AWWW... Found this old one in my Archives... When Rylie started Kindergarten last year!!

Hey, I kinda like being able to come in here and just write. So..this was the second week of school for the girls. Rylie started Kindergarten this year. I seriously believe whole heartedly that the 3rd kid gets the shaft! When Bryanna started, I was weepy and excited. I was nervous and weepy. I was weepy! I hugged her before school and after school like I was sending her to an orphanage or something. I never wanted to let her go.
Lauren... I was less weepy and more excited for myself and welcomed a bit of life on a schedule. I gave less of the Please don't leave me hugs and gave more of the I am really going to miss you now hurry and get your back pack hugs.
With Rylie,I really wasn't weepy at all. Excited... yeah, but more so because I didn't have to drive across town and drop her off anymore. The hugs I gave her on the first day were, I am going to miss you and thank you for finally being in school now RUN or you will miss the bus.
A thought crossed my mind as I am typing this... if you don't know my sense of humor you are probably putting your hand over your mouth and gasping at the horrible mother I am. If you do know me, well then you totally picturing Rylie running for the bus with her way too big backpack, pig tails flying through the air, with Bryanna and Lauren trying to hold on to her hands and avoid mailboxes at the same time. All the while I sit there laughing that I actually sent them 15 minutes before the bus.Okay, I am done for today. Stay tuned... and don't take me so seriously. My house is wonderfully chaotic.

But Mmmmoooooommmmm everyone else has one!!!

The oomph was knocked out of my sail by 6 grubby hands and 3 perfect smiles!! Sometimes a day will come that starts with so much energy, you feel the downfall almost immediately. Today was a special day in our household. Bryanna, my 12 year old, got a cell phone. Yes... I know... seems a little late these days, but hey... I told her she wasn't going to get one until she was 16. I caved.. i cracked... i gave in ... and what kind of mother does that make me anyway???? THE COOLEST EVER!!! OH YEAH! OH YEAH! OH YEAH!
Okay, maybe not THAT cool. I WAS in fact the last mother on earth to get a phone for her daughter you know. What? You didn't know? WoW! I was tricked! So I have been hearing the complaints and the "this and that" about why i should get her a phone. I have actually been hearing this since i think she was in the 2nd grade to be quite honest with you. I had to listen to the "but mom... so and so has had a phone for this amount of time and why can't I have one because i think i am passed the age where i should have gotten one and is it because you don't trust me because i will be soooooooo good and i will do EVERYTHING you say and i won't ask for anything else as long as i live". (yes... that is exactly how i heard it too) So I broke down, I did it... all the way home I laid down the rules that would be thrown out the princess diva Bryanna's window the moment we got home! UGH! I have threatened to take it away more than half a dozen times already. I am trying to remember what it is like to be her age.... and OH MY GOSH I have to do this 2 more times!! I just opened a box of insanity and there is NO prize at the bottom! Oh wait..... lookie here... it's a box of Insanity with marshmallow chaos in it! Awwwww... and I thought there wouldn't be a surprise! So wrong! I'm sliding down.... here comes the crash... wait for it... wait for it......