"Read Big Red Barn? OK!"
"...only the mice were left to play, rustling and squeaking in the hay. While the moon sailed high in the dark night sky."
"Read Gnight Thumper? OK!"
"...Papa and Mama kissed him, and before long, Thumper was fast asleep. Goodnight Thumper."
"Read Goodnight Moon? OK!"
"...Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush. And good night to the old lady whispering, "Hush". Goodnight moon, goodnight stars, goodnight noises everywhere."
"OK bud, into bed and we'll pray and sing our songs."
"Now I lay me down to sleep..."
"Sing world hands? OK!"
"...Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world."
"Goodnight Bubbalu, Mama loves you."
"I wuv u Mommy"
Right there. That feeling of utter joy when your child first starts telling you he loves you. I want to bottle that up and keep it stored high on a shelf to open whenever I feel sad, down or in need of a little encouragement. Just a little taste of that feeling could turn a horrible day right side up.
Lord, thank you for my children. Help me to be a patient, kind, loving mother to them today. Shine through me to be Your light in their lives.
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My fashionable beautifying tip of the day...no, month....no, year...OK, FOR LIFE:
GET A TAN!
And no, I am not proposing a lifetime membership at the tanning salon.
Tan in a bottle, spray tan or professionally applied tanner product, whatever. Just get some color to cover the winter white.
I have been using a knockoff product for the past couple of weeks with a pretty good result...just don't look too closely at my ankles or forearms. I tell ya, you need your Masters in Lotion Application to not have some sort of streak or extra "tan" in certain areas. I only attended the high school equivalent of Lotionization...which is why I have streaks, smudges and over tan ankles and forearms.
Although I have made a miraculous discovery to remedy that issue.
You know that lovely post I did a while back about the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser?
Yeah, you guessed it, it TOTALLY erased those extra pigmented over tanned streaks and marks!
And yes, I do realize that it is not an approved use of the product.
So folks, cover up the winter white with a lovely bottled tan. There's no need to freak about the application as long as you have a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser around, you're GOLDEN (pun completely intended).
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I'm proud to be a shirt smoother.
That is, if I eventually remember the sad little load left in the dryer for the past three or seven hours (days). Why does that sad little load get forgotten every single time? It really shouldn't be THIS difficult, should it? Having an archaic dryer that takes more than a few hours to dry one measly load doesn't help matters any.
However, once I actually retrieve the forgotten load from the dryer I immediately smooth the shirts.
I usually employ the back of whichever sofa or love seat is closest to me (or the TV *ahem*) and one by one lay the shirts across the back of it and use my hands to smooth all the shirts out nice and neat.
That way, when I get around to actually hanging up the smoothed shirts (which may or may not be in the next two to seven days) they are relatively wrinkle-free.
Hand ironed if you will.
Which may explain why my one and only iron has officially been designated for craft use and is currently suffering from a bad case of adhesive stick-ums residue.
I must confess that I tend to steal clean shirts from the smoothed-out shirt pile before hanging them up in the closet. I also tend to have multiple stolen from smoothed-out shirt piles scattered about the house.
Today I managed to hang up my THREE stolen from smoothed-out shirt piles. I felt a great sense of accomplishment and pride of self.
But guess what I just found in my dryer?
A sad forgotten little load...
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