The economy & where it is going

Does anyone else wonder where we will end up with the economy going the way it is? I look around and there are so many businesses that now sit empty, so many houses with for sale signs on them. Each time I go to the grocery store I find higher prices, and there is absolutely no job market. I honestly have to wonder where we will end up if things do not change soon..

A weird thing:

Now as I have mentioned before, I do not have a problem with walking through poop barefoot. So here is the strange thing, I love my dogs but I hate having them lick my face. Now if you really want to know why, now are you ready for this? It is because they lick themselves, well more because of where they lick themselves. When I see a person letting a dog slobber all over their face all I can think is Oh my god that dog licked it's crotch and butt with the same tongue it is slobbering all over your face with. And the very idea of a dog washing my face with the same "washcloth" it used on it's crotch and butt just totally grosses me out. But I do not have a problem with walking in poop barefoot, no problem in the world with something that came out of an animals butt squishing up through my toes, go figure huh? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I am not licking my toes, where as I may end up licking my lips after the dog did.....

Kids say the funniest things:

So my daughter is sitting down doing her own thing. My husband asked her something and she said " daddy you know I am fixing my panties". And of course when we looked at her she did appear to be doing such a thing. Just kind of funny the things that kids blurt out.

It's a love hate relationship:

I swear that my kids must be the craziest creatures on earth. When they are home together they love to hate each other. They can't get along for 5 minutes without tearing into each other about something. And the knit picking is a never ending source of enjoyment for them that brings them hours of pleasure. Now let one of them go stay at their Grandmother's for a few days and they miss that sibling like crazy. I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder, only problem is it only lasts until they are back together. It only takes 5 minutes of them being back in the same house together and the cycle starts all over again.

They are all named not me:

Like most parents when I was having my children I picked a name for each child. Of course I carefully selected each name, names I liked. Now in most cases parents will give each child a different name because obviously there would be a lot of confusion if they didn't. I truly believed I gave each child a different name and I am sure their birth records reflect this, but I have since come to learn that each one of my children are named " Not Me". I know this because every time I ask "who made this mess" I hear four voices say "Not Me". So be very careful when you select the names for your children, they may not always be what they appear. I think I will go double check those birth records now....

Running a restaurant:

Sometimes at meal time I feel like I am running a restaurant. Out of my four kids my oldest son is the only one that will eat vegetables and never complains about what I have fixed, he is just happy to have something to dig his fork in to. The others on the other hand don't like anything unless of course it is tacos, pizza or McDonald's. Meat, potatoes and vegetables and the only thing they want is the meat, except my daughter who would rather have just the potato. Most nights they would rather eat a bowl of cereal. Now I don't really mind this, I am just glad they are eating something and filling up there bellies, but somehow after they eat cereal for supper every night it is my fault when there is none of their favorite kind left for breakfast. Now back to the only liking part of the meal....like many families out there we need to try to stretch things and make them go further. So in an attempt to stretch the burger a little further I made hamburger helper, to which my 9 year old son once told me " I like the hamburger but not the helper".

The warm wet kiss:

So I fell asleep on the couch. Crazy thing is I slept quite well, it was the best nights sleep I had in over a week. I am suddenly awakened by something warm rubbing along my shoulder and neck. A warm wet kiss all over my face. It was only one night on the couch, did my husband really miss me that much? No probably not, since it was our puppy Bruiser that was loving me up......bet ya thought this was going to be a juicy post huh? Maybe not very juicy but it was an exceptionally wet kiss...yuck.....