Wednesday, November 12, 2008

All I can say is thank God!!!



I did a search on Louis Tarmichael....





HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are
1
or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A.

http://howmanyofme.com">How many have your name?



See there are some good things in life still. However there are actually 3 Karen Stikas. That is a true shame!!!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

I am sick of tolerance

I have decided that I am sick of watching what the homosexual minority is doing to us as people. My children are being taught that "there are all kinds of families". This is the stand point of any decent non prejudiced person out there. You know what? Homosexuality is wrong, and that is not being prejudiced. My husband pointed out the other night that while we watched all of the obvious homosexuals hugging and celebrating Obama being elected that they can't reproduce at least. But the problem is that we have too many people that don't take care of their children and now homosexual partners are adopting. Even if that wasn't the case, then we would just have to live with the fact that our children are being taught every day, by the way the world is, that it is perfectly normal and acceptable to be homosexual. This makes me furious!!! This is just another time that the minority is changing what the majority thinks. No one is smart enough to see what corruption our world is turning into. And if they do see it, they are afraid to do anything about it.
Rant over for the moment.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Home at last...

No food in the house. Junk piled everywhere! Kids wanting to set up the pool, and laundry mountains that I can't climb. I have recovered the dogs from the pound for the second time since vacation started, and Dozer is in here yelping like crazy. Oh boy!!! I need a couple of weeks to recover from this "vacation"!

Friday, June 6, 2008

Events of Thursday June 5th

The Keys family has survived another school year. For Andrew, it is his next to last year. He spent his afternoon after finals over at the recruiter station finishing up his paperwork for his enlistment. He came home yesterday afternoon to get the last required signatures from me since he is still 17. He missed one place when she was going over the paperwork with me, so of course I wound up with a picture of my baby signing away the next few years of his life after he finishes high school...







This took place after a very emotional elementary school graduation. Chris has been very lucky to be with just a great group of kids since he began school at Creekside in first grade. Most of these kids will be attending the same middle school with him in the fall. A couple of them will be separated until they get to high school. I will miss being with those kids. It has been alot of fun and they are just an extremely good group of kids. We have been so lucky with him, at least up to this point. I just hope that they can keep the kind of love that they really seem to have for each other over the remaining 7 years that these kids have had for the last 6.


9 days until the Disney trip of 08 as I am sure that it will be referred to for the rest of our lives. I am looking forward to getting myself to a place where I can live in fantasy for a bit and forget about all of the transitions that are going on in our lives!

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The weather according to Lucie

I came downstairs to see Lucie watching the news with her dad. She is big into having to watch the weather here lately because she has a deep fear of "tomatoes". Since it is particualarly cloudy and windy today, she was feeling the need to see it. So I hear her tell him as I am walking away... "See, what did I tell you? See cwoudy! Cwoudy, cwoudy, cwoudy!!! That's all it's going to be today!"

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Ben Joke

What did the soda say to the float?
May I have a sip of you?

What's a one legged bird called?
A unibird.

What do you call a square in an octagon?
A squoctagon.

What does ketchup say to french (or freedom) fries?
Will you dip in me?


He's on a role today!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I have days that I feel like this.


I just wish that I could do the same thing. How nice to just crash out like that anywhere you want to.

ONE WAY TO BUILD A TOWER!!!



Ben has been working hard on a tower. There is one way to build a tower, straight up, one block on top of the next. You can't have a tapering tower, or anything that would make it more stable, just straight up! I am amazed that he can consistantly stack 23 blocks one on top of another. I just need to remember this later tonight when the girls have knots all over their heads from the crashing that happens every time....

YIPPEE!!!

I just enrolled Ben in a new school for the fall. I am so excited! I just happenned upon a charter school that is just 1 mile away from my house. It is K-12, so if this works, he will never have to go to another school until college. There are going to be a total of 9 children in his classroom with a teacher and an aide. I am so excited and hopeful. He seems really optimistic about it. His only downside is that he is going to have to cut his hair. He was really wanting to grow it out and donate to locks of love in his memory of Cali. I just told him that he could do it later, and that I was sure that Cali would much rather him find a happy place to go to school.
There is also a karate class that has just opened here in town for just AS and HFA kiddos. WE are going to check that out on Friday to see how it goes. Another one of my friends has taken her son there, and she just gushed about how great it was on her first visit. I am really anxious to get there and try it out. Maybe things are looking up for him for this next year coming up, I sure hope so!

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Occupational Therapy day

So I get up this morning and I have to run Lucie to get some tennis shoes for the Disney trip. We have to go and take Ben to OT at Our Children's House in Grapevine, so I think that I will just stop at Target across the street from there. Of course we get to the car and it is time to get to OT, so I am rushing. Just as I am about to pull into the parking garage, I see a plane landing. I say to Ben, that must be a 747 because it has four engines. We have to listen to Chris and Houston pointing this out every time they see one up in the sky. It is common enough being right next to the DFW airport. I pull into the garage and then I ask Ben, "Did that plane say United States of America on the side of it?" And he says "Yeah, it said Air Force on it too."

I could have kicked myself, as I could have had an awesome shot of Air Force One as it landed. The camera was right beside me...UGH!!!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Who is this boy's idle???

He tells me that Willie Mayes is his hero, and he is going to kick that way forever. Could be interesting if he ever makes it to the majors!!!


Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Proud mama

So at the end of the school day, I am going to try to be a "good mama" and walk to the park to meet said son #2 to walk home from school with him. We have cleaned house all morning, and I have had a headache all morning. I start out the door with the overloaded stroller that is a pain to push thinking "It is only 2 miles round trip". When I make it less than a block, I realize that there is so much gunk blowing in the air that I will probably be sick for the next month for this little trip. When I arrive at the park, said son #3 does not disappoint and promptly finds some kiddos that are brats to hang out with (all of whom are like 3 years younger than him). I hear them calling him gay when he is turned the other way, and he is oblivious as always. At this point I do hear one of the kids (who spends the majority of the time sitting on a bench by himself) say that if they mean gay happy then they could be right. As I watch the girls play and try to be attentive to what is going on with the other kids also they decide that they should play a game of tag. Now, I bet no one will guess who is it. It was one of those games of tag that is impossible to get anyone since every object you touch is base. There were more bases than I have ever seen before, even in a game of Andrewball...
I wasn't paying attention for a few moments as was contemplating how long to let this continue, and when I was going to feel well enough to say it was time to go. The next thing I knew I look up and notice that son #3 is beaming because son #2 has decided to play tag with the group and somehow son #3 has tagged #2 and he is chasing all of these kids. I felt so proud for just that moment. Knowing that there is no way that this could just be coincidence and that sometimes there is justice in the world. I would never expect to hear my son say that he did this for any reason other than he just decided that he wanted to play, but I just hope that he knows how proud I am of him at times.

Guard cat

The sight of this one should make anyone fearful.

MY Economic Stimulas Plan...

I am thinking that I would be more than willing to spend a gob of money and put it back into the economy if I made it. I will promise that if I find a way to make any money, then I will spend it. I will not even hesitate. So now, I have found a plan to make some extra money....

I am thinking that these three are really cute, I could farm them out to work, and just sit back and collect the dough!!! Sigh.... back to spring cleaning... with this "help" I am liable to never get finished!!!

Friday, May 16, 2008

For Sato's sake

I walked into the kitchen and Ben got mad at me because I just woke up his cat that he had been getting to go to sleep. I know that you can't really hear him here, but you can tell that he is very softly singing if you pay attention. Yes, Ben is singing lulluby's to his kitten. Boy that cat is going to have a rough life...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Thrift Shopping

I have recently discovered that Christopher is the first one of my kiddos that is truly into the unique experience of thrift shopping. I am soooo excited. He actually asked on Mother's Day if I wanted to go to the Goodwill store for a bit. We were there for two hours. So here is an example of what can happen when you shop with Chris...

And he says, "These are better than Napolean Dynomite's boots. I have to have them, and only 4 bucks. What a steal!!!"

The amazing part? I have actually already had one of his friends call and ask where we found them because he just had to have a pair. They are too funny....

Friday, May 9, 2008

You're welcome

I walk down the stairs and suddenly I feel like a princess making an entrance. Why you may ask... Ben looks up at me with sincere admiration and says, "MOM, YOU ARE LOOKING QUIET WELCOME TODAY!" How can you beat a compliment like that? He did go on to explain to me that that meant nice. I don't know where he came up with that definition of welcome, but hey I'll take whatever compliments I get these days.

Nap time 3

The grand wiener for today managed to start napping at 8:30 am. I present the sleeping cuteness in full glory...

Houston and Sato!!!

Thursday, May 8, 2008

dinner time

Ok, just giving the update for dinner tonight. I have the one son who is extremely messy. You all know who I am talking about. We have always told him that children starve to death because he wastes so much food. Well, tonight he went to snatch more tots out of the oven and dropped one in the bottom... The know it all son says "Get the tongs and get it out!" The messy son mopes. I go and get a fork to stab the tot with since the tongs are not the answer unless you want to pull the hot rack out. Then the monotone son pipes in with "WHAT. YOU DROPPED THE THONGS IN THE BOTTOM OF THE OVEN?"

Nap time part 2


Although this is pretty cute also. I am LOVING Sato. He is the most awesomist kittty in the whole world!!! He is making nap time soooo much easier. They want to see who can get to sleep first so that he will come and lay on them. Sato is a fan of the afternoon nap!!!

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

NAP TIME!!!


I am not sure that it gets much cuter than this....

High point

I guess it is pretty sad when this is the high point of your day....


Friday, May 2, 2008

cat is playing???

I turned and heard the most awful howling sounds of a pathetic meow. We bought a new laser pointer for the kitten to play with. He plays with it for short spurts. The other two cats just look at me like "Do you think that I am crazy?" Then I found that it is a good source of entertainment for Lucie kitty....

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The scariest bug ever

Lucie did have to call her daddy today to tell him that he has to come home RIGHT AWAY to kill this bug that she saw in the cat food. I did get a little description of it. I guess I had better be calling the exterminator....

Sato

Well, today was rather uneventful. A trip to the vet, a sick kiddo, and baskin robbins 31 cent night. We went, but the line was down the sidewalk around the building, so we left a donation for the firefighters and went to Braums for some ice cream instead.

We got a good report from the vet this morning. A little antibiotic for little Sato, and he is deworming him again. He said we could never over do it with the little girls in the house. Ben was a little disturbed when we went to check out because I told him that it would be around a hundred dollars, and he only charged us for the antibiotic so it was more like 35. He stood and started to argue that it was supposed to be 100, but I got it under control pretty quickly. He is starting to really show an annoyance with numbers being off, times and such too. I guess that it could be worse. We just find it funny.

We go to Our Children's House tommorrow morning for another eval for Occupational Therapy. He is really excited to see everyone again, and I look forward to having that other positive place back into his life. He loves it there, and has been missing everyone. Then we are going to an exciting lunch at McDonalds to meet with "Grandma", so the girls are excited over that.

Sorry, no good jokes tonight, and Darth Tater stole my good pic for today. I hope that everyone is well.

Monday, April 28, 2008

prom night




Last night I was kept awake until 1:30 am by the little "princess" that refused to go to bed. Tonight I am awake because I am excited about the addition of a new kitten baby to our family and because I am wondering where all of the years have gone. I just watched my oldest son (and his girlfriend of 3 years now) go off to the prom. What happened here? I thought that it was just last week that I went to the prom, and now I have a kid going. I remember days when he said, "Nandrew want burger cheese, Souson." I try every day to remember that I am going to miss each and every one of these precious moments that I have with the children. I will miss the joys and the screaming. I will wish for 3 people to be standing there telling on each other and trying to get the other guys into trouble. I wish that I could slow time down sometimes. It just seems like each week is a blur trying to get to the next one. Oh well, for your viewing pleasure, here is a photo of my handsome son. I don't say enough how proud I am of him. I spend alot of time telling him how he could do better on everything, but all I want is the best for him. I love you, Andrew.

Ben joke

What do you call 12 men split them in half and put them on two boats?

Yo ho ho we won't go!

How many days can (codename) "dHIL" go without pulling a call?

Ok Houston, I checked for you...


boy with kitten


First advice that has been offered to me today:" BABY KITTENS DON'T LIKE IT WHEN YOU JUMP WHILE YOU ARE HOLDING THEM."

DIANE WOULD BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

This is the first thing that Ben said when he got into the car after adopting Buttons today. I guess that you really have to know Ben to understand the way he talks, but if you do you will smile at that comment. I am happy to report that we didn't find one flea on our new baby, and she will be going to the vet tommorrow, so we will hope for a healthy report.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Picking a kitten



Ben has been involved with trying to get his dad to say that he can adopt a cat and save a life. We went to the shelter today and he narrowed it down to 5 selections...these two cuties, and







These three...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Answer according to the MAGIC eight ball....

For those who care, COLLEGEGIRL... I shook the mysterious magic eight ball, and this would be the answer....

Friday, April 18, 2008

Self portraits






I have quite the family of abstract artists here today....


Ben...

Lucie....




Sadie....

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

BEST NEWS ALL YEAR!!!

So I just got the call from the school letting me know that they had recieved my letter, and they are in the process of witdrawing Ben. He had the same two library books past due that have been out since early March. I need to send them in along with his spelling book. I am so sad that I have a UTI going on and I don't physically feel like dancing, because what I want to do is just run through the house and sing "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD" at the top of my lungs. I know that I will eventually forget how much I can't stand her because we have had a bad teacher before, but right now I just have to keep praying for forgiveness.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Home-School, The Final Frontier

What better way to celebrate TAX DAY 2008 then by opening your own private school in the state of Texas??? (By the way, a very happy birthday to my father-in-law also!)



In light of my most recent decision to withdraw my son, Ben, from his school, I have decided that today we should start developing names for my new "private school" that I am opening!



You may submit any suggestions (all two of you whom read this blog), and they will be considered. Once we come to a conclusion on a name, then we will be deciding on a t-shirt design since I have my own artist...



Some ideas that have come up already....



1. N.B.A. Elementary (No B*#%@! Allowed)



2. Academy of Respect Ben



3. St. Momma's School of Fun Stuff



4. Freedom Academy


5. Stika It Where the Sun Don't Shine Academy


6. Ben U


Yes, our ideas are pretty lame, so I guess that we need some suggestions. It is not every day that you actually get to name your own school... I think that Ben will help me work on that today... can you consider that educational at all???

Monday, April 14, 2008

Just say it...

Photo ops like this just keep seeming to pop up in my family....

Friday, April 11, 2008

Life lesson #2 from Sadie




A girl can NEVER have too much lip gloss!!! NEVER!!!

Let's come up with a caption

Houston had introduced a piece where you could vote for what Cali was saying in one of his blogs. From the same event I have taked a picture of someone that we shall call codename Mr. Turd. Let's have some fun COLLEGE GIRL...

What is Louis Tarmichael, uh.. I mean Mr. Turd saying to our dear friend Sue Young?

A. "I really like those earrings, I can see my reflection in them."

B. "I thought that I was never going to make it through your caterwauling so that I could eat!!!"

C. "Your music was pretty good, but SNAP this food is DA BOMB!!!"

D. "Nice spread here, but you may want to get some food out for the rest of the folks here."

It's not easy being green

Especially on a day that you feel like being blue. Today I miss this....

Thursday, April 10, 2008

A new hope

For my sisters Sally, Katie, and Amy... I know that they would truly be the ones to appreciate this great performance.

Grill Master Part Two

From the mouth of Lucie, "That is CWAAA-ZY"

Life lesson from Sadie...

Even though it can be great fun, and very entertaining.... It is probably not a good idea for you to sit in the corner and play with your pussy(cat) all day long....





Dedication

I don't know exactly what this photo says to me. Either that Houston is a very dedicated griller, or that he needs to participate in Grillers Anonymous.

THE BEST TEACHER EVER!!!

I just wanted to take a minute to point out that my son, Ben, has the best teacher EVER!!! I have spent the last 9 years raising Ben and boy! what time I have been wasting. If it hadn't been for this teacher I wouldn't have realized that my son is one of the best actors in the world. I didn't realize (not to mention the countless other professionals involved over the last 7 or so years) that my son is NOT autistic. You know what is wrong with him? He has a behaviour problem. So all of the the stims that we have dealt with over the years... acting. Oh! The time he was in the children's musical and he managed to do his part, and then the folks pulled me out of church to let me know that he is under the table and they can't get him to come out... acting.
I don't know why I haven't had him in movies for years now. I am sure that he was acting when he was 18 months old and I took him out to eat just to have him cry inconsolably and climb under the table and be so distraught that he couldn't even eat pizza. I could see why any child would want to go somewhere fun like say Six Flags and ACT like they are caught up watching a ride so much that they get left by their whole family including 2 grandparents. After all it is alot of fun to spend so much of your time in the movie or the amusement park zoning out or jumping up and down or with a "headache". We should all follow his lead.

Amazingly he has also been lying to me about what is going on at school. I am sure that he has been lying and making excuses for years too. I mean he does it so much to help me. Just like if I were to try to say that you do not look fat in that dress. Ben would interject with "Well, actually, you look morbidly obese." No little white lies to keep from hurting someone's feelings, but he can come up with extravagant lies to tell me. It is absolutely amazing!!! Never mind he can't just sit down and have imaginative play time. I am sure that he does that every time that I leave the room anyway. Because you know, he is really bright. So I think that I have it figured out now!!!

When Ben was born, he knew about autism. He knew that his lot in life was either to be a lying scam artist or an amazing actor. He decided, "Hey, if I don't let anyone hold me except Mom, and if I don't learn to walk or talk, or potty in a timely fashion, then I can start to make these doofuses think that I am autistic!" I bet that it would be a trip.

See what I mean??? If it wasn't for this teacher that we have had this year, then I would have gone through the rest of my life trying to help him cope with things that weren't even really there. I can't imagine what that would've been like!

I just have to close by saying that I feel so blessed to have had a teacher with 22 YEARS of teaching experience that could tell me the my son has been playing me the fool for the last 9 years. She knew this but 6 speech therapists, 7 pediatricians, a neurologist, 4 occupational therapists, 3 psychologists, countless parents of other Asperger Syndrome/ Autistic children, a HUGE family(some of which being pediatric nurses...), and we parents were just played the fool. WOW!!!

You know, I bet the rest of the parents fell for this is because all of their kids are just acting too. I bet that there really isn't an increase in the amount of children being born on the autistic spectrum. I bet that all that is going on is there in an increase of brilliant natural actors being born to populate the world.

On that note, I better go. I think that I maybe should contact the CDC and let them in on what is going on. I am sure that she won't mind if I pass along her name and contact info. I bet that she will be winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year! Wow! And just to think!!! Wow! What a BRILLIANT mind!!!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Ben jokes

knock knock
who's there
20 sponge bobs
20 sponge bobs who
YOU FORGOT TO LAUGH!


A blonde goes into the store. He started hitting himself in the head with a bowling ball until he was a redhead. So he went to the doctor, and the doctor said he doesn't operate on blondes.


Ben: A redneck goes to tryout for basketball, and he gets the ball and he throws it and it goes really high and then it goes into space catches on fire and comes back down and sets his hands on fire so then he stuck his hands in the pool but the pool caught fire because it had oil in it so then he caught on fire....
DAD: Does this have a punch line?
Ben: ...yes, so then the grass catches on fire and he picks up the basketball and his hands catch on fire.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Funny girl

This just keeps getting better and better every time that I am getting hear it. I thought that I would share and let the world know that Ben is not the only comodian in the family....

Sha na na na na na


Monday morning. Need I say more???

Friday, April 4, 2008

RIP

I just wanted to pass along to everyone that Ozzy the girl has passed away and we (as in I) held a very small private ceremony this morning at about 1 AM. I guess that girl just wasn't up to snuff for living in the Keys' household. RIP Ozzy the girl. I am sure that you have your butterfly wings somewhere over the rainbow. You will live on in our memories.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Rainbow Connection



I have much more kid stuff to post from this weekend, but I had to at least get this up before we have to run to my brother's guitar recital. Life is so precious. Note the sounds of the red menace as the backing vocals. Ahhh, the sounds of peace.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ben joke

Knock knock
who's there
Italian man
italian man who
Italian man on the chicken coop

Ben joke

What do you call an octupus with 800 legs?

An octu... well, actually I haven't come up with a punch line for that one yet!

Friday, March 28, 2008

Two jokes tonite

What do you call a duck with a beaver tail?



A platypus







What did the tot say to the parallelogram?



Nothing tots and parallelograms don't talk.





I am about to die laughing!!!!

New goals

I have struggled with several things this year. One of my close friends has passed away from Cancer. The second one of my life time. I thought that I was too young for this kind of thing. I have struggled with the fact that my oldest son will soon be "grown" and graduating high school. I have struggled with my beliefs and finding a church home that will stand behind what I believe. I have struggled with trying to get what is best for my autistic son at school, and at home. I have struggled with keeping my home clean and trying to make headway with all of the "junk" that we all seem to collect.


After trying to reflect on these things for the last couple of monthes, I have come to a conclusion. The problem is I don't have my goals set to the right standard. I now know what it is exactly that I want out of life......

I think that this may even be goal that the HUSBAND and I can achieve. Even if he doesn't get any more raises. (Assuming that the IN-LAWS don't mind us putting it on their property...)

TGIF!!!




How can you be in a bad mood when you get to look at this all day? The only way it gets better is if it look like this....



Thursday, March 27, 2008

Hams for the camera


I took a couple of pictures of the boys before school this morning. I really enjoyed seeing them ham it up. I am glad to say that the last month or so, it is beginning to look like they are building some kind of relationship again. They were at each other's throats for the last couple of years. I think that fact that Chris will be moving to middle school soon, and that they will only be in the same school for 2 years over the rest of their academic careers has something to play with that. I don't care what it takes, it is just good to see them together again. Even if it is fighting for the lime light...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ben joke #1

I have decided that these are too priceless to not share with the world.

Why did the chicken throw the clock out the window?

Because it was 2:30!

Update on new pet

Just for the record, after a long discussion on caterpiller names that would also be appropriate for a butterfly, one was finally picked in the bed tonight. In honor of the spawn of Satan... the name is.... Ozzy the Girl. Straight from Lucie to you! Good night all.

New pet?


Lucie is very excited because she has found this little guy in the foyer of our house today. She has spent weeks now telling me that she wants a pet caterpiller to see it become a butterfly. So far we have found out that he is a Abbott's Sphinx Caterpillar: Brown Morph. She is very excited to go on the internet and look for Daddy's worktop and identify the little thing. I guess technology has made for some good entertainment.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

If only life could be this simple all of the time...

It would be so nice if we all could just be this happy!

Friday, March 21, 2008


This just speaks for itself. I would like to add that the time was 10:30 am, and this is in the living room floor where the small children have been fighting....

Easter egg dying shin dig...

Turns out I was going to have a gillion folks dying eggs in my kitchen last night. I am cool with that, but I felt that perhaps we needed a few supplies to help ease the wait time for certain colors of dye, and such... I asked my beloved husband to stop and pick up some extra dye, and some eggs. Here is what he came home with...

Easter condoms anybody???

Lunch conversation

Our household has a game that is played that we affectionatly refer to as "Andrew Ball". Today this is something like the lunch conversation has been going...
Ben "I am going to shoot you."
Andrew "you can't"
Ben "Uh Huh." as he points his finger...
Andrew "It's not loaded..."
Ben points again
"You didn't turn the safety off."
Point, then "You missed"
"It must be locked up."
"You're shooting blanks"
"I'm wearing body armor."
Ben smiles and excitedly says... "Not on your head!"
On that note I just had to stick my two cents in... "No way that it would penetrate, he is way too hardheaded."

Thursday, March 20, 2008

spring break fun part duex...

Doesn't this look like a BLAST!!! A trip to the park and my son is just like bubbling with excitement! The worst part of the whole trip is afterwards... He has but one job to do in the house. He must take care of the trash. Today was trash day. My husband took it the to curb, and I guess you could say that he did a bit of "out sourcing" for the bringing them back from the curb...

Nancy the Terrorist Cat


Upon walking through my son, Ben's, room this morning, my oldest son found this disturbing sight. We have often joked that Nancy has a "pathological fear" of paper after watching the Winn Dixie movie so many times. However it appears that it is more than that. I think that she might actually be a trained terrorist trying to destroy the country by ingesting all money. This is ALL that is left of that poor $10 bill. It is a good thing that she got dropped of in the wrong spot and isn't in Bill Gates' house where she could do some serious damage....

Spring Break Fun

Ok, so I decide this morning to waste a little time this morning by letting the girls "magic paint". I drew Easter eggs on some paper with a white crayon so that the eggs magically appear when you paint over them.So I leave them for literally 2 minutes to take the opportunity to look online for a couple of minutes, check my email. There is giggling and I walk in to see the watercolors all black..."What are you doing?" "Magic painting." Lucie states matter of factly.I tell her that the black Easter eggs aren't exactly working for me...Those big innocent eyes look up to me, and she says, "So we aren't supposed to make a potion???"

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Mom haiku

Rude wake up at 3
Son has puked in bedroom floor
Back to sleep at 4!

Saturday, February 16, 2008

heartbreak haiku

Cali, I love you
I toast you with "Princess food"
Don't steal my lightning.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

mom haiku

Nasty room is bad
I think that something died in
room of middle son.

WIFE HAIKU

FISH STICKS FOR ME NO!
RESOLVE DINNER TAKES HUSBAND
OUT TO EAT NO FAIR!!!

mom haiku

trash piled in the floor
oldest son responsible
later mom, later

mom haiku

poop in bathroom floor
"no one" got it there of course
guess who cleans it up

Monday, February 11, 2008

Mom haiku

Hair and teeth are brushed
One more shower to finish
Monday morn is here

Friday, February 8, 2008

mom haiku

Oldest son is mad
Says I told his name to all
HMMM how about myspace?

mom haiku

screaming child of mine
off to the doctor's office
are we sick again?

Thursday, February 7, 2008

mom haiku

Bits of poop in floor
little red dog will yelp no more
min pin barbeque?

Idiot haiku

Burger King coupon
Triple bacon cheeseburger
Instant heart attack

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Mom haiku

Andrew Xavier
Lord you are driving me nuts
I still love you though

Mom haiku

Lucie is still sick
She has an ear infection
Hope she sleeps tonight.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Mom haiku

Haiku is so fun
I am just full of it too
My eyes are not brown

Idiot Haiku

Louis Tarmichael
All that I can say is wow
You are a huge dork

mom haiku

Dinner is done now
The sound of cartoons eludes
I wish for sleep soon

Mom Haiku

Tea is on to brew
Dogs will eat all the cat food
Ben will dig a hole