This little elf has been working!

Phew! What a whirlwind. I think I am FINALLY finished with all of my Christmas shopping and crafting! I feel like we haven't done as much as usual because Anthony is in school ALL. DAY. LONG! But we have still done a good bit, so much so that we have been CRAZY busy!

This year has been a pinterest kinda Christmas. OMG there are so many amazing ideas on that site! I could browse for DAYS and since I am an ok copier, it is right up my alley...

I wanted to share a few gifts I've made this year. I think they turned out cute and I hope the people enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them!

My girlfriend shared these little treats for the kids' classmates and I think they are too precious and SO easy!!!

I made these for some close family friends... They are teenagers and the colors match their rooms :) I really liked these and thought they were pretty fun!

This was for the same family and I LOVED these! I have a few more to make still, including one for myself!

I made these for the kids' teachers, bus driver, and ballet teacher. Super easy and a perfect little something to add to a gift card.

So there's my pinterest Christmas :) There are so many more projects I am DYING to make!

blurbs...

After watching a newscaster van, a tractor and trailer, and two race cars get pummeled by a train on a very in depth track system designed by my son I exclaimed, "Wow that was a terrible accident! I hope everyone was ok?!" To which he explained so matter of fact, "Well, mom most only got a scratch but the cops like when the bad guys get ran over by a train. I makes them less work."

Huh? I can see the logic BUT I still had to go into the whole yes, they may be bad guys but they are still people. They still have people who love them, and maybe they have learned to make better choices, yada yada yada.... OY!

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"Mommy? Is it is ok if I don't wanna be a mom when I gets big?"
"Of course. You don't have to be a mom, but what do you want to be?"
"I fink I just wanna be ME!"

Good choice <3

Wordless Wednesday

Silly Fishy Kisses

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Horrible Hair

Thursday Anthony came home from school with a reminder that Friday was Horrible Hair day (Thank GOD for reminders)... I showed him the handout and immediately he said Nope! He so did NOT want to do horrible hair day...

"Are you sure?" I asked. I told him we could run to the store and get some fun colors to spray in his hair, but he was NOT biting. With a shrug, I said no biggie and horrible hair day was a fleeting memory in this can't remember anything brain of mine...

Flash forward to Friday morning. Late. Yup, late as usual. With 2 minutes to spare, I manage to get Anthony dressed, fed, and lunch packed! Go Mom (I swear it was a new record!!) I sent him upstairs to QUICKLY brush his teeth as the bus would be coming!

"Mommy" my happy boy squealed leaping down the steps... As he rounded the corner giggling, I hear, "I'm gonna do bad hair day so I put shampoo in my hair!"

"WHAT!!" As I look, I see my son's head covered and matted down with shampoo, a half a bottle of SHAMPOO!" Its a miracle it did not get in his eyes!  I drug him as fast as we could into the bathroom and between laughter and head shaking I somehow managed to rinse out the shampoo, smear in some gel, and sprayed in some glitter for good measure! (Glitter? Yes, I know but its all that was on hand and the gel just looked like the days I actually FIX his hair. So yes glitter, just GO WITH IT!!!)

As we are stepping out the front door, Jason looks at me panic stricken and I see the bus go by... In that 2 second glance I could SO READ him... He was totally thinking "OMG I have a MEETING in one hour. I am already PUSHING it! I had to go 2 minutes ago, but instead he shouts "He missed the bus!"

Me, (on the front porch where all can see) in PJ's no bra, WHITE zit cream all over my face, teeth unbrushed, hair a hot mess screams "Oh no he didn't!!" and with a slight push "I yell RUN ANTHONY RUN!!!" (it was such a Forrest Gump moment...) And with that he was off! Down the street he ran towards the bus stop...

The best part? Once he saw the bus was waiting for him, his run turned into a casual stroll and he took his sweet ass time waving to all his friends in the bus windows!  I looked at Jason and smiled, "See I knew he wouldn't miss it! Have a great day!" and into my warm house I bolted because now I had 15 minutes to get myself ready and Madison to school!

Do you see why I am CRAZY?!?! Thought so!

Wordless Wednesday

Best Buds!

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French 101: Madison Style

Peach, hoo-ha, flower, twinkie? Are these familiar? Many make me LOL for reals. I can remember being in that almost tweeny age and my mom reminding me to "wash your peach good" before I would hop into the tub. Peach? Seriously? To this day, I can only eat canned peaches and I swear its because my vagina was always referred to as that fuzzy fruit.... CRACKS ME UP!

When Anthony was born we called it a penis. No biggie, that's what it is... Now my husband would cringe when his three year old would mention something about his testicles... lol Yeah, I don't like that word too much but hey, it is what it is. Right?

So, Anthony has a penis and obviously, Madison has a vagina. We're a technical term kinda family, what can I say. Only Madison has a bit of difficulty with her annunciation. She typically calls it her "BEvagina". I don't know why, but it seems like this word comes up a good bit in our day to day... Maybe we are just a potty talk kinda family too? Who knows...

Madison happened to mention something about her "begina" around her friend and she was quite confused, because her friend has a hoo after all... Her friend pipes up and squeals, "Mommy, mommy Madison speaks French!! She just said french, begina! Madison, your talking French again!"

OMG hilarious! Who knew, my child who refused to speak, who would hold her breath until she PASSED out, now speaks french! lol I am one proud mama!

Silly Sally Went to Town...

walking backwards upside down!

I LOVE this book. Its silly and fun and rhymes, all my favorites aspects of a children's book. Each time I read this book, I think of my friend. She is silly and quirky and she TOTALLY would walk to town backwards while upside down...

silly mamas fashion showing hats in target... I swear I almost peed my pants over some of them (sometimes ya just gotta act 12) lol

Recently, my silly friend and I headed on a road trip, to a nearby city, with the minis in tow. On the way, my check engine light came on... After a frantic call to the hubs he declared it would be fine, I mean I was nearly 2 hours from home so what could I really do? So on we trudged... Engine light GLARING!

We had a great day... The kids had fun. We had fun. Just a typical great day nothing major to report... (I should have taken THAT as a sign) It was dark when it was time to roll out, so I begged had my girlie drive home because I hate driving in the dark!

After about 30 minutes into the trip, we realize were so going a WAY different way from the way we came... A bit worried, I scrolled through the GPS and saw it was just taking us west versus south then west so west we continued.

The minis were content (thank you  iPad, iPhone, and in car DVD's) and we were just yacking and laughing away... I happened to glance at good old GPS and just as I was gonna say our exit the GPS declares the dreaded "RECALCULATING"! Crap. We laughed and figured we will just hit the next exit, but good ole GPS lady informs us to "exit right in 21.5 miles" 21 miles? SERIOUSLY? That so can't be right, Right? Clearly it was because there wasn't a single exit...

We shrug off the 21 mile detour and continue on with our yacking and laughing... "Recalculating!" Whoa... Hold up. Wait a minute. Seriously, we went 21 miles already and missed the exit AGAIN?  Insert 4 letter expletive of your choice here, because Im sure we said them all between the laughs...

Mid snort, I hear "continue 18 miles and exit right". OMG! What the heck kind of highway are we on? What highway only has exits every 20 miles. At this point we look at the minis content in the car and as we look at each other the worry is mirrored on each other's faces. How much longer can THIS go on? Our 2 hour trip has just gone to a 3+ hour trip... Fingers crossed, we continue on our "three hour tour"...

A few miles into our now 38 mile detour we start seeing some weird signs. Please remove sunglasses. Huh? Why would we need to remove sunglasses? On we go and then we find out... We travel through not just one, but TWO HUGE tunnels through TWO HUGE mountains! Where the hell are we??

Beeeep. My truck starts beeping. We both look at the dash. Along with the GLARING check engine light we now have 48 miles til empty and we are in the middle of BFE... Crap... The kids are still  quiet, so I began to pray they would fall asleep. I mean it is after 9 at this point and they HAVE to be tired. I mean they ran all day right? Oh how wrong I was...

Finally, after refusing to look, talk, or distract each other for the final 5 miles for fear of missing yet another exit, we reach our exit. I had to pay god knows how much of a toll (thank you easy pass) and away we went.

I TOTALLY thought we were going to be on another highway... hahahaha! Silly me, nope we were on a LONG DARK CURVY country road (with about a 30 mph speed limit) The good ole GPS just kept tacking the minutes on...

Desperate for gas, worried my car was gonna break down, and paranoid the kids were going to lose it  any given second, we scanned to dark country terrain for a gas station... We both about died as we passed the hot spot in the country on a Saturday night: The Milky Way... If we were sans kids we SO would have had to make a pit stop... Seriously? The Milky Way? hahaha

Eventually, we arrived at the only gas station seen the WHOLE way. It was kinda shady but it gave me some much needed gas so that I could get back to some civilization... Man, I thought I LIVE in the country, THAT was some country! yikes!!

Four and a half hours later we pulled into my driveway. Even though it should have been a quick two hour drive but turned into Gilligan's three hour tour, the kids NEVER slept, hardly complained, and us mamas kept our cool... So even with the minor snafu, I would say the trip was a great on!

Don't cast stones from glass houses... (or whatever that saying is)

Sometimes you just have to find the humor in a situation...

A few Sunday's ago, I wasn't quite right. I mean when am I ever right or normal, but this day was BAD! I was just blah and the few neurons I have in my brain were misfiring MAJORLY! I HAD to go grocery shopping if Anthony was going to eat the next day at school, so I begrudgingly got dressed and headed out...

Midway to the store I had the most brilliant idea ever... Starbucks! Surely my white chocolate mocha extra sweet lite whip would give this mama some oomph...

Yeah, not so much!

As I left the mecca, I, of course, hit the light. I was patiently waiting as I guzzled my liquid gold... I saw all the cars around me start moving and I, for whatever reason, NAILED the gas.

BANG!SCREECH!F-ME!

I totally hit the car in front of me who was STOPPED! What the hell is wrong with me? I quickly pulled to the side, hopped out of the car, and with each breath prayed that the driver was not hurt and that there were no kids in the car. Thankfully, my prayers were answered!

I called Jason as we waited for the po po. Of course he was pissed. Of course I was in his car... The cop was CRAZY nice and did NOT give me a ticket and (how lucky is this?!) my insurance is not going to go up because we have been accident free for however many years... For an accident that was TOTALLY my fault, the end result could not have been better...

Flash forward to this past weekend... We were heading out and we needed to put another car seat in Jason's car... I was lazy and sat in the car while he grabbed the seat and buckled the minis in. Finally, the slowest man on the face of the earth gets in and we back out of the driveway...

BBAAAAMMMM!

Instantly I looked up from my phone... That ding bat forgot to shut my car door when he got the seat out and freaking nailed it! omg. The laughter just grew louder and louder. I could not stop! The kids and I were both cracking up... Jason looks at me dumbfounded, "how is that funny" he questioned....

With tears running down my cheeks I was finally able to explain... You see for 2 weeks now I have heard all kinds of comments, jokes, and snide remarks about what dumb ass gets in a wreck when they are already stopped... "Well", I chuckled,"what dumb ass forgets to shut the car door and then hits the forgotten door?" If looks could kill I would be elsewhere lol, but I just laughed all the way to dinner!

Let's just say my accident hasn't been mentioned in DAYS!