Mother's Day 2013

 Happy Mother's Day!

 This is me and my mama in 1998...

It makes me laugh so much because I am painfully orange and my mom looks 10 years older than she does now!

I think my looks have improved in the last year, no?

 This is how I spent most of my Mother's Day...loving on my sick baby.

I wouldn't want my life any other way.  I LOVE being their mom!

Overheard in the Barnes Yard {who are you callin' lumpy?}

BBB: "Mommy, why did Grandma only have two kids?" 

Mommy: "I guess that's all she wanted." 

BBB: "So she had Aunt Lo-Lo and then you?" 

Mommy: "No, Mommy is older, remember? She had me first." 

BBB: "She did not. She had Lo-Lo first." 

Mommy: "Nope." 

BBB: "Well if Aunt Lo-Lo is older, how come she is taller and skinnier and you're shorter and...lumpier?"

teacher appreciation week {W,Th,F}

 An apple for the teacher!

 I can't believe I've already turned her paperwork in for 1st grade!!

 Teachers need to eat something besides cafeteria food right?

(Our school mascot is a raccoon.)

Cake batter truffles.  

(I made a bunch extra and ate them for breakfast this morning!)

Hopefully we helped our teachers to feel appreciated this week!

teacher appreciation week {days 1 & 2}

We just love our teachers. I mean, we really do. Somehow we lucked out with the best school and the best teachers! 
I always like to do little things for them throughout their special week. Here's what the kids brought them Monday and today:

It's 9:30 here and I still haven't figured out what I'm sending tomorrow morning...
I'm thinking of making some no bake cake batter truffles!

it's like that and like this and like that and uhhhhh...

Well, well, well...
I haven't been feeling the need to blog lately...maybe it's just the weather?

Just to let you have a peek into my craziness...

This is my calendar for May so far.
Yeah, we don't have much going on this month...

I was thinking about some things though:

I don't really care for Leann Rimes.  I mean, I guess I don't know her all that well, but I really don't like her.

Also, Clinique bonuses just make me really happy.  I cleaned out the cupboard under my sink and found like forty thousand of the makeup bags, which I don't really need, but it makes it a lot easier to buy the makeup, which I do love.

I thought I lost all of Porter's raffle tickets that he was supposed to sell for his baseball team, but I found them in a different purse.

Sometimes I wish the friends that I have now, that didn't know me before kids, knew how immaculate my house was when Nate and I first got married.  I would totally show anyone my bedroom back then because the bed was always beautifully made and everything was perfect...and now, I would pretty much die if any of my friends looked in my bedroom right now.

I was noticing today that the reason my hair looks like it hasn't been washed for days is actually because it hasn't been.  The older I've gotten, the more wavy/half curly it has become and it's pretty time consuming to make it straight, so once it is straight I just rely on dry shampoo and baby powder to get me through at least four more days. 

In the mornings, I like listening to Lila McCann Pandora to get me going.  In the evenings, I like Patty Griffin Pandora to unwind.

I took it as a compliment when someone told me that my perfume makes them hungry.

The kids don't have school tomorrow so we get a three day weekend!

Found in Brooklyn's pocket:

Overheard in the Barnes Yard and other stuff

Nate: "The worst thing that will happen is they will say no."
Me: "But when people say no to me it hurts my feelings."
Nate: "If it hurts your feelings when people say no to you, imagine how I must feel."

Also:
It was recently brought to my attention that my husband has been writing a book.  The concept is really funny and I'm sure all of his friends would buy it. 

And:
You know all of the hoopla over the Dove commercial?  The one one with the sketch artist?  Well it doesn't make me want to buy Dove at all, it actually makes me want to have my sketch done by my own description.
Anyway, this spoof totally made me laugh!
  
  http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/dove-parody-men-less-beautiful-than-they-think.html