Living Life One Cheerio at a Time

All summer child #1 has been calling the shots for the middle kids. She "directs" them in how, when and who they are going to play. In fact one day, I heard her and her sister tell the brother "We are playing sister, mom and dad. #1 is mom, #2 is the sister what do you want to be?" Pretty much no choice or wiggle room. So needless to say the middles knew what to expect everyday. Until Monday. That's when child #1 went back to school. And there was a complete VOID of power. It was a race to the top of the heap (most likely in this metaphor the laundry heap) to see who would be the boss applesauce. It was do or die. Kill or be killed situation at our house. Monday was a LONG day. I did the mom thing and had them separated and in time out. But at some point I wanted to see how this was going to play out. I couldn't intervene anymore. Somehow they finally worked it out only to be turned upside down again. SHE CAME HOME! She was not to about to be dethro...

FOUR YEARS... That's how long it was since I had seen my friend, K. Sadly, we only live 40 minutes apart and it had been 4 years. Life got in the way. She's teaching full-time and I was working full-time. She has a husband, house, child, family, and church life to keep her busy. I  have those same things but this should not be a good excuse. We went to college together and had many of the same classes. We even lived together for 2 years off campus in this tiny basement apartment with 2 other girls. We survived the dungeon. She was a bridesmaid in my wedding. Yet, all that history and we let 4 years go by with only Christmas cards and birth announcements being exchanged. But the other day I emailed her and said I really wanted to catch up. We met at a restaurant in the middle at 11:30. We talked and laughed. We shared chocolate chip cookies. We went shopping. I got home around 4 pm. She and I had a lot of catching up to do. I was rejuvenated. TIME WITH A ...

Here's what our beautiful day looked like.... playing cowboy painting rain fashion show on the red carpet...she's tinkerbell and he's woody and buzz special reward from our library reading program bubbles time to eat!!!!!!! dark clouds ending outside time dinner from the garden pink bunny slipppers and a quick cat nap Come on over and see the beauty....

Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up and say its going to be a great day? Well today I thought that because I had some quiet time this morning. Some quiet coffee and take a shower ALONE without being a referee time. Usually our mornings hit the ground running and I am often lucky to brush my teeth and throw some deodorant  on before nine. Someone always needs something, like breakfast or a drink. But today I had 45 minutes of sunshine, coffee and a shower. AHHHH! The children finally got up and I threw a pop tart in the toaster oven. And that's when my day went up in flames. The pop tart and all the other crumbs I am too lazy to clean out caught on fire. I mean FLAMES engulfed the pop tart. BLACKENED CAJUN STYLE. Finally the flames died down enough for me to throw some water on the thing and rush it out to my deck. No breakfast and no toaster oven. Well at least I had a cup of coffee. I am linking up with Hill....