We got Carson this football set back in September but seeing as how he was only 1.5 years old, he had more fun throwing the football dudes all over the family room instead of playing with them…which made my “OMG WE’RE GOING TO LOSE SOME OF THE PLAYERS AND I WON’T BE ABLE TO SLEEP UNTIL I KNOW WHERE THEY ALL ARE” anxiety level go through the roof. So his football set spent a good part of the past three months on top of the fridge, which made him go stand in front of the fridge yelling and pointing at …
Year: 2010
No words
I really think there are no words for this picture. She’s out of control.
ps – those are her (clean) underpants and my glasses.
Tired
That was neat.
I finally went to bed early for the first time this week, only to have my “get a good night’s sleep” efforts foiled by my kids.
I need to back up. Apparently our new house has the suckiest heating and/or insulation in the entire universe. Our first floor programmable thermostat would be set to 68 and the second floor (where the bedrooms and our showers are) would register a toasty 64 degrees. SIXTY FOUR. As in holy cold, Batman.
Thus I was sleeping on a heating pad set on medium every single night. It was taking me an hour to …
Big House Skate
Big goings-on in the Big House this week – they put in a hockey rink so that Michigan and MSU can play on Saturday in front of a world-record 100,000+ people! They have had all sorts of games being played this week for all different levels of hockey, and tonight they let athletic department folks and their families come skate.
Before our skate, we watched Brendan skate in a game. When we walked in the stadium for that game (without Rick), Mallory had questions about the big machinery that was outside Rick’s football equipment room. I explained it was the refrigeration …
Picking Battles
I got Mallory dressed in a pretty dress this morning for church. As soon as we got home, she changed into a Fancy Nancy dress. But then she had to go potty really really bad so off came that dress and after going potty, she realized that the Fancy Nancy dress bugs her, so she just hung out in her underwear.
She watched an entire movie in the basement in just her underwear and when I asked if she wanted to run to the grocery store with me she said “SURE! BUT I HAFTA WEAR THE DRESS WHAT I WANT TO …
Listening to God
I think I’ve mentioned before that Mallory has a children’s bible that she loves. She calls it her “God Book” and she asks for it at bedtime more than I thought she would.
I’m not super religious (or even moderately religious), and there are some Catholic things I don’t agree with, but I feel that God loves us all. And since I went to Catholic school for eight years (and went to church 1-2 times a week for those eight years), I still feel *something* when I go to church. I can still remember all the rituals and routines of …
Sometimes
Bath time tonight – the kids chose our bathtub.
Carson is standing up in the tub, which is filling with water, and starts to pee.
Mallory gives me a sideways glance and says “sometimes I do that.”
Nice.
We don’t get out much
I sometimes wish I’d started blogging back when I was younger, even though I don’t think blogging existed back then. I feel that my escapades with the ice capades1 and other debauchery would have made for good reads when my kids got a lot older and they’d get to see that I wasn’t always just a mom. I suppose my pre-kid scrapbooks will assist with that, but it’s not the same as the blog.
But I guess there is no time like the present. It’s been a while since my friends (affectionately referred to as The Hens2) all went out. Like, …
We cheated
I think it killed my husband a little bit today, but we bought a fake Christmas tree this year. Rick grew up working for his grandparent’s garden center in Cincinnati and at Christmas time, he was on tree delivery duty. He’s a little bit thorough (ok, a LOT thorough) when we shop for Christmas trees (well, he’s thorough about really anything we’re going to spend money on) – and buying a tree usually takes us an hour or so (and that’s even just going to a place where they have the trees already cut – it’s not like we’re hiking …
A Thanksgiving Pictorial
A teething baby…
A reading of Pinkalicious by Grandpa…Two of the silliest girls ever…An attempt to get all six in one picture…Decorating Thanksgiving cookies (notice Tank is already eating his…)…After dinner…Zombies watching Charlie Brown.
So much to be thankful for.