Sweetness...

I absolutely love listening in on the conversations my kids have these days. One second they are pretending to be on a date and Maryn says: "Invite me to a movie and then push me down". Hello...push her down. I told her, honey, you do not want to be on a date with someone who would push you down. That is so unkind!! Seriously, where do they get this stuff!

Then, minutes later I hear this:

D: When we grow up will I be Maryn's uncle?
M: No, you will be my kid's uncle.
D: I don't know what that means.
M: It means they will call you Uncle Dylan.
D: Well, does that mean I can come to your house?
M: Of course it does if we invite you. And I will because I will miss my brother!

I love them so much!

Moments....

At dinner tonight Maryn said that she learned that coffee was made from beans. Then she laughed and said: "You drink bean juice!"

Today Maryn told me that I was sweeter than toothpaste!

Pretty sure Maryn inherited my singing skills. I'm feeling kinda bad about that.

Today I feel like I sounded like that tyrannical mother you hear screaming at her children down every aisle at Wal-Mart. Geez...somebody just shut me up! Oh, hello composure...so nice of you to join me before the cops showed up!

Last night Maryn and Dylan came in from playing outside and immediately stripped down to their underwear just before dinner. All flushed and sweaty they took their seats at the table and Maryn says: "It's pretty weird having dinner naked! If we were all naked that would really be funky!" Um....yeah!

I have a graffiti wall in my downstairs bathroom where the kids (and guests) can use paint pens to write random messages. Today I noticed a recent addition from Maryn: "I love hot dogs but most of all I love my Dylan".

At dinner tonight Dylan prayed that God would bless the food. He said "thank you even for the stuff we don't like"....and then he asked for Turkey Bacon for dessert.

My life in Christ is not about being "good". I would never survive it! It is about being thankful. And in my thankfulness for the price He paid comes my willingness to live, as best I can, a life that glorifies His name.

Just spent the afternoon at my Marietta Dave & Buster's.....got to stand with my kids in the very spot I met their daddy!

While on the pier Maryn dropped her most prized littlest pet shop in the water! At least it became her most prized when it hit the water. We watched the jellyfish tickle it and the seagulls peck it. We suffered through our heartbreak. Went down to the beach on a hope and there it lay at her feet! Amazing birthday present from God!

We couldn't do breakfast in bed for Maryn's birthday at the hotel this morning so we got up early, opened the curtains and watched the sun rise from bed! Thank you God for this beautiful girl!!! Now we are off to IHOP in our pajamas!!

We were at dinner tonight playing Eye-Spy. I spied something gray and Maryn said: "Daddy's hair!" He didn't like that so much!

Random Moments...

In the car this morning, Dylan picked up something that belonged to his sister and she grabbed it out of his hands. I told her that it didn't matter who it belongs to she is never allowed to just snatch something away and that she should have used her words instead. Her response: "Mom, I didn't snatch it....it took me ...a minute to pull it out of his hands!"

GIRLS WEEKEND!!!! My kids are so weepy poor little things. Mommy has never been away like this before! Dylan said: Can't daddy go instead! :(

Dylan is on his way to manhood! Whenever there is something he wants to watch on TV he takes the remote and hides it behind the chair so no one will change the channel! Goof!

Maryn had me laughing today! Earlier she was holding the little hamster and said she had learned the trick to him. She said if you squeeze him his eyes get big! Who knew! Later in the night while daddy was being exceptionally pesty...she told him: "Daddy, be nice to mommy or be destroyed!!" Girl's got my back!

My daughter has an unwaivering confidence in me! I am learning to sew. We recently got invited to swim with some friends and I could not find her bathing suit. After exhausting several options she says, "Mom, you could just make me one"! The mental image of what may have become of that had me laughing for an hour! But,... what an awesome feeling! Thank you Maryn!

Maryn wrote Mommy and Daddy a Valentine at school today! To mom: "Dear Mom, I noticed that you are very beautiful and more beautiful than ever!" To dad: "I noticed that you are very strong and take this I think you married the perfect woman in the whole wide world!"

Maryn and I were discussing the cheerleaders tonight. I said they could use a little more clothing. Maryns says: "Well at least they have really nice cha-cha's"!

Had our first experience with the ambulance at 3am. We heard Dylan cough in his bed and then all of a sudden he was just gasping for air. It was so sad to see him so scared. The EMT's were awesome! Dylan is fine. He is going to the doctor today but I think most of it was just panic after a couple of labored coughs. Gra...teful that my baby is okay and currently sleeping with daddy!

I have been pee'd and puked on! My goal of cleaning every piece of dirty clothing in this house has been completely thwarted!!! It might have been that I ended up sleeping in my son's Spiderman bed, but I decided the comic book term for these precious moments would be: "YACK" and "WHIZZZZZZ".

LOVE!!!!

I totally love you!!! And I love that you let me take your picture as much as I want!! You are so creative and I know I am just going to learn a ton from you!


And you, well you really don't like me to take your picture!! But, gosh, you are so darn cute I just don't care!!!

250 Words or Less!

There are some things I have failed to post here in the last couple months. Ironically, these events were some of my favorites, but the truth is I have just gotten out of the habit. Facebook sucks me in. There is a comfort in 250 words or less. I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed to tell stories here. I don't handle obligation well. I began to think if I didn't have anything funny to say then I would just neglect my blog until I could think of something. What I had to remind myself is that this blog is not about me and what I have to say at all. This blog was created to chronicle the lives of my kids, not showcase short stories. And therefore, I have removed my self-induced burden in a matter of 2 minutes. What a relief!!!

So this post will include two things. A random mix of Facebook comments that I don't want to forget and some of my favorite moments that closed out our year. Okay, one more thing, a promise. A promise to continue blogging for the sake of remembering all the wonderful blessings that come wrapped up in my precious children. These days are fleeting! Blinking is a risk!

Dylan's First Soccer Season!

Maryn and Dylan got to participate in their Aunt Kim's wedding!

Fall leaves are probably my favorite pictures of the year!

Some Christmas pics. I realized after I was halfway through uploading these that they would appear backwards. I thought about changing them and then decided against it because it really is okay. I am running full-speed away from perfection! Watch out!

And, finally some Facebook moments to wrap it all up:

Maryn says: "It's always Christmas inside a snowflake!"

Item on Maryn's Christmas list: "The toy that can do whatever you want it to do!"

My daughter is trying to prove to me that she can do three things at once: she has a cat toy between her toes playing with the cat, a book in her left hand and trying to write her spelling words with her right. So ambitious!!!

Thinks it is beyond embarrassing when the car pool lady opens my door seconds after my son has totally beefed! If you are said car pool lady just know this - IT WAS NOT ME!!!!! :)

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day, adults laugh an average of five times a day! Wow!!! Come on a-DULL-ts.....let's bridge that gap!!!

Wishing my kids would stop singing: "We got scurvy!"

Maryn was listening to her brother practice his homework and she smiled and looked at me and said: "He's a cute little boy!" She's so right!!! And she is just precious! I am one lucky momma!

Doing homework with my 5-year-old son makes me want to bang my head into a brick wall......is that so wrong?!!!

If you knew how much I HATED glitter....you would know just how much this tooth fairy LOVES her kids!!!!

During bath tonight Maryn did exactly as I asked. I rewarded her and told her what a big deal it is that I can trust her to do what I ask her to do. She said: "Well, today you can...I don't really know about tomorrow yet".

As Maryn prayed over our dinner this evening she said: "Thank you God for giving mommy two kids...I don't know what she would have done without us".

Man, reading Dylan his Star Wars book is like reading a foreign language!! Dreadful!