Mommathon

Playing a rousing game of Chomp! (I lost.) 🙁

We did!!!

Colm loves this activity! He seeks it out any time we go to a festival where Wonderscope has a tent.

Liam made his hat into a mask.

Sharing a lemonade.

Making a movie…it was hilarious!

This is why we go to Crown Center!!! 🙂

The boys have 1 1/2 more days of school left, but we just had to break out the Slip ‘n’ Slide today after school. The boys had a blast, but it only lasted for about an hour. The Slip ‘n’ Slide ripped and that was the end of that. It was fun while it lasted though.

This started out as one of the most depressing books I have ever read. It is a memoir, so everything in it really happened and it was so depressing because everything that was happening in the book was taking place when the author was about the same age as Liam and Colm are right now. I just kept thinking about how awful it would be if my boys were going through what he went through. The book is about the author’s life before foster care, how he ended up in foster care and his life making his way through foster care where he remained until he was legally an adult. It was a heart wrenching book, but an important story to tell…there are thousands of more like him out there who don’t get to tell their story.

I was at Bed, Bath and Beyond this morning and there was a woman there with a baby in one hand and a toddler sitting in the cart. She was trying to find a bedspread, her toddler was whining…let’s just say she had her hands full both figuratively and literally. So, with her hands full, but still needing access to her cell phone, she tucked it firmly into her cleavage. I can honestly say I have never seen that before. I might try that myself if I had any cleavage to speak of. 🙂

When you sign your child up for a sport nowadays, parents usually have to sign something that says you won’t be a jerk at your child’s game (ie yelling at the ref, etc.) or you have to go to a meeting about how to be a good spectator. I know there have been instances where parents have gotten out of control or not acted the way they should, but I have seen nothing but good behavior from coaches and parents for the past three years until yesterday. Holy cow!!! I kept my mouth shut, but a few other parents didn’t and I totally understand why. The other team was cheating at soccer and when it was pointed out to the coach repeatedly he kept letting his players do it. He finally responded to someone who was letting him know how they felt about it and he told them to chill out because we were winning so who cares. Really? So it’s okay to cheat if you’re losing??? I didn’t know that. And we only won by one or two goals, so it wasn’t like they were getting creamed. I just hate that those kids are being taught that it is okay to cheat, but you know what bothers me the most about the whole thing? It bothers me that the team we were playing was a team made up of players from our church and I am assuming the coach was probably one of those player’s dads. It also bothers me that not one of those parents from the other team stood up and said, “Hey, this isn’t right. Coach, they need to play by the rules.” Unbelievable.

We went to the circus today. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect since it was not the type of circus I went to when I was growing up. This was not a big Barnum and Bailey Circus. This was a small family Italian circus in a tent. Colm really liked it; he was the perfect age for it and it was a beautiful day for it. I wasn’t quite sure if Liam liked it, but he said he did and was even able to tell me his favorite parts, so I guess he liked it more than I thought he did.

This clown, Nino, was the boys’ favorite.

Liam tested for his orange belt today and got it! He did awesome!

Kicking Combination

Form

Self-Defense

Breaking his board

There is a little girl in Liam’s class that is from the south and she IS a Southern belle. Her mother is also a southern belle…she is very refined and honestly I feel like she thinks she has sent her daughter to school with a bunch of neadrathals. They are both very sweet, nice, polite, etc., etc. but they are new to our school, state, etc. and I think it is taking some adjusting. Well, today I went to go eat lunch with Liam at school and she gave Liam’s lunch this look that only a little girl could give. I guess his lunch did not meet her standards. First of all, he was eating cottage cheese. She didn’t like the looks of it and her eyes told the whole story. Then she asked him what “those” were, pointing at a bag of baked snap peas. She didn’t like the look of those either. The looks she was giving him and his lunch…oh my goodness!!! I wish I would have had my camera. 🙂 Then I noticed she was eating something rather interesting too. I asked her about it and she told me it was ambrosia salad. I just had to smile to myself. Who brings ambrosia salad to school in their lunchbox??? 🙂

The other day Colm and I were chatting and somehow we got on the topic of what type of food we would want children to leave for us on Christmas Eve if we were Santa. Traditionally, Santa gets cookies and milk. Colm said he would want 425 pieces of candy. I said I would want a piece of cherry pie and a tall glass of VERY cold milk. We talked about it later at dinner that night and Sean said he would like a chocolate biscotti and an espresso and Liam wanted hot chocolate with marshmallows and a whole slew of other things that I can’t remember. What would you want children to leave for you if you were Santa?