And so it goes...

My baby's growing up.

Yesterday I had to buy him size 1 tennis shoes. That's too big.

And today -

Oh Frabjous day! Calloo! Callay! She chortled in her joy!

• Bullets, bullets everywhere - and nary a drop to drink.
• I am keeping with the bullets. They make for a quick post and need not be cohesive thoughts.
• I got a new dishwasher today! (Albeit a luxury, I am riding this one out like a long waged battle won.)
• My kids are sick again - Can I just change my blog name from "Beautiful Chaos" to "My kids are sick again? " I think that header makes us come full circle...
• I am not sure what I can be for Halloween. We are supposed to dress up at work - but I don't intend to spend a dollar toward a costume. I wonder if I can pull off "DIVA" or maybe "Drama Queen" for Halloween...
• I wouldn't even have to dress up. - (That truth deserves its' own bullet.)
• Seph - I chose not to post your comment. I was being a thoughtful person - and in my thoughtfulness I wondered if you meant for me to actually post it... I thought I'd err on the side of caution for once!
• My old dishwasher is free to any poor soul who thinks they might like a dishwasher that has been recalled due to fire risk. Any takers?
• I need to have an "If you will come take this stuff - I won't even have to have a garage sale" Sale. Does anyone want a somewhat intact elliptical machine or a stationary bicycle for FREE? The elliptical has all its parts - it just got retired during a phase of apartness - and has really truly almost NEVER been used. Free. Please be interested.
• The entry way in my house is a little over half painted. Do you know what the hottest thing ever is? Coming home from work and finding your husband painting the entry way you thought you were gonna have to paint tonight... In true Paris style, "That's HOT!"
• Wallpaper Peelers Beware: I have entered into Wallpaper Peeling Hell. The country-blue-ribbons-draped-between-mauve-roses border in my bathroom is making me wish I could pretend to like country-blue-ribbons-draped-between-mauve-roses border. Alas, I cannot! I hate wallpaper. It IS the Jabberwock.
• La, did you notice my amazing use of the word "alas" in that last bullet? Or were you overtaken by my double reference to "The Jabberwocky" in my blog?
• I thought you'd be proud. We are so vocabulous!! That's a made-up word. Try to figure it out. It's vocabulary and fabulous smoosched together = vocabulous.
• You're such a code-breaker!
• "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" = Wallpaper
• I have been fantasizing and dreaming like a little school girl about our future. I haven't done that in years! I remember playing MASH and really getting giddy with excitement about what the future held when I was a little girl. It has been a long time since I was THIS excited about anything. I really believe that God is going before us and making a way - now more than ever. I have faith that things are falling exactly into place, at long last, and I am giddy with romantical ideas about our new life!
• If you are reading that last bullet-point and feel like you have been left out of the loop, you haven't. Not much has changed yet. Nothing really. I just know that things are about to get way, way better. So way better. I am stoked!!
• Thanks for letting me unload my 18 bullets on you.

Not much for Blogging

So here's the thing.

I don't feel like blogging.
I am having a hard time collecting my thoughts lately.

There are lots of insignificant things and some very significant things going on.

• My Mimi (Mom's Mom) is in the hospital. That's where I was last weekend - visiting her in Lubbock. She's very sick. She had surgery this morning and I am waiting to hear how that went. I have been praying for her. For my mom. For my aunts and uncles. She has such a bad infection that they have already used the strongest antibiotic there is and have not yet controlled the infection. The only choice they had left was surgery but the doctors weren't sure it was a good idea considering her condition. Please pray.
• Insignificant things? Still no change on the job front. I got another certification which should increase the odds of me finding a job. Chris filled out an application! That's a pretty big deal. He also is meeting with a gentleman tonight who might be able to help him in the effort of getting a new job. If that sounds sketchy, I'm sorry - It's all I've got right now. Really. You know I have no secrets. That's all I've got.
• I am excited and hopeful about the next few months - although I know they will come with their share of trials - I look forward to seeing the end result. I know God is preparing a way for us.
• We got pictures with Jenny last week? I can't remember when it was, but we did get pictures. I am sure they are great! She's been waiting on me not to be flaky and bring her a song to put with the slideshow... Sorry - I'm a total flakeout right now!
• Christal scheduled a music practice and I forgot about it. Can somebody tell her I'm flaky?!?! I was so engaged in worrying about my Grandmother in the hospital - I forgot about it and left town... Sorry - I promise not to completely leave you high and dry again!
• One of my students is going to be Booperman for Halloween. I smile every time I think about that. (It's really Superman - but he doesn't say "s"quite right.)
• Fall has fallen. I love it!
• I hit a pole with my van last weekend. It was almost as if I thought my van would bend in the middle as I stealthily turned around this pole. It was 'stealthily' until I heard the screeching sounds. So not cool. That's what 1999 Ford Windstars are for - looking deluxe and dented...
• I voted today. Can I get a WHOOP, WHOOP?!

Yearning for Conversations with multi-syllabic words...

Hello?
Is anyone out there?

I feel like I have been marooned on an island with nothing but preschoolers anywhere in sight.

Poor (whoever I happen to run into next), they are never going to get rid of me. I must have adult stimulus - and QUICK!

Maybe I should say something horrifying, or at least wickedly offensive to see if anyone's there...

Now there's a thought...

Another Unforgettable Moment.

Today is a day that I want to remember forever.
I started thinking about this time last year today. One year plus one day ago this happened.

And today, another very important first.

He lost his very first tooth.

It was so wiggly last week, I thought for sure it'd be out before the end of the weekend.
Plus, he really wanted to take it to school for his turn at Show and Share on Monday...

But the end of the weekend came, and still no tooth.

If only he had fallen face first into the couch on Sunday...
He was so surprised that his tooth came out so easily and "it didn't even hurt."

It must be very frightening to be a little boy with a wiggly tooth, wondering what it's gonna be like to lose it.

It seems just like yesterday that I would let him chomp on my finger and drool down my forearm trying to alleviate the discomfort of teething. That very tooth. How many more "just yesterdays" will we have together? Many, many more.

Afterwards, he acted like he had been doing this 'tooth losin' thing forever.
Now he's sleeping with his tooth tucked snugly in his tooth fairy pillow. How cute!
Before he drifted off to sleep, he accused me of being the tooth fairy. I just don't know what to think about that!!

Kimmie D!!

I am locked out of your blog - you little stinker!!

Luckily, we don't live close enough to each other for me to come over and get you!

Can I please get back in?

Pretty please?!?!?!?

Studying.

Studying is a work of the devil.

Rationale?

Everyone knows it is impossible to study without mindlessly snacking.

Snacking leads to gluttony, and that is why studying is the direct catalyst to my sin.

I guess in order to avoid all appearance of evil, I will stop studying.

Finito.

Normally.

Normally when I drink coffee after 10pm, I can still go to sleep.

Normally.

Fragments.

Sick little girl.
No church tomorrow.
Tired of having sick babies.
Might come anyway and make her sit in sanctuary with me.

Cowboys play tomorrow.
Super stoked!

Taking another Certification Exam on Monday.
So not ready.

Sister in town.
Everybody oughtta have a sister.
I'm sorry Avery - no sister for you...

God is taking care of us.
I believe that.
I know that.

I am impatient.
With God.
With me.
With everything.

Can't wait to see Jenny's website when our pics are up.
Hopefully we aren't 'that family who picked their noses, wedgies, etc.' in all the shots.
Did you know that Sprinkle of Grace's acronym is SOG?
That's funny.

What's in a name?

This evening, Chris and I were engaged in some playful banter, trying to outwit the other one.
It was going so well for me, I was sure I had just dealt the final witty blow when his retort rang through the house with the finality that neither I, nor he, expected.

These words, which were originally intended to admit defeat, as he acknowledged my victory, set our home ablaze with questions of inference or double-entendre.

He said these words ladies: "Ok, Smarty McLardy-pants, you win."

Only I so did not win. Not with a quip like that one.

We often say things similar to this (in structure) in our home. Things like, Bonnie McBonnertons, Hungry McHungryface, etc. But NEVER has anyone ever stooped to Smarty McLardy-pants.

Is there anything worse for a husband to call his wife?

So now the question: "Does my butt look big in this?" or "Can you tell just by looking that I have gained weight?"
Or any of the various and sundry weight-related questions a woman might ask her husband have forever been tainted in our union by the utterance of this new and awful nickname:
Smarty McLardy-pants.

For what it's worth, he denies any underlying meaning to this new nickname, he merely chalked it up to 'something that rhymed with smarty.'
He even laboriously re-articulated it saying, "NO, I said 'Smarty McLar-T-pants."
But you all know better, ladies...

How convenient! It's like we have a new super-race of men who can stealthily win 'clever wars' with unintentional insults!!

Don't worry - I already forgave him. And to prove it - I even set up a spot for him on the couch, pillow and all...

;)