-van. We got one when they first came out and it was way cool. Now I am a mom but I do not find it way cool to drive a mini-van. Maybe because driving one labels me as a mom. Not that I would ever deni being a mom, I love being a mom. I just don't want to sport it in my vehicle of choice.

So I have to ask... do you drive a mini-van? Did you grow up riding around in one? Are you like me and dread the thought of owning a mini-van?

My $50 Store

Aloha Friday!

My Question:
What store always cost you more money than you ever wanted to spend when you shop at that store?
Does your store always hit a minimum dollar amount?

My Answer:
Target
Target is my $50 minimum store. I don't care if I walk in with a list that has 2 items on it. By the time I get to the check out I have spent at least $50. It happens every single time.

I need to throw on the blinders and grab only what is on my list. Yet I never do and as I am walking through the store I say,

Oh I need laundry soap,
oh we need tissue's,
oh look they have tumbler cups on clearance for $1
Oh and don't even let me step foot in the baby department and start looking at the clearance clothing racks. Ugh....

I so love Target and yet I so hate Target.

The worst part is Target is right up the street from my work so I frequent it often. I am willing to bet they are smiling every time they see me walking into their store.

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All Scratched Up

So for a while now I have been saying Thomas is 19 months old and then it came to me that I have been saying this for a couple months now. So I did the math and wouldn't you know he is now 22 months. How did that happen!


Anyway on to my Wordful Wednesday. My son has decided to start fighting at the ripe young age of 22 months. While at the sitters on Monday he got into a fight with her son who is 2 and twice the size of Thomas. Lets just say they were pulling hair, scratching and biting. Neither of them cried but they were both pretty mad.

Here are some photos of just how scratched up Thomas got. He didn't scratch the other boy because we keep his nails really short, however he was the one leaving behind his teeth impressions.

Here is a nice cheek scratch. Oh excuse the bottle he is to old for this but to stubborn to ever give it up.


Here is a large scratch on the same side but down by his ear.


Finally the opposite cheek and its double scratches. This poor thing looks like he got into a fight with a cat.

So you ask what in the world would get them going? A tiny little yellow car!

I would like to say I don't approve of this behavior and it is so new to me. My oldest son is so passive that I have never had to deal with this before. Any advice on managing this type of behavior is welcome.

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