Mardi Gras 2010

5 Mommas and 15 kids! Whew!

A few weekends ago, a couple of friends and I celebrated Mardi Gras together in Fairhope and Mobile. Fun times!! My older sister was out of town and needed me to keep two of her children for a few days. Since it was Mardi Gras Weekend, I took the opportunity to invite a few friends for a "get away." Except we didn't exactly "get away" from our "Motherly Duties"! Between the five of us, there were fifteen kids ( 6 of those were "mine" ). This little man below, my nephew, called his mom in desperation, "You've got to get home. Aunt Tiffany is taking over the house!"

The girls had a great time together!

The boys were entertained by this "nice young lady" (?) in the furry green hat.

I ran straight into my Aunt and her husband. I don't get to see her very often, but because of the blog, she was able to recognize the children easily. She said that she saw KitKat first and thought, "Well that looks just like Tiffany's little girl!"AAA brought a friend with her. Sammy is our old neighbor. We've known her since she was four. She's like a big sis to AAA (and a huge help to me!).

Sunshine raided her cousin's closet and sported these awesome pink cowboy boots.

All smiles!!

Group Shot!

Good times!!

SNOW DAY!!

What is UP witht his Alabama weather?! It snowed again today! It didn't stick, but at onepoint it was coming down like CRAZY! The snow has been fun, but I'm so ready for Spring!!

Here's L'il Man a few weeks ago when it first snowed.


My little angel making a snow angel. How perfect!

THE SNOWMAN!!!!

Getting the snowman ready! Kit Kat took this job seriously!

Is she the cutest thing ever?!?

Rett and Maggie

YUMMY!

Love this!

Love THIS!!

Love these!

Loved the snow, but bring on the sun!

I don't want Sunshine to go to Kindergarten!!

I don't!!!

I really really really don't.

I want her to stay little and young and pal around with me everyday. I am so acutely aware of the time passing each day. And each day that passes brings us another day closer to kindergarten. I know it's only February. But to me it's "only four more months of school left and then kindergarten starts in the fall." I can't even begin to explain it. I have a feeling it's probably not "healthy" to feel this way, but I can't help it. Sunshine played hooky from school three days this week so far. And she's playing hooky again tomorrow. We have too much fun together. She's such a good little sidekick!! I will miss her like crazy! I absolutely cannot believe that all of my children will be in school next year. TIME FLIES!

I don;t know how I'm going to fill this "void". (Please don't suggest that I get a job). :)

For some reason, every single day it is on my mind that my baby will be in school next year. I remember at one point thinking that "the day that they are all in school" seemed like it was forever away. And it's fast approaching and I'm not ready and I won't be ready. I'm really worried about it, y'all.

I'm not having that feeling like, "What am I supposed to do with my life?" I'm simply having that feeling like, "I am going to miss my children!!" Life is too short! Toddlerhood is too short! Summer is too short!!

I tell Sunshine all the time that she is awesome. She tells me, "You are awesomER!" She tells me I'm the "best mom in the history!" She tells me I smell like strawberries. She even made up a song, "Who do I love? It starts with a T. Tuh, tuh, tuh...Tiffany!" So yesterday I said, "Who do I love??? It starts with an H." She said, "That's right!" Then she said, "We love each other. Right?" See why I'm having a hard time?! SHE is AWESOMER! And I really really really want her to stay home with me!

So if there are any "younger-than-me" moms out there reading this, go put a brick on your child's head. I never tried it, but it might work. Maybe they'll quit growing! If it doesn't work, promise me that you will hold them tight every day and tell them how awesomer they are!! I cannot believe how quickly time flies. Don't even get me started about my first born turning "double digits" this year! Ugh!

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How do you deal with people who just basically get on your last nerve??
You know the type- there's one in every crowd. The one who is rude, abrasive, controlling, even bully-ish(?). Yet when confronted she acts so sweet and innocent and has no idea what you are talking about. What do you do??

Life is short and I really don't want to waste time and energy on feeling irritated and - to be quite honest - having my feelings hurt. But for whatever reason, I always tend to "lose sleep" when these kind of people are in my life. I let them get under my skin. I wish I didn't. But I do.

And what am I to do when there seems to be no way to really "escape" from this person? Our lives are somewhat connected. I need to be a little vague here just in case someone makes the connection.

My husband overheard me talking to this person on the phone. I have complained to him about this person many times. When I got off the phone with her, my husband said, "You need to learn to be rude. She probably thinks you really like her because you were so nice to her on the phone." I replied, "But she was actually really nice just now. I didn't feel like I could be rude."
Not that I would have been rude anyway. It's just so...rude...to be rude. So I was really nice. ?? It doesn't make sense. I know.

So what to do?? I hate confrontation. And I don't really want to be good friends with this person anyway. So what would the point be of confronting her?

So I'll just blog about it. It's so therapeutic. Thanks for listening. You can send me a bill! :)