I found Mr. Ken sitting innocently on my Shark steam cleaner the other day.

Naked.

Makes you wonder what these dolls do when we’re not looking…

This post is linked to Wordless Wednesday hosted by 5 Minutes For Mom

And Wordful Wednesday hosted by Parenting By Dummies.

She will still fall asleep on the couch whenever she gets really tired and I’ll find her snoozing away in some pretty funny positions.

Madelyn didn’t actually fall asleep in this position. I tried to wake her up and she made an effort to get off the chair and then fell back to sleep like this.

Last week I was cooking dinner and I came into the living room to find both girls passed out in the living room!

Again, I made an attempt to wake her up for dinner and she just rolled over and ended up like this.

Don’t you wish you could sleep this comfortably wherever you ended up?

This post is linked to Wordfulf Wednesday over at Parenting By Dummies.

And Wordless Wendesday at 5 Minutes For Mom.

Ssshhh! Don’t let them know you noticed!

I was in for a big surprise when I went to use the bathroom the other day. I found I was not alone.

It looks kinda nice there, doesn’t it? I may have to think about redecorating.

This post is linked to Wordless Wednesday over at 5 Minutes For Mom

and Wordful Wednesday at Seven Clown Circus

*These picture were taken 2 weeks ago*

Wee Walker on little girl with broken foot= $97 (don’t even get me started…)

Ballerina Barbie=$10

Random Barbie wearing Snow White’s Dress=$10

Husband and daddy who will play Barbies with his daughter= Priceless!!!

(And sexy!!)

This post is linked to Wordless Wednesday at 5 Minutes For Mom!

I found Mr. Ken Doll hanging out like this in the playroom the other day. Barbie was nowhere in sight.

Hmm…..

What do YOU think he’s doing? Make this Wordless Wednesday not so wordless!!!

Well, I guess the “wordless” part is already shot to you-know-where…

Anyway…

This was taken several weeks ago.

Yes, that is Nutella on their toast. Yes, that was their breakfast. Yes, they were eating it on the couch while watching t.v.

Katelyn is wearing that outfit in lieu of pajamas because the night before I had figured out she had no clean pajamas to wear.

Call me Mother Of The Year!

More deep and  meaningful writing soon to come.

*cough*

Thank you

Ok. Ok! I get it already.

]]> http://www.simplymelsblog.com/wordless-wednesday-2/feed/ 7 http://www.simplymelsblog.com/wordless-wednesday/ http://www.simplymelsblog.com/wordless-wednesday/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:06:44 +0000 SimplyMel http://www.simplymelsblog.com/?p=581 Excited for Awana Cubbies!

]]> http://www.simplymelsblog.com/wordless-wednesday/feed/ 4 http://www.simplymelsblog.com/what-would-have-been-wordless-wednesday/ http://www.simplymelsblog.com/what-would-have-been-wordless-wednesday/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:33:12 +0000 SimplyMel http://www.simplymelsblog.com/?p=371 I was supposed to write this post yesterday. But since I was having fake spam virus issues on my computer I was not able to write. So this has also turned into a little update post as well. But first, the Wordless Wednesday pictures I was going to post yesterday

In case you were wondering, that is Colonel Sanders and this was taken at the KFC/Taco Bell near my inlaws’ house. The girls thought this was awesome.

Katelyn went to her first Awana meeting last night. She is in the Cubbies class.( Ah! I remember when my brother Bryan was in Cubbies!) I signed her up at a church that is close to us. This is their first year to do Awana. I put Madelyn in the nursery and I went to the adult Bible study that is going on during that time. Some friends from our church also put their girls in Awanas there so Katelyn knew some of the kids going in. Not that it mattered, of course. She absolutely loved it. She’s going to get her own little Cubbies Bible verse book and a vest to wear. So cute! I am so glad I signed her up. Madelyn started crying the second I started walking her out of the main area where all the kids meet. I could see what was going on her in her mind -

” I have to leave again? Katelyn gets to stay and I have to leave a fun place AGAIN?”

She immediately started throwing a fit and screaming “No!” at me as I dragged her out of the room. Once I got her to the nursery and she saw all the new toys and everything she immediately stopped. “Oh, for me???”. She didn’t even look back as I left the room. I’m sure it helped that she was the only one last night and the nursery worker was someone that also goes to our church on Sunday mornings. Madelyn loved it. I always feel guilty when my child is the only one (or ones) in the nursery. I feel as if I’m wasting the nursery workers time by making them stay with my one or two kids when I could just stay with them myself. But I was so looking forward to being in a grown up Bible study again and I knew Kathy didn’t mind. And I really did enjoy the study. While I was struggling to get both girls to leave and get in the car Madelyn kept shouting saying ” I .Want.To .Go. With Kaffy” (Kathy). Per their usual MO they did NOT want to leave last night. So at 8:10 I’m struggling to get two whining,tired, upset and excited little girls into our van so I can get home, put them to bed and watch “Glee” on time. We’re definitely going to have to work on our exit strategy.

The first two weeks of Pre-K for Katelyn have been a success. She loves it! It’s definitely been a scheduling adjustment for me. We’ve started up a bunch of new stuff that is affecting all of us recently. Pre-K, Dance, Awana and Bible study. It may not sound like a ton but we went from doing non of that to all of it in a span of two weeks. God has definitely working on my “flexibility” issues. All this new stuff is putting me out of my comfort zone. I thrive on routine. I thrive on predictability. I thrive on a monotonous routine and predictability. I’m driving to dance every Saturday in a town I don’t know how to navigate at all and am still learning how to get to. I’m participating in a Bible study that is not at my own church with people that I know. I”m learning what it’s like to be a school mom. I’m stretching my rut a bit.

I’ve been mentioning that I’ve been struggling with getting up early in the mornings so I could read my Bible. I’ve been trying to do that for weeks now but the girls have been getting up at the same time as me every day- 6:30 am. As soon as I start heading downstairs I hear them giggling in their room. This used to be a time I treasured and looked forward to. I could usually count on them sleeping until 7:30 am. It was so peaceful and quiet. I loved sipping my coffee, and slowly and peacefully waking up while reading the word of God. Now it’s turned in to some covert mission in where the goal is to get dressed as quickly and quietly as possible and tip toe down the old, creaky stairs, grab coffee and read whatever I can as fast as possible before the girls wake up. I feel like I’m starring in a roll of “Mission Impossible”. This is usually if I can get up at 6:00 am. If I get up at 6:20 I can forget it. This issue has actually become a point of stress and frustration for me. Not fun anymore. I don’t think I can humanely get up any earlier than that every day without going to be at 10:00 every night. Which, no matter how hard I try, has not been happening recently. I even prayed ” Lord, can’t you keep them sleeping later in the morning? I am trying to read Your Word, you know. I could use a little help”. This may sound utterly silly but it shows you what a “stick- in- the- mud” person I am about routine. If I’m going to read my Bible it has to be in the morning and in peace and quiet by golly! Well, the Lord has other ideas, I guess.

(This whole story does have a point and does tie in to the routine school story)

With this said, the three days a week that Katelyn goes to Pre-K for two and a half hours I sort of have a little time to kill. It takes me 20 minutes or so to drive her to her school for 11:30. By the time I get home it’s usually noon. I have to back at the school to pick Katelyn up at 1:55. I usually have a little more than an hour to hang out at home and have lunch before I have to pick her back up again. There is definitely not enough time for Maddy to nap. So, of course, I’ve been trying to figure out just exactly how to schedule that time. So, I came up with a plan- I would make Maddy and myself a picnic lunch and we would eat it on the school grounds as soon as class started. Then, I would put Maddy in the stroller and we would go for a walk until she fell asleep thus filling my exercise requirements and her nap requirement. I would then let her sleep next to the van while I read my Bible, spent time in prayer, journaled and read a bit. Sounded perfect to me. No more struggling to read my Bible in the early mornings! A little extra reading time! Well, the first time I tried this was not successful. We really enjoyed our picnic but Maddy did not fall asleep on our walk and on top of it begged to get out the whole time. At that point I remembered I had some birthday shopping for a party we’re going to this Saturday so I took a quick run to the store and did that before I had to pick Katelyn up. So, I’m going to give the picnic/walk/nap thing a couple of more tries but if those don’t work I’m still at a loss about what to do during that time other than going home and wasting gas. I could run errands but I don’t always have three days worth of errands to run and it will also depend on Madelyn’s mood during that time. Being who I am, I continued to stress over reading my Bible in the early mornings, not knowing what to do with myself for two and a half hours three days a week that’s not a waste of time and also making sure Madelyn gets some sort of rest so she’s not a wreck by the end of the day. Whew. (This is the kind of stuff I worry about folks!)

Anyway, I’m learning my lesson in flexibility. This morning I got up at 6:20 and headed down stairs. The girls were sound asleep. Until the phone rang(Mike’s coworker who Mike was picking up this morning) and Mike banged the door shut on his way to the basement. Then they woke up and came downstairs. I realized circumstances aren’t always going to be perfect and exactly the way I want. I put on the t.v for them, gave them their morning chocolate milk and sat back down to read my Bible. In the middle of t.v noise and constant interruptions from them. Not my ideal Bible reading moment by far. But, if I wait for circumstances to be just perfect for Bible reading, I may never read my Bible again. I think God wanted me to see that. And I think it’s good for the girls to see their mommy reading the Bible and praying. It sets a good example.

I haven’t figured out a good use of my time while Katelyn is in school yet but I’m sure we’ll figure something out. And that’s ok.

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