The funny things my kids say......

Lucas

 We were listening to 90's music and every time he liked a song he would ask me "mommy is that singer dead?"  After a few times I said "Lucas they are not all dead.....how old do you think mommy is?"  His response "you look young but I know you are really really old". 😂😂😂

Noah

"Mommy maybe I can ask Santa this year to turn me into Godzilla but you are going to need a bigger house and buy a lot of food, I'm going to be eating a lot. Get ready mommy" 😂😂😂

Lucas 

"I don't think I can be president of the United States in the future. This country Is really a mess and the people are just not listening."😂😂😂

Noah. "Mommy I think when I grow up I may want to be a cop, but be in the SWAT team where they go and get the bad guys. But my friend at school said the SWAT team only goes at night and since my bed time is at 830 how can I do it?  I think I may need to think of another job. 😂😂😂

Noah 

"Mommy every time we go up and down the hills in the car, my pee pee feels good."  😂😂😂

Lucas

"Mommy if I take Yoga class and the girl I like is there maybe she will see my sensitive side and like me?"😂😂😂

Noah 

"I don't like girls, they smell and always want to play kitchen. But this girl I like she plays like a boy and doesn't make me play kitchen like my sister does." 😂😂😂

Lucas

"Mommy daddy is the best daddy in the world he does so many things for us, there are so many daddy's that just sit in the couch and watch TV all day. I mean daddy sits on the couch a lot but at least he gets up."😂😂😂

Noah

"Every time I play police with my friends they want me to be the bad guy, I don't want to be the bad guy I'm always the good guy. I never want to be bad. 😂😂😂😂

Lucas 

(When his sister Milah bothers him)

"You better be nice to me because the only reason you are here is because I was a good boy all year and asked Santa for a sister". 😂😂😂

Noah

I overhear Noah talking to his friend 

His friend "all my mommy eats is lettuce" 

Noah "all my mommy eats is coffee" 😂😂😂

Lucas

"Mommy I want to be like my best friend Michael. He tells me every morning he gets up looks at himself in the mirror and tells himself that he is good looking and girls love him. "  😂😂😂

Noah

Noah was playing soccer and walks out of the game and comes running to me with a mad face. "Mommy, I'm tired, I'm scoring all the goals and this team doesn't help me all they want to do is look up at the sky and play with the dirt. I'm not playing anymore."  😂😂😂

Lucas 

"Mommy the TV said they found a medicine that helps with RA, they said call your rheumatologist today...call him now mommy, they said call him". 😂😂😂

Noah

"Mommy, I like my one friend in my class but he always hangs out with a girl, that's his girlfriend, so I don't hang out with him because I hate girls."  😂😂😘

Lucas 

"The tooth fairy is weird, a strange lady....I mean she collects teeth, her house must be full of teeth. I think she's a little creepy mommy". 

😂😂😂

Noah 

(When his sister bothers him) 

"Mommy, Milah is being fresh with me. She hit me and yelled at me so I put her in time out and said she was a bad girl, she cried and I felt bad. I went over to say sorry to her and asked her to say sorry but she said no and hit me again. I think Santa sent the wrong sister." 😂😂😂

Lucas 

"Mommy, when I grow up, Noah, my two friends and I are going to buy a house and adopt pigs...and have a mud room. Lots of people have mud rooms, that is for their pigs."😂😂😂

Lucas to Noah "Noah when I go to college you are going to miss me so much, I feel bad for you Noah you are going to be so sad". 

Noah to Lucas "I am Lucas, I am going to miss you so much" 

 Noah turns to Milah "Milah when I go to college you are going to miss me so much, I feel bad for you Milah you are going to be so sad" 

Milah to Noah "bye bye". 😂😂😂

Sometimes life is hard but my three babies make it easier....ok sometimes they make it easier when they are not screaming, hitting, giving attitude, refusing to eat.........don't want to go to sleep, decide to color walls, spill milk all over the place.....but you know what I mean. 😂😂😂

Celebrating the old days and a dear friend

I will be 40 years old this year.....yikes....40 years old and at times I do feel 40.......or older. 😞 Where did the time go?  I swear i feel like I was just 20 something yesterday. There are times that I could be laughing with friends, family or my husband and I don't feel old. In fact, I feel like back in college I never thought of losing anyone to death, it felt like we were all eternal, like all of us and our loved ones would live forever. In the last few months friends of mine sadly have lost a parent. It hit home, these friends are my age and they lost a parent. Made me think about my own and how as I'm getting older sadly so are they. It showed me to treasure my parents soo much while they are here. 

Then, my neighbor died. She was like family....no she was family. She met me when I was 28 years old, recently married and full of dreams. She watched my husband and I create our home and watch each of our children slowly come into our lives. She saw us in so many different stages, the happiness, the exhaustion, the times we weren't getting along and the times where we were so full of love. She watched it all ......and now.....she is gone. Another loved one who we never actually thought would leave us. 

Last week, I got the news that a dear dear friend passed away at the age of 43. Max was full of life and always had a smile. I met him in college. When I lived off campus, he lived down the street from me with a group of great guys. It was amazing having them. I would always find myself walking down the street to go see them. They welcome me in all the time. They always made it feel like home and he always made me feel special. He and another guy nickname me "mostly cloudy" because .......I was in the clouds in college for sure. I was young and naive and that was OK for them.  I will surely miss him. The day before he died, on Facebook a group of us reminisce about the good old days and how we wish we could just go back and relive it for just a little bit.  He said he would and I wish we all could...to see that big smile of his again. 

All of us from those days made a cheer for him today through Facebook. Posting pictures of an alcoholic drink that we were having in his honor. Made me think about how life is going so fast and that death....is closer. But this time instead of fearing it, instead of pretending it's not there I will embrace it because after all it's inevitable. I will live to the fullest even when my kids are driving me crazy, even when life seems so hard, even when I feel like giving up...I will live. My boys are in their schools talent show and the song they are singing is called " I lived". Perfect anthem for me now. 

So here is to Max...my neighbor Pat and my dear friends mom and dad. 

Cheers!!!!

The missing Pokemon!!!

He was kicking, waving his arms, tears rolling down, screaming in language I barely understood,  every now and then I heard "I want it.....it's not fair.....I want it....it's mine.." That was my Noah having a tantrum in our car. I had just picked him and Milah up from my dads after work. Noah had lost his Pokemon card and the world was about to end, for that Pokemon card amongst the thousand that he had was the most valuable ......it was his lifeline. My dad tried to find it but no trace of it. Exhausted from work I buckled him in as his arms were like Edward Scissorhands. My dad buckled Milah in for me. I waved goodbye to my dad and he said "good luck". It was only twenty minutes to get home but the longest twenty minutes ever. My journey would be hard. No munchkins or happy meal was going to fix this. Noah began kindergarten this week so maybe the exhaustion from that set him off. It set up the tantrums of all tantrums....he was a Maniac. 

He screamed the whole way. I calmly tried to explain to him that the Pokemon will be found, he will survive and life will go on. He didn't listen, he screamed, kicked, kept saying incoherent things. Milah like mommy calmly said to Noah "it's OK, OK......nice nice" but after ten minutes she was saying incoherent things pointing her finger at him as if saying "stop it you crazy boy, it's just a card". But he kept screaming, I kept driving, Milah kept pointing her finger.

How would I survive this?  Then I tried to think of a happy place, a happy time...."Fat Cats". Fat Cats was a local college bar when I was in college. Some of my best memories were from there. It was your typical college bar, nothing fancy but it was my sororitys hang out place. I danced a lot there, a lot and dancing always made me feel happy. I imagined myself dancing, really letting loose, shaking everything, feeling the music.....I saw myself as the girl in "flash dance" jumping from one side of the dance floor to the other, i was wearing her same outfit and didn't feel weird at all wearing that to the bar (I was also 20 pounds lighter and had loads of energy)  I was a maniac....feeling the music run through my body....I was Kevin Bacon jumping around in the scene of "footloose" swinging from one swing to the other, jumping on cars...... I felt relaxed and I smiled, I heard the screams so far away......

Then the phone rang, it was my dad "THE POKEMON HAD BEEN FOUND!!!!"  Noah stopped crying and fell asleep as we were just turning the corner to the house. I pulled in the driveway and noticed Milah was also passed out. She must have been "the hell with this boy I'm taking a nap". 

I sat in the driveway contemplating what to do. Do I go ahead and face the inevitable tantrum that would happen again when I would wake them up or do I enjoy the silence....I decided to write this blog and all was right in the world....kids were sleeping, I was smiling and the POKEMON had been found. ☺️