The Puddles

Mom saw my blog and let me know that in 1970 the checklist was similar but for her generation it was . . .

• buy a house
• buy a station wagon
• own a dog
• have children

But so much was similar.  I am just glad to know that I made the list!!  Oh what a different time that was! Nothing has changed but everything has changed.

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I missed Ben and Madie’s  games today.  I had other obligations and I truly missed my babies today.  They had so much fun.

Thank you, Uncle David for taking pictures!!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/david91973/sets/72157623702590357/show/with/4509300048/

Thank you, Daddy for making a video!!!!

My mommy guilt is eating at me a little bit, but my children were in good hands.  Papa Grace came up in the hoopty car (a.k.a. blue corvette) and took Madie to the game.  Uncle David,Aunt Debra, and Gordon were also part of the cheering section for Ben and Madie.  It was awesome.  My kids were so well taken care of.  Madie got to play goalie today and Ben played catcher and he hit a ball.  It was a good day.  I feel terrible about not being here.  I was coming home and on my way out when I talked to Chris who tells me not to come home.  Not come home?  He says take your time.  “The kids are just watching a movie,” he says.  “The games are over. So just drive around.”  He thought I would be gone longer and would have more time for myself before coming home.  Awesome that I have a husband who wants to give me time for myself (even if he can’t do it very often).  So I took a slow route home.  Scouting places to take the kids tomorrow for bluebonnet photos.  Oh, my!  I can’t wait.  I enjoyed looking at all of the beautiful scenery, but it made for a lonely day without the joyful voices of my children arguing in the back seat.  It was time to go home.  So I stopped by church to pick up my Sunday school material for tomorrow and headed home to a glorious welcome from my four amigos.  I love them.  I am glad to be home.

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Ainsley looked adorable.  She and Madie insisted that she wore her Nebraska shirt to the practice (Madie wanted everyone to know that Ainsley is a cornhusker).  She was cute!!!  She is on the Dynamos!  I was late to the practice (Daddy took her on time).  When I came up to the field, I thought that she was playing goalie.  No.  She was just standing there looking at all of the kids kick balls around.  She kept turning around to Chris and I with her hands on her hips and this look on her face “what the h— are these people doing?”  It was hilarious.  There was much emotion involved.  Poor baby.  But she was adorable while doing it!!!!

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First time in Texas we have the egg hunt and Easter dinner at our house.  Awesome.  Nice. Relaxing. It took a week to finally put everything away.

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Ben is going after those eggs

Ainsley's egg hunt

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Email from me to my sister that Ainsley’s soccer game is only a practice.  They had planned on coming to Ainsley’s first game:

I called the Y and tonight is practice eventhough the schedule says that there is a game!!! Sorry.

Email from Deb:    David is going to be sooooooooooooooooooooo disappointed.  He was so excited about seeing Ainsley play tonight.  BUMMER!

Kath:    You can still come and watch her play but there is just no game.  I am so sorry. I didn’t know.  I called the Y to find out what color she was so that I could buy a bow for her hair and I found out.  Sorry!

Deb:     Only you would go and buy a BOW for Ainsley for her soccer game. She has you wrapped.  I’m laughing you do know that right?  A bow?

Kath:   My baby has to look adorable!!!!!!

Deb: Dork.

David:  I’m heart broken. I can’t go on. I had my camera packed and ready to go.I’m crying at work. My co-workers are asking what’s wrong. I had to tell them my dog died so they wouldn’t laugh at me for the real reason I am crying.

Debra:  See, I told you Kath.  David is sad.  Real sad.  and to think you were worried about a bow. :o(  Now I have to worry about a crying husband.

Kath:  You all are pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!

Deb:  I’m not the one who wanted to buy a BOW for a SOCCER game!! ;o)

Kath:  Won’t she look cute??!!!  Do you know how hard I had to look for cute little cleats for her?  Why do I work so hard if I can’t buy cleats and adorable bows?!!!  At this age, it is all about the look and not about the game.  This will not be a nail biter for sure.

Deb:  She is your little princess that’s for sure.  No doubt about it.  And little princess soccer players should have matching cleats and bows.  Don’t forget the little string for their sleeves.  You must tie them up with ribbon so her little arms don’t get too hot.

Kath:  I forgot the sleeve ribbons!!!! Thank you.  Now my baby will be perfect.

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For the first time ever, all three of my children will be fully engulfed in the world of sports.  The girls are playing soccer and Ben is in baseball.  It has been so much fun to see them get out there and play.  The best moment so far was today when I finally found a pair of soccer cleats for Ainsley (she needed a size 9 toddlers.  Very hard to find.)  She put them on and proceeded to run up and down the halls of church.  “Look, Mommy!  I can run like the wind now!”  And zoom . . . she’s off.  Cute as a button.

So I’ve got my checklist (mentally) of all the things I wanted to accomplish when I grew up . . .

1. own a minivan  √
2. enroll my children in enriching activities  √
3. raise three wonderful children √

I never knew that my list would really look like this . . .

1. own a minivan full of junk (most of which is disgusting but the stuff on the floor alone could feed us for a full week if we were ever stranded in the desert)       √
2. sign my children up for so many activities that I wind up driving insanely from one event to the other hoping that I have remembered everything that they are suppose to bring to the event      √
3. be a mother to three funny (even when they don’t mean to be) mismatched (at least the clothes are clean) sometimes well-behaved (other people assure me that my kids do behave when I am not around.  Geez, I hope those people are not being sarcastic. I don’t always recognize sarcasm.)  children who bring great joy to my life and fill my soul with overflowing love √√√√√√√√√√√√√

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The sugar high from the weekend has finally started to come down.  The children are definitely in withdrawals right now.  Wow.  Even I am shocked by the ferocity of the “moments” that they are having.  Madie told me that all they EVER do is clean.  Her life is terrible.  Ben chose the best path and stayed quiet after lamenting about how he was STARVING.  Poor guy.  I told him that I would fix whatever he wanted when we got home, but then he cried because he couldn’t decide what to make.  Sweet Ainsley got in the car quickly after her teacher told me that Ainsley keeps writing her name backwards for the last three weeks.  When we asked her why, she said that she just liked to write it that way.  It was pretty.  Good grief!  Quite the threesome I got.  I fixed a snack and quickly ran into the office and shut the door.  Soon I must go out and tell them to get to work and finish their homework, clean their rooms, and eat their dinner.  The illusion of my current peace and quiet soon must end.

But wait. . . there are a small pair of eyes peering at me from behind the office door.  She is sweetly calling out to me for some milk.  It is good that she is reminding me about the joys of motherhood too!  Her timing is perfect along with her sweet smile.  I do truly love my bunch of hooligans!

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