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Give Me a Plaque Because It's Official:

As if the three kids three and under at my house weren't enough proof, I've realized lately that I'm totally a mom.

I rubbed my nose, my hand smelled like poop.

I'm a mom.

Oakley asked, "Mom, what is that?"
I answered, "It's the money you could be saving with Geico."
And then I laughed.

I'm a mom.


I have also said, and thought many times, "You can help best by staying out of the way."

I'm a mom.

I've gotten totally ready and what I considered to be "cute" and realized I had my sneakers on with my normal outfit. I then decided that I was going to leave them on, because after all, they are more comfortable.

I'm a mom.

Then I was talking to my mom about how I'm totally a mom (meaning not cute and 17 - 26 years old anymore) and she asked, "Who said that's a bad thing?"
And I got teary-eyed.

Yep, I'm a mom.

Rio de Janeiro, 2016

We've got a future gymnast on our hands.



Now all I need is Bella Karolyi's # and we'll get a gold for sure!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It was fantastic. How could it not be?

With a unicorn,


adorable home-made gifts,
fun family in town,
and Oakley having the time of his life,I loved Christmas!

Only 352 days left.

You're Gonna Be Sorry.... And There's No Pictures.

Okay, all of you (or 1 of you) here's a flipping update. You see, I don't really have much going on, hence the lack of posts, so don't be excited or anything.

Here's what's going on:

#1:

Um, so I think I have lice. Is it territorial? There's like a 1" diameter spot on my head that itches like crazy. Maybe I have scabies. Is that what it is? What's that thing people get on scalps that is gross skin? Let's see if Google has an answer.... barf! okay, don't google image that, Merry Christmas, I just saved your lunch from coming up. So, I'm guessing that maybe my scalp is a little dry because of my fancy shampoo and conditioner called Suave. Maybe I should splurge and get the Suave Professional line, but it's like $1.89 a bottle.

#2:

I need to trim my arm hairs. Yep, I do that. With a #2 guard.

#3:

We got a new (to us) car. It's a Honda Pilot that we've named Ponchess. Sacrelig. I like it and have decided Tahoe's are for suckers. Three car seats fit in a row in the middle, that was my only requirement for buying a car, and it's cheaper, and gets better gas mileage, and drives like a roller skate. The downside: it's not as sexy as a Tahoe, it doesn't have a temperature thing and automatic lights, so I usually drive in the dark at night. It does have GPS (which made finding H & M a snap!) and seat warmers. Oh, how I've missed seat warmers. Oh how I wish my folding chair of a desk chair had a seat warmer right now.

#4:

Jason and Oakley fight 88% of the time. It gets old.
O: NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! DON'T KILL THE FLY!
J: Why? It's just a fly?
O: NOOOOOOOO!!!!! HE'S MY FRIEND! DON'T KILL HIM!
J: He's not your friend, he's just a fly.
O: NO, HE'S MY FRIEND!
J: He's not your friend, he doesn't even know you exist.
-----stomp------
O: MMMMMOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM! DAD KILLED MY FRIEND!
S: What should we do?
O: Let's kill his friend, with his shoe!

Consider yourself warned, friends.

#5:

Reese had surgery on his throat. He's home and fine. He's also crawling all around, and I chase him most the day with his food pump/pole because he's supposed to be on it 20 hours a day. We're working on it.

#6:

Both babies are getting most of their teeth, at once. We started with an upper lateral, then 3 - 5 more uptop, depending on the kid. My kids are freaks. Nate likes to bite things.

#7:

I got the most amazing thing ever for our Jones Cousin white elephant Christmas party. Be jealous you aren't a Jones cousin. Seriously, I can't wait. Oh, and I thought of a funny, but it was too late, but Emily, this is for you: So we're incharge of drinks and games or drinking games?

#8:

Jason is done with school for the semester!! Hip Hip Hooray! He got a 70/70 on his E-Portfolio. (Or maybe I did.) Regardless, you are going to want to hire him (me) when you never see it. It is amazing, the teacher even commented "BEAUTIFUL!!!" I should direct her to my blog, this is some impressive writing.

Alrighty, I'm done. (Sorry if the cranky showed through the words, I'm cold and tired with an itchy head.)
I love you all!

The Never List

So, I think I wore Jason's socks yesterday. That's not helping the cankles at all.

On to the rest.

The "Never List" is a list of things Jason verbalized at some point as his brilliant 18-24 year old self. Before he had me, and before it got changed to the "Things That I Will Eventually Do List." I don't remember all the specifics, but the just of it was:

*I will never change a dirty diaper.

*I will never have a minivan (okay, so he's still holding on to this one, but I think it's the last.)

*I will never weigh over XXX pounds.

That's all I can think of for now, but you could make up pretty much anything a cocky 18 - 24 year old would say, and it was probably on the list.

I, well, I was different. I never had a list. I just had a mental picture of what my life would be, or

and thus having this as my plan, never thought I needed the "Never List," things would just end up according to my plans. I would be classy, and have classy kids.

Welp, not so much the case. I look like this, often, and have kids with snotty noses (you can thank me for not including a picture) and can't think of anything clever-non-white-trash for my twins to be for Halloween.I forget where I was going with this post. Oh well.

Jason's Gonna Be Ticked.