Come one Come all... admission...FREE!

Do you ever wonder how many strangers stories you are in?
Just a few examples I could see others telling about our family:
-I saw this poor mom in the bathroom the other day w/ 2 kids on the potty and changing a diaper while the other one ran circle around her trapping her legs in the leash....
-This sweet little girl was narrating her potty experience to her mom in the bathroom…
- I was caught off guard today when a mom came out of the clothes rack holding a 2 kids...
- Did you see how far that little kid shot that food off her plate? She got a future in baseball....
-Or the one we all dread…. some little girls was coach/praising her mom on the potty today. (You gotta love then the tell you they are going to hold to you so you don't fall in and clap for you when your all done.)

Sometimes I think I need to charge admission for the show my girls put on in public, not always bad entertaining either. They are just so stinkin' entertaining! Karis will be trying to help push the cart and Kaelyn will walk beside her going "Skoot back!" Addy insists on wearing her sunglasses the entire time and is always looking behind her so she is constantly running into things/people or having very near misses. And Amara feels the need to constantly narrate everything, sometime even through song. She is a 1 girl musical show. :) We get so many people that stop us to ask, "Are they all your?!?" that Amara, sometime Addy, have started just telling people who haven't asked. And once they start you can't stop them until they have to preform the whole show, their ages, when their birthday is, how old they will be on their birthday, that they are sisters, and that they have twins, etc.
We are trying to give Amara some since of what a stranger is and that its not always appropriate to walk up to someone and have a conversation with them (Say what mom? If they can see me I must converse with them!) So now when she remembers not to go up to someone she will loudly announce to all those in the area, "Mom that man/lady is a stranger. I don't know them so I didn't talk to them. They might not be nice."
One thing is for sure we never have a dull time when we are out in about. But when your 4 on 1 you just learn to expect the unexpected and go with it. And carrying a few extra snacks and wipes is always a good idea! (You never know when one of the twins will pee out their diaper and it will pour out the cart and pool on the floor, so napkins are a good thing to carry to.)
Txt me for the upcoming show schedule!

The baby that would have been mine- Kari Coolidge Atalla."

This a beautiful song that one of my friends from college wrote and sings on her newly produced CD. She is very talented check her out. Kari Coolidge Atalla. :)

"A Recipe for Failure"

Found this today while doing some homework for school. Thought it was fun and true :)

"A Recipe for Failure"
1. Never get involved in anything. Say to yourself often, "Nothing Matters."
2. Keep you brain from getting tired - don't think about anything important too much.
3. Don't care about anyone or anything. Save all your concern for yourself and work on elevating selfishness to an art form.
4. Be a walking disaster. Leave trails of chaos in your wake where ever you go.
5. Have low expectations for yourself and always live down to them.
6. Waste as much time as possible. Spend your time hanging out, sleeping, playing games, complaining about how unfair life is, and making excuses.
7. Ignore other people and pretend you live alone on some remote island out in the Pacific Ocean. 8. Work on developing rude and obnoxious behaviors and appearances.
9. Never assess yourself, question your own values, or analyze your personal lifestyle.
10. Always keep your consciousness altered enough to keep you from fully grasping what is or is not happening to you.
11. Commit as much of your time, energy, and money as you can towards maintaining at least one major addiction to something everyone says is bad for you.

Copyright 1999, Ric Andrews

Catching up....

So I lost the month of June. I can't believe that we are going to be half way through July this week. I'm really falling behind on this hole blogging thing. Sorry :)
June was a busy month we celebrated our 5th anniversry, had 2 yard sales, got my school room packed up and ready to move to our new school building, did lots of yard work, and celebrated as our 2nd born turned 3. My sister and her family have been in the last 2 weeks. We have had lots of fun playing with my 1 yr old neice and visiting w/ Aunt Annie. 4th of July was a big hit this year, a family BBQ, swiming, and fireworks. Amara and Addy were old enough this year to truly appreicate the fireworks and had a blast watching them and the twins stayed up a little late a watched a few on tv, but didn't seem to impressed. :) Hard to believe that summer is half over! Guess now I really do have to be intentional about getting my checklist completed.