My incredibly creative, bright & artistic 4 year old daughter handed me this eye-sore yesterday.

I nodded my head and said “Wow Reese…pretty cool…tell me about it.” And because she’s 4 she used her ‘what are you stupid’ tone with me when she said: “Mom, look at it. It’s a piece of paper with those package things and straws and glue. A lot of glue. Like a lot a lot. Do you like it?”.

Before I could answer my 6 year old little slice of perfection (Charlie) said “Theresa, it’s not your best work. Do you REALLY want that on the fridge?”

Theresa said “Nope. I don’t to look at this everyday.” Then she threw it in the garbage.

Charlie looked at me and said “You’re welcome, Mom.”

(LOVE HIM FOR THAT) I mildly scolded him for being hurtful – and asked Theresa to please take it out of the garbage so I could put it on the fridge…she said “If you really like it that much, put it in your office so I don’t have to look at it, okay?”

Last week we hit the one month mark with Brian’s deployment… I try to block the “counting down” thing because it’s still too far off… BUT… he made it kind of hard to ignore when 2 dozen roses showed up in my office!

Ya know, some guys just REALLY get it, don’t they?

This is what I was greeted by when I got home last night! These were brown & yucky 3 days ago…

Brian is deploying next week – my first experience. Yikes! Does this sick
feeling go away? How do you deal with this? Ugh! Please advise!

 Jenna at 2wd.com

I didn’t have the heart to tell Brian what was missing from this scenario.

Men get new golf clubs and everything else just fades away while they bond. Kind of like a mother & her newborn – but not really…

Brian was showing the kids how to properly blow dry Lolo after giving her a bath.  It wasn’t until after the fact I realized that yes, Theresa does have Barbie panties on her head. Just another fun afternoon at home…

I’m in the station kitchen waiting for the double strength pot of coffee to finish brewing (1:18 left to go!!).

On the table is a bag of Original Flavor Pork Skins…uck…who (besides Tias) eats these? Oy! Better yet, who had the million dollar idea to bag fried pig skin and sell it?!!??!! Ew!