Recently I thought myself… “Self you probably ought to write something soon.” But then I thought I would go with another angle. And that angle is to ignore my blog until it gets sick and  tired of being under appreciated and taken for granted and decides to leave me for another blogger.

A blogger who can actually remember the password to her own blog dashboard.  Whatever I totally got it right the  fourth second time.  Ahem.

So where have I been? I have just been doing my thing Mrs. 007 style. Oh but I do have  a small confession.  This may be hard to take so maybe you should sit down.  I have been cheating on my blog with Facebook.  GASP!

Really I have just been living my little life.  Not too much has been going on and I have been feeling very happy and very blessed and that just seemed so BORING to write about.

Not that my life is boring to me but I just didn’t want to come here and write about how I am more in love with my husband now than I was the day I married him, that my kids are all kinds of awesome ,

that we love our new house and everything is just really really good.  I guess I just thought it would be sickening and icky and ho hum.

I didn’t have any crazy and/or disgusting stories to tell and I wasn’t sure you would care to hear about how I was on top of the laundry or that I cleaned out the closets and organized the playroom.  BLAH!

Then this week Alivia decided to give me something resembling blog material!

Notice how she just goes right on eating her banana as if nothing is out of the ordinary at all.  I will say that this picture was taken on a Monday and then she got into what was left of the baby powder AGAIN THE VERY NEXT DAY!

It wasn’t as funny to me the second time so I didn’t feel the need to snap another picture.  Alivia has embraced her role as a two year old wholeheartedly and decided that she likes to make mischief in any way she can.

And she recently thought she would check out what all of this vampire business was all about.

I may be making assumptions here but I think she is totally Team Edward.

Addison has been busy being a third grader and getting in trouble for talking too much.  She is as strong willed as ever and has been driving Adam and I CRAZY with her need to argue with EVERY SINGLE THING WE SAY.  I even ordered this book because I heard it was a big help with the sassy kids.

Addison is a very good kid and she seems to be very happy at school and at home.

I am not sure why I took this picture so crooked but don’t feel jealous of my excellent photography skills.  It’s a gift.

She is a great big sister and she still thinks it’s fun to play with Alivia.  I am impressed by this because of their age difference but there is always plenty of screaming and roughhousing when they play.  Alivia doesn’t take any crap from Addison and that’s a good thing because Addie seems to get endless pleasure from antagonizing her.

These girls are what keeps me sane and they drive me nuts at the same time.  I am not quite sure how that is possible but it is.

So what else?

Adam and I decided to go on the South Beach diet.  I have lost 6 lbs and I think he has lost 7.  We hit the two week mark today and I am looking forward to eating something other than lean meat, veggies,  low fat cheese and nuts in a few days when we move into Phase 2.  I am so sick of eggs for breakfast that the thought of eating an omelet makes me want to run for the hills.

My birthday is next week and Adam is getting me something FUN!!  I am getting a tattoo of a dogwood branch in memory of my Aunt Missy.  It’s been two years since her death and I want something tangible and beautiful to remind me of her often.  Plus I think tattoos are fun as long as they are tasteful!  I have been thinking about doing it for at least six months so I feel very good about my decision.

I am not sure if  I will feel inspired to write again before Christmas but if I don’t I hope everyone (that still reads my blog) has a wonderful holiday!

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