My MANIC Friday!!!

I call this my MANIC Friday because I am involved in SOOOO many MEMES!!! There are many others I'd love to do, but I think 3 is my limit for one day. And these are my favorites for now. Expect a long post, but hopefully, some entertaining, uplifting, and relate able things will have you nodding your head in understanding!!!

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY!!!

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5 Things that are making me FEEL GOOD today!

1.It SMELLS like SPRING! I know it's not here yet, but it's around the corner, and I just can't contain my excitement!

2. Yesterday, we went to Gardener Historic Village (An ADORABLE 'town' full of houses that are now shops, and it's very quaint, country, and chic) and ordered Lilly a new bed. It's very French Cottage Chic, and as soon as we receive it (In about 6-8 weeks, just in time for her birthday) I will take pictures!

3. My mom. My mom is the most supportive person in my life, aside from my husband. Basically, my mom just rocks, and that is ALL there is to it.

4. Spoons for Scarlet has been doing wonderfully! I have sold many spoons and we are well on our way to helping out all the sweet babies of Primary Children's Medical Center! Please, PLEASE visit our site, read Scarlet's story, and help us help the children.

5. This blog was done on Thursday night! That means i have ALL day to spend with my beautiful children, and maybe get them to laugh for awhile. (Not like it's hard. They all have great (very strange, but great) senses of humor!)

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Dear Mail wo/man/UPS/Fed Ex guys

Whenever I see you, my heart becomes all a flutter. A package! How spectacular! Who doesn't LOVE a package!?

Yes, I usually ordered the thing myself, and it's usually for someone else, and then I went and forgot about it because I have three children and a blog that keep me so occupied, entertained and overwhelmed that I just don't think about much after it's been done, but what the heck. It's like Christmas.

Did you catch that part that said I have three children?

The thing about this is, you come to my door at around 2:30. And you ring the doorbell (despite the small taped note that asks 'please knock' and inevitably WAKE MY BABY!

Yes, I get a lot of junk mail. Yes, my mail box is small. It's not my fault. I didn't put it there, it came with the house. And yes, sometimes there is a car parked in front of it, but you can stop including a letter with my mail that says that there will be 'repercussions' if my vehicle isn't moved and situation rectified, because it isn't mine. MY car is the green mini-van with the butterfly decal in the corner. You don't see it? That's because it's parked in the GARAGE. The beat up old truck, car, or any number of otherwise clunky vehicles that may be in front of my mailbox today belongs to my next door neighbors (who have their own letter of intent coming, believe me!)


Lets think about this for a second, shall we? If you are going around a neighborhood to deliver things, two things will happen.

1. No one will be home because everyone is either at school or work.

2. Someone will be home, and they will open the door and take your trash.

If option #1 happens, you are going to be forced to shove all that extra mail into the tiny mailbox, even if you have to get OUT of your little car to do it because there is a car in the way (which would have been easier in the first place, wouldn't you think? Since you made your way up to my doorstep, which is quite a bit farther than my front curb.) OR you're going to have to leave the package on the doorstep.

If option #2 happens, it is likely one of two types of people.

A. The SAHM who is happily enjoying her day while her children are away at school.

or
B. The SAHM who WAS happily enjoying the very short time of day that her child/ren were napping because they are still young enough NOT to be at school, and because of YOU, her serenity is jarred, and they are now awake, and crying because they didn't get a full nap and are now cranky.

If A happens, all is well.

If B happens, well, all is well for YOU. But I am severely irritated.

I know. I don't have any answers or other options. You're doing your job. But do you HAVE to ring the doorbell? Would it KILL you to just knock (and I don't mean POUND) on the door, and if there is a quiet answer, as in, I whisper 'thank you', keep your voice down when you ask me to sign for something? If there is NO answer, don't knock again, just assume that I'm one of those option #1's.

Okay? Okay.

Signed


Severely Irritated.

For this weeks Feed Me Books Friday, I chose

I LOVE this book. My kids do too. It's about a little goat who is a 'picky' eater because he wants fruits and veggies and breads and fish instead of pants and shirts and tires and tin cans to eat.





When Gregory won't eat these things, his worried parents take him to see Dr. Ram, who tells them to teach him to eat everything a little at a time.




In the meantime, he learns to like it all.


My children LOVE this book, and they're not particularly picky eaters, but my son has a hard time eating some of his greens. (Broccoli and zucchini! Two of MY faves!) It's funny, because they watch him eat these things, thinking they're disgusting- you know, a shoe lace, a rubber shoe sole, and later tires, a barber pole and a half of a CAR!

They get it though. Try it. You might like it. It's not so bad.

Adorable pictures, great message, very entertaining.