10 Things Tuesday

We had a visit from Nana, yesterday, so here are 10 things we are thankful for about her!

1. She had the quilt-tops that I made last year made into actual quilts. We LOVE them!


2. She reads books with us and asks questions. (Sophie)


3. She plays outside with us. (Sophie)


4. She laughs a lot. (Maddie, paraphrased)


5. She tells it like it is.


6. Her big heart. She takes on the roll of "Nana" to many, not just her biological grandchildren.


7. Her tolerance. The girls were in rare form yesterday (read: acting ugly). She did not berate me for my poor parenting.


8. My birthday presents yesterday. I know she wanted me to pick something a little more glamorous than a candle and a book, but those are things I never buy for myself. I love those big old candles from Bath and Body works and the book was Sew What Skirts. (Side note: I am now obsessed with those cute little skirts that the moms wear in Kelly's Kids that coordinate with their children. I know matchy-matchy is dorky-dorky, but I can't help it. I want to BE a cool Kelly's Kids mom...)


9. She thinks that I am smaller than I am. :)


10. She's always been so wonderful to me and has a great relationship with her son (Jeff). We love her so much!

Middle aged

Well, so I'm 32 today. Jeff and I decided this can only mean one thing: it's time for my mid-life crisis. I haven't actually chosen how I am going to express this, yet.
Here are my options:

• date someone several years my junior. (However, this one won't work. I AM married, after all.)
• bleach my hair
• go back to shopping in the juniors section
• get really into top 40 music (but of course, be a couple of months behind...)
• find some teens to hang with and prompt them to say I am way cooler than most 32 yr olds
• buy a sports car (don't ask me where I will put the 3 car seats)
• laugh just a little bit louder

Surely one of these will help me reclaim my youth.

If not, there's always "over-tanning" ...

To sleep, perchance to dream ...

Oh, friends, I took a nap today.

There I was ... propped up on my bed, watching The Soup reruns, and smocking, smocking, smocking ... then... waking up.

What?!?!?! Mama got a nap? What about all the stuff I needed to do? Sunday is a great day to get stuff done around here, because they ALL nap at the SAME TIME. (I'm including Jeffreen in that.)

It was glorious.

In other news, all three took a bath together tonight. I'm not sure when the last time I laughed that hard was. Or, got so wet without actually getting in the tub. :) And no, I didn't get any photos. Nekkid babies I can handle. NOBODY needs to see my toddler and pre-schooler that way. Sorry!

AND.... I heard MMM..Bop on the radio. I finally got that goofy song out of my head and now, 10 yrs later, it's baaaaack! Shoo be doo ba doo bop. yeah, yeah

Muscles, take 2

My mom came over for a minute last night, and thinking Sophie's comments on Wednesday were funny...
I say, "Sophie, tell Grammy about your muscles."
Sophie, "They're dead."

Okay, this is just getting worse.

10 Things Wednesday!

Thank you Julie for this photo!

This Wed. thing is getting to be a habit ...

Since little Miss Eliza pants turns 9 months on Friday, here are 9 things we are thankful for about her(and 1 bonus thing for momma):

1. She's cruising all the furniture, which means she is right on schedule with her development. A mother worries, you know.


2. She's definitely got her own distinctive look in our family.


3. Her hair, however, is coming in curly like her sisters. I love the fact they have a trait to share!


4. Mosquitos don't make big whelps on her. We should be thankful for small blessings! :)


5. She's a spitter, but it doesn't bother her at all. Well, that's a relief.


6. No matter what her sisters do, she laughs at it.


7. She doesn't really mind getting her nails cut.


8. She likes veggies from a can, doesn't matter what temperature.


9. She has many silly names such as Drooly Francis and Legs McGee and Pookytella (that's Sophie's contribution, she also thinks that the word "booty" is short for bootytella. Sigh ...)


10. And one for me - my pleater FINALLY came in!!! Woo to the hoo!

I was making out a grocery list when Soph says (in her usual straight-faced, deadpan delivery), "put muscles on there, Mom. Mine aren't hard anymore. I guess I need new ones."

I got her the big box of fruit snacks. That ought to do it.

Walkin' down that memory lane

Firstly, I feel I should respond to a few of the comments from the previous post:

to all of you who have lived with me at various times - I'm sorry! I didn't realize I was so obnoxious with my ABBA-love

Dallas - why, oh why, didn't I think of that!!!!!!

Chandra - don't tease me, girl

Now, Stacy chose senior pictures as the "getting to know you" topic for last week . I'm trying, Stac, I really am. Problem is, I didn't have senior pictures made. All I had was the composite that they made us take. Can't find any of those. I HATE having my picture taken. (Have I mentioned that before?) Anyways, I have enlisted the help of my mother to help locate some senior photos at her house. We'll see if any turn up.

I DID, however, find some photos that I wanted to share. Since, you know, we are all feelin' nostalgic and such.

This one is the closest I found to my senior year. It was actually taken my first semester at Harding. That's my friend Brad. We had just gone to his BC function the night before dressed as David and Goliath. (Brad's, like, 7 ft tall) Just want to say a quick apology for the white socks. Also, brown lipstick was very in in the mid 90's.

Next, a photo of someone I was a senior with, even though the picture was taken in college. That's for you, Barrett.And now ..... a jersey picture. Also, I have the biggest teeth in the world.This picture has nothing to do with high school or college, but it's one of my favorites. I'd just had Eliza, (ignore the jammies and face and hair) and had all my girls in the bed with me. I was feeling so blessed and emotional and then it hit me - I only have two arms! How do I hold them all? It worked out. Also, Mads looks like Eddie Munster.And this one is because I just feel like humiliating myself. I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth taken out less than a month after Eliza was born. Jeff decided we needed to capture this moment. Fortunately for him, I was still a little drugged up at the time. I'm sure he was thinking, "Woo! What a hottie I ended up with!"

How can I resist ya?

Well, people, I just got back from watching MAMMA MIA and it was FAN-TASTIC! We (my sister and mother and myself) were bouncin' around and singin' all the words. I'm sure we were Quite Entertaining to those around us. I've been an ABBA fan since I was little girl riding around in the car, listening to the Super Trooper 8-track all of the time. They sang all my favorites, tonight. :)

Seriously, though, there were men in there. Watching the movie. I had to wonder what kind of man would go see the ABBA movie when Batman was coming out this weekend...

Oh, and the girl in the movie was named Sophie. She was absolutely adorable, so I sure hope that doesn't translate into an influx of people deciding to name their child - Sophie. You know what I mean.

Oh, but I really, really loved it. I know it's not for everyone, but I can't remember the last movie that I liked, much less loved. It was My Kind of Movie. Now, please excuse me. I need to go sing into my hairbrush.