Monday Mumbles

It's another Monday morning. We're more than halfway through maternity leave now and wondering if I'll have the energy to return to work.

1. I saw a news bit once about a woman who found a snake in her dryer. Made its way there via pipes or something. Is it weird that once in awhile, I get freaked out by anything "household" that could have a pipe to the outside? When I pee in the middle of the night, I sometimes think some snake or rat will jump up and bite my ass. Or when I turn on the bathtub, one will fall out onto my hand as I test the water temperature.

2. Speaking of getting bitten, poor OJ and bug bites. Whenever we go outside for a length of time and not just a walk to the car, we spray him with bug spray. So what do the bugs do yesterday? Eat his face. He can't win.

3. Speaking of winning, TO is really bad at losing. Don't know where he gets that from.

4. No matter how much you try to not let "changes in lifestyle" like marriage or children affect your other relationships, they do. Sometimes they make them better, stronger....sometimes they weaken the ties and allow them to drift.

5. Neither of my boys can eat their oatmeal and watch cartoons at the same time very well. They appear deathly afraid that by looking down to scoop a bite, they'll miss some very important detail of Dora's adventure.

6. Did I ever mention here that I have found a few more strands of LIGHTER than normal color strands of hair on my head? It's probably time to be thinking about what color I'd like ALL of my hair to look. No, I'm not above it. You should try having four kids in the house and NOT lose your mind, or at least your natural color!

7. I'm soliciting crock pot recipes from all of you. If you have one, could you email it to me at:

toojmama@gmail.com

I would like to do more of these when I return to work, and have a limited arsenal right now.

8. On the topic of food, does anyone else have a kid with really active bowels? I sometimes worry that TO has belly issues with as many times as he poohs a day. He just alerted me that he needs to eat more raisins since his turds came in more than one piece. He informed me it was one really huge poop and one medium sized one. At least he's in touch with his body.

9. TO had a friend over from school yesterday and they wanted to play Twister. And they did. And then she wanted to be the spinner because she kept falling down first. So she spun and we had a family affair on the Twister mat, Hubs and me , TO and OJ. Hubs used his body to knock all of us over. Cheater.

10. I just had to tell TO to stop touching his penis and not a minute later I had to tell OJ to get his hand out of his butt. Seriously. Boys are gross.


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Michelle