Mad Cracking Skills

I was in the kitchen and decided to brag a little bit about my ability to crack an egg one handed. I got Jordan's attention and told her to watch my mad skills as I cracked the egg. Since she was sitting at the table, I held the bowl in one hand, and tapped the egg on the counter then turned toward her so she could see me in all my glory. I cracked the egg into the bowl, voila...and then lost my grip on the bowl and dropped it upside down on to the floor! The egg seemed to move in slow motion as it slid down the side of the bowl onto the floor. I don't think she was impressed.

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I was eating a Reese's peanut butter cup the other day when I opened it and it had two wrappers on it. I love that! It's like the manufacturers are making sure my cup is extra protected. The only other thing better than the double wrapper on the Reese's cup is opening Rolo's and having them be butt to butt to look like a barrel. When I was a kid, that was my favorite! I used to save those and eat them last...okay, I still do. They are special. I like to eat the special ones last and will get secretly disappointed when the barrel breaks before I'm ready to eat it.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Creature of Habit

I was a little out of it today and needed some Advil. I was talking to Jordan and went to the cupboard to take the Advil. About an hour later I'm wondering when my Advil is going to kick in when I realize, I walked to the cupboard and absentmindedly took one of my allergy pills! Every morning I get up and feed the cats then pour myself a cup of water and take an allergy pill. Out of habit I just grabbed the allergy pills and took one. I burst out laughing when I realized what I did. Which was even more bizarre because I was in the shower. LOL!

Muggles at Midnight

Last night the kids wanted to go to the midnight showing of Harry Potter so I'm sleepy mom today. I broke tradition of seeing the movie on opening day with them last summer because they were in Oregon. I was really sad about it then, but it worked out in my favor because I got to sleep last night. It was interrupted when I got a phone call to come pick them up at 2:45 in the morning. And my phone rang so loudly next to my head that it scared the bajeebers out of me! I think I may have even squealed a little bit when it rang! I had a hard time falling back to sleep once we got back home though.

The kids said it was the best one yet. Glad it was worth it. Especially since Dev still went to school on time and Jord had to work the morning shift. I love it when they willingly torture themselves. It makes my job just that much easier. :)

I'm a mechanic

Okay, not really but I now know how to do install new brakes on my car. Yay me! Watch out I might be walking around with grease under my nails. So my brake installation skills have nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that my car has been deemed one of the easiest cars to put brakes on...NOTHING WHATSOEVER!!! I've just got skills. Major skills.

Today was a good day. Jordan and I went to the mall, we both found clothes, and neither of us ended up snapping at each other, loosing our patience, or getting angry. Success!

Happy Election Day

Hope you all had a great day voting. My son was off school so he was happy. My sweet daughter had to work.

Jordan is mad at the cats right now too. She put together a care package for her best friend and had a card sitting on top of the box. She left it on the floor for me to mail and the cats knocked the card off the box. Then the boy cat got upset and threw up on the card. Twice.

I realized the other day that I really like that my kids are just slightly odd. They are so interesting and fun and have such great personalities. They both laughed when I told them this and we had this amusing and animated conversation about it. My son gave me the example of him having a similar conversation with one of the band dads. Dev was telling him how when the kids were little and a light bulb would burn out we would paper mache it and turn it into maracas. The guy just laughed. The kids have a brain and can think for themselves and best of all, they think outside the box. I'm glad the kids like it too. They are glad they aren't like everyone else. It's fun to watch them embrace the crazy I have so easily passed on.