Why I Suck At Blogging (because I really do)

1. I'm Horrible at taking pictures
I never bring a camera with me. Anywhere. I know that I should, but so often I find myself at some sort of Kodak Moment when suddenly it occurs to me that a responsible, loving mother would have had the foresight to bring with them the means to capture that perfect moment for posterity. And then, of course, if I do somehow manage to have a moment of mental clarity and pop the camera into my purse before we leave the house, I always forget to bring it out. Not to mention that all we have is a little point-and-shoot, which is cute and convenient, but not exactly the tool for super-awesome-and-beautifully-artistic shots. And a blog post without pictures seems to assume that others just love to hear me talk, and I guess I'm just not self-confident enough for that.

2. We never do anything interesting
It's true. The Tomlinson Family lead very boring and uneventful lives. Not to say that we don't do anything, not at all. We're all extremely busy. Unfortunately, we're just always busy with such mundance activities, the mere thought of writing it down puts me to sleep. Auditory/verbal therapy is not exactly reality-show worthy entertainment.

3. I'm too objective about my children
I'm a totally crappy mom. A good mom would look at their children as if their every dirty diaper was some sort of miracle only a genius child could conjure up, and feel the need to share that miraculous event with the world. The everyday things my kid do are cute, and I love it, but I'm their mom. I'm genetically required to find them amusing. I guess I just figure my friends and out-of-town relatives are not. I mean, it was cute when Seth did a little rendition of flash-dance in milk on the kitchen table, but I'm not exactly surprised that the story didn't get picked up by the Times. Of course, I realize there's some error in my logic, because I actually really enjoy hearing about those everyday, cute moments that other people blog about. Huh.

This is what happens to the brain when you deprive it of sleep...

So, I was doing the dishes today, and my mind started to wander...

God, being God, knows everything, and has, from the beginning, known the entire history of man and everything that would come. Right?

So, as the Earth was being created, God could look forward and see a time with reality contest shows, Twitter, and Jon and Kate Plus 8.

What a flippin' trip that must have been.

Bad MommyAward or How To Start The Summer Off... Wrong

Poor Lexie, she's born deaf AND she's got the worst mother ever. Kid never gets a break, eh?
Lexie's bad mommy let her play outside all day on Saturday without sunscreen. Then, when she started acting like she didn't feel well Saturday night, her mommy assumed it was from the sunburn that she had inevitably developed. When she got a fever Sunday evening, her horrible mommy still blamed the sun. By Tuesday afternoon her mommy grew a brain and took her to the doctor. Poor thing has Strep Throat.

Yes, I'll be accepting that trophy now. Thank you.

Just Like Mommy

At a Redbox Near You...

Everyone needs to go rent this movie. It's a little weird and artsy, which for me is a VERY good thing, but not so much for everyone, but still, it's just a total winner. It was both the funniest and most touching movie we'd seen in a long time. Plus, it's a totally cool, creative movie that's rated PG-13 and actually appropriate! That's so rare.

Go rent it today. Or tomorrow. But preferably today.

Seriously, go now. Enjoy!

Camping Trip from Hell

I do not like camping. I know this may alienate me from a large majority of the human race, but you know what, I don't care. I just don't see the point in spending an entire day packing up all my belongings from their comfortable and logical resting places within my house, driving up into the mountains to sit around in the dirt being cold and doing things that would be more fun and a heck of a lot easier if done at home, just to drive back and spend another entire day cleaning my belongings and putting them back in their rightful place. It just seems illogical to me. But apparently not to most people, and not to Wayne. He gave me the puppy-dog eyes, and for some unknown reason I decided to let that effect me and agreed to go camping over Friday night. Of course, I never promised to be happy about it. In fact, I was an unapologetic brat the entire time.

Look at that scowl! What a wench... Too bad Wayne didn't marry one of those hearty Utah gals and wound up with a prissy little city-girl like me. But the kids had fun, at first:

Here they are playing in the dirt with Tiger. I hate letting my kids get dirty (like, literal 'dirt' dirty. Food, markers, that's all good...), so this was torture for me.

UGH! Look at the dirt on his mouth! What sort of mother lets this happen?! Well, at least he's smiling, which is more than he was doing later. This little guy was the reason the trip ending up being "from hell". He just would not sleep. Seth's not usually a baby who needs complete silence to sleep, but apparently the noise of the great outdoors was just too much for him. Between cars driving by, the wind, the loud people camping near us singing Pink off-key and using the f-word with great abundance, the little dude just couldn't get his zzzz's. He was totally freaked out and just cried and cried and cried. Finally at 1am, Wayne threw in the towel and we drove the hour and a half home. It was miserable.

But at least I won't be forced to go camping again for a while...

Lexie is 4!

Lexie turned 4 on the 2nd. For months I had it in the back of my mind that I was going to do some sort of girly party for Lex, but then I completely forgot that the date was even coming up until Wayne mentioned it a week before. So we ended up taking Lexie up to South Towne mall to the carousel and then to Chick-fil-a for dinner and to play in their play area. It was supposed to just be something semi-fun to do for the day, but Lexie LOVED it, so we decided that was enough b-day for her. Unforunately, she was having SO much fun, I couldn't get her to stay still enough for a good picture, so this is all we've got. We did get a bunch of cute ones of Seth, though.