Milked raisins

Last night we came home from being out at basketball for the evening. Of course that requires sitting back down and getting a snack. A few weeks ago Naomi was given a treat in church that she hadn't eaten yet so we handed that over to the children. Two rice Krispie treats and a bag of yogurt covered raisins. This is the conversation that followed.

Naomi : Yup those are milk raisins.
Me: Milk raisins?
Naomi : Yup they milked those raisins. Milked them out of a cow.

Ethan and I could not stop laughing. Raisins milked right out of the cow.

I have learned alot this week.

I have learned a lot this last little while. Here is an over view of what gathered this weekend while having 8 children 6 years and under in my house.

1. Com paired to some, I am a REALLY laid back mom. I mean REALLY, REALLY laid back mom.

2. I can not stand constant chanting, "No! stop that." ," leave her alone" ," gently" " softly"," not so hard," "Will you cut that out?!" " Get over here!"," I am counting!"," will you just cut it out!?","Listen to me already", "Give that back", " What did you do that for?"

3. Some people just can not let kids be kids. Kids like to get dirty, they wrestle, they get wet, they do not care if their hands are dirty when they eat, they can work out a lot of problems on their own.... if you let them.

4. Boys seem to be viewed as the enemy, girls as precious. Boys can be brutal, but girls can be WAY too manipulative.

5. Boundaries are over rated, at least in the mind of a 6 year old boy, or a two year old girl, or any other child that happens to come over.

6. Pick up truck bed is a great place for a dance party.

7. One baby can produce an awful lot of snot.

8. Children who watch too much TV on a regular basis are really annoying to have around when you need to have a break.

9. Other kids cry too, not just mine.

10. A lobster over 100 years old can grow to be 15 lbs.

11. Only some kids actually want to touch a lobster that large.

12. Ok so this one is one I already knew, but was reminded of, again. The Clarks are possibly the best band in the entire world. I am in no way kidding. I don't know why other bands even play music. The Clarks can write and perform music better than any other band I have ever encountered. If you don't know who they are go now and find samples of thier music. They are awesome! What other band would turn thier new cd release concert into a tribute to the Penguins for winning that Stanely Cup. There was "Let's go Pens" chanting that kept breaking out during the concert, the band was even chanting with us. Seriously the best band ever. Find them. Love them.

13. My sister in law is one of the most awesome people in the entire world. Why on earth does she lives so far away?

Those are my profound thoughts for the moment. I have plenty of stories from the whole deal if you actually want to hear them, though I doubt it. Most of them are me not putting up with one particularly bratty niece. She was much better behaved by the end of the visit....

One more quick note.

I just wanted to rant momentarily about how flabbergasted I am at the lap top computer my 5 year old niece brought out. It seems as if the only thing to do on it is play different games to learn Spanish. Sometimes I really feel like there is a huge push to indoctrinate kids into speaking Spanish. That bothers me.

They're here!

So a bunch of Ethan's family has come in from California to hang out for a bit. YAY! They are so fun! So right now we have my 3 children, plus 5 more children also under the age of 7, plus a mother-in-law, and a brother-in-law and his wife.( Thanks for Kate for all her help getting my house ready for the invasion.) Luckily I think they are all really fun to have around, though this is the first time I have gotten to deal with any of the children in nearly 3 years, so some of them weren't even alive at that point. It is really great getting to have lots of little cousins get to be friends. I think that is how cousins should be, friends, not distantly separated.

I will admit however, that I am not a huge kid person. I LOVE my kids, I TOLERATE most other kids for the first while and then I start to love them. One of my nieces must watch too much TV at home, seeing as all the other kids her age can just watch a movie and let me take a nap, but she is the one running around the house, and keeps coming to ask me if she can do different things. Currently we are having quiet time. If I don't have quiet time, I don't exist. My life ends (at least for the day anyway.) She specifically requested a movie, I finally put it on for her after the other one was over, then she brought me a book and asked me to read it to her. I may be the worlds most awful aunt but my response was, " Not right now, you wanted that movie, get in there and watch that movie." At least none of them seem terrified of me, which is quite impressive since none of them really know me. YAY! I must not be totally terrible to a small child.

My first entry.

So I decided to give in and start a blog. I can pretend it is because you all want to hear I have to say, though I doubt there is much truth to that. Here is my lame reason for "blogging".I started so that I can get to everyone else's (the computer is telling me that that is not a word, I am going to ignore that.) blog with less effort. So on occasion I might grace you with something amusing and I LOVE when people comment, but I am not setting a very high standard here.