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“Storie, please hurry and get dressed, we are going to be late to softball!” I tell her for the fifth time last Saturday.

She comes out a few minutes later in this…

“Try again.” I say.

“Why?” My 4 year old trapped in a 40 year old womans body asks.

“Because stripes don’t match plaid and polka dots!”

She turns and walks away, as she is going down the hall I hear her say to my husband…

“Dad, you have to find me something else to wear, Mom doesn’t like what YOU picked out!”

Sweetheart, repeat after me: Stripes DO NOT match polka dots OR plaid!

“I’d like to apologize for my naked child…”

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First, I’d like to take a second, very humbly, and apologize to EVERY Mom out there who has had a child that has somehow or another ended up naked in public. I am serious. I am sorry that I ever judged you and wonder how in the world that could have happened…

My husband teaches baseball lessons in the evenings. He teaches at a rather nice sports club facility in the area. A few weeks ago the kids were bored ( they were, I can tell you I had enough to do!) and begged to go with their Dad. He talked me into going.

“Honey, it will fun to get out. You can watch the kids pretend to play video games ( because we are too cheap to give them quarters) and watch me teach lessons.”

Umm yah, like I’d like to poke my eye out. But I went along to make everyone happy.

I sat on the couch with the baby and watch the other kids pretend to play video games and my husband through the glass teach lessons. Within a little while my 4 year old has to go potty. I send her down the hall to go as I can see the door from where I am sitting. I realize about 15min later that she has not come out… this is worrisome. I send the 6 year old in to check on her as I am feeding the baby. My 2 year old son, thinking he is missing out on something runs after the 6 year old into the bathroom.

Now, looking back, the fact that my 2, 4, and 6 year old’s are in a public restroom unattended should have alarmed any Mother. Have I mentioned that I am a little sleep deprived? Well, I am and so I continued to sit on the couch and feed the baby. UNTIL….

Like a streak of lightning, my 2 year old RUNS NAKED out of the bathroom, and confused as to where to go in his hurry, runs straight into the HUGE gym that my husband is teaching lessons in along with 50 OTHER people. My husband sees the streaker and before he can deny knowing him, and my son runs straight to him. Paul grabs him and takes off with a naked laughing child to come find me. All the while I am trying to put down an almost asleep baby, and run after the streaker!

People were laughing uncontrollably in the gym. I am sure it is not everyday that they witness pure happiness from a child. Apparently what happened, allegedly from the 6 year old, is that once in the bathroom the 2 year old who is in diapers decided that he wanted to go on the “big potty”. So she helped him on, but once there he didn’t want her help anymore and wanted me. She tried to get his clothes back on but he screamed and ran away from her and out the door!

Thats how it happens, now I understand how many of you have “naked child in public” stories. If you will forgive me for judging you, can I be apart of your group now?!

Shameless Cute Baby Post!

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Oh my goodness, this baby is getting so big already, it seems like yesterday I was writing this post and telling you all that I was pregnant.

Isn’t she the sweetest baby ever? Have I also mentioned that she is sleeping 9 hours at night? It is a miracle. My 2 year old doesn’t even do that.

Thats why we call her Mary Poppins. Practically perfect in every way….

I love this kid.

Is that my sister ( the Kitchen Aid destroyer) pinching my child?

My Children are Texans!

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Finally here in the Lone Star State we have hit cooler weather. HALLELUJAH! Yesterday’s high was only 85 and it was gorgeous! This morning was beautiful, I opened all the windows and doors to let some of the cool air in and to air out the house. The kids started to get up and and complain it was cold. Huh?

“It is beautiful, go outside!” I yell at them.

Then like out of a movie, where a bunch of prisoners creep outside to to see daylight for the first time, my children slowly venture outside to see what this curious cool weather is…

I leave them on the driveway to figure out what to do with themselves and I come back to see that my 2 year old was cold, so that darling little outfit he has made for himself, compete with starfish Crocs, is what Texans wear when it is 68 degrees out!

How we found Ben’s Hat

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I am not even sure how to start this post?

This is one of those things where you say, “you just had to be there!”

But, I am going to try and explain exactly why my 13 year old son and I wet our pants in Taco Bell a few weeks ago.

As you know my son plays baseball spring and fall. Part of the baseball ritual is the hat. You get your hat, then the team Mom spends the next week trying to get in some place to get each child’s name embroidered on the back. Because, boys are slobs and forgetful and can’t manage to not get their hat mixed up with the other 12 in the dug out that look EXACTLY alike.

Go figure.

My husband coaches and likes to give the boys nicknames. A few seasons ago he started calling one of the boys ( real name Ben ) HOSS. He had a college buddy who they called Hoss, really nice guy and this kid just fit the same mold. I am sure you remember the T.V. show Bonanza? Hey, I just saw the re-runs!

Anyway, Ben always has Hoss put on the back of his hat. This last spring we were the Marlins, and at the beginning of the season a few of the families met at Rico’s for dinner one night after practice. Ben walked out of the restaurant and left his hat. His Mother was furious, they went back and kept checking but no one ever found it. Ben spent all season with no matching hat.

Fast forward 6 MONTHS! We were sitting in Taco Bell one night last week, when Tucker grabs my arm and furiously whispers,

“Mom! Thats Ben’s hat!”

I looked around and was confused for a minute, as I also have a brother named Ben.
Then I saw it….

A man standing at the register ordering food was wearing Ben’s Marlines hat with his name on the back!!

Tucker and I just busted into laughter. My husband turned to see what we were laughing at and actually gasped. He a little too loud, says, ” no freaking way!!”

The three of us have tears running down our cheeks, we are laughing so hard. Then my husband says, “we have to show Ben.”

Tucker and I are a little more reserved than my husband, we think he is going to take the hat back. We start freaking out and begging him to not ask for the hat back, he shakes us off and walks right up behind the man at the counter and TAKES A PICTURE!

The kids and I are dying, we are hiding behind and under the table’s at Taco Bell! All the while still laughing at how hilarious the situation was! Plus, just incredulous that Paul would just walk up and take a picture standing right behind the guy!

Paul, not being shy, much to Tucker’s horror, then asked the man if he could take his picture so he could have a picture of the front of the hat. The man was completely happy to pose!

This is about the point that neither Tucker or I could take it anymore, and both raced to the bathroom as I think we both were going to pee our pants!

We must have laughed for 3 days straight, every time I event think about it now I giggle. We sent the pictures to Ben’s Mom and called her, when she opened the email I could hear her scream with laughter a few feet away over Paul’s phone.

What we are really wondering is what is the degree of separation between a pretty nice Mexican Restaurant, Rico’s, and Taco Bell?

We want to leave something else there and see where it turns up months later!


Do babies have "milk bellies"?

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Yesterday, I left Andie’s 6 older siblings in charge of her while I folded my clothing in my bedroom. At least that is what I told the kids, I really just wanted a few minutes to myself to catch up on the latest People magazine that I had bought last week spontaneously and never had a chance to read.
Who isn’t interested in Elin Woods and 100 million dollars? 🙂
Anyway, I began to get worried when ALL 6 kids were hysterically laughing together. This is only a good thing sometimes…
See, if only a few are laughing that means they are laughing at another child, who will soon be tattling and crying.
Now if they are all laughing, either my husband is harassing the dog or they have done something to the house. I figured I had better check it out.
This is what I found…

They had propped the baby up in her pillow, then the older kids thinking that she looked like she had a “beer belly” proceeded to stage her with a soda, remote and bag of “chips”.

Then they took pictures. They kill themselves.
What I really want to know is how do they know what a “beer belly” is… AND is the baby going to be emotionally scarred?
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Made the Paper!! They even spelled my name right :)

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Yea! Anna and Jeff made the paper! Go HERE to see the article! SHHHHHH! No one tell them! Jeff will be embarrassed!

Jenan was also featured, she does the coupons for the troop. It was well written. Thanks Kim for a great article!
We were also featured HERE this past week, Jenan is doing great work with the coupons for the troops!


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School Lunch Ideas

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I slice them once through the middle and flip the top off, then I add the mayo and mustard.
Next, comes the ham and cheese.
Then I flip it over and cut 6 sandwiches.

I have not found any good deals lately on pudding or jello so I have been making my own for almost nothing. I have a bunch of the small ziplock containers, I make either jello or pudding the night before and toss them in their lunches the next day.

The trick is getting them to remember to bring back the container, or not leaving it in their backpacks!

This day we had grapes, juice, turkey and cheese sandwiches and rice krispie treats or a 100 calorie bar.

Today they had Capri Suns, clementines, ham and cheese and pudding.

Tuesday the had Juicy Juice, apples, granola bars, peanut butter and honey and a couple kids grabbed rice krispy treats.

I try and stay under $4-5 dollars a day for all lunches. So about $20 – $25 a week on lunches. I buy bread and rolls on sale and freeze them. I bought 13 packages of string cheese for under $.75 a bag, then I freeze them and pull some out every few days. I also freeze lunch meat and load up when I get it on sale. The snacks are always very cheap at Kroger mega events. We go through an enormous amount of fruit, I always try and price match it at Wal-Mart. The kids eat fruit for breakfast, lunch, snack and after dinner… I actually have to hide any kind of berries and the little clementines. They can eat 5 lbs of clementines in one sitting.


I would love to hear what you make for lunches!

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Thank You!

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Second, Lelee! Look how cool this is ( picture above!) I posted last week about the Chipotle deal, buy anything on Tue or Wed. bring your receipt BACK on tax free weekend (this weekend) and you get the same items FREE again. The catch is that it was only good at Texas stores.
So Lelee went out to eat on Tue. and MAILED me her receipt from Virginia!! What a surprise when I opened the envelope. I kept laughing and trying to explain how crazy cool this lady is to my husband! Who would have thought of such a sweet thing! My son was even impressed, and at 13 that is hard to do. So we all went out to eat on Friday night!
That is him below eating his free burrito curiosity of Lelee!
So my point is that I wanted to say think you for all that you bring into our lives and for all the nice things that you say and do for our family. I wish I could have a chance to meet everyone personally and thank you for taking time out of your day to stop by here and see a little of our lives!
Thank you, to you 2 ladies for whatever prompted you this week to think of us! Sometimes, I have a little feeling that there is something that I need to do for someone, even if it is as small as a phone call or email and I don’t do it. I usually find out later that friend needed a little help or had been sick and I could have made a difference for them. So I am trying to be better about paying attention and following through with those little feelings!
O.K. enough of that, and I will get back to why you are here and the deals! Thank you again!

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Today I officially Get Old! I have a teenager!

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** I wrote this last year for Tucker on his birthday. I am reposting it because, well, I didn’t have time to write another one because I was helping him do his laundry 🙂
As if turning 35 this year wasn’t enough to make me feel old (it really didn’t) the fact that I now have a teenager is what is going to put me over the edge!
Twelve (Thirteen now!) years ago tonight I was starting my 21 st hour of hard labor. At 5 am in the morning I had woken up to what I thought was a dream that I had peed in the bed. I kept apologizing to my husband and tried to get to the bathroom, but I just kept peeing everywhere! Now 6 kids later I would have known right away that my water had broke, but I was unexperienced and young. It finally occurred to me almost 45 minutes later that maybe my water had broke, and by this time the contractions were coming hard and fast.
I waited as long as I could before I wobbled out to the car and to the hospital. I labored in the tub and listened to Cat Stevens, I walked the halls during the afternoon, I laid on my side and talked to myself. Every now and then my midwife would poke her head in and check on me, she had already been up at the hospital for 2 days and was trying to get a little sleep in another room.
At 12:40 am after much pushing my sweet, sweet baby was born. It was nice and quiet, just Paul, my Mom, the midwife, a cranky old nurse and my little sister peeking from the doorway to welcome Tucker. I was so tired and almost in a little shock that when they immediately laid him on my chest I was scared that I wouldn’t love him.
I have never been so wrong.
Tucker has been something so special from the beginning. Even as my first baby I could recognize it. He has such a special spirit about him, he instinctively has that thing inside him that tells him when reverence is needed. He has always been cautious, no matter how we tried to teach him otherwise he is naturally a careful person.
Thats him in the back, the little 3 year old who’s head you can barley see, I sent him down the Snake River with his Aunts and Uncle, he has never forgiven me.

Tucker is a strong boy, he has always had such a strong sense of right and wrong, and he stands by the right thing.

He takes care of his sisters, and his little brother. He is going through that stage where they annoy him more, but when other people or kids are concerned he stands up for them, I have never had to ask him to do this, he just does.
Tucker has the kindest heart that I have ever seen. If there is bad news or a horrible story on T.V. he never wants any part of it. He can always see the spiritual side of things, and follows his heart.

During our last vacation without any prodding from us he was asking his little cousins and sisters to dance. It was sweet to see him trying to make sure they had a good time and wasn’t yet concerned that it might make him look “dorky”!

Tucker is smart, and I am not just saying this because I am his Mother, I have other children that I would not say this about… the boy is brilliant. I have not been able to help him with homework for years now, he almost has a photographic memory. In second grade he read the entire Lord of The Rings series, by himself, in 3 months. He didn’t get credit for it at school though, because it wasn’t on the list for elementary school students. Tucker has always been able to understand concepts that were complicated for even adults.
I love this boy so much, he is turning into a wonderful man. I am so proud of him and love him for the wonderful spirit that he brings into our home. I have such special feeling for him because he was my first and I had so much time with just him. I feel like we grew up together. I had him when we were in college, it was a really long winter that year. Paul would leave for school at 8am and get home from work at 11pm. I sat with Tucker all day in our little cinder block wall, 600 square foot apartment, just the two of us, all that lonely cold winter, and the next winter as well. I just talked to him all day long, and took pictures of him sleeping. I had nothing else to do and I didn’t want to miss a single thing that he did.

So Happy Birthday Tucker! I LOVE you so much!
Love, Mom!

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