Explorers

Today we went on a hike. We went in a cave and emerged from it covered in ocher dust. We picnicked on a mountain that over looked a sprawling valley. We peed in the woods and followed tarantulas and found fossils and chased children and played with cousins and ate sandwiches and came home filthy. Today was a good day.

Dunkin Donuts

So I'm not quite making it once a week. I feel tired and physically and emotionally drained it's hard to find the time and energy to blog. My inspiration for blogging tonight is my five year old boy, David. Friday night I woke to sobbing from David's room. I stumbled blindly down the hall to stepping on transformers and tripping on little boy laundry that was supposed to make it into the washer but did not. I climbed up to the top bunk to cuddle David. I asked him if he had a bad dream. His answer... "I dreamed we were at Dunkin Donuts and I want it to be real!" Then he sobbed even louder! It was hard not to giggle. I thought It was going to be the nightmare he has about a bee chasing him, but no he just woke up really disappointed to not be at a Dunkin Donuts. Anytime I thought about this today it made me smile. David really helped me through my day today.

Chad's Ren and Stimpy Drawing

Chad drew this for me today. It's his drawing of Sammy Mantis, Powdered Toast Man, Stimpy, Ren, and Mr. Horse. Drawn from memory. Ren is saying " You ate my turkey!" Decent phonetic spelling i think. Now I don't know about you, but I was drawing ridiculous looking stick figures when I was seven. I can find one of my sad stick figure drawings an upload it sometime. Both my boys draw really well. They take after dad. Although he says he didn't draw that well when he was their age. Of course we give a great deal of encouragement to our kids. Mike didn't get much of that. Chad didn't color powdered Toast Man because he didn't have the right color.

I just rubbed green chile in my eye. Whoops. I was taking out my contacts and I just finished making a pepperoni, tomato, and green chile pizza. Also I had to hang a bunch of vintage rugs this week at work and I think I pulled a muscle. I have these really painful back spasms. Sahweet. Davey my youngest has been rubbing my back since he found out it hurt. It's really cute. I've pet kittens harder then he rubs my back.

WHY!!!!

Did I tell my husband I'd do the dishes. Seriously, I have so much crap to get done and I don't wanna!!!!!!! I want to play. The only up to the dishes is I get to watch the Triops we're hatching in the window. We only have one big one. the rest look like water fleas. I think the big one is eating the little ones. Seriously google triops. They belong to Chad.