Role Confusion

I think we have some role confusion in our house. Friday evening I tucked Alex into bed, read him a story, prayed with him, kissed him on the forehead and left the room. As I strolled into the kitchen to let the kitty outside, I noticed that it was snowing!

Jumping up and down, I yelled for Alex to quickly come to the window! Confused, and worried, Alex sprung out of bed to join me at the window.

Alex - "Mom, why did you want me to come to the kitchen"
Mom - "Alex, look....it's snowing!!!"
Alex - "You woke me up to tell me that?"

John The Man!!!!

What a great weekend! John Mellencamp has played 4 shows in the area near my home the past week and I was not going to miss at least one of his shows. I need to start of by saying that I've adored John Mellencamp since I started playing guitar. If you can get past the man's strong politics and see him for the awesome writer/entertainer that his is, I highly recommend going to one of his shows. He started playing bars and clubs at age 15 and much of his music is shaped from playing as a young man in a time where our country was very segregated. One of the musicians in his band was African American and Mellancamp watched him being glorified onstage and asked to leave the establishment as soon as the gig was over. Saturday night was not one of his better shows, but it was still phenomenal in my opinion. He seemed to be fitting a cold (or just suffering the effects of smoking 5 packs a day for the past 30 years) and actually did the farmers blow....you know...the one where the person just closes one of their nostrils and blows snot....before hitting the stage. GROSS!

After the concert, we stopped downtown for some drinks and then headed for some yummy eggs and pancakes at Denny's. I think I'm going to start warning my dates that I'm incredibly accident-prone. I reached in the booth behind us to grab and extra set of silverware because I need more than one napkin, but I obviously didn't hold onto the set tight enough because as I spun around in the booth, all of the forks, knives etc went flying at my date who was sitting across from me. Ug...poor guy. Who knew that taking me out could also raise your life insurance premiums.

Enjoy the clip....don't hesitate to get up and dance!


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Halloween

My young Jack Sparrow



Mom...enough with the pictures




Alex, come take a picture with mom





Okay Alex, mom will eat ALL OF YOUR LOOT if you don't take a nice picture




See how easy that was?

After only hitting a few houses, Alex says to me (with great excitement) "Mom - this is BY FAR my favorite holiday!!!" I looked at him and questioned "But what about Christmas" Alex thinks about it and says "You know what would be cool mom? It would be cool if we did Christmas presents like Halloween candy"

The wheels are always turning.

Nightmare

You know you're sleep deprived when you had a dream (nightmare) that you were dating Snoop Doggy Dog. Seriously - I woke up after having a dream that Snoop and I were going to Applebees for a date!!! Do you know how often I listen to Snoop? Answer is ZERO. Do you know how many times I think about Snoop? Answer again would be ZERO!! Do you know how many drugs I would seriously have to be on to ever even think about sitting down and having a conversation with Snoop? Answer....there isn't enough illegal substances in the WORLD that I would need to intake to even THINK about going out with that creature.

My goodness....I need a vacation!

Bless You eBay!!

Really - what did I do before on-line shopping was such lucrative part of my life? Although I love spending time walking around a mall, getting behind the lollygaggers, chasing after Alex, having to tell Alex no every time we pass one of the two-million gumball/candy dispensers at the mall, cruising around looking for a parking space, having to try and put the mannequin at Macy’s back together after Alex tipped her over, on-line shopping has made my life much easier.

This goes to selling my previously owned items as well. No more selling my textbooks back to the school for 1/5 of what I paid for them – no no no! Sell them on eBay. I had a winter coat of Alex’s marked at $1.00 on a garage sale this past summer and did it sell? NOPE! But, I got $15.00 for it off of craigslist. What to do with my ex-husband’s cloths? Some guy in Pennsylvania is now the proud owner of a lot of 10 New England Patriots shirts – congratulations. Cloths that have seemed to shrink after leaving them in my closet to long now belong to some woman in Arizona who obviously has a good sense of style :)

Ahhh – thank you on-line shopping world.

The Mind of a Boy

This morning at breakfast -

Mom...wouldn't it be weird if you peed starting last night and didn't finish until this morning

Thought provoking huh ~

Why I Love Raena-Roo

I was walking into church yesterday when Alex and Amber's daughters Shayla and Raena were walking out. I stopped and told Shayla how beautiful she looked in her new hair-cut and told Raena she looked like Dora. Alex wrapped his arms around me and I carried him into the church under my arm like a 65lb football. This is when my day went from a 7 to a 10! Amber yelled back at me to tell me what her observant, brilliant beyond her years younger daughter Raena said. "Mom, why is Alex's big sister carrying him into the church?" LOL - Alex's big sister!!

This is why I love Raena Roo.