Did you know...

...that everyone in our house is sick?

...the Scooby Doo episodes with Scooby Dumb are almost as
annoying as the episodes with Scrappy Doo?

...Audrey asks me every day if her birthday is only,
"A few weeks away?"
I can now answer that question with a yes!

(Audrey showing off her spoils at her Pretty In Pink party last year)

...Lauren qualified for Speech Therapy? It's FREE
(well, my taxes pay for it!)
through the school district. Woo Hoo!

...we don't care about March Madness at all in our house?
We must be from another planet.

...when we're supposed to wear our new Easter frock's?
Easter is on conference weekend,
so should we wear them the Sunday before or after?
Or just sit on the couch in them?

...I really think Jesse James is an idiot,
oh...and Tiger Woods too.
And, for that matter, anyone that feels
they are so amazingly awesome that they
can get away with being such an amazingly awful dirtbag.

...the new series, "Life" that premiered
on the Discovery Channel last night was pretty awesome?

...that with the economy being the way it is
(at least in construction),
I'm surprised people don't want me to hand over
my first born child to get paid.

...I want to go snowboarding one more time this season.

...My sister is having a baby in less than a week?!
I'm so jealous that I will have to wait
until July to meet the new little lady!
I would L-O-V-E to be there to help her!

...if you like butterscotch chips, you'll like these gems:

Butterscotch Blondies

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 2/3 cups (10 ounce package) Butterscotch Chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9x13 inch baking pan.

2. Beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in large bowl
until creamy. Add eggs; beat well. Stir together flour, baking
soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, blending well.
Stir in butterscotch chips and nuts, if desired.
Spread into prepared pan.

3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until top is golden brown and
center is set. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut
into bars (I would do this when they are still warm, makes
it easier!).

Makes about 36 bars.

-recipe courtesy Best Loved Cookies

A Dolly Do for You

I know I have a 2 and 4 year old,
and this event should have happened,
oh, I don't know 3 years ago...
but, I was cheap. I cut the girls hair myself.

Just a straight line, nothing special, easy.

But, the other day I thought,
"These girls need someone with style, to cut their hair."
That's not me.
So, we loaded up and headed to my amazing hairdresser's house.
And, after eating her out of house and home,
the girls left looking pretty much like they did before,
minus the split ends and plus a little style.

Lauren's Before and After:

Audrey's Before and After:


P.S. More pics from Audrey:

P.P.S. The girls thought there was a major tragedy
at our house this morning.
Have you ever eaten every bite of cereal in your house?
I mean every bite, before you got to the store to re-stock?
We did. The first time in 10 years.
Every bite.
What will we ever do?
They've never seen the cupboards not stocked with cereal.

No wonder it was a tragedy.
Wally World, here I come.

New Kids on the Block

For those of you who don't know.

I took on the task of watching
this adorable Thing One



and Thing Two



a couple of times a week.
There's also a Thing Three...
But I haven't caught him on camera yet.

So, if you see us out and about,
you'll know why there's extra
"things" tagging along on our journey's.
The girls are loving having them around,
as I'm not the most exciting entertainer around town!
And I'm loving being able to contribute
a little extra $$ to the cause.

P.S. Audrey has been taking pictures again:

That's Just My Opinion

In the last 24 hours it has become very apparent to me that
people don't like to be told what to do.

I know some of you are saying,
"Hello! No news there!"
But, I always like to give people
the benefit of the doubt.
I always want to think the best of people,
and believe they will take what is said,
sift it through,
keep what is worth keeping,
and throw the rest away.
(Without throwing it in my face please.)

People don't like an opinion,
if it's not in accordance with their own.
They like to take what you tell them,
and twist it to become what they see.
Even when it's not reality.
What is wrong with people?

I would like to live in a world
where I can tell you my opinion,
and you won't tell me I'm wrong,
just because it's not the same opinion as yours.
I would like people to like me
because I'm not afraid to share my opinion.
I would NOT like to live in fear,
that you will publicly reprimand me
for my opinion made in private.
I would like to be respected,
even if you don't see eye to eye with me.

I do the same for you.
And, since this is MY blog,
I can say what I want.
And, you can leave your comment,
since we live in America,
and we believe in the whole
1st amendment thing.
Just don't be too mean please.

After all,
sometimes that opinion is shared,
just because I love you.

"M is for the Million Things She Gave Me"

I realized today that I am failing miserably.
At what you might ask?
Motherhood.
Some days I feel like
it's a career that I should have done
more research on,
before jumping in!
And you?

You know when you were little,
and you made your mother
this wonderful art project at school:

Marvelous
Outstanding
Terriffic
Helpful
Encouraging
Radical

I did it, you did it, we all did it.

I have decided that at this point,
in my children's young lives,
this is how it would read:

Man
did she know how to slam a door.

Oh boy,
could she yell!

Told
terrific bedtime stories.

Had
a serious obsession with bubbles,
of the diet drink kind,
it's what killed her you know.

Everyone
loved her rolls,
the homemade ones,
not the ones on her belly.

Really
liked to run.

Sheesh.
I have a lot of work to do.
Off I go...