I thought it was a given....

I heard an interesting radio talk show this morning that has me some what irritated. For real some people really don't pull over on the side of the road for an ambulance, firetruck, and a funeral procession. Are you kidding me.. where I come from that is a given part of life. I am in awww that people really wouldn't do this as a second nature. Have we as a society really gotten that far? To have absolutely NO respect for the dead and their grieving families to pull over in a moment of silence to respect them and thank god for yet another day? Have we really gotten so selfish to not get the hell out of the road and give that ambulance and firetruck every second they can get to possibly save a dieing person. I know I come from a small town in the REAL south and that is what we do..but for gods sake people...slow down and show some respect. I keep saying what comes around goes around and boy are you going to have to answer some day. not sure but for some reason this really just URKS me to no end makes me want to take it in my own hands and start ramming people off the road and hold them down and slap em a few times..you know like an old fashion ass whoopin..LOL think it would work?

Then & Now

Someone took a picture of my hubby and I over the weekend normally the only ones we have are professionally done... LOL. Amazing just what a few years can do to ya.. sheeww I look like an old tired Momma ;0)

My boyyzzzzz

Help me understand....

Most of you who know me know I come from a pretty simple and realistic life style. So being in the "big" city and now having children of my own, I find myself standing and scratching my head saying REALLY?? I know at the end of the day we all want the best for our children and we all have different ways of getting there BUT I think we all would agree in one aspect or another some parents are over the top and not even teaching one lick of anything but spoiled ass kid. We all know what that leads too. Right?? Like kids aren't hard enough to raise and raise right... I think some parents forget that it is a reflection of themselves up until a certain age then they are all on their own. ;0)

So on with my story.. studies show that the average child never has a memory of anything until around the age of 5. There is what they call emotional memory and factual memory 2 completely different things. Emotional memory can be as young as 2 but that is for like the abused kids or something traumatic. So most of us mommies deal with factual memory that is around the age of 5. So why is it you would spend hundreds of dollars to take a child to Disney world at the age of 3 when you know they aren't going to remember it... seems like it is more for the parents benefit. I have taken my oldest to several birthday parties the last few months and I am in Awwww of the things these parents are pulling. I mean really a live petting zoo for a 3 year old... come on. I guess it is ok if you have the money and you can do all of that but I think the more important thing here to call out is.. most of us don't care how much money you have or don't have. The bottom line is what you are setting your child up for later in life. Cause as far as I am concerned you are raising one of those "shit" kids you see in the stores and around town with no manners at all and honestly thinks if you bat an eye you get whatever you want...really?? There IS such a thing as saying "NO" and it actually teaches the kids you can't have everything in life. I am just in aww how it is such a gimmie world these days and these kids know it. I was in the grocery store near Easter and heard this lady tell her little girl ,that was running around all over the check out area, after she ask for candy "no honey the Easter bunny is coming lets see what he brings you". Then of course my kid ask me the same question "mommy can I have some candy?" my answer right in front of that kid and her mommy was "no Cooper you are not getting candy it will make your teeth fall out" really you have to blame NO on the Easter bunny?? Come on lady tell your kid NO for gods sake don't give some half ass excuse to avoid a tantrum. Here is another example of parents just basically having a party for themselves.. we went to a one year old party a few weeks back. They had a bouquet of flowers on each table covered with linens. Hired a lady to come and sit with the kids in a circle and play music and sing to them. While they also had a wine bar set up for the BIG kids. I think it was nice and all but they spent a lot of money to impress those invited cause as stated before the kid was one and isn't going to remember a damn thing. I know it is to each their own and I hate explaining to my kid why so and so got a new bicycle cause they slept in their own bed and my kid gets a spanking if he gets out of his bed and no bribe of anything. That is the tough conversation and a lot of snot bubbles. I am sure it will get much harder as both my kids get older. Sure we could rush out and have all these things for our kids too but I just feel it sends the wrong message to the kids and you are just setting them up for a lot of failure later on in life. Maybe I am crazy or just a hard core mommy. Mean while I have said it before and I will say it again " no shit kids ... no shit kids" at least not mine as much as I can help it. Not sure where in life we took a turn and think it is acceptable for kids to talk back to the parents, or for the parents not to teach manners, and basic life skills. Either way kids are hard enough to raise this day in time and the parents are not helping by "giving" the so called silver spoon every day of their little life.

You can all thank me later that I helped our community out...and please do join me..... :0)

Judy Judy

Judy Judy finally got her hair..we have been waiting on her to grow her hair since Easter.. shewww. My oldest love these projects at our house... I mean we had Denny the dinasaur visiting for Christmas and now Judy Judy is going to hang out for a 3 year old birthday party. No telling who is visiting next or what their name might be...hehe fun times.!~

God is from Where??

Over the weekend I bought my oldest a few craw fish just to play with and thought what the heck no harm in that and probably a day or so of loaded fun. WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKIN??
A grown adult should have figured it out that
a. they are going to die
b. I have a damn 2 year old that knows NOTHING about death yet.. Well guess what poof you guessed it they died. Along with that here comes the conversation of "Why mommy? Why are they not biting?" so I explain well baby they don't live forever they went to see god...humm that was pretty good right? Nope not good enough for my 2 year old... "Why day go to see god? Me not like God...." so then I had to explain that God is a good guy and they went to live with him. Do you know where god lives? "Yeah mommy god wibes in Texas" oh great now I have a born and raised cocky ass Texan kid in my house. :0) so I had to explain that no he lives high high in the sky like above where the airplanes fly.. that seem to go over good. Then it was on to "if they went to visit god why are they still in the bowl?" umm yeah good question...then I got the "what is in the refridge to bring dem back?" so needless to say I had to get them gone and out of site... for heaven's sake all these questions. LOL it was a long afternoon of snot bubbles and talking. I think now he is ok with it.. at least I knew the c. answer by now .. no we can't just go get more at the HEB ..he never ask that nor did I just throw it out there to calm the situation.. I could see it now mommy so and so died can we go by a new one at HEB?? Yeah no... didn't even go there. Who would have thought a simple knee jerk purchase would have caused so much chaos..shewwwww

LOOK Out.... Martha is in da House!~

I have gone to several kids birthday parties and a few showers over the last few months and this seems to be the NEW rage. For the record, can I tell you some of these people are FLAT out of control with these kids birthday parties.. that is for a later blog.
So anyway if you know me very well you know I am NO COOK , NO BAKER..none of that I can't stand it. BUT now that I have kiddos I have to take on a few projects. Right? These marshmallows dipped in chocolate then into sugar sprinkles seem to be the next best thing to just giving your kid a straight pack of sugar. They sure do look cute...and the kids seem to love them ALOT.

Then there was the hand in there of the kiddo who couldn't wait to have one.... they are for sure the best sellers of the summer.

Bon Qui Qui

A friend of mine just introduced me to Bon Qui Qui this week and I just can't seem to quit laughin.. this girl is so funny and so many times I want to bust Bon Qui Qui on people...

Bon Qui Qui: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkdcYlOn5M
Nail salon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDJ-ZIvYy0

Enjoy!~

Tooo Nice

I have always been told there was such a thing as too nice and have seen it a few times in my life. I think it makes your heart smile when it comes from your kiddo...My oldest is right at the terrible 3's and in full force so one would wonder where NICE shows up HUH? We have lived in our neighborhood since he was born and he has all but taken up with our neighbor they were litarally not seperated until just this past year. They played outside together and went to the same daycare everyday. He still climbs to his slide to talk to her over the fence..soo freakin cute! She is a little girl who is older than him and plays with him when it is just she and him but of course when the big kids come around she carries on.. normal kid thing to do no time for the wittle kids. It doesn't even seem to phase my little guy... he still loves her all the same. So this weekend we had to go get new tennis shoes. I learned alot on this trip from the fact Sketchers are NOT tennis shoes they are Sketchers..marketing job well done my friends. Well back to the story.. our neighbor got new Sketchers with Princess on them...cause she LOVES princess he says and he picked them himself. Then we had to go to the toy store and guess what she got a new shovel too. Not really but he picked it up first and ask if he could buy this for OO-Weee-B-IA..I thought wow how sweet he thinks of his little girlfriend first and still neither get a thing from the store. Really you are going to buy with your own money, too. WooooWwzers!! I think this is awesome that he thinks so much of other people. He is always packing treats for his best bud at daycare, bringing me flowers. I think it is great but I can see now I am going to have to watch this little prince he looks like the kind that could get ran all over by little girls.

Such a little Gentleman

awww how my child is going to replace Romeo... chivalry is not dead as long as my kiddos are around. LOL. My oldest loves to pick me flowers and bring them to me and say "WUB you mommy" I thought this was just a way to go water plants with his dad at first but he even picks the plants at Lowe's I haven't had to buy a plant yet cause he is picking all the blooms off.... and even if I do it is ok. Here was my latest flower... and my oldest had to make sure they still had their smell... ahhh god love him!~

Ahh the Bluebonnets

Every year around this time the bluebonnets bloom in Texas and they are gorgeous. To those that aren't from here you would think it is the craziest thing you have ever seen... not the flowers! The damn Texans running and stopping all over the road to jump out and get pictures like they have never seen them before. People have been known to get killed cause they didn't pull off the road far enough. Over the weekend we noticed several people parking and jumping out in some really dangerous places. Either way we also snapped a few pictures but for sure not off the side of a road... just not worth it to me. You can't even tell it is raining huh?