zero points...

i have LOADS of mom guilt. I always have. Even when I spent my every waking moment devoted to parenting my children, I wondered if I was doing it all the right way. If I was screwing them up by being involved in their every moment. Now that I have run off to the world of academia and gone to work part time I have more mom guilt, just distributed in different places. Now I forget things (more often) like snacks, permission slips, you know- the basics. And my kids, who didn't feel like I spent enough time helping with school events before (because I can't be in every child's classroom at the same time, who knew?) now are really feeling slighted because I can hardly ever be there. However, I did some serious schedule juggling at work and went in ALL DAY yesterday. The elementary school's PTO sponsors a cool program every year where they bring in COSI (Columbus's science center) into the school and they have a huge hands on thing for the kids to play with and learn from. Very cool. They always need volunteers for it and no one wants to do it, because as cool as it is it is labor and time intense. Did I mention ALL day? But I volunteered for it, because I knew I could make the older 2 both happy by being at their school to help out. So I showed up at 7:45 and worked my hiney off until almost 4. As we were walking out of the building to my van, Justin looks over at me and says, "are you coming to help with my party tomorrow?"
Dude. I got zero points for the whole day???
I can't win.

baby bellies...

ryan scared me today. We were in the car and he started asking baby questions. Those sweet innocent ones that usually lead up to the big one...how do babies get into your tummy mommy? I'm not sure why he started talking about babies today because there is most certainly not one brewing in this family, but anyway...I offer our sweet converstaion up for your amusement.

Ryan: Do boys ever have babies in their tummies?

Me: nope, just girls.

Ryan: why?

Me: because boys can't handle the pain. Only girls can, and God has a sense of humor like that.

Ryan: Oh.


:::::::::::pause::::::::::

Me: (silent- fearing pause is the lead up for the "big question")

Ryan: so why is daddy's tummy so big?

Me: HA! because sweetie, daddy likes to eat good food and that's what happens.

Sorry, Matt.

laugh out loud....

it's friday...it's funny...
This almost caused a diet coke out of the nose reaction.
Enjoy...

cool mom...

i was sitting in my communications class on wed., listening to the children talk amongst themselves about their Halloween plans. I was chuckling to myself because their plans are quite funny to me. You know basically stumbling from one party to the next in a drunken stupor. If that doesn't scream the true Halloween spirit to you, well then...I don't know...me neither. One of the boys who usually sits next to me was particularly funny. He always is. He likes to run his ignorant ideas by me before he calls his own mom. You know, to get an old lady's opinion first. He decided to ask me what I was doing for Halloween. I told him I was doing what I always do. Sipping spiked hot cocoa while passing out candy. He started laughing and said "you have got to be the coolest mom I have ever known!" Really??? Because I drink spiked hot cocoa? You should meet some of my other mom friends then. I must be hanging with a cool crowd :)

friday funny...

this cracked me up today. Sorry for the severe lack of posts. There's a lot of studying going on and it is really hindering my ability to do fun stuff on the internet. My 2 main websites are now brittanica.com and merriam-webster.com. Go figure.
Anyway...I happened to cruise past this today and laughed out loud.
Enjoy!

janet rocks it...

gotta love someone who makes you blog headers before you even ask for them :)
I especially love that the little pumpkin in the middle is much like my middle child in her grumpy demeanor. Spot on Janet!