times two

Since this blog is specifically about being a Mom and the trials and joys that come along with it, I must say that I need to update the title to My days being a Mamma, times two.


Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that you'll all be with your family and friends and enjoying some yummy Thanksgiving food today.

Little boys + dirt = fun

Benjamin had a great day in preschool today! Yay! He didn't look like he had been crying for three hours straight when I picked him up. Yay! These are good things. He looked so adorable and I wish I had a good picture to show you, but the only one I have is one taken from my cellphone and he was running while it was taken. He had his little backpack on and he was carrying his lunchbox in his hand. He looked like a tiny little Kindergarten student. We were walking out to the car and the ground was a bit soggy and full of mud puddles. There is one mud puddle there that is particularly large and the school has attempted to fix it a number of times, but the rain keeps restricting their progress. It was completely full of water and Benjamin sees it, forgets that it is about thigh high deep on him, and goes running for it. Meanwhile, I'm screaming "NOOO", but it's too late... he plunges face forward in this puddle mainly because his hands are otherwise occupied by aforementioned backpack and lunchbox. I get over in front of him and he looks up at me and starts to cry and I bust out laughing and he starts smiling... mud in his teeth and all. I wish I had a picture of that.

Little Miracle November 1

So many of you know from my facebook post that Benjamin was horrible Halloween afternoon/evening. The weather didn't exactly cooperate, so we had to change his costume around to a dinosaur who lives in the tropics (hah to my friend Raven) from just a regular dinosaur who lives elsewhere. (Where did they live, anyway?) So he had green shorts and a green shirt with scales that were made out of felt and a tail that was oh so adorable... and shoe coverings that I actually took the time to sew toenails on. Okay, well, I didn't exactly sew them on, I just used stitch witchery. Still, there was an effort made. :) So I put the costume on him and he went hysterical. He wanted absolutely nothing to do with those scales and literally ripped them off his shirt. I'm pretty sure he'd have gone for the scales on the shorts, but I saved them before the complete massacre could occur. I figure somebody can wear it sometime. Maybe he'll wear it for dress up one day.

So I had to sit and breathe and try not to get upset. Meanwhile, Warren was off getting candy for him because I had forgotten that Benjamin wouldn't actually be able to eat any of the candy that was given to him. Well, unless they gave him skittles or something like that, but I didn't want to take any chances of him not being able to eat any of it. He rarely gets candy. We still had Easter skittles in the pantry that I just threw last week. It had occurred to me much later that he really did do me a favor by not wanting to go out. He was sooo excited to see all the little kids come to the door dressed up. He particularly liked the little girls dressed as fairies. I think he thought that were actual fairies and that they were coming to see him specifically...and he had the most precious smile on his face. I'm not sure that he would have enjoyed them as much if we had been out walking around. So that sweet smile made up for the dinosaur massacre.