Cold Damage on Downy Jasmine

My favorit Noah Christmas moment

Noah took a fondness to candy canes this year. I dint really buy many of the pepermint kind, I bought all the strawberry kind and all that so the kids could eat them WHEN CHRISTMAS WAS OVER!(Ya I'm stupid) I just figured Id put them a little higher on the tree where Noah couldnt reach them. Well every time I turned around "Stretch" had him a stinkin candy cane eating it. Im sure most of the time his Dad gave them to him. He would take your hand and walk you to the tree and say mowe...mowe...mowe...(more)His Dad had no chance, he's a sucker! Anyway I had had enough of it and I told him rather loudly NO MORE CANDY CANES! Then cought him trying to get one a few more times and told him no, he seemed to get the picture so I went on about my usual fatal attempt to keep the house one degree above landfill status. So I came back in the room and he had his hand behind his back and a guilty little look on his face. Noah did you get another candy cane? No gone gone. Then whats behind your back? gone gone. Noah let me see it! no moma mowa all gone. At that point his dad came over to help out and took the candy cane out of his hand behind his back! I couldnt believe it! And being the great mother that I am I'm rolling laughing that my not even two year old is bold face lying to me. ( talk about proper parenting)But Ive never been lied to by someone cuter! Ill have to give it to him hes a pretty smart little joker.

Noah dumps dirt for Ashes

Last time this happened little Boo as cute as he is had decided to take out one of my variegated Bromeliads in order to have a more life like dump truck game. This time although thankfully the plants sitting next to the fireplace are still intact, I spent 45 minutes cleaning up ASHES from the fire place! See Ashes somehow dissentegrate into particles uncleanable with a common broom. I swept three times then mopped twice andthere was s till agray haze all over the floor.So I changed tyo my swiffer wet jet with a clean pad and no more ash dust on the floor. So i threaten to throw his truck in the garbage if he does it again and get back to cleaning the reast of the house. An hour later his dad comes into the bathroom and sais Do you know what your son is doing? So as the steam comes out of my ears I yell back at him from the hall the dump truck is gonna get it! So of coarse Johnny comes in trying to save Boos favarite truck from the raving lunatic they all call mom, and theres Boo standing in ashes with his dump truck behind his back! Yah yah yah I didnt thriow the stupid thing away but you should have seen the look on his face like uh oh she really meant it! Hide truck hide! Cruella is going to feed you to the garbage can!

Hunters inspiration

Hunter writing in his blog Hunterssecrets@blogspot.com 
Every time Hunter stops to read blogs of people he knows he always seems to get inspired for a creation of his own. There usually pretty short (the kid has to henpeck every letter)I need to find a typing game on the computer for him.

Dance of the cookie

Noahs cookie dance 
Did you know that all you have to do to be the "GREATEST MOM IN THE WHOLE WORLD" was bake store bought cookie dough in the oven for 10 minutes! Thats right! in less than 15 minutes you will unanimously be voted "Mom of the year" by your kids. If only the rest of life was that easy! This is a picture of Noah dancing around in front of the stove doing circles and waving his hands in the air all the while chanting cukie cukie cuukie! Maybe theres a little more indian in his father than he is letting on.

Cookie dance part two

Noah not exactly waiting patiently for cookies 
Talk about a happy kid!

My Favorite Hunter Christmas moment ...as told to me by Steven

Steven opened Hunters question and answer book that he had bought him for christmas (being quite the curios one himself) and began to read. OF corse loaded with newfound knowledge he knew Hunter would find interesting he decided to show off what he knew. Hunter do you know why the ocean appears different colors in different spots? Thats an easy one its becouse............. followed by a precise explanation of the effect of plant and animal plankton in the waters blah blah blah blah blah balh and some more blah. Only Hunter!

Boys

Tonight I sat at dinner silent. I couldn't help it, not that the room wasn't lit up with conversation, but that it all revolved around idiocy. I knew having all boys was a bit of a challenge but I never thought Id end up quietly eating my dinner while the world around me bored me to tears. I could not care LESS about Halo and Transformers and Yugio and Mario party and the list gets longer trust me. I just sat there listening while I talked to myself in my head and tried to choke down some hideous concoction of tofu chicken gardenburger garbage. Id sooner have eaten garbage. Anyway...Just a thought,probably all mothers at some time wonder at what point their children's life took over their own. Maybe birth, no probably during pregnancy. I wonder if you ever get it back or if I am forever stuck with Yugio at the table. It could get worse hmmm....I bet there will even come a day when I miss these 3 hour conversations my boys seem to insist on sharing with me. You know the strange part is my husband thoroughly enjoys these conversations, he even knows what the heck they are talking about. I know I should be an expert on such things by now but the mere mention of the word Yugio or Transformer and I swore my ears stop working and my head starts hurting! Its like on the cartoons where everything starts spinning and you hear echoes in the background but you don't get what they are saying. I know now what the writers of Charlie brown were implying with the teacher saying wah wahh wa wahh wa wah. Maybe that's what I hear.

This is what I Got of Boo and His Bobcat when he took out my Bromeliad(yes I know I SUCK) 
So this is the veary bad ( and by that I mean VEARY BAD)picture of Noah that I just had to take after he totally destroyed my variegated Bromeliad so that he would have some dirt to push around all over my floor with his front end loader he calles his Bobcat. I mean I really appreciate that he quietly plays with trucks and tractors and bobcats on the floor while I get things done, honestly I do, but taking out a plant for some real life dirt action is going a little far! There was dirt everywhere!

Look at Hunters footwork! 

Ty 

Cindys had enough! 

Lizzy 

Boo playing ball boy already! 

Mr. Mom 

PARTY'S OVER!

Its 30 frickin degrees outside and I am so NOT HAPPY about it! Yes, I know its January and yes, I know that's winter but I AM NOT GOING TO LIKE IT! What the heck is with all the freaks? Oh I just love the freezing #$% cold yah ok, IDIOT!( you can tell I live in Florida for a reason!) Give me a break I grew up in a desert. IT IS SO COLD! Wind chill is 23 and I so do not apreciate it! Ok, so I need a major attitude adjustment or a one way ticket to Hawaii one. Hmmm... Hawaii sounds better. Its not tolerable, people up noth are out of their mind! I mean what are they thinking do they not know everyone in the world doesnt put up with that crap? Or do they just stay inside like little Hermits for 3 months. I realize that im spoiled and it was 70 degrees on Friday, in fact they say that it will be back up in the 60 and 70's by this weekend but somehow that is not making it any warmer in here! Im going to start a fire, A HUGE MASSIVE FIRE!

PARTY'S OVER!

Its 30 frickin degrees outside and I am so NOT HAPPY about it! Yes, I know its January and yes, I know that's winter but I AM NOT GOING TO LIKE IT! What the heck is with all the freaks? Oh I just love the freezing #$% cold yah ok, IDIOT!( you can tell I live in Florida for a reason!) Give me a break I grew up in a desert. IT IS SO COLD! Wind chill is 23 and I so do not apreciate it! Ok, so I need a major attitude adjustment or a one way ticket to Hawaii one. Hmmm... Hawaii sounds better. Its not tolerable, people up noth are out of their mind! I mean what are they thinking do they not know everyone in the world doesnt put up with that crap? Or do they just stay inside like little Hermits for 3 months. I realize that im spoiled and it was 70 degrees on Friday, in fact they say that it will be back up in the 60 and 70's by this weekend but somehow that is not making it any warmer in here! Im going to start a fire, A HUGE MASSIVE FIRE!

Christmas with Brittany 
Every year we have Christmas with my neice Brittany when she comes in to see her Dad from Georgia. We had alot of fun this year and she made us all no sew blankets that we all loved!

Maddi insists on Tea for everyone 
Madison loves her tea party's and she was convinced that Johnny needed some more! She is one of those kids everybody loves because she loves everybody! I don't think she's ever met a stranger! She gets more beautiful every time I see her.

How Noah got his cold! 
Most people probably look at tghis picture and see a veary happy little boy with his Dad. I see the nezt two weeks dealing with his cold and thinking I knew I shouldnt have let him do that! ( even though my brain tells me thats not where the cold came from!)

Bee with Steve on the swing! 
Brittany takes time out to play with Dad!

Moms garden from the back walkway 

FINALLY A GARDEN POST !!!

Moms Garden 
This is an impromtu garden I created for my Mom. When my Dad got hurt he got a hot tub to take the pain away at the end of the day. So naturally Mom had to redo the entire area. Slate patio and stairs,and a nice view to look at where the road to the Ligustrum field behind their house used to be! Sorry dad guess youll have to make a road on the other side of the house!

Shane 
This is my cousin Shane on his motorcycle that he LOVES! I actually saw like 5 people riding down 9A on one tire like this going at least 65 miles an hour! All I could think is thats Shane in another year! I can just hear my Nanny now SHANE YOU GET OF THAT THING!

My Little Maddi 

Johnny didnt quite make it! 

Lizzy rides 
qMy neice Elizabeth who Johnny and I take care of. We had alot of fun having her with us this CHristmas!