Good Lord, It's Morning!!!

When you wake up, do you say "Good Lord, it's morning" or "Good morning, Lord" ? 

Each time that we wake up is a blessing! 

Instead of complaining that it is morning, why not rejoice that you made it through another night? 

Morning means a new beginning! 

 

Morning Mayhem

Years ago, Bill Cosby had a sketch that talked about kids having brain damage.  At the time that it was released, I was just a kid myself and had NO CLUE what the heck he was talking about.  Now that I am a parent.... I fully understand!  Kids get side tracked very easily!!  You ask them to do something and they find 100 things to do along the way.

Each morning, I have to constantly remind my kids to "start eating", "eat the food, not play with it", "finish eating", "go brush your teeth" etc.   Teeth brushing is where we fall apart every morning.  Some how the walk up the stairs becomes the world's longest distraction!!!  This morning, I must have said.  GO BRUSH YOUR TEETH five times.  I finally stopped ironing clothes to see what was going on and I witness Miss Thang sitting in the hallway, reading from her "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book to her brother who was doing the "Stanky Legg", while he listened.  What part of brush your teeth means story time and act like you're at the  dance club? 

Get To The Point!

I am pretty sure that is was not a good idea for my daughter to say "Get to the point" to my husband tonight while he was scolding her for misbehaving ! YIKES O_O !!!
I had flashbacks to my childhood and ran and hid in another room..... I wasn't even the one who said it!


I keep telling her that just because she sees kids on the Disney channel talking to their parents like they don't have good sense, does not mean that she should try it in this house! A hard head and a smart mouth makes for a paternal verbal smack down and an early bedtime! =)

IMHO, kids today get away with A LOT more than we did in the 70's!!  All that I know is if  I would have said that to my dad, my head would have been knocked off and I would have been feeling around on the floor trying to reattach it!  

Intuition & The Reckless Elephant

Intuition is amazing! I was with my family at the Carousel @ Columbus Commons. I was going to get on an elephant but thought, no, because of my sorority heritage! I choose a horse and the ride began .  Two minuets into the ride, the ELEPHANT snapped from the pole and crashed into my daughter's animal and then knocked down two more poles. I am so glad that I had a reason for not getting on the elephant! Thank God none of us were hurt!

Here is a picture of the Reckless Elephant!!! Notice how the pole is missing from the bottom!!

Peter Piper Picked A Pimpled Pumpkin!!

My daughter spotted this giant pumpkin near the front door of my son's daycare and her response was...

"Somebody needs some ointment"

The Pimpled Pumpkin

Heifer Please! Incident 1.0 - "She's Too Busy"

September 2010

A stay at home mom of two school-aged children, emailed me to say that she does not have time to make ONE phone call to find out info on an activity for the brownie troop!!!  

She claimed that she is "busy"!  BUSY???? Name one person who is NOT busy? 

I had to remind her that all of the troop leaders work a full time job, yet we find time to make calls, make copies, plan & conduct meetings and attend field trips!! 

TWO WORDS... Heifer Please!!!