Bad, bad mommy

Ok internets… I am not always the well-balanced, loving, thoughtful mommy that I make myself out to be! Neither are you, right? Right?

I am excellent at fun, seriously, I will be a kid over a grownup any day, I love sidewalk chalk, paint, stickers, markers, I am usually game for anything, however, when it comes to cleaning up the mess, or the kids, I usually, kinda, umm, don’t. The mousehunter loves this aspect of me!

So, you know how my kids were sick, well, umm, I don’t always remember to give them their medication on time, and when I say “always”, I really mean “ever”! I know, I know! My husband usually has to call from work to remind me to medicate them!

I allow them to play with plastic butter knives, you know, so they can pretend they are sword fighting, or whatever else it is that they do with them, I honestly don’t know, but they do enjoy it and they ask for them every single day…they have never gotten hurt though!

You know things like, feeding the kids, and umm, giving baths, and brushing teeth, and homework, and other such, chores, yeah, well, I am not good with those, I mean, I obviously do them, but I can’t say that I excel at those things, and when I say “excel”, I really mean that I do a very “half-assed” job!

My biggest problem though, has to be my inability to fold and pack away laundry! I kid you not! I think it goes against my very nature to handle laundry!! Currently, the kids’ room is completely covered in clothing, it’s so bad that my kids learned to “dig” through the pile to find clothes for themselves!

And before I totally discount myself as a good mother, I will stop.

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Smile!

Remember my funk? Yeah, well, I think it’s gone… I don’t like to be unhappy for too long, it’s too depressing!

My eldest was really sick this week and I had all three kids at home with me, because, you know, the 3 year old cannot attend school without his brother…I mean who’s sidekick would he be?! So, my eldest, today, came up to me and started hugging me, it was weird, I mean, a 5 year old boy spontaneously hugging his mom?! I said, “how come you’re hugging me honey?” And he said “Umm, no reason, but can you make us cookies?” They are cute, my kids, they are funny too, and they have started talking exactly like me, you know, “dude, what do you think I am??” or “why don’t YOU pick up all your toys?!” or “WHAT THE...!!!!”, it’s fun when there’s a bunch of “mini me’s” running around the house! Yeah, not really.

Anyways, let’s see, so on my quest to de-funk-ify myself, I spent a Saturday morning watching Disney’s tween shows, and I saw Hannah Montana for the first time, oh Jen would be so proud! You know being a grown up is highly overrated! Seriously, I mean, like, wouldn’t you, like, so rather, like, you know, like, umm, shop for like, umm, lip gloss and, like, you know, hair scrunchies, instead of, I don’t know, milk? I know, I am a sad, sad person, who is very easily amused, especially by tweens and their ohmygod-what-am-I-gonna-do-he-looked-at-me dramas!

But you know what really amuses me? The Creator’s sense of humor! If you’re not one to believe in a higher power, then I guess you can call it coincidence, but the undeniable irony of life, the plans that are clearly created for us and not by us, the complete unpredictability that is strangely not random, but more like a really well plotted script, just makes me smile and reminds me of the awesomeness of The One.

Finally, you know how being 30 brings on strange behavior, well, I am pondering embracing the pigtail look, do you think the mousehunter will enjoy it?

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Speedlinking & SXSW

Who wants to meet up in Austin, Texas?? Yes, I’ll be there in March!

Cute! And now I am inspired to work on a project of my very own!

Man, do I need this advice!

Yet another muslim magazine… or should I say, yet another muslim WOMAN magazine? Although I have not actually read any of them, it’s nice to know they exist!

Seriously, right!#

And finally, a public service announcement for those of you in the States… get yourself some free fiber and for everyone, cool ways to cook with fiber.

What’s in your heart

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We went to the habitat for humanity information session today, it was nice, it was nice to know that so many people help one another in this world, it was nice because really, only when we connect with humanity we can feel real happiness.

Although I didn’t take part in Karen’s postcard swap this time around, sending someone a postcard to let them know that you thought about them can truly make that someone’s day… so go do that now! Or, you know, soon. Just don’t forget that it’s important to let the people you love and admire know how you feel about them.

I truly appreciate all of you!

When there really is nothing left to say

Me: Can you please stop talking and eat?

5 year old: I am eating, I am chewing, see?

Me: Well you can’t chew and talk at the same time!

3 year old: Why don’t YOU stop talking and eat!!

Me: What??? I am only talking to tell you to stop talking!!

5 year old: What if we could talk with our bottoms?

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