A Wonderful Sight

How do you find happiness?

Children peacefully playing or sleeping?

A big box of chocolates?

The feeling of a clean house?

The few hours after the kids are in bed and you are not?

Yes, me too.

This doesn't hurt, either.........

Silence

You know that creepy-something-is-not-right feeling you get when your otherwise loud children are mysteriously quiet?

I was on the phone the other day when I realized something must be terribly wrong.

There was no noise coming from the children.

AHHHHH!!

I immediately said good-bye and hung up, running throughout the house searching for the injured or stolen child!


And there I found her. Covering herself from head to foot with bug stickers.

No wonder she was so quiet! She had positioned the largest sticker, that of a leaf moth, over her mouth.


I wonder why Silence of the Lambs pops into my head whenever I see this picture?

Western Attire

A few months ago we took the kids to see a local bull riding rodeo. We let them get all dressed up in their best Western-wear.

My kids are very confused about what is Western attire.

Josh- Good: cowboy hat and boots.
Weird: Chinos and a peach polo shirt.

Paige- Good: cowboy boots and Western vest (excuse the pink, please.)
Weird: blue t-shirt and white (???) Bermuda shorts.

Phoebe- Good: clothing of any kind
Weird: clothing of any kind

Despite their funky attire they had a great time at the rodeo. The bulls were big, the cowboys small, and the belts glittery.

Bleacher cowgirls sure do love their glitter and rhinestones! YEE-Haw!

Mystery Photo

Anyone know what this is?

I'll give you five points if you do!

Shoo Fly

When we decided to move here to the desert, I was excited in part because of the lack of mosquitoes. After living in Houston, the capital of MosquitoLand, I was relieved to get away from those pesky flying nucsances.

At first, all was well in the land of dry.

Until the heat came.

And the flies.

OH, my, the flies!

We call them poop flies. You know, houseflies, the ones that begin and end in the piles of dog poop in the backyard? (Which I pick up immediately after Belly, um, makes her deposits.)

No, they don't bite, and for that I am grateful, because we are OVER RUN.

Bugs.

I.

HATE.

Bugs.

New Eating Style

I happened across this scene in the dining room the other day.

"Paige? What in the world are you doing?"


"Eating Goldfish!"

Of course she is! How silly of me.

Don't we all eat baked snack crackers upside-down out of bowl without hands?

Toiletries Mistake

"Josh, don't forget to put lotion on after your shower!"

"OK, Mom! I won't forget!"

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"MOOOOMMMMMM! There's something wrong with this lotion!!!!"

"Yes, that's because it's sunscreen. At least you won't get sunburned while you sleep!"


(I don't feel so bad now about putting hemorrhoid cream on my toothbrush the other night!)