Not Me Monday!

I am not so happy that the past two weeks of craziness have come to a brief pause! We enjoyed going to a play, a musical, and a ballet. We also had fun at the church Christmas party and a friend's birthday dinner, and then the church Christmas hay ride/caroling. All of that busy-ness has not made me actually grateful that I only need to do 28 loads of laundry this week. Oh, and go grocery shopping by myself with the kids today. Which is always fun without Hubby there to help..... *sigh*

I did not randomly give my children baths this week, based upon who had the dirtiest diapers that day, or whose face was showing the most evidence of their last meal. It wasn't because we were so busy and their bedtimes were also randomly selected this past week, which meant bed was often wayyy more important than washing up.

My house is not still a train wreck from the Great Room Swap we did the other week. I did not threaten the kids that we would not be opening new presents unless their playroom got organized this week! Of course, we all know who will be in there actually cleaning it up.

I should probably get off of here and go start on all those loads of laundry! What did you all NOT do last week? Hmmm?

Not Me Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


It was NOT me who was trying to multi-task this morning by nursing Baby Girl and eating a bowl of cereal at the same time. It was definitely NOT me who dropped a soggy wet cornflake on my darling sweetie's head while NOT trying to multi-task. She did not stop nursing and look at me like, "MOM?! Seriously??"

It wasn't me who quit drinking caffeine completely for over 4 months and then reverted back to my addiction. I didn't try to deny it and ask Hubby to bring home some decaf coffee from the store, and it's NOT me who is now totally regretting that decision!

Our sweet puppy is not struggling to catch on to the housetraining, and it has NOT resulted in many, many "accidents" around the living room and kitchen. This has NOT led me to whip out the mop over and over the past week. It's not MY floor that seriously needed all that mopping/Simple Green attention, and is now glistening. I have not completely avoided looking down the hallway to compare it to the living room floor and thought, "Maybe I should just keep on mopping?" Of course I kept on going, right? ;-)

Everyone in our house was asleep by 9pm last night, except Mommy! I did NOT enjoy the peace and quiet and stay awake to finish a book I have desperately been trying to finish. I am not yawning now, wishing I had just gone to bed!

OH, and here's the best one. Little Man did not ask if I could set up his own "apartment" in Baby Girl's room. (We've been talking about switching the rooms around lately.) He did not ask for 'a bed, a tv, and a coffee table so he could eat his food on.' Because we ALWAYS sit around our kitchen table to eat as a family! It is definitely NOT covered with the week's mail, clutter, schoolwork and craft projects! *sigh*

So, while I could continue on and on, I think I will stop confessing now! What did you NOT do this past week?!

Not Me! Monday

Whew! We had a whirlwind weekend! We left Saturday morning for San Antonio, stopping along the way in Katy (to meet a woman who had an Eddie Bauer backpack carrier for sale on Craigslist for $50!!!), and finally making it to the Natural Bridge Caverns around 1pm. We were overjoyed at the wisdom in having already bought our tickets online! That saved at least an HOUR in wait time in line! Right as they called us for our tour, I did NOT smell something suspicious in the vicinity of the Dear Lord, why isn't he potty trained yet?!?! 3 year old. I did NOT look at Hubby, while silently hoping he would volunteer, and then say, "I'm not doing it. They are already lining up, I am not running to the bathroom and holding up the tour." So, Little Man did not proceed to wear a stinky diaper for an hour while climbing into underground caverns. We did NOT innocently look around every time the tour stopped and we got a sudden whiff of it in the musty cave air.

Just be glad y'all weren't on our tour.

More about our trip later!!

Not My Child Monday!!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


Well, it's still Monday, so I will go ahead and do this one! I wasn't going to post it, but Little Man just kept giving me so much good ammunition!

For the past six months few weeks, Little Man has NOT been on a crazy PICA-like phase where he chews on absolutely anything! This has NOT included several hot wheels car tires, foam-thingies for the bathtub walls, toe nails, stuffed animal fur, blankets, paper, the box the raisins came in, and I could go on and on. Most importantly, in less than 5 unattended minutes, he did NOT tear into the science project ant farm we got with our curriculum. He did NOT do this because he simply had to taste that sand that came with the clear ant farm. I am NOT completely and utterly thankful that we hadn't already started said project. Who knows if he would have eaten the ants too?!

XMan did NOT climb into the dryer in order to retrieve a stubborn "clinger" sock in the back of the dryer. Baby Girl has NOT already started the pitiful lower lip thing at the trauma of being told "No." I do NOT already foresee the future hysterics that I am told little girls can be so good at. Which, of course, I know nothing about. Yet. :-)

Not Me Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I just have one thing to tell you about this week. We were out last night at the mall and saw a Muslim couple sitting near us. The wife had on a full niqab (and burqa) and that was the first time my sons have ever encountered that. XMan was especially curious and kept watching them. Eventually, his little 6 year old self did NOT loudly exclaim, "So, who's the Mystery Guest?!"

I did NOT almost choke on my taco salad because his expression was so stinking funny. I think he was actually expecting a prize or something if we figured out who she was. I then tried my best to explain why she was wearing that and I think maybe(?) he got it. Not sure. But on the way out, she was very sweet and said, "You have a beautiful family!" Thanks, sorry they were staring....

I did NOT have the brief, fleeting thought that, "You know, somedays with my children, I wish I could have my face covered up...then nobody would recognize me if they're acting up..." ;-)

"Not Me" Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Wow, I haven't done one of these in a while. Let's see, what all hasn't been going on around here?

I told you about the tattling that we NEVER experience in the last post. We have NOT been having a stressful first few weeks of summer at our house! This is NOT due, in large part, to the fact that the boys are extremely competitive and argumentative, and any other -tive you can think of! They do not go outside to play, and come back in and out at least 15 times to tattle on each other. One of them is not always in a perpetual state of anger/hysteria/tears about something the other one did! My children are always kind, loving, and sweet towards each other, right?

I have NOT been begging, groveling, and coercing Hubby to puh-lease help me figure this Sibling Rivalry mess out! He came up with a handy, dandy "punishment" jar, from which the boys have to pull out a small slip of paper with a special discipline on. (This is in addition to the old handy, dandy spankings that still get administered!) XMan did not have to pull from the jar FOUR TIMES IN THE FIRST 2 HOURS!!! He did not also figure out the gracious "Get Out of Jail Free" slip that Hubby thought would be nice, and commence to searching for that one each time.

I am NOT totally enjoying the peace and quiet that VBS is affording me right now! We took XMan to VBS this morning and had a totally uneventful trip to Wally World! No screaming, no fighting, just the two little ones being quiet and cute for the other customers. I am NOT completely looking forward to the rest of the week being like this... Not me!

I have NOT been struggling with the housework, kids fighting and just life in general lately... So, when my Hubby answered me honestly when I posed a question about the State of the Housework with this comment, "Well, it has room for improvement," it did not make me want to go curl up in a ball and sob. It might have, but I was too busy referee-ing the boys to go do that anyway!

So, what has NOT been going on at your house? Let me know I'm not the only one!

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Well, to begin with, the child who only eats bread did NOT go on a licking spree the other night. He was NOT playing with some random kid at the mall playground. This random child did not say "grab my foot," which Little Man interpreted as "LICK my foot!" He did NOT then proceed to LICK said child's foot and then they giggled their little hineys off. I DID not almost fall over and have a stroke at that moment! On our way out of the mall, he also did NOT continue the licking spree and try it out on not one, but TWO cell phone displays. It did NOT leave a streak of slobber on the glass that made me screw my face up in the most disgusted way possible and exclaim, "EWWWW!!!"

Oh, and did I mention that he does NOT only eat bread? Whole wheat bread, but bread nonetheless. It does NOT happen at every single meal, and I am NOT having a hard time getting him to eat anything else. He also does NOT wake up screaming for a drink and then continue to try and get refills literally all day long. (and, yes, we have already tried checking him for diabetes, but we think it's just being picky about food now.)

This same child was NOT being corrected by Hubby who asked, rhetorically, "Can you stop talking for a minute?!" Little Man did NOT honestly reply, "Uh-uh!" It did NOT prompt everyone in the room to stop and look at him and his audacity. I bet you can guess what else didn't happen after that.

I did NOT buy a new cell phone that is better than Hubby's for $50 less and then gloat about it. I did also NOT go on and on about impulse buying habits, I am WAY more tactful and respectful than that. Especially because I did NOT impulsively buy a dog for sentimental reasons and I am NOT regretting it now!

This dog does NOT cause me to constantly drop what I am doing and go hunt her down around the neighborhood. I did NOT spend $300 sending her to a trainer who did, in fact, train her how to "sit, stay and occasionally come," but that's it. I did NOT have to get off the phone with a friend and go load up in the car to track her down last week. I did NOT have to carry the baby in her carseat while traipsing through the neighbor's yard to go capture this well-behaved dog. I did NOT finally get the book about the breed and see that it says quite plainly, "Great Pyrs do not like to stay in their yards, they tend to wander off." Ha. Hahaha.

I also did NOT nearly whack my ankle off nick my leg while shaving the other night. I haven't done that in a few days since 11th grade! It did not bleed profusely for over an HOUR, causing me to use up all the Shrek band-aids in the house. I did NOT then have to go find some gauze and medical tape to create another bandage b/c the Shrek wasn't working anymore. All of this did NOT come about b/c the kids went to bed early and I thought, "Hmmm, some alone time with Hubby...let me jump in the shower real quick..." I did NOT finally get the bleeding to stop and walk into the living room to find Hubby fast asleep and snoring on the couch. Sigh.... There are so many others that I will leave unwritten.

So, what didn't happen to you last week??

Monday Monday!

Wellll.....it's that time of the week again!!! This week is most definitely not a special Not Me! Monday edition. It's not because this is also my THIRTIETH birthday either! There's no way I could already be thirty years old??

Hmm, to begin with, I did not spend last week lamenting our one-car-at-the-moment-status. I was not mopey because I couldn't drive anywhere and therefore had to finish my housework, darnit. I also did not start to think about all the things I wanted to accomplish by this "age" and get all melancholy. I know better than that!

I did not lure the dog into her kennel with a new squeaky toy last night. It wasn't because she completely ignored me and all the expensive training she has received lately.

I did not sabotage any thoughts of weight loss and quitting sugar by eating an entire box of Little Debbie Nutty Bars by myself last week. I think Hubby and XMan both had at least one...maybe. I am also not completely, entirely jealous of my buddy's weight loss and exercise success, just in time for her 30th bday! Phooey.

Excuse me while I do not go finish a Coke and another Nutty Bar.....

Not Me! Monday

Oh, where should we begin? Let's start with the hilarious irony that surrounds my coffee cup. For instance, I did NOT dump in 4 spoons of sugar and proceed to tell someone I was reading a book called, "Lick the Sugar Habit." Hehe.

Nor did I have to take Little Man out of the room at a public setting more than 8 times in one day. And it was NOT because he was behaving like Idon'tevenknowwhat. My children never act up! He is so NOT going through a huge tantrum phase and I am NOT pulling my hair out every day over it.

Hubby and I did NOT take much joy in the fact that the new family vehicle came with an entertainment system that has head phones! Because we love to talk over our children's noise, and we wouldn't be excited that they could ride quietly, while tuned into a movie! We also didn't naively think it would last for 1500 miles, either. (Well, maybe we hoped it would...)

I do NOT still have 3 loads of laundry begging to be washed while I am busy catching up on all my blog-o-sphere news. I am also NOT hiding out from the dungeon garage where the washer/dryer are. It's NOT because of the giant *rodent* that scurried out in front of me last week. When it happened, I did NOT forget any military training I ever had and scream like a banshee while doing the "tippytoe" dance. I did NOT make my husband come rescue me while I stood frozen in fear and disgust. I promise I grabbed a shovel and started acting like a big girl!!

What did you NOT do last week?

Not Me! Monday

Well, let's see...
To begin with, I am NOT one of the only people I know still blogging this week. The rest of you are probably busy with family, or getting ready for Christmas. Here I am procrastinating away.

I did NOT just decide that the kids could stay in pajamas until this afternoon, when we load up for our road trip. Why change them yet, when they aren't going anywhere?

I have NOT forgotten about our pooch, whom I haven't called to check up on yet. Sorry, Banner, it's just that I know you're in good hands. (At least I hope so.)

We did NOT buy our children's big gift while they were with us at the store, and then tell them "So, here's your present! What do you think?!" Because we have lots of time to do things beforehand, and we also don't mind wrapping extremely huge boxes just to waste the paper. Or maybe not. So, they were thrilled at the trampoline, and they don't mind waiting until we get home to use it! Whew, that went well!

Oh yeah, and we did NOT do all of the Christmas shopping in the past 4 days. We NEVER procrastinate like that! In fact, for the past 8 years, Hubby and I ALWAYS buy gifts early. Like in June....sort of. Just don't ask me what I got anyone until around noon on Christmas Eve, okay?

My son did NOT just ask me why I was putting "yo-grit" on my face, ha. Mommy's coming up on 30, honey. I need the "yo-grit" in a jar now, it's called, "self-preservation."

I do NOT have empty suitcases laying out, waiting to be packed. Everything is packed right up here...in my noggin. Besides, Hubby won't be home until after naps, I have plenty of time to stash it all away and load up, right? On second thought, maybe I better run...

Merry Christmas!!!

Not Me Monday!

Hmmmm, well, let's see... what happened last week? (That I can actually share with you...)

Little Man did NOT take a break from eating paper for a few minutes to run his toy airplane up and down the wall. Over and over. Until large ruts had been gouged into place. And I was NOT on the computer when it happened either.

XMan has NOT been testing my every single nerve with the extreme sassiness he picked up from the neighbor kid. It was NOT a society-induced homeschooling socialization guilt-trip that made me allow the neighbor kid to come over in the first place!! SEE? Should have just stuck to my guns! He has plenty of friends at church, whose parents correct their children for being obstinate, we should just stick to playing with those children!

I did NOT throw a world-class hissy fit at my kids while telling them to not throw hissy fits...

I did NOT sit still and listen to someone say something entirely against my parenting beliefs and say nothing. I am such a weenie sometimes. I never (always) mouth off at the wrong times and sit silent when it counts!

I also didn't weasel my way out of cooking dinner or lunches more than once last week. We're trying to save money rapidly, right? I wouldn't waste money on restaurant meals, especially right after we came home from the grocery store....

Oh, and I don't know if he heard ME saying it, but Little Man has started saying "NOT ME!!!" Ha! So, Not Me got a spanking the other night for NOT splashing the entire tub of water out onto the floor.

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