Sick Little Snuggle Bug

My littlest is wonderful, but not feeling so hot. She's extra sweet and snuggly. She's also extra whinny. Working on patience and loving her the best a momma can. She is practicing the Waltz with Jade. I'm not sure the cat is a huge fan of dancing, but she seems to be tolerating Ry's love today.

We've made an appointment today for her to get checked and that will determine what we get to do together today. Hopefully it's a simple cold and we can do a little shopping and cooking. Then she could return to school tomorrow and me to my normal week schedule.

Wish her the best.

I read a post on FB last night from someone I don't know too well. Her son slept after a concussion and had bleeding around the brain. He was put into an induced coma and has now had 3 strokes. He is just 20 months old. I didn't know anything until I read "Row has had 3 strokes now. The mri shows lots of damage. He will probably never wake up.." I'm so very grateful for my children. I cannot begin to imagine the pain she is experiencing. I couldn't imagine loosing either of my girls, not even my partners girls, nor would I ever want to. My heart goes out to her. She is currently 13-14 weeks pregnant. I'm wanting to help fix her heart because I know this would break mine. I'm would love to talk to her, but I don't even know where to begin. I hope I find the right words soon.

Time to fully appreciate my time with my youngest.

Have a splendid Monday.

Behavior and Crafts

The girls come home today after three days with their dad, during the week. Holy balls. I know! Crazy to think where he has come with his parenting skills over the past 2 years. Props to him.

I'm excited and nervous. I know that there's a large possibility they will not behave for me and I'm hoping for rainbows and sunshine, so what I'm hoping will happen and what really will happen may be two different things... :( I'm looking forward to doing some crafts with them. I have started the fall wall... So far I've put up the fall banner the girls made and their apple stamping project. Then I put up the cute little harvest sign I got last year and the Fall Rules picture that I made just the other day.

I'm hoping that tonight the girls get to wrap their letters with Tulle, like they wanted to. Then we can put some bows and flowers on them and hopefully they turn out appealing. I'm also hoping that we can get their handprint trees painted to put up on the fall wall.
Oh and my oh my do I love any crafts that deal with handprints, fingerprints or footprints and we have boat loads of those to do as well.

Next week we will crack down on the Halloween crafts. We have pumpkin and bat crafts, ghost milk jugs, candy corn projects, visiting the apple orchard and pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins and making ghoully delicious fall dishes and treats.

P.S. This year I'm going to get my kids to bob for apples!! bwahaha

Should I really be proud?

Uh-hem... YUP. 

Unfortunately, I don't have the most saint like vocabulary, but fortunately sometimes it's hilarious. If you don't find the next two comments humorous, you might as well not read any of my post from now on. 

So driving in the car the other day, I became enraged with the dumbass driver in front of me. I yelled at the car in front of me, "Oh you stupid dick..." and in an effort to edit what else I had wanted to say I didn't finish. But Trichelle did... it went something like this...
Me -  "Oh you stupid dick..." Elle - "face" Bwahaha gracious this kid knows me. 

Later this same day something crazy happened that surprised me, don't ask me what because I couldn't tell you. I don't remember. So I started letting words fly and all I said was, "Holy" and Elle spat out "Balls." Yes! That's right. I commonly say, "holy balls." It's better than holy shit and seems to do the trick when I use these terms together. 

Twice in one day Elle blew my mind with her quick wit and memory of my favorite sayings. 

I love my children. 

At least Rylie's not saying "shit" anymore. The first time my friend, Ash-a-lee, met my girls, Rylie dropped something off the couch (2 years old) and said "Oh, shit." I also caught her saying in her room all alone once when she spilt. That's my kid. I have worked to reword my sayings. For a while there a friend and I... when we wanted to swear and the girls were around would yell out random foods. The kids thought we were nuts and we of course we die laughing on the floor. 

Hopefully when the girls come home from their father's house tomorrow they'll shock me with something new and great like normal. 

Do yo know what my job is?

Me, "Do you know what my job is?"
Rylie, "Nope."
Me, "To teach you stuff..."
Rylie, "Oh."
Me, "So am I doing a good job?"
Rylie, "Well I suppose so."

Such confidence she has in me. She was also the cutest defiant child this morning. I politely told my daughter this earlier "Rylie put your tights on." She replied with a very concrete, sweet, confident, smiley "nope."

This is her "knock knock joke" face
Such an event filled morning already.

Welcome to me oh so sweet world of not listening to mothers in the morning. (I'm sure I didn't listen to my mom in the morning either.