Isaac and his "twin" sister at the Pumpkin Patch

Who knew Ed Mysogland and Matt Schantz
could produce children with two different women
that would end up looking so MUCH alike.
It's almost funny!

A Perfect Picture of Parenthood...

Just LOVE this shot of my friend teaching her
kid to ride a bike. Her pretty and CRAZY funny face
totally express for me the emotional sum of parenting.
You can look at her and see fun, fear, stress, joy,
anxiety, laughter, energy and exhaustion.
It MAKES me smile.

You can also see "happy childhood" written
ALL OVER Addy's face...no fear, all fun, complete trust
in the momma that has hold of her.

A PERFECT picture of parenthood...the good kind.

Cat Concert...

I found this DELIGHTFUL... ;)

How many calories does Twittering burn?

OH, how I wish sending Tweets did indeed burn calories!
Lots and LOTS of calories!

-Had a fun run on Twitter with several people
that I LOOOoooVVVVEEE this afternoon,
during a yummy lunch (which my kids
did not consider yummy so they requested
other fare which meant they had to wait
until their recently worked-out, calorie
depleted mother took in some protein).

SO...I ate. I tweeted. I laughed.
I nearly asphyxiated on black-bean quinoa salad.
I got called out on my tweet frequency
whereupon I readily confessed the hungry
state of my runts in the next room over,
felt like the bad mom I was and
quit tweeting to cook. Here's proof.

Veggie Burgers with apples & caramel, ya'll!
(I'm so Paula Deen.)

My poor, undernourished children...
Aren't they the very picture of brattiness deprivation?

LAUGH a little!

Creative, SMART cat.

CRAZY like a fox...
How SMART is that? You can
actually WATCH it discover the
trampoline!

The DAWGINATOR...He'll be BACH.

This has not been photoshopped.
I don't even want to know how the owner
managed to get the dog in this condition.

Josh? Is this your dog?

Chuck Brown

LOVE this artistic rendition of my man, Chuck.
sUPaFly guy, Los Whittaker, click here,
WELP, it scares the p'Jeezus out of him.
That makes me laugh!

Where's the STINKIN' gold?

I'd even settle for a Leprechaun...
But an SUV...a FORD? AW, COMEON!
Reality stinks but the rainbow is beautiful.

Well, EAT your hat Papaw...

-Watching The Bonnie Hunt Show, this was on.
The fish holdin' pappy did NOT catch this mega-fish.
His little grand-daughter with
(ARE YOU READY FOR IT?)
her BARBIE FISHING POLE did.
A BARBIE FISHING POLE!!!
Crack me up!
Barbie Rocks! She can do ANYTHING!
I'm envisioning a whole new Barbie Line...
Tobacco-Spitting Barbie
Horseshoe Pitchin' Barbie
Bodacious BBQ Barbie
Bologna Sandwiches & Budweiser Beer-Belching Barbie
Deer Huntin' Barbie with her pink camo tree stand

I LITERALLY could go ON and ON...

I'm NOT makin' fun!!!
Barbie is cool. She can go country.
I LOVE country...

I'm not EVEN kidding...

After a solid week of the stomach flu,
we got a 4 day reprieve and now
Eli has strep throat. Isaac is running a temp.
I'm not even kidding...I'm TOTALLY going to
jump out of my first floor-window...UGH!

So, I tell the 2nd-born, currently less-sick one
to STAY AWAY from his feeling super PUNK
older brother and I get the following comment.

"BUT, MOM, (sigh, eye-roll, pouty lip...the works)
You're breakin' my heart into tiny little pieces."

I repeat, UGH!

CALGON! Take me away! (Did I just totally date myself
to boot? If you don't remember that commercial...
don't EVEN talk to me...seriously...DON'T, not today anyways.)

Silly Family Fun - Too Tired To Do Anything Else...

Well...they're not our most attractive family photos
BUT we were having fun and I think you can
see the love in the middle of all the silliness.
The pictures that Matt aren't in are funny to me
cuz those are the ones where he was actually snoring
beside us while Isaac was crawling all over him.
We were playing around with Eli's camera.
Obviously, we've not figured out how to set
it so that the time stamp isn't on the bottom right.
SO...here were are in all our end of the day,
sweaty, dirty, tired glory just hangin' out.

More Movie Fun

Fun flick...great thematic messages. Isaac sat GLUED the
entire length of the movie and was very emotional (clutching my
neck for dear life) during the climatic scene when wall.e was trying
to fight to save Earth. This was our 4th of July celebration before
Eli left for camp. Dinner and A movie...that's our gig.
Ah, I LOVE us...there's no one else that I'd rather be with.
Me and my boys...that's perfect.