Really?#$!?@!

Okay, maybe I'm just in a hissy mood this morning, but really.

Here goes Jolie's latest installment of Seth Meyer's & Amy Poehler's segment, "REALLY?"

Exhibit A:

My husband's dirty socks, haphazardly tossed on the bedroom floor one foot away (note the ruler) from the dirty laundry basket.

• Does a mother of 3 young children not have enough messes to clean up every day that she also has to tidy up after her husband? Really?!
• Would it be asking too much from her husband if he could, oh, I don't know, strain the extra 12 inches to put all his dirty clothes into the designated basket?? I mean, REALLY!?!?!
• Now, really, c'mon now. Were we really in that big of a hurry this morning?! REALLY!#@?

I know, I know. I'm ranting. And I am no where near perfect, either. There's plenty of stuff I do that Josh finds annoying about my living habits. Like how I don't squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom of the tube. That drives him crazy.

Why is it that some days it's just the littlest things like a pair of dirty socks left on the floor that make the Incredible Hulk in me come out?

These boots are made for _______.

These boots are made for accessorizing.

These boots are made for clogging!
(poor Joanna, looks like she gets her dancing skills from her mother.)

These boots are made for stagefright!

These boots are made for streaking!!!

Putting Little Ones to Bed

If you don't utter at least twelve "aaaaahhhhs" and "oh fur cutes" while watching this video, then your heart is made of ice.




Okay, that was one of the cutest web videos you've ever seen, right? I seriously need to find out who that man is and get him over to my house every night at 8:00. Putting my three human babies to bed each night has never been that easy.

And you know what? My kids hate it when I sing to them at bedtime!! Whenever I try to sing a lullaby to Jaclyn, she rolls her eyes at me and assertively says, "S.T.O.P. singing mom!!! I'm trying to go to sleep!!"

Once in a blue moon Jayden will ask me to sing him a bedtime song. But there's only one song that will do. Rock a Bye Baby?? nope. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?? guess again. Hush Little Baby? Try Real Gone, from the movie Cars. ;-)

before there was snow....

...this is what we did most afternoons.

Halloween

See this sucker? It was at least the 10th piece of candy
eaten by this little princess before even getting home from trick or treating!

This tootsie roll is scrumptious!

Of course, our tomboy daughter, Joanna, requested an Ironman costume!

Jaclyn, true to character, chose a Cinderella costume. She loves wearing dresses every day of the year, so why should Halloween be any different?!

And Jayden dressed up as a grizzly bear.
Or, as my brother Derek suggested, a grizzly bear dressed up as a Jayden. Well, he has definitely hit his terrible twos, so there ya go!
Jayden even walked around all night growling like a bear! It was so cute in his little boy voice.