Hahaha Funny Story...

   What is something completely off the wall hilarious that one of your kids has done before?  Mine?  I would have to say when Jaedon (my 2 year old son) came out of the bathroom with a maxi pad stuck to his privates!

   Yes, I am cracking up as I write this.  It is one of those times when you don't know if you should laugh or not.  Of course being that he is 2 years old he still follows me to the bathroom basically every time that I go in there!  I am usually pretty good about making sure that they are turned in the opposite direction until I am finished doing what I have to do so I am not sure how he learned where maxi pads go.

   He was in the "potty" doing his thing and comes out saying "Mommy I don't have nothing." like he always does when he DOES have something.  We turn to look and he starts walking towards us with this maxi pad stuck right between his legs covering all his privates and then stops because it started to hurt when he walked.  I'm betting it was pulling on his skin.  So I ask him why he did it and he tells me it was his "diaper".  Such a clever kid!

   I carefully removed it and told him those are my diapers not his!  Of course now every time he goes in the bathroom he asks me if I need one of my diapers.  I can't wait until we are in a public bathroom one of these days and he blurts it out like kids like to do!

My Best Ideas...

   Is there a certain time of day that all your amazing ideas come to you?  Mine seems to be late at night!  And when I say late at night I mean more early morning...3-4 A.M.

   I was sitting here last night writing my 2 posts and then I come up with about 10 new ideas and those ideas start filling their selves in.  I now have about 5 saved drafts here on my blog because I started the posts for each one that came to my head so that I wouldn't forget later!

   I am one of those people that takes notes about everything!  I think it would be wise to get a little notepad for all of my bright ideas so that way when I'm on the run and come up with stuff I can jot it down.  Gee,  why didn't I think of that sooner?  Well, I have and I did have a notepad in the past but my kids always rob me of my cool stuff so I no longer have that one!  I think this time I will find one that is like incognito...looks like a makeup compact or something so they won't expect.  Eh, who am I kidding, they would still get in to it! Hehehe!

   The joys of parenthood!  Can't keep nothing for yourself!

What's my name again?

   Mommy, Mom, Momma, Mommy, Mommy, Momma, Mom.............

   Snap out of it!!  Sometimes I have to ask myself...What's my name again?  Being that we live in such a small town and I am originally from out of state and I have no friends or family from my side I am surrounded by 4 children all day...5 if you include my husband who acts just as bad most of the time...I think I might lose my mind one of these days!

   I have about 8 loads of laundry that need done...a stack of dishes half way up the wall...the tub needs scrubbed...the floors need mopped like last month...fridge needs cleaned out...couches need vacuumed.

   This is what goes through my head on a daily basis.  Along with...Jaedon just ran out the door with no undies or pants on...Julien is eating red and will be climbing the walls in about 10 minutes...oh what am I talking about he's already climbing the walls as hes eating the red candy...Dakota needs to take out the trash...I need to call so and so...Did anyone get the mail today?  Where's the dog...oh there she is eating a candy wrapper that Julien threw on the floor instead of the trash can.

   Am I the only one or is this a typical mommy brain funtion?  Hehehe!  I guess I can say my kids really keep me on my toes and keep my brain working!  And yes I meant for this post to all over the place and run on forever!  It's a little look inside my head for the 10 seconds it took to read it!  What goes through your mommy brain all day? Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know I'm not losing it...or at least not the only one anyway...hehehe.

Wish Me Luck!!

   Well, as some of you may already know,  I love writing!  I guess you could say that is why I started this blog.  I recently payed for an E-book that had some different writing jobs listed and I decided to give a few of them a try!  Today, I applied for Examiner.com.

   Examiner.com is a site where you can write articles on a number of different topics.  For instance, parenting, arts, news, etc.  You pick the topic and apply and hopefully get hired.  I know there is pay but I am not sure how much or how often.  Money is money I suppose and we all know every little bit helps in some way or another.

   At the end of the application it said they would notify me in a few days to let me know if I got the job or not.  I hope it's soon because I get so anxious when I'm waiting for things like this.  Well, wish me luck!!

Family Day...Minus One...

   Well, since the weather was BEAUTIFUL today (80 and sunny) we decided to have a nice family day!  We don't get many of these because we are always busy with other things like family get togethers with the extended family or sports.

   We live about 45 minutes from Michigan City, Indiana so we decided to visit the zoo there!  Washington Park Zoo is the name!  It is a pretty small zoo...we caroused the whole zoo slowly in about 1 hour!  It is small but still big enough to enjoy!

   They have a Bengal Tiger!  Very pretty!  As well as 2 BEAUTIFUL white tigers!  I could sit and watch them roam their habitat all day!  There are other awesome animals like the grizzly bears, zebra, eagles, several types of monkeys and what not!  There is also a little group of goats you can pet!

   The admission is only $7 for adults and $6 for children 3-11 so since Dakota was not with us we only spent $27 to get in the zoo!  That is a great deal considering most zoos cost that much for one adult alone!  Parking is $7 for the whole day and you can walk right across the street to one of the many beaches!  We didn't do that today but we will!

   After the zoo we went to McDonald's for dinner and then to Big Lots to spend money...because we always seem to do that! HEHEHE!  We had a great day in all!  I wish Dakota was with us but he is enjoying himself with his friend Ian and his family at the go-kart races!

   Next weekend we have Jaedon's 3rd birthday at his great-grandparents home in Kokomo!  Then the weekend after that is my cousin's baby shower!  However, I do plan to make time for more awesome family outings like this before the kids go back to school in August!

Best Friends Forever...

   Do you remember being little and having a different best friend every other day?  Oh how I wish I could go back to those days!  Running the streets with my little gang of 3rd graders...running from one park to another...stopping at the corner store to buy a pop and some candy before going home and getting grounded for a day or 2 for being 5 minutes late.  Those were the days!

   Dakota is 9 years old and going to the fourth grade!  He has a few friends in school but nothing outside of school since we live in the country.  There aren't many kids around where we live so it makes it hard.  He had 1 friend that came to stay at our house a few times but that friendship didn't work out.  He didn't want to do anything but play video games the whole time he was here and they just didn't mesh well.

   Baseball has been such a blessing!  Not only is Dakota doing so well in baseball this year but he is making new friends also!  The regular baseball season ended and we went in to tournament.  The tournament ended early for us because there was a fight between coaches.  Dakota went on to All-stars and there are a few kids on the team that were also on the regular season team.  Dakota and him are a little over a year apart but they get along great!

   One day after the game Dakota asked to go to his house for the first time and he had a great time!  He spent the night there two nights in a row!  I was very surprised because he has never stayed anywhere before!  He came home yesterday and went with them today for the night to go to a fish fry and then to see go-kart races tomorrow!  They have really become great friends!  I couldn't be happier!

   I remember getting my first best-friend when I was in first grade!  Her name was Elizabeth and she lived about 2 houses away from me!  I would wake up every morning before my parents woke and run down to her house!  I would stay there all day and come home at like 7 that night!  And repeat the next day!

   Good friends are hard to come by!  I have 1 true friend that I have had since the 6th grade! I am now 30 years old and me and her have never had even 1 fight!  We haven't seen each other years now but we talk on the phone regularly and we are still just as close as we were when we were together 24/7 back in the day!  I really hope that is they kind of friendship this one turns in to for Dakota!  He is a great kid and deserves it!

Keep bees away!!!

   Do you have bees swarming around your home and want an easy way to get rid of them?  This might be the strangest remedy you have ever heard but it DOES work!

   My neighbors decided this year that they were going to be bee keepers!  This is all fine and dandy besides the fact that I am allergic to bees!  They have probably about 30 bee boxes in their yard which is located about 20 feet from my house!

   When they built their first, maybe, 10 boxes I was seriously worried!  Last year I was stung by some type of bee and my whole arm swelled like a balloon and was in pain, red, hot, and covered in rash!  I really don't want to go through that again so I decided to do some research!

   Apparently, honey bees are non-aggressive which is good because my yard was swarming with them!  However, Dakota was stung twice in a 2 week window!  The research I came up with only landed me with things I have tried in the past that never worked!  The inverted 2-liter bottle, the orange juice mixed with borax, the cinnamon sprinkled along the yard perimeter, etc, they never worked for me!

   I was talking to my mother-in-law one day and she told me to stuff a paper and hang it from my deck.  I of course asked if she was feeling ok...hehehe.  How is a stuffed paper bag going to keep the bees out of my yard?!  Well the reason it works is because the bees think it is a hornet nest and they stay away!  And it ACTUALLY WORKS!!

  To make this amazing contraption I just took a medium sized paper bag and stuffed it with some plastic grocery bags I had an abundance of.  Then tied a string to the top and tied that to the top deck!  It has been there over a month and has worked great ever since I put it up!  It is not the prettiest thing in the world but it does work!

   If you decide to give this a try please leave a comment and let me know if worked well for you also!