Healthy Changes

 I'm thinking about healthy changes in my life...

Anyone with me?

The Rest of my Life

 This may end up being one of my favorite pictures for the rest of my life.

Introducing Super Brady!

12/31/23

 That will be cool...

Natural Skill

 I walked into your bedroom with Lee Lee hot on my heels talking my ear off about something very important in her five-year-old mind.  With a trail of wrappers on the floor, I noticed someone had gotten into bedroom stash of hidden candy.

I exclaimed, “Who has been into my candy stash?”

Lee Lee responded with, “I have no idea. But I think I know!"

... She is the one who wants to be a detective when she grows up.  What natural skill!

Ticket to Pardise

 As a part of my birthday celebration, I took some time Saturday night to watch a movie I have wanted to see for a few months now -- Ticket to Paradise with Julia Roberts and George Clooney.  It looked like a funny romantic comedy, (which seems to be hard to come by these days).

It certainly was a cute, funny romantic comedy... but can I just say, movies are so different once you're a parent!!!!

This is about a divorced couple and their daughter graduates from school and then goes on a fun summer trip to Bali before beginning her job as a lawyer (they never talk about law school... so I'm not really sure what liberties were taken by the writers in terms of the reality of qualifications for becomming a lawyer... but I digress.

While she's on her fun summer trip, she meets a man in Bali, a seaweed farmer and she decides she is going to marry him (in four days time) and stay in Bali for the rest of her life.

The movie was funny... but so HORRIBLE!!!   This is any parent's nightmare no matter how many jokes you incorporate.

The kids and I watched Cool Runnings on my birthday, which if you remember is about the Jamaican Bobsled team who goes to the Olympics.  One of the bobsledders is very well-off and he decides not to tell his father that he is becoming a bobsledder and that he is going to the Olympics.  I found myself pausing the movie to explain to our children that they can always tell us anything I hope they would not lie to us if they were ever in a similar situation.

Oh goodness.

Movies are so much harder now that I'm a parent.

My Weekends

 This accurately summarizes my entire weekend... every weekend.

I Feel Ya

 I Feel Ya, Dolly.

Little Brothers

 Lexie, especially likes her new little brothers... the fish.

A Laugh

 I don't golf... but this made me laugh.

Wednesday

 

Victoria's Secret!

 There's a gal, Jax, that I follow on Instagram who writes the most HILARIOUS original songs... I think she won Song Writer of the Year for Tic Toc last year, and she came out with a song a few weeks ago that is SO great!

She baby-sits for a middle school girl (she has a pretty funny song about her baby-sitting escapades) and recently the middle school girl came home from bathing suit shopping in tears... and so Jax wrote a song for her.

Here is the original video Jax posted... so good!

Then, a few weeks later, she organized a flashmob in front of Victoria's Secret and added another verse... so here is that video as well.

ENJOY!

Enjoyment

 Truth be told, I took probably a little too much enjoyment out of this picture

Big Laugh

 This gave me a really big laugh!

Still Recovering

 I'll be honest... today is Thursday and I am STILL trying to recover from the fact that I had to take Sunday "off" in order to "relax"...

Mama Mother's Day Video

This was fun to put together leading up to Mother's Day

Older Sisters

 Tell me you have older sisters without telling me you have older sisters.

This Mug

 Anyone else need a mug like this in their life?

I mean, I don't want it as a Mother's Day present... or an anniversary present... or a Birthday present... or a Christmas present.

But, for Fat Tuesday, this would make an excellent present to give me for Fat Tuesday.

Great Idea

 I read this and thought it was a really great idea... I may even pass it on to my parents or grandpa.

Which Years?

 There's a reel on social media circulating that caught my attention and I thought I would be fun to participate.

One year at a time, a woman indicates how many years she has been pregnant -- obviously not the entire year, but has she been pregnant during that calendar year?

My results are in...

I have been pregnant in the following years...

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2019

2020

2021

I have not been pregnant in the following years...

2018

2022... so far.

Clean Laundry

The thing about clean laundry is... when it is not folded and put away...

• It does not start to cry
• It does not start to smell
• It does not become annoying (relatively speaking)
• It does not tell you that it's hungry
• It does not require sunshine
• It does not require water
• It does not need to expel any energy throughout the day
• It does not get into arguments with a sibling
• It does not try to explore the basement and accidentally fall down the stairs in the process
• It does not ask to watch television during the day
• It does not insist on showing you the beautiful picture that it colored, or perform a song and dance for you
• It does not injure itself wrestling on the trampoline with siblings
• It does not step in dog droppings
• It does not lose its pacifier at naptime
• It does not request a bedtime story
• It does not want to cuddle
• It does not ask to bake something "all by herself" in the kitchen
• It does not ask to have a friend come over to play
• It does not ask how many days until cheerleading practice starts
• It does not ask for snacks
• It does not need its hair done
• It does not need its face washed
• It does not lose its shoes and socks

Basically, clean laundry does not know how to get my attention... which is why, throughout this Spring Break, it has continued to sit in an EVER GROWING mountain in our family room.