Smiling Mom

You know that it’s just going to be on of those days when:

You wake up at 4:00 A.M. without really slee­ping at all. (alarm is set for 5:15)

You drive to work and are sit­ting at your desk by 5:45 A.M.

Your hus­band calls and just holds up the phone so you can ‘expe­rience with him’ the joys of rai­sing two todd­lers. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA x 2

When your hus­band calls to say that he’s on his way to Costco with the kids to buy you a Christ­mas gift, you rea­lize that you didn’t just think, but said aloud, “Make sure you don’t buy me a bunch of junk this year for Christ­mas…” and then pro­ceed to name off mul­ti­ple things he’s bought for you in the past that you dee­med “junk.”

You’re sit­ting in the staff room during lunch telling a story and rea­lize everyone’s is loo­king at you side­ways and it dawns on you that you arn’t actually spea­king in cohe­rent or com­plete sentences.

You rea­lize that your day is only half over.

Ya, it’s been one of those days.

I purcha­sed this ado­ra­ble dra­gon cos­tume for dear eClaire about a month ago from my favo­rite store, Tar­get. Which loo­ked something like this:

No, that’s not her. You see as it turns out my dar­ling, almost two year old, daugh­ter recently deci­ded that she has a mind of her own. Grrreat. She wouldn’t wear it. Period. No nego­tia­tion, no rea­so­ning, she just. wouldn’t. put. it. on.

As my dad so kindly poin­ted out, if we can’t con­trol her now, Lord only knows what we have in store down the road.

So any­ways, eClaire was more than happy to be a fire­figh­ter along with her brother BC.

Hallo­ween this year was a blast.  We can’t wait until next year!

Smi­ling Mom and Hubby…A little bit rock an roll and our fire­figh­ting chil­dren.

I think my favo­rite Hallo­ween story I’ve read so far has to go to Red­neck Mommy.  Now I’d be proud if I was the mommy to her ado­ra­ble kiddos!!

Is this cos­tume terri­ble or what!