Monday, January 16, 2012

Not so crafty

I had the great fortune of being off today for MLK.  Of course, with school out and my husband working, it didn't really seem like a day off.  I do best with the kids when we can get out of the house and go somewhere.  It was a bit cold this morning to play outside and we were too unorganized to make it to a museum.  So I had the bright idea of doing a craft here at home.  Lately, my daughter has been all about arts and crafts so I thought that would be the perfect morning entertainment for us.  We took a trip to Target to pick up a few craft supplies and hurried home to get started.  My daughter was really into the finger painting, which was going surprisingly smoothly given my lack of craftiness.  We took her new piece of artwork into the other room to lay it out to dry.  I guess I forgot about the curious 13 month old that I left in the other room ...

At least it was non-toxic.
Mom of the year ...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Plastic Bags

Finding time to share my stories has been tough the last several weeks, but I managed to out-do myself as mom of the year yesterday.  I decided to take the kids to the grocery store on the way home to pick up a few things for dinner.  We were lucky enough to snag the one and only 2 seater racecar grocery cart at our local HT (I may have left tire marks as I skidded into a parking spot and jumped out of the car to claim it).  Everything went surprisingly smoothly in the grocery store until check out.  I was busy helping bag the groceries when I heard a scream and looked over to find my almost 3 year old daughter with a plastic bag over her head.  My 13 month old son was laughing hysterically and helping hold the bag. Everyone seemed to stop and stare directly at me - not sure why they were looking at me when my daughter was the one screaming.  The poor high school boy ringing us up wasn't sure if he could laugh or not until I started laughing (and took the bag off my daughter's head) and apologized for the excitement.
Mom of the year ...