Growing pains

Is it just me or do all children put their parents through "h, e, double hockey sticks"?  Currently, our children are 7 and 4.  My 7 yr old does give me fits from time to time but all in all he's a really good kid.  My 4 yr old on the other hand is a totally different story!  She is driving me crazy right now.  I don't know if it's a phase or what but she has gotten so sassy and smarty acting, I just want to whip her little tail when she starts that mess.  Is it just me?  Am I over reacting?  I could understand this attitude if she were, say 10 yrs old, but 4?  C'mon!  Am I wrong to feel this way?  I feel like she MIGHT grow out of it but then again, what if she DOESN'T!  Oh, dear...

Testing 1, 2, 3

I haven't posted in quite some time and I have made some changes.  Just wanted to see how they look.

It's been a while

I just looked on my blog and realized that I haven't blogged in a week! Sometimes I find myself thinking that the kids did something so funny a few days ago, I think I need to blog about it. Well, I forget and then I don't do it and the funny just slips right out of my mind! I hate when that happens!

But tonight I do have a couple of funnies for you. This morning when I was dropping Davis off at school, I had to take the snacks inside to his teacher. She started telling me how funny he is and how he just cracks her up. She said that the other day she had to leave the room for something and while she was gone he told the whole class that she was going to retire because she'd been there for so long and was tired of it. Then she took her break one day last week and ran to Sonic for a drink. When she got back, he said "Ms Kim, I'm sorry but you missed happy hour"! He's such a fanatic about happy hour at Sonic. I've never seen anything like it!

Then this weekend he and Claire went to my parent's house for the weekend (ie, Dove hunting weekend). Well, Saturday morning Davis woke up at 4:00 a.m. and proceeded to wake up my dad and my brother to tell them to hurry up and get up - it was time to go dove hunting. HUH?!?!? WHAT?!?!?!?! Are you sure this is MY son that you're referring to? MY son that I literally have to peel out of the bed in the mornings because he's too tired and doesn't want to go to school! I think aliens came down and replaced him with a clone.

Labor Day

We all get sooo excited over "having a day off". To me a day off means sleeping in late, watching TV all day and just doing whatever I feel like doing. Labor day means that we don't LABOR TODAY! Well, guess what? Both of my kids have been home with me ALL.DAY.LONG. And I'm going NUTS!!!! Davis was up at 6:00 this morning - he NEVER gets up that early. I practically have to peel him out of the bed during the school week. Claire didn't sleep very long either. I have been laboring all day long!

Then they kept coming into my bedroom to tattle on each other. Then there was the screaming and crying that pierces the silence. I finally gave up on that "extra" sleep I wanted and got up. Well, at some point mid morning, I was watching TV and dozed off a bit. When I got up, OMG! My house looked like a tornado had run through it! Claire had gotten her stool, pushed it up to the kitchen counter and dumped out 2 cartons of cherry tomatoes. Did I mention that she also spilled milk that was left in a bowl from their breakfast AND she also got my cherry pitter and pierced a hole through some of the tomatoes. Needless to say she got her hiney spanked and had to go in time out. Lunch time couldn't come soon enough.

Well, after a quick trip to town to get a few groceries from our wonderful Supervalu, they were both eating lunch by 12:00. Nap time was very soon after. Thank goodness they both slept about 2 hrs. It was extremely peaceful!

After they both got up from naps, they had snacks and I practically had to push them out the door to play outside. What's up with that!??!?! They're usually busting a gut to get outside to play. Well, at one point they came back in and started playing really well together. That's when Davis walked into the kitchen and announced that since Claire wanted to dress up, he helped her. (she got one of those little dress up kits for her birthday) She had on the earrings, the bracelet, the shoes, the ring and the necklace with shorts and a t-shirt. Boy, was she cute!

What did he just say?

I had the funniest thing happen to me on Monday. My friend Millie had a baby girl last Friday and we went to see her on Sunday at the hospital. Well, another friend of ours, Laura, left something up there so I agreed to bring it back with me and take it to her. Monday afternoon I picked up the kids and went by her house to drop it off. I let the kids play for a little bit then we had to head out for home. Instead of driving all the way back to town, I cut over to Boyle and took a back road home. Well, at one point I have to swap from one back road to another. The one that I swapped over to was really narrow and the grass on the sides was growing in toward the road. As we are meeting a truck on this little, narrow road, and it feels as though the knee deep grass will swallow you up, my little man (5 yrs old) quips up in the back and says "Hello?!?!?! Don't these people know how to bush hog?" I thought I was going to fall out laughing. He may look a good bit like me but he thinks and acts like his daddy most of the time.

Sharing my recipe with THE GIRLS!

Ok, ladies, for those of you who enjoyed the Crab Bites, here's the recipe. (Just in case you're having company this weekend or you want an excuse to have company this weekend!)

1 - 6 oz can crab, drained
1 - 5 oz Old English cheese (it's in a glass jar & is usually close to the Velveeta)
1/2 stick butter, softened
1 Tbsp Mayo
1/8 tsp garlic powder
seasoned salt to taste
English Muffins, about 10

Mix ingredients until smooth. Spread on halves of English muffins and cut each half into 4 pieces. Bake at 400 degrees until warm and bubbly. Serve while warm.

Enjoy!!!

Funnies

I had to write about what I saw on TV tonight. I was flipping through the channels and came across the movie RV starring Robin Williams. I've seen it a few times before and it's pretty good. But I have to say that the funniest part in the movie (to me that is) is toward the end of the movie when Robin Williams character has to go talk to the whole Alpine Soda Company so that he can get them to agree to merge with the company that he works for. By the time he gets to this particular meeting, he's been through hell and back! Needless to say, he's fed up with his boss and his job.

When he gets to the meeting, he goes through his presentation and then tells them that it would be a big mistake to merge. Then his boss fires him and starts pushing his daughter. Well, his son (the kid with the short man syndrome) gets pissed and grabs the guy by the hand and pulls a swift karate move on him and flips him on his back. At this point this little girl (one of the Gornicke family members that they've met on the trip) is sooo impressed by what he's done. The camera zooms in on her and she smiles and says (with a southern/Texas accent) "My Hero". Everytime I see that part, it reminds me of a friend of mine. It just makes me think that that's probably what she was like when she was a kid. I absolutely get cracked up! I wanted to call her tonight and tell her but since it was after 9:00, I knew that she would be asleep.