I deserve this??

Guess where I was from Wed- Sunday???   Give up?  VACATION!!!!
M's company sends all of its employees that have worked for them for 10 years on an all expense paid vacation to Amelia Island.  This year is also M and I- 10 year aniversary.  I really enjoy that we took a trip together and someone else paid for it!

We took the girls with us and they got to spend some wonderful, quality time with their aunt, uncle and cousins. (They live 30 minutes from where we had vacationed)  now back to our trip.  :)

This resort was amazing.  Here was my Saturday......
and a picture of where we were

wake up....
sit on the beach and quietly read....
head to a massage at noon...
.lunch at the bar.....
back to the beach.....
(insert a few drinks with umbrellas)
out for dinner with wonderful new friends
out to the bars after.
sigh.....

Really????

Not once did I make a meal or have anyone wipe a booger on me declaring "mommy- I done with this"


I am back to reality and recharged.  I lost my charge momentarily on the plane as holding my 2 year old was an actual aerobic workout....but we are getting back in the groove and coming down from our vacation high.
J has her last week of school and her big audition.  She is getting excited!!!  I am back to boogerland and ready to face the snot and applesauce with a smile on my face! Summertime....here we come!

Blessings-
Lindsay

Lights...Camera.....gulp.

My 7 year old, J, has been singing since she could talk. Really.  Those that know her will tell you this is true.  I had a preschool teacher tell me once that she could never watch the movie Annie again because she had heard J sing it so much. :)

A few weeks ago we went out to breakfast and J saw a poster for an American Idol contest for our town and just LIT UP.  Can I do that mom??????  I told her I would look up more info when we got home.  I looked it up and there was a 12 and under catagory....sigh.   Now let me just say  I want what is best for my kids.....BUT I am not the mom that will be spray tanning my gals and looking into getting them veneers.
so....
I talked to her music teacher (who has approached me before about Julia and her singing) she said that it would be a great fit for her....sigh.   :) OK so J is signed up to audition.  There will be judges and then possibly moving on to the "next round" where she would perform at our towns 4th of July festival. 
No matter how this works out, she will learn something.  She will learn how auditions work and she might learn how to be  "gracefully disappointed."  Either way she is going to have a mom cheering her on, and most likely sweating thru her shirt!   

I will keep you posted on how this all works out....should be fun! 

So much to say.....

Guess what.....

RHINO BUTT! 

What does this mean?  

The Clark girls went to the zoo!!! OMG we had so much fun.  We did everything there. My 2 year old walked without her stroller from 9:30-3:30! What a trooper! Both girls got to feed giraffes. L has talked of nothing else. She tells strangers about it! It usually end with her screaming  "I DID IT!!!!"

 Here was our view while feeding the giraffes....FOR REAL!

Here are my monkeys waiting for the train....

and just being friggin' adorable.....

NEW TOPIC!!!!

Sometimes as a mom I feel like....REALLY PEOPLE? How do you do it all?

I understand as a christian and a generally decent person, I do NOT need to compare myself to others. BUT sometimes I do.   I will explain. I am currently addicted to craft blogs.  If you don't know what I am talking about....good for you (although I have learned ALOT). 

 While reading these blogs I see that some of these moms have 2 or 3 small children AND do all these crafty things.  I am a crafty gal....but alas no time to do it!  I understand that in a few years I will have SO much time to work on art...possibly professionally (my hope).  Instead of being jealous that these moms can do everything. I have decided to focus on what I do.  

Today L told me that she was not going to lick our dog.  Great idea!

I went to Meijer and Target...noticing after that I had applesauce all over my sleeve.

I talked L of the ledge of a MAJOR fit...when she saw a ruffled pink swimsuit that she was convinced was hers.

I took the time to take this picture of L before we left. 

 I will explain first....she took her sisters headband and grabbed her crucifix (J got this from sunday school for learning all her memory verses) out of her sunday school bag.  This results in a picture that looks like an angry jazzercise teacher heading out to save the world.  see...

Last night J woke up 2 hours after going to bed and wanted to talk.  Sure...sometimes the best time to talk!  She sat down and told me (in a very serious tone)  that she was pretty sure that she was the 3rd shortest kid in the 1st grade.  I asked her how she figured that out.  She named 2 kids that she has noticed were shorter than her  (she added that she was not making fun of them) :)   She also pointed out all the stools in our house have the word baby on them then "mom, sometimes you just can't reach something...this does not mean you are a baby"   then promptly went back to bed.  :)

J has a habit of drawing on EVERYTHING! Yesterday my grocery list had a heart on it with the word "happy" in the middle.  I noticed this on the MILK this morning!!! (don't worry I picked up more milk at Target!)

So my point is.... I have not made homemade bread or homemade ribbons....or even showered.

but....my kids are funny and happy and that is what counts.  When the bus pulls away with L on it (in a few years) I will make a million bows and loaves of bread...but until then I will take my life and love it!!

BLESSINGS TO YOU!