Too many pictures of child #1... and Rylie STILL gets the shaft!

Writers block is clouding my mind! Ahhhh! Today was another "run me into the ground" kind of day. The last week of school means many-many parties, farewells, making of gifts and cards and on and on..... times 3!!!!!

I'm a beat down Momma! I started remembering when the girls all started school and how I have changed in my routine.

With Bryanna I would search her backpack after school. Take out all the trash and graded papers and read EVERY notice that came home. With Lauren, I would tell her to clean out her backpack, remind her to put her papers away, and ask her if there were any notices for me. With Rylie, well, Rylie has a backpack full of snack wrappers, graded papers, school notices and some of her sisters valuables too. Now I find out the day before the event or the day of. Ugh!

It all started when we found 25, 563 pictures of Bryanna. Then we looked for Laurens and found 427 pictures of her. Rylie has only 3 pictures and one of them was given to me by another parent! Okay, I exaggerated a bit... Lauren did NOT have that many. My point is this.... as we add more pairs of dirty little feet to the craziness that we call "life", we tend to loosen up a bit on the "Psycho Mom that does everything perfect" role. We no longer call our kids sweetie and honey in the grocery store when they are acting like little animals. We smile, get down to their level and threaten to sell their toys if they don't behave!! My girls love to be independent. Personally I love it too! I don't so much care that my 5 year old would like to wear her dress shoes to the softball game because they are "pretty". I allow them to dress themselves even if they don't match. And if my girls want to go out with bedhead, well really... who is going to care?When Bryanna was little, she never made it out of the house without her hair combed so tight she could barely blink. Lauren's hair was cut short for minimum up-do... Rylie, well..we all know Rylie gets the shaft! Just Kidding! I do her hair. I guess there are some thing that we still do the same. So the routines haven't completely gone out the window I guess.
So today's post I guess is just a little of everything in my bowl of 'chaos soup'. I'd give you a spoon, but the girls keep taking them out to the garden and losing them. I expect one day someone is going to dig up the backyard for some reason and find 100 spoons deep in the ground. Ha! Hopefully they like soup.
Huh, imagine that... the block is gone. Hmmm. Good deal!