New wallpaper

As I walk down the hallway, I notice blue construction paper cutouts on the wall outside the boy's room. I inquire as to how they are staying on the wall in an oh so patient manner. My actual words, "I know those aren't glued to the wall...." (As I had seen the glue stick in his hand earlier at the table....). His response, "Yep."

I don't think so.....

You'd think I'd know better.

Flip flops are all the rage. (I still feel like calling them thongs, like when I was a kid, but that brings up totally the wrong image...)

Anyway, that's all my kids want to wear (flip flops, not thongs, sheesh...)

So the 5 year old boy wears them out to Target and every two minutes we have to stop because he's lost a flip flop. Or we have to stop because he's wearing them on his hands, or his sister is annoying him by stepping on the back of them, or he's falling back out of the van onto the pavement because he's trying to jump into the van from the curb and the flip flop gets caught.....

Ugh! Curse you flip flops!!!

Yipee!!

I officially finished back-to-school shopping today! Now all that's left on my list is haircuts....

Ten things I learned on vacation

1. I like my bed and my house. For all my complaining about needing a new bed, it is mine. All the lumps and crevices belong to my body and fit me to a tee!


2. Those brake cooling pullouts on the way down the mountain should be used BEFORE your brakes catch on fire!)


3. I am a city girl. I don't like bugs (although I pretend to be interested when NiNi and the boy present one and ask for help identifying it), I love being 5 minutes from several variety of stores, and I absolutely loathe dusty gravel or dirt roads.


4. I do enjoy the quiet of the country with no neighbors within a stone's throw. (Maybe I can take up residence in a city park?)


5. Hotel swimming pools are often COLD. However the temperature and the blue lips accompanied by shivering does nothing to persuade my children that it's time to stop swimming and thaw out in the A/C in the room.


6. Those who say eastern Colorado and western KS are a hard drive, have you ever tried southern Wyoming? At least in CO or KS you see a clump of trees once in a while. WY was wild sagebrush and nothing else for miles and miles and miles and miles.


7. However badly mannered I think my children are in restaurants, there is always someone else who has it WAY worse.


8. McDonald's on a morning during the week is a land of old men who speak about prostrates and want you to sit in the playplace even though it's not open yet. (Yes, they did ask us!!)


9. I like my family. For all our quirks and tiffs over the week and a half, I wouldn't have chosen to do the trip with anyone else.

10. Riding in a "teacup" at 34 doesn't maker me any less nauseous than it did at 16!!

Of course there are others.....

What will I do...

when the kiddos go back to school and I no longer have "cheap labor"?

(They wouldn't like to know I was calling them "kiddos" either...)

Nothing says summer...

Like a face full of water from the super-soaker!!! (But you do have to open your eyes to see where you're aiming...)

When it rains...

This week we have had to replace the garage door opener and cable and today bought a new refrigerator (after I bought 2 weeks of groceries and realized the ice cream was too soft...).
I bought school supplies for 3 kids (at least most of them). I had a doctor tell me that I probably have carpal tunnel, a compressed nerve in my shoulder, or some kind of neck issue that is causing pain in both my arms.


I'm praying we're done for a while....