Nope, it’s not my birthday… too late for Valentine’s Day….. too early for Mother’s Day. This was just an “I love you” gift. It was made of clear fishing line with little foam charms. My son was very proud to tell me that he had made it himself with a plastic needle. When my son gave me this bracelet which he made, “because I love you Mom” my heart melted. I wore it all day.

I weeded our flower beds this week with my 4y, 2y and 9m old. This is not an equation for efficiency, but we had fun…. We found an earthworm and I was really proud of myself for not going “eek” when I uncovered it in the dirt. Not only did I not shriek, but I feigned excitement and got my kids to be excited about it. My 2 year old tried to eat it (you have to watch her)!

Yesterday when we were out running errands my son told me, “Mom, I am going to be really good at nap time today.” I was in the midst of trying to find the things on my mental list and push the cart with three kids on it, so I muttered something like, “good honey” and continued on. My son was so excited because after nap time we were going to plant flowers in our yard.

This Wordless Wednesday highlights our very patient dog. Note the ear pulling and stroller bashing. “What Mom? I AM being gentle!” For more of my Wordless Wednesdays, click here.

If you read my blog post from Sunday you know that getting my laundry washed, dryed, folded, and put away is a big challenge for me. Today I found a way to help speed along that process. Even though my kids have an entire toy room which they can play in, they begged me to let them play in the pack-n-play while I folded laundry. Yes, that is correct, I actually said to my two and four year old, “If you fight or hit each other in there, you will have to come OUT of the pack-n-play.

Last night I got a chocolate craving. I didn’t feel like doing a ton of work to feed this craving so I thought I’d bake some No Bake Cookies. Growing up this was often the cure for a chocolate craving with minimal effort. When I opened my cabinet to get out the sugar I noticed a sticky brown residue on the container. "Uh-oh" I thought. Upon further investigation I found molasses covering the entire shelf, the box of aluminum foil, the pancake box, the corn muffin box and still no molasses jar.

Thanks to all of you who stopped by and read my site and my meal plan last week. It was fun to have some new visitors on my site! Here is this week’s menu plan at our house. Monday : Pancakes and Scrambled Eggs Tonight is Mommy’s Night out as I have a MOPS meeting so Daddy will be cooking breakfast for dinner tonight for him and the kiddos.

bane (bn) n. **** A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation When talking about laundry to my husband, I typically describe it as the “bane of my existence.” No matter how hard I try to get it washed, folded, and put away, I typically fall short of accomplishing all 3 of those steps. Most often I get it washed, dried, and dumped on to our guest bed (which my husband now affectionately calls his dresser).

With spring like weather finally here, we’ve been spending some more time outside. I took these series of pictures of the kids out on our deck. Note the sequence of events. Baby is playing cutely in boat so Mommy decides to take a picture. Big Sister notices and has to get in on the action and spotlight. “Hey, don’t leave me out!” Poor baby is off to find something else to play with.

Tonight I had a hot date with my hubby. My son’s birthday is coming up and we needed to go shopping for his present. Since we had to get a babysitter to watch the kids, we decided to take full advantage of that fact and we went out for dinner as well. I really enjoyed having an uninterrupted conversation with him while getting to hold his hand as we walked into the store.