One might think we don’t feed them enough.

Posted on April 7, 2008 by jessica

I’m sure she didn’t really want this cake in the trash can.
Oh, sweet God, this is good.
What?
Mmmm.  Now that was one tasty marker.
I think purple is the new black.
You gotta problem with it?

Fine!  I’ll just suck on this dirty old sponge.

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Truthiness and confessions

Posted on April 1, 2008 by jessica


I am obsessed.  Obsessed.  Honestly, has this blog world been revolving for years now while I was, what? oh, yeah, drowning in newborn twins and preschoolers?  There are so many woman out there with these amazing, inspiring things to say and share.  I have no intentions, or time for that matter, to try and compete with any of the lot, and yet I’m not too proud to steal some of their ideas.  They are touting them as “challenges” after all and I’m up for the challenge.  Are you?

Here it goes.  Self portrait.  You.  No prep work or make up.  NONE.  Lots of these have been first thing in the morning before the polishing begins.  You must check out Melody’s blog, Slurping Life to see her Truthiness shot.  She is my new girlfriend, she just doesn’t know it yet.  From there, the piggybacking is endless. (and a really great time suck) 
Above is my Truthiness shot.  I took it with the iSight camera on my Mac Book while looking at Truthiness shots, so it couldn’t be more unposed or thought out.  Figured I should snap something while I was too tired to care.  The bags under my eyes are truth.  The glazed over look from sitting in front of this computer, peeking in to your lives.  Truth.  Do you think there are other things I should be doing right now?  I’m resting my feet on a full laundry basket after all.  Truth:  Not a great housewife.
Oh, and while we’re at it, Debi asked us 3 things we wish we could change about our pasts.
1.  Why did I buy that extra sheet of Christmas stamps.  Seriously, you can’t really pay bills with the Madonna and and baby Jesus and you can’t just throw them away.  And they really look tacky next to that Native American Headdress 2 cent stamp.
2.  Never should have looked at that cute, 20 year old swimsuit model in the online J. Crew catalog and thought that my mom-of-four body would look anywhere close to the same in said swimsuit.
3.  Painted my toenails this yucky color pink, because I’m way too lazy too remove it and way to broke for a pedicure.  
Phew.  It feels so good to get that off my chest.
I showed you mine, now you show me yours.  Go!
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by jessica

We were driving home from the bus, past the lake in our neighborhood, and the conversation went something like this:

Me:  ”Do you guys want to go fishing if it’s nice this weekend?”

Spencer:  ”What do we do with them when we catch them? Do we have to eat it?”
Me:  ”No, you can just let them go back in to the water.”
Spencer:  ”Won’t they be dead?”
Axel:  ”I’m going to bring my black marker and draw x’s on my fishes eyes so people just think it’s dead.”
Spencer:  ”I’m going to put a cigarette in my fish’s mouth and leave it there so people think it died from smoking.”
So if they flunk out of school, at least they’ll have their fishing skills to fall back on.
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Field trip gone wrong

Posted on March 28, 2008 by jessica

So I just really kind-of started this blogging thing a couple of months ago and let me tell you, I would not have invited anyone that I know to my blog had I really given it any thought.  This is such a perfect non-place to confess all of your ills and bad parenting moments, not that I have any of those, *clears throat*, but if I did, Man would it be nice to admit them and see what other critical or understanding moms might have to say.  Maybe I’ll start a new ‘secret’ blog and you may or may not stumble across it someday and may or may not TOTALY relate.  And if you do, I hope you leave me a comment letting me know that while at the museum, you too once grabbed your small son by the arm for hoarding a handful of plastic knifes from the cafeteria, “for just incase” and then threatened him in a loudish voice to make him pay for them (?) because you could sense the spanish speaking janitor looking at you to do something.  And that in the end your child still turned out ok. 

For now I will just keep my family friendly blog.  Or will I? 
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Easter in Colorado

Posted on March 24, 2008 by jessica

They say if you don’t like the weather in Colorado, wait an hour.  We woke up to a dusting of snow.  By 3:00 that afternoon we were having an Easter egg hunt in the yard and it was close to 60 degrees.  Everything that you want to happen on Easter happened.  The Bunny did his magic, the kids had loads of Jelly Bellies before breakfast, nice service, lots of family, great food and cute kids in their Easter finest.  Or in the case of my boys, a clean shirt.  Here are a few of my favorites from the day.

She’s liking it, she’s liking it, she doesn’t like.
If you’d like to see more pictures from the day, you can check them out here:
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