Not Me Mondays

Welcome to "not me" Monday!! Please click on the button above to find out what everyone else is [not] doing!!

The week has actually been pretty tame! I don't have too many flaws to report, and my children were pretty decent as well. But still, you may enjoy the few 'not mes' I do have.

Last Tuesday, I did NOT break out one of the boxes of chocolates that my husband bought for my children, and eat the entire thing by myself. (Hey, Aunt Flow was in town, and demanded a chocolate sacrifice.)

I did NOT let Mahone run off and play while I finished his valentines for school because he was being a whiny pain in my neck.

Ever since Avatar reared it's promising head in preview on the silver screen, I have NOT been uninterested. Who cared if everyone I knew and their dog raved about how spectacular it was, and how it was the best movie ever MADE. I mean, just because my friends are jumping off a bridge....

On Saturday, which was NOT Brandon's and my only date so far this year, I did NOT announce with gusto that I would never see Avatar, because it looked ridiculous. Upon arriving at our little town's tiny theatre, we did NOT discover that Avatar was the only movie that hadn't started yet, and wasn't already 15 minutes into the film. I was NOT shamefully cranky about having to see it (or go home- which would suck considering it was only 7:30)

I did NOT cry when their tree was destroyed, and i did NOT thoroughly enjoy the movie that I was so keen on despising. (I AM GOING TO BUY IT THE DAY IT COMES OUT!!!- It seems that when my friends jump off a bridge, I join them. I mean, why not? I DO trust my friends entirely...)

Later on that night, I did NOT pretend that I was still on the rag so that I wouldn't have to put out in the name of 'Valentines day'.

I did NOT cry my eyes out at church when I found out that the relief society was asking for donations of new stuffed animals for children who needed rides in ambulances. I was NOT suddenly overwhelmed again by the thought that I could have lost Scarlet.

Sunday was, in fact, my mom's Chihuahua's first birthday, and she did NOT make her wear a tiny sombrero hat while we sang 'Happy Birthday dear Bronwen" to her majesty.



Scarlet did NOT leave a purple crayon in her pocket this week, which was NOT discovered in the dryer, melted all over all the clothes. Thank goodness for Zout, and the fact that it happened to be a washable Crayola crayon (Though, one would assume that since it was supposed to be washable, it wouldn't have gotten all over everything in the first place.)

Scarlet was NOT put on time out yesterday for yelling things at her brother like "Shush it, Mahoney!" and "Momma doesn't CARE, Mahoney!" and saying things to me like "Don't talk to me!"

Scarlet ALSO did NOT wake at 6 am, get out of bed to steal away her sleeping sister's beloved 'pink blanket' (which is actually a dull gray now) to taunt her with it, waking the entire house.




Also today, I am supposed to include my favorite quote. And OH, I COULD WRITE A BOOK! I love quotes. And I love many of them. For today, I'm going to choose one from a good, close friend of mine, Henry David Thoreau.

"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my
soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my
good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?"

Today, I remind myself not to be TOO responsible. Don't forget to laugh. Don't forget to play. Don't be too hard on my children, because they are, in fact, children.
Have a LOVELY Monday!!!