"Vogue" Girl

This weather is driving me nuts. I want some warmer weather so I can take the kids out and do new photos. Dragged C out in the cold and the snow, bribing her with 'the coat' {a family heirloom}. She is such a model...

Peed myself laughing

I just have to share. I came across this blog via my fav. Catherine Newman's writing. A post called
And the Awards Go To... Oh my. I was laughing so hard the tears were running down my face. Bad parenting at it's finest.

Shall we get into how my dear {nearly 5 yr old} was playing a game on Noggin online the other day and from no where I hear, "oh, it's those damned eggs!" I ask her what she said, and she repeats it! I'm trying SO hard to not laugh. She defends herself "well, they are damned eggs".

Which is worse... that she said it, or that I could not control myself and ended up doubled over in laughter... She is my kid.

Apparently, at the lovely young age of 3-ish, I had an intense fear/loathing of dogs. {still not crazy about the, except for my dear moose-butt labs} The neighbor's dog came over and jumped on me. My mother told me to push it away with my knee. Didn't work. So, out of my sweet toddler mouth came "Damned fucking dog." So I know. I am prepared. I try very hard not to swear in front of the kids - NEVER the f-bomb {or as C calls it 'the mother of them all' from Christmas Story}. Guess damn or dammit is big for me. Ah well. I felt better when I found out that the sweet, similarly-aged daughter of the dance teacher called someone a "dumb ass" the other day.

Slackin' off...

Another busy busy month. The girls had their dance recital, and we were juggling extra practices with 3-night a week b-ball and now Girl Scouts {it's cookie time, you know}. Ahhhhhh. But b-ball is done now. Tues. should have been their last game, but the weather turned and they got kicked out of school early and of course, all extra activities were cancelled. We started off today with just a delay, but after I kicked poor C's butt out the door to go to the bus, we got the automated call... "Hi. This is so and so from S School Dist. with and update. School is now canceled." Great. Couldn't have decided that 10 minutes ago, right? Before I sent the poor kid out into the icy rain... So off to the truck I dash and catch her at the top of the hill. We slide back home {4wd only does so much} and while I'm totally annoyed with the school, I'm super glad I got her and we're home safe.

Tomorrow is Valentine's day, and she'll be unbelievably pissed if she doesn't have school. We made a batch of yummy cookies for her to take to school. She's got a really small class this year - only 16 - so a nice, big cookie for each in addition to some Kisses in bags. I should take a picture. This is what the cookies look like. Made a test batch the other night. SHHHH. Don't tell the kids they're oatmeal with some awesome King Arthur White Whole Wheat flour in them.