Nothing is Private

Every once in a while my girls will spend the night at my in-laws, Granny and Grandpa Sego.  This time they spent the night on a Saturday night and Grandpa brought them home early the next morning all bathed because we had church at 9am.  I was very appreciative of them being bathed already, it was very helpful!

Anyway David (Grandpa) told us a little story about what storied were told during the sleepover.

Apparently one of them was Payton telling Granny and Grandpa where Mom shaved and didn't shave on her entire body.  Where mom had hair and didn't have hair.  I'm not going to go into detail on my blog.  Too much detail has already left the 4 walls of my home.  

Lets just say that my in-laws now know the ends and outs of  what my body looks like naked.  

Isn't that nice!

QUESTION OF THE WEEK?

"Mom, do ants have eyeballs?"  -Payton 4

NAPS AND BOOGERS

I take a nap every day with my youngest two daughters.  I don't care what you have to say about that cause I love them (the girls and the naps).  Anyway I usually fall asleep before they do and wake up about 1 hour before they do.  

So today my nap was very short because we went down late and I needed to get up and pick Madi up from school. As I was falling in and out of sleep, you know how that happens when you are stressed or you just have a lot on your mind, I noticed Payton picking her nose.  I vaguely remember her saying I need a tissue and getting up to get one.

When I woke up I had 10 minutes until Madi needed to be picked up from school.  So I grabbed my shoes and rushed out the door.  I arrived a little early, our school is about 3 minutes away.  I was sitting in the car, listening to music with the windows down just enjoying the sun rays coming in the window.  As I glanced down at my arm I noticed a little green BOOGER.  GROSS!!  Why would a booger be on my arm?  Then I remembered Payton saying she needed a tissue, before I fell asleep. I figured that was what happened.  Maybe she just rubbed one off on my arm as she got off the bed, on accident.  As I flicked it off I noticed...... another one!  And another!

THERE WAS A TRAIL OF GROSS, DISGUSTING BOOGERS GOING UP MY ARM. 

Not all of them were flickable either I had to scrape some of them off because they were dry and crusty.

What a freak!  

Who makes a booger trail on their mom's arm while she is sleeping?  Ummmm MY KID DOES!  

Helpful Ointment

Being a mom with young children I have come across many bottoms with rashes on them.  Last night at about 10pm I had to deal with this situation.  

I was kind of stuck though.  I had let my friend borrow my antibiotic ointment called Butt Paste.  Which by the way is the best!  It gets rid of any irritation in the bottom area with in 48 hours. 

 I LOVE IT!  

As I said though I let my friend borrow it.  Then I remembered a sweet little nurse on the other end of the phone a few years ago giving me instructions for a homemade ointment that I remembered working GREAT!!

Here is the recipe in case you ever need it...

Proportions are all equal, I did a Teaspoon of each

 Neosporin

Baking Powder

Desitin!!

p.s.  It wasn't a little bottom...shhh

"SPECIAL EARS"

We go to church every Sunday.  

Every Sunday I ask the girls what they learned.  

Every Sunday they say, "We learned about Jesus".  WOW!! Such an obvious answer.  Really they should say, "Mom we don't know what what we learned because we didn't pay attention, we were to busy playing and talking to our friends, until they brought out the snacks."

Today was a different day!  Payton actually learned something and remembered to tell us about it.  She learned that she has "Special Ear".  Yep that's right!  And that nobody can touch her special ears. They are special because she can ear cars and toys and that she can and should use them to listen to her teachers.

Do you know what this tells me?  This tells me that she wasn't listening or paying attention in class and her teacher was sweet enough to make up "special ears" so that Payton and possibly others in the class will use their "special ears" to listen to the teacher's lesson, which is what they should be doing anyway.  

That is exactly what this tells me!  Ah oh wel,l we will take full advantage of this and us it in our own home.  I may even threaten to take away her "special ears" if she doesn't listen to me!

CHANGE

I don't know if it is just me, my personality, or if any mom really likes change when it comes to their schedule.  I am a very scheduled person, I like to know when and where exactly I'm going .  I don't like the, "fly by the seat of your pants" schedule and just hope that everything works out.  With kids I need structure.  I need to know every detail. 

 I HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN PEOPLE!! 

When a schedule is altered without, really more than a days notice, I kinda freak out!  I feel frantic and unorganized.  It could be just a small change, such as lets meet 30 minutes earlier.  I won't take this well. I don't understand why I couldn't have that small detail 3 days ago when I was going over that day's plan and schedule in my head.  

So why is that?  Why do I plan everything out so far ahead in advance and a minor hiccup up in it makes me cranky?  Seriously I become very cranky, grouchy, irritable and then I just don't really want to do it at all.  What is wrong with me?  Sometimes I feel like this is everyone else's issue and they just need to pull it together.  After sitting on it for awhile I sometimes wonder if it is me.  

Am I alone?  

Are there other moms out there who ate change as much as I do?

Are you mom enough? A must read article!

This article is really really good!  I am going to make a list for my kiddos tonight!

A must read!

http://www.boston.com/community/moms/blogs/24_hour_workday/2012/05/motherhood-mom-enough-advice.html