The Making of M.O.M.

I have so many drafts saved that I'd like to post about.

I'm on Chapter 5 of Radical by David Platt and I still need to post about Chapters 2, 3 and 4. It's so good. Just go buy it and read it. Seriously.

I appreciate all the comments about my Mom shorts. Maybe they aren't THAT bad since most of you claim you don't know what I'm talking about. Either that, or you all have Mom shorts too and your opinions mean squat. Seeing as how all the folks who have no clue what I meant were Moms, I'm going with option B. Heh. I kid. Sorta.

I also have a post that I'm praying about posting. It's about Mommy anger. I'm amazed at how I can love these little blessings so much and yet sometimes, get so stinkin' angry at them. Can anybody else relate?

Anyway, on with the funnies...

There have been so many funny things going on around here. Aaron is really starting to talk and anytime Ella sneezes his sweet little self says, "Less lewe Lellllla. Less lewe Lellllwa." (Bless you Ella.) It's hysterically precious.

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Elizabeth came out of the bathroom one afternoon, holding an empty bottle. She said, "Mom, we're outta tizer in the hanatizer bottle."

Our kids have called it "hanatizer" for a sweet forever and, I don't correct them because I think it's that cute.

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Lucas was sitting in front of the TV earlier this afternoon as we watched cartoons. Elizabeth and Ashlee, in turn, couldn't see. So, I said to him, "Lucas, your Momma wasn't a glass maker Buddy."

To which Elizabeth replied, "Nope. You were a teacher."

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The flies in our house are out of control. It might have something to do with the 3 children who leave the door open in an effort to cool off the yard, I'm guessing. At any rate, fly killing has become a hobby amongst our older 3 kids. Elizabeth asked me the a few days ago, "Hey Mom. Where are you hiding the flyswapper?"

I told her we don't swap flies.

She stared at me like I'd lost my mind.

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I know. Those weren't awesome. Forgive me. It's been a long week. Y'all have a great weekend!

We have a unique living situation. As you all probably already know, we sold our house at the beginning of March. Currently we are renting a house. We are renting it on a "campus." That's about as specific as I'd like to be with our living location and broadcasting it to the interweb, so if you know where we live I'd appreciate the ambiguity as well in your comments.

The reason I'm bringing it up today is because at this very moment, right outside my front door is this:

Yes. Three HUGE inflatable bouncehouses/slides. Where we live they are celebrating. A celebration that only takes place every 5 years, to my understanding. Which means, it's a BIG celebration.

And, we are not really invited to play on those lovely, fun, totally-would-wear-my-kids-out toys that are RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR FRONT DOOR. Yes, that's our lawn furniture and toys laying in the grass. Squeals and laughter are echoing through our house as the sounds of children enjoying themselves on these bounceable toys. And, there's a band playing somewhere on the not so distant lawn.

Those things pretty much make our RRIAP look like a deflated kiddie pool.

Wow. I've never drawn our blinds so tightly as I am today. I think I'll blindfold my kids and carry them out to the van 1 by 1 and leave for the entire afternoon. Thanks to a friend who will make that possible by loaning us her house this afternoon.

I sure hope no one gets the bright idea to look out the window. Something tells me I'll be playing zone defense this morning, with my zone being all the windows/doors on the front side of our house.

Bring on the meltdowns.