Tip of the Week

If your 3-year-old is in the bathtub and she says she needs to go potty, take her potty. Right then. Don't wait. Don't continue to straighten your 1-year-old's room. Go get your 3-year-old and put her on the potty. Because if you don't, you'll soon hear your 5-year-old yell, "SHE POOPED IN THE BATHTUB!!!!!" and you'll walk in and you'll see two really huge poops in the bathtub and you'll throw up in your mouth.

Steps to the Perfect Lemonade Stand

Step #1: Make a sign.


Step #2: Wear your Gamecock jersey assuming that mostly Gamecock fans will come to your lemonade stand because you live in Columbia, SC, home of the GAMECOCKS!!!!


Step #3: Count your money and realize you've only made $3.00. Consider taking off your Gamecock jersey so as not to offend Clemson fans in the hopes that you'll sale more lemonade. But decide not to because you don't much care about offending Clemson fans.


Step #4: Call on your favorite superhero for help and, together, conquer that lemonade stand!

A Brand New Labor Day!

For a whole bunch of years, we've had the same Labor Day tradition:
1. Drive to Chapin Labor Day Festival.
2. Park a kajillion miles away and walk to parade.
3. Sit in 100 degree weather and tell the kids we're sorry they can't see anything because there are mounds of people in front of us.
4. Fight crowds to buy a burger.
5. Sit with whiny kids and threaten them that if they don't hurry up and eat we won't be able to pay $1,000 to slide down a huge blown up treehouse thing.
6. Walk a kajillion miles back to car sweating and miserable.
7. Go home and ask ourselves why we did that.


This year we decided to try something new. We headed to Flat Rock, NC to check out SkyTop Orchard. It was peaceful. It wasn't crowded. We wore sweaters! We went on a hayride and saw animals and ate apple doughnuts and drank apple cider and bought jalapeno pepper jelly! It was pure bliss and got me super excited about Fall!

Welcome to Union!

Union Preschool added a spunky 3-year-old to its roster today. And she was thrilled! She'll attend Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8:45-11:45. Happy First Day of Preschool, Reagan!

Beautiful

Probably way too graphic....

Reagan has been having some issues so this morning I took her to the doctor. On the way, I prepared Landon that her private parts were bothering her and we needed to make sure everything was ok. I prepared him because he's like the best brother ever and he worries about her if she's sick.

Ok, so we get to the doctor's office. Life is good. Connor's being the man. Reagan and Landon are playing beautifully in the big waiting room. I'm thinking about how much I rock as a mom.

The waiting room door opens and out walks our sweet, reserved, extremely polite nurse.

Nurse: Reagan! Time to go!

Landon: HEY NURSE!! MY SISTER'S PENIS IS SICK!!!!!!!

A billion moms and dads and children look at me. Awesome.