All I have to say is "it's a sharpie, dude!"

My husband does not understand that anything is possible when you have a sharpie!

But just in case, I am working on getting a better money management system, because when I need more sharpies, I don’t want any arguments from “my accountant”!!

Sadly, I have to bid farewell…

to my experiement :(

actually, I have kept up with it ‘till now, but I thought I would go back to posting everyday this week, and since this obviously did not happen, I am not going to drag it on. 6 months! woohoo! I say it’s good enuf!!

I am keeping the food blog though, but I’m making it into just ‘easy to cook meals’, and I’ll post maybe once a week, this way there is no pressure and I don’t feel guilty about not posting everyday! yes, I do feel guilty!

ok, as you were…

Oh Gosh! Can they just skip 3?

I was never a strong believer in the “terrible two’s” saying. Two, I think, is a nice age, a curious age, a playful and loving age, an age where they can have fun with us, when they really enjoy pleasing us and when they can easily be tricked!

Three, I think, is an age I can skip. I can really skip the defiance, the angst, the general craziness associated with a kid who wants to be a big boy and a small baby all at once!

Especially my 3 year old people! He is sometimes beyond ridiculous with his arguments and his insomniac-ness! Oh! Kids! They’re a blessing right?

So my “not 2 anymore!” year old kid has turned into an amplified version of his former self. Where before he would cry not to nap, but would get tired enough in about 10 minutes to fall asleep, now he is telling me he “won’t” and walking out of the room! If only he were ugly, I would be able to look him in the eyes and demand that he take a beauty nap, but alas, I look at him and instead feel the urge to kiss his mischievous, little, smirking face!

Confession is good for the soul, and kiddy stories too!

Sometimes I don’t read bedtime stories to my kids. There! I said it!

I actually used to do it all the time, but since my workload got bigger, I try to start as soon as dinner time is over, which means that my husband puts them to bed. He is not a bedtime story kind of person, opting instead to sing himself to sleep while hugging at least one of his sons.

On days when I don’t feel like physically reading a book, I will just make up a story for them, which they also really enjoy, you know how I would love to write children’s books an’ all!

So, for your reading pleasure, my latest toddler story…

One day the 3 brothers set out on an adventure into the forest (jungle, African safari, rain forest… they don’t know the difference!)

First they saw a snake, and the snake said “ssssss, where are you going?”
“On an adventure!” replied the brothers.
“Ohhh”, said the snake, “well be careful and don’t wake up the lion!”

So the brothers said bye to the snake and kept walking, walking, walking (and I demonstrate by walking my fingers over them while they giggle)

Then they saw a tiger, and the tiger said “roarrrrr, where are you going?”

“On an adventure!” replied the brothers.
“Ohhh”, said the tiger, “well be careful and look out for the monkeys!”

So the brothers said bye to the tiger and kept walking, walking, walking

Then they saw an elephant, and the elephant said “where are you going?”

“On an adventure!” replied the brothers.
“Ohhh”, said the elephant, “well be careful and walk very quietly past the lion!”

So the brothers said bye to the elephant and kept walking, walking, walking

Then they saw a parrot, and the parrot said “squaaaak, where are you going?”

“On an adventure!” replied the brothers.
“Ohhh”, said the parrot, “well be careful and don’t go near the monkeys, they are very naughty!”

So the brothers said bye to the parrot and kept walking, walking, walking

Then, they saw the lion… and the brothers were verrrry quiet, tip-toeing past the lion, and unexpectedly, a little, tiny, ity-bity mouse ran over the lion and he woke up!

The brothers got very scared and climbed up a close by tree!

When all of a sudden, something started tickling them (where I start tickling them), and tickling them, and the brothers could not stop laughing and laughing.

Then they saw the naughty monkeys were up in the tree!

Finally they escaped from the naughty monkeys and the big lion, and they ran home to tell their mommy all about their adventure!

Evolution

No, not the ‘we came from apes’ kind, although for the record, I am not the descendant of an ape.

I love this blog! Seriously, I LOVE it! Because it gave me all of you! I can’t tell you how much it has meant to me to find comfort, support, encouragement and even a few good laughs from this beautiful community.

I don’t think I can stop blogging right now, nor do I want to. I have gotten to know most of you from comments left here and the discussions that we’ve shared, but last week I realized that I had not responded to any of my comments!! Yeah, I know, right! But, I always said to myself that if I could not respond to comments, for any reason (because obviously it was not due to the shear volume!) that I would disable commenting.

Now, I do not wish to stop the community, and I still LOVE the interaction that blogging provides, in fact, I think I need it, so I thought about it all week and I am pondering putting in a tiny forum, just to keep our little community going, so we can keep the interaction, but more informally.

I will still allow comments on some posts, and of course on contests, and on the food & favorites posts, but just not all of them. So… over to you… what are your thoughts?