Day 4 ... am I done yet?

Day 4 is much better than Day 3! Not sure if this is because of being at work or not. We do have a BUNCH of goodies in the office, candy, cookies, etc...that sucks majorly, but I keep telling myself it's from last week, so it's old and nasty. LOL

Breakfast: My fiber / grain poptart
Coffee ... coffee and coffee ... very VERY little creamer.

Lunch: Grilled Chicken Breast topped with crab meat and swiss cheese. 5 chips.
3 glasses of Iced Tea - unsweetened of course!

Dinner: Will be, Salad topped with Grilled Chicken.

The hardest part is walking away from a plate that all wasn't eaten. At lunch, I could have devoured it all, but instead, walked away.

Starving children, I'm sorry. :(

My beautiful family...

The cousins...


The entire family...

Day 3 ... ready to quit!

I feel so hungry, but I know I'm not...I've eaten like I'm supposed to, portion size, etc...It's got to be in my head! Bah Humbug.

Smoking 3 cigs. so far, will be 4 before the day is over I'm sure. Not a good day on the smoking.

Frank SCORED a Wii Fit today ... so add in 9 mins of exercise :)

Day 2: this sucks!

Phew. Tough work when lots of food is around, dinner was hard, was at mom's house!!!

Ok, Day 2:

Breakfast:
Slice of raisin/cinnamon good for you bread w/out butter ...

Snack:
Same as above

Lunch:
Chicken w/onions and green peppers cooked in olive oil.

Snack:
2 pieces of cheese and 3 of those big brown nuts (can't remember the name); a few carrots, celery

Dinner:
1/2 Salad w/Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing; beef BBQ w/out the roll...Lots of celery and carrots and a few more pieces of cheese. A handful of chips, UTZ are my fav and they were right there :(

Not too bad today, but not as good as yesterday. My food intake is definitely less than normal, this is good.

My drinks are either water or iced green tea or iced tea (unsweetened) ... I love my tea and love it unsweetened so that is a good thing.

Tomorrow Frank is trying for a Wii Fit at Target ... I so need this!

(Forgot...1 1/2 cigs today)

I'm thinking ...

if I write this on my blog I will continue to follow through. This is tough for me. Weight loss that is. I love food. Put it in front of me and I will devour it all and then some....

So, here is my Day 1 of the "CG Weightloss Competition"

Breakfast-
1 Whole Grain and Fiber Poptart
(I know it's not the best choice, but I love my poptarts, and love these, so it's better than the normal cinnamon sugar ones...as I'm typing this I'm drooling for one of the 'real' cinnamon sugar poptarts...omg must stop self)

Lunch -
Salad Wrap - wrapped in 'green' tortilla shell...in it grilled chicken, romaine, shredded cheese and some bacon...
I had maybe 5 fries ... but that is a big step for me, I usually eat ALL the fries.
The best thing at lunch, I ATE 1/2 THE WRAP! GO ME!! LOL

Snack - 1 big piece of turkey

Dinner -
1/2 Salad - romaine lettuce, zucchini slices, feta cheese and balsamic Vinaigrette (low fat); Grilled chicken breast with tomato slices and some kind of sauce that wasn't thick, so felt it was a good choice; steamed brocolli; 2 bites, yes, 2 bites! of mashed potatoes....

Tomorrow 8:00am Frank is at Target to get me a Wii Fit...this is what I'm using my Christmas money from my mom for. I do believe I will use this.

OMG I forgot, the best news...I smoked a total of 2 1/2 cigs today!

Lord Help Me. I need to do this (weight thing) sssssssssssssooooooooooo bad.

Till tomorrow...

I need to remember next year to rent a...

dumpster.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HANUKKAH!




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The playlist...

(<~~~ Over there)...has brought back so many songs from my past. Mix them with my songs I love now...plus the songs I will come to love in the future and you have got one big






















Mess!

I'm having a ton of fun with this!

Name that tune...

Juliana is listening to my Ipod ... She came up to me and said "Mommy I listen to the booger song"

Any guesses?

Introducing...Kaitlyn Ella

Born to a dear friend of mine on 12/18/08 by emergency c-section, 7 weeks early...
8:38am ~ 4lbs 15oz & 18 inches

Mommy and baby are both doing remarkably well!



WELCOME TO THE WORLD KAITLYN ELLA! I hope you keep doing so well that you can come home by Christmas!

Wordless Wednesday ~~ Uncle Kevin as Santa ~ Juliana as herself

(Excuse the poor quality of the pictures)

Wordless Wednesday ~ A Welcome ... Holiday Style...

Welcome to the world, Tyler!!

Baby Tyler...born 12/4 to our dear friends Chad & Laura and big brother Jayden....


(this picture was taken by a friend)

Happy Holidays!

Welcome to the world, Baby Jasmin!

My niece (Grandchild #15 for my in-laws), Baby Jasmin...born 12/1 to Maria & Efren, and big siblings Theresa, Efren, & Anai ... Congratulations on the beautiful baby girl!

The almost purrfect day...

The purrfect ending.






Not.




Done by the not so purrrrrfect ...

cat.

Wordless Wednesday ... Holiday style

What happens when you and your Uncle share the same birthday?

You celebrate together ...

BooBoo you are...

7! I can't believe my little BooBoo is 7! Happy Birthday, Kristopher!!

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Wordless Wednesday

Day FIVE five FiVe ... YO FIVE No Jive

of being dry! Thanks to my brother-in-law's girlfriend, Juliana has been wearing undies for 5 days and has been dry! YEAH! Could this be it? I hope so!!


(this video is especially for Aunt Kristi and Uncle Matt)

Wordless Wednesday ~ Fall Fun Friends

Don't run with scissors...

or let your 9 year old hand them to your 3 year old...

Why am I always the parent home when blood attacks? Poor Juliana ...



Waiting for the doctor...


After the mean ole' doctor ... after the big bad nurse ...


AND...

36 hours later, mommy can finally get a BIG smile from her!


My wrap job beats the nurses wrap job!

How cool is this?

http://www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_10922259

Family to receive visit from 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' to be divulged today

By MARCUS RAUHUT Staff writer

The local family receiving a new home on the ABC-TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" will be introduced today.

No details about the family have been announced so far, other than it resides in the Pennsylvania-Maryland border area.

Saturday kicks off a one-week blitz to demolish the family's house and build a new one. Hundreds of construction workers, contractors and volunteers will be working around the clock to have the new house finished by Nov. 14.

The family is expected to meet with the builder today and begin moving out personal belongings.

The house is scheduled to be demolished Saturday with excavation work beginning Monday. The family is scheduled to return to their new house Nov. 14.

The show will air in January.

Dan Ryan Builders of Frederick, Md., will be responsible for procuring materials and recruiting thousands of volunteers and subcontractors who will work 24 hours a day for a week to build the home.

Other companies, such as Papa John's and Applebee's, are donating their time and serving food and drinks to the throng of workers and volunteers throughout the project. Applebee's in Waynesboro is planning a pancake breakfast Sunday and other fundraisers, with proceeds benefiting the family.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" airs at 8 p.m. Sundays on ABC. Each week the show spotlights a family coping with an unusual situation in need of a helping hand.

This is the show's sixth season. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"

has won back-to-back Emmy Awards as best reality program (non-competitive).

For more information on the local project, visit http://www.drbextreme.com.

We've been told they will be 'staying' out our Sheraton (by Ruby Tuesdays) ... I just want a sighting, that's all!

We have got to come together...

and support our new President! These hate mails and hate messages are insane! The more we try to object to Obama's presidency, the more we are going to fall apart as a nation. We need to realize that not only did the American's vote, but so has God. This is the way it was to happen. Things happen for reasons ...

GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSES AND SUCK IT UP.

Deal with it.

It's done. It's over. You can't change it.

We witnessed a historical event...I'm proud to have been alive to see this!

If you want to bash Obama (OR McCain for that matter), please do NOT do so to me. Take my name off your mass emails. I will NOT be a part of it.

The light came on...

and I was scared. Every time the light comes on I get sick to my stomach. Why me? I put it off last night and thought to myself that I would deal with it in the morning. I instantly forgot about the light.

The morning came and I still didn't remember the light. I gather up the kids and throw (I mean place) them in the van. I feel happy go-lucky ... ok, not really, I just got done yelling at Jake for taking too long and I'm sure I yelled at the cat for just being there. Anyway, we get in the van, I turn it on and I remember. I instantly get sick in my stomach, I get scared again.

That damn light...there it is. Glowing as a reminder I need gas. Ugh.

I drive the boys to the bus stop and J to my MIL's ... I've put it off as long as I could. I turn into the gas station and look at the prices and I'm thinking wow, that went down from last week...

I'm watching the numbers and they stop at $36 ... wait, that's not right, maybe I have a faulty nozzle? I click it and a bit of gas spews out ...

it IS full and my total is only $37.77!

$20 less than weeks ago...I can deal with this!

Special visitors...

arrived in New York City yesterday at approximately 10:30am ... They visited a few sites, conquered the Subway (well, sorta), bar hopped (to 1 bar), watched a vehicle get broken into (NO joke), received a few blisters, ate in a HOT diner (one where we thought we were the ones being cooked) that they wouldn't recommend, AND had hangovers at 3pm.

Ok, so that doesn't sound like a blast, BUT if you add to it the people that went, and that we haggled for the real fake Louis Vuitton's, the real fake Doulchi & Gabbana, not to mention the real fake Coach, that shouts FUN and BOOYAH and WOOT and well, just plain YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!

They/We ~~~ > myself, my mom, Louise and Andrea all ventured to NYC for a day of bar hopping and shopping.

After dropping off my mother-in-law at the Cathedral we proceeded to attempt the Subway. Interesting. Let's just say that yes, it saved us walking, but for the time it took us to figure out what we were doing, we could have been to the area we wanted to be. (Maybe WE couldn't have, but you get me.)

(Did you know that if you pay $7.50 into the ticket machine and the sale fails, it still keeps your money? Yep. Did you know that if you ask for your money back at the window the attendant tells you to call the number, they tell you how to get your money back, then send in blah blah blah blah ... she knew that by heart)

After walking in circles looking for Chinatown, but not aware we were going in circles, we finally decided to sit and eat and get a cold beerat a wonderful tavern on a side street. I'd tell ya where, but I really have no clue. We happened to go at a time when one of those little beer whore's were there, so we got a free pitcher of Miller Lite, some ML beads and ML earrings...free is good.

The waitress explained which way we needed to go to get to Chinatown, but we got lost several more times. The nice cops and nice New Yorkers finally got us there ... and there we were, haggling! We didn't just stop and haggle on the streets, but we were escorted into back closets, down stairs to basements, and into side doors. Ah, the life. (I think mom was rather shaken when one place locked us in. LOL)

After making our way down Canal St. and through Little Italy we found the Subway once again...by the time we got to our meeting destination we had about 1 1/2 hours left and decided to get something to eat. Our choice for dinner was less than to be desired, but we dealt with it. We were so drained and so tired that we just wanted to sit and wanted a nice cold drink, which were hard to come by since we were being cooked for dinner. Who in their right mind has their customers sit underneath stage lights, in a basement, with the heat on? At least put enough ice in the ice water so it doesn't melt in 10 seconds.

All in all ~~~~ It was a wonderful trip with wonderful friends!

The time flew by and I will gladly do it again! Despite our change of plans (bar hopping LOL) and my sore, blistered feet, I am anxiously awaiting the next time I get to go!

Oh, I forgot, one more thing...next time I'm taking a compass!

A beautiful site...

the Empire State Building at night.

Halloween Part 2...

Here are the goblins from the 2008 Sanity Seeking Halloween...

We've got Jake starring as ... Dr. Kill Joy (Pap, the bed pan was a BIG HIT! People loved it!)



Then we have Kris starring as ... A Clone Trooper (mmmuwwwhahahahahahaha)



And last, but not least, Juliana as ... Grumpy, I mean, Tender Heart Bear
Juliana was scared to death of the 'scary' costume's ... poor baby. Even the ones her size she was scared of...






HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween!

To tide you over until I get pics of my scary crew, we will start with the "Dancing Queen" ... May I present to you...my niece, Eliana, 1st prize costume winner!




"You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen..."

Halloween Wordless Wednesday

The Pumpkin Princess (Juliana 6 weeks old - In no way was she harmed)

Wordless Wednesday ~ Halloween Style

Jake 3 and Kris just about 1.

Can this be it?

FINALLY after 3 years, could this be the year we have been waiting for?

Could this be the year that Jakob finally is a 'good' student? Could this be the year that Jakob finally has a teacher that connects with him? Could this be the year that his father and I don't have to meet w/the principal and a team of specialists?

Please say it is true ~ this interim report that I am reading.

Reading B
English B
Spelling B
Social Studies B
Math B
Science B
Homework B

B's ... do you see that? ALL B's ... INCLUDING reading?!?!

But wait, I saved the best for last:

Behavior




OMG







Wait for it
























SATISFACTORY! An S! NOT A NEEDS IMPROVEMENT!
(comment by teacher: sometimes talkative, silly)




I can handle silly!










OMG I think I want to cry!

Wordless Wednesday ~ In honor of Halloween ~ My adorable niece

Darth Vader wins again...

and BooBoo shall remain his name even longer...

Kris was riding his scooter with a Darth Vader mask on. He ended up doing a face plant. He now has 2 deep scratches on his nose, kinda like he was wearing glasses. Frank cleaned him up while I was trying hard not to laugh.

I wonder what the cars thought driving by? "Dude, there's Darth on a scooter."

Poor BooBoo.

Here's a picture from yesterday, you can see the 1 scratch ...

Wordless Wednesday...

Such a loser...

that would be me.

I just read through the Walgreens ad and they have Aquafina Alive and Sobe Life Water on sale for 2 / $2 ... use their Easy Saver coupon (in the October Easy Saver books by their ads in the store) and it makes it 2/$1 -- 50 cents each is a great deal in itself,

BUT

combine it with a coupon for $1 off of 2 and it makes it FREE! Limit is 2 bottles per transaction.

I couldn't stand it...I had to go...Walgreens is 30 seconds up the road. So, at 7:59pm, 1 minute until Juliana's bedtime, I grabbed her, and the boys, and we went. J was wearing the one piece pj's w/the feet, the boys were still dressed, and myself, I had no bra on, and my pj pants on...so I put on a pair of jeans and flip flops and a jacket and off we went...LOL

BUT I got 6 bottles for 36cents!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH ME!!

This is a big deal for me, since the boys (frank included) drink me out of the house!!

We are babysitting...

and all he is doing is whining for me to hold him. I have to sit on the couch just so he can be up here with me. HIs parents aren't due back until tomorrow around 5pm-ish.

Hayden (cat) is a mess, he is so upset. He won't eat, let alone come downstairs.Petey (cat) is fine, but he's been through so much change this one doesn't phase him...

All he is doing is whine .. I feel so bad I don't know what to do to calm him down!! He won't eat and doesen't even want one of his wonderful snacks.

My dog nephew, Capone. I can't believe Frank said yes, but he did...

Poor baby misses his mom/'dad so much. I don't know what to do for him! I hope he sleeps tonight!

"I wanna hold that" ...

...those are the words spoken by Juliana tonight while I held Baby George. Then, she wanted absolutely NOTHING to do with Baby G.

Kris so kindly set out drinks for everyone on the kitchen table, knowing we were having company. He put out a juice box for Baby G and Juliana told him she didn't want that. He told her "That's not yours, that's for baby George"

WARNING Magnetix Toys / It happened to us!

Last night Jake and Kris were playing with their Magnetix Toys and Jake decided stupidly to put one of the balls in his mouth. (He said it was his snake food) Well, he swallowed it.

He came and told me what had happened...I looked at him in kind of shock, I mean he IS 9 years old, I shouldn't have to watch him play, he KNOWS better! Even knowing better, it happens and it did happen to Jake.

He was breathing fine, not choking and said it went down real easy. I called Frank, and he advised me to just watch him closely. He said it should pass sooner or later. I also decided to call Jake's pediatrician...she advised me to take him into the ER for an Xray, they need to make sure it is not stuck, if stuck, he'll need surgery to remove the ball.

I then started Googling (that word needs to be in the dictionary) and was shocked at this website I found. WARNING MAGNETIX. I can NOT believe the kids that have died from these same toys! The ones that swallowed 2 or more pieces had to have surgery, some have died...the ones, like Jake, 9 x's out of 10, passed the balls anywhere from 2 days to a month.

Jake was under my care when this happened ~ I feel like a terrible mom for letting the boys even have this toy. I told them time and time again to pick them up, put them away, so that their sister couldn't get them, as she would choke on them. Here, it happened to my 9 year old.

I have been really thinking about this...how many times have I had a paperclip in my mouth, yes, just in my lips, but I could have inhaled that. I know someone that would suck on pennies because it supposedly took the alcohol smell off her breath, she could have inhaled those pennies. A cap to a pen, an earring or the post...just holding it in your lips while you put the other one in. So, in Jake's defense, it can happen, no matter how old you are.

I'm asking everyone that has these toys to throw them away, unless you are going to watch your child play with them, knowing they are old enough to play on their own.

We decided to not take Jake (AKA Heavy Metal) to the ER, yet. Since he is acting normal, no pain, nothing really, we'll wait a few days and see if he passes it. If nothing, then we'll go get the Xray to see if it is moving along the way it should.

1 poop down...numerous poop squishing to go. Wish us luck ...

"Excuse Me"

This is Juliana and I's conversation as I was getting her ready for bed last night.

Juliana - "Excuse Me"
Me - "Did you fart"
J - "Yes" *giggle giggle*
Me - "Do you need to go poop?"
J - "My butt didn't fart Mommy, my mouth farted"
Me - "Your mouth farted?" *laughing* "You mean you burped."
J - "No way, my mouth farted"

Welcome to the world!

Grandchild #14 - The baby of the family is now a father...

Congrats George & Nicole!

George Nicola
September 17, 2008
9:03pm
8lbs 6oz
21 inches long

3

Juliana turned 3 today. My baby is 3. *fainting*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JULIANA!





View more photo's here ... (check out the cake that Aunt Jacinta made for Juliana!)

Wordless Wednesday

I finally get why you have kids...

to run into the gas station to get you a paper!

*Warning! It took me 9 years to get to this point*

The longest day of my life...

It still feels as if 9/11/01 was the longest day of my life. The day was just so odd, so slow, so non-ending.

My memory of the day...

I was at work (7 mths pregnant with Kris) when we got a call from a client telling us a plane had hit one of the Trade Centers. At first we didn't believe him, he was a joker...but then Frank called me. He was at the gym and said that he saw it on the news, but thought it was some sort of a movie...

We adjusted all the radio's in the office to hear what was going on. We were not allowed to use the internet for anything other than our travel sites, so signing on to a news site was out of the question.

When the 2nd plane hit, I panicked. My parents were at the Orlando Airport flying home from visiting my sister. I tried to call them, to tell them to get the hell out of there. The phones weren't working.

I went down the list, my parents, my sister, my BIL and my gma...nobody would answer, the calls wouldn't go through.

Finally, I get a hold of my sister, and she informed me that Matt was on his way to pick them back up. I wasn't relaxed until I actually heard from my parents. They said that they were walking down the airport and had noticed people gathered around a TV and stop to see...I just couldn't imagine the feelings they felt when they finally knew what was going on, to be in an airport, not knowing who around them may attack or who around them may be part of the 'plan.' It took them 4 days to get home.

I went home that day at lunch, I was never so happy to see Frank or Jake in my life. Had the plane that went down in PA been15 mins later, it would have hit our town. The day took something from me and I just couldn't figure it out. We kept the TV on low so that Jake wasn't aware of what was going on. I just wanted to be there with them, stay home with them.

The assholes that did this changed my life. I lost my job a week after Kris was born, nobody was traveling and we were losing money because of people canceling. But what I lost is nothing compared to the loss of the families on those planes...the families in the Trade Centers. I will never forget.

Wordless Wednesday ... My SIL

Oh my...Jake, what am I going to do with you?!

This was hanging on the wall outside of Jake's classroom. His was first...*fainting*

Taking the first letter of his name and writing a sentence w/it...

Jam and peanut butt is delicioas
Apples are me fauvorite fruit
Kittis are suft and cuddly to me
Oak tree is my fauvorite tree
Bees scare me

He said butt...LMAO

A Fresh Start

Tonight I got to meet Jake's teacher, the one that I had 24 years ago...WOW, I can so remember sitting in her class and listening to her talk. Well, the mother sitting beside me actually had this same teacher 30 years ago, the first year that she taught!! Wow!

I love these 'fresh' starts...I feel so good about his teacher and about him being able to learn and do better this year. His 2nd grade year was the worst, in fact, when he ended 2nd grade, he was still at a 1st grade level. Last year, we had a rough start, but then, it got better, especially after speaking w/the teacher and the principal.

This year, I know it's only 6 days in, but so far so good. I'm actually proud of him. I helped him study the other night (did you know that cows eat 90lbs of food per day?) and was impressed! He sat down for 10 minutes to read 2 pages, the 2 pages I would be quizzing him on. And let me tell you, that boy knew the answers like that!!! I was soooooooooo proud!! I hope this is the beginning of a good thing for him! I couldn't study like that...

He has the other 4th grade teacher as his Math teacher. In fact, both classes (yes, our school is only 2 rooms per grade) have Math w/this one teacher. (Science/Social Studies is taught by his teacher, both classes together) They are trying something new this year (every year it seems like something is new) and are have little groups. A group of 4 or 5 kids will solve a problem together, they will be teaching each other how to do that problem...I don't know about this...Jake in a group w/other kids, to goof off to, isn't a good thing...

Houston...we have...

poop in the pink potty. The poop has landed in the pink potty!

Yeah, Ana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Dookie and the Diner...

Tonight we go to our favorite diner to eat dinner. The owner loves us (especially the kids), we don't know her other than going there, but any time we are there, she gloats all over the kids. She talks to the kids like she has known them for years, and really she has, but we only eat there about every other month.

The diner is not anything extravagant, but the food gets to you within 5 minutes, it's cheap, and it's edible. That's all that matters.

Most of you know that Juliana wants nothing to do w/the potty and the (oh so hellish) training. Tonight at the diner was no different. As we are sitting there eating our wonderful fries w/beef gravy she is sitting there in the diner's highchair and proceeds to make faces as she releases her load of fury...dookie.

Jake starts snorting through his nose, so much so, that I'm shocked food didn't go flying out of his mouth. Then the giggles start to erupt. As we are trying to tell Jake to be quiet (we were already trying to hide the fact that she had done the deed and we were eating a bit faster so that we could calmly walk out of the diner before the smell came, like nothing had happened) she screams in a panic ridden voice: "Daddy poop come out"

Frank whips her out of her chair and looks down, gets a look of disgust on his face and walks out to the bathroom with her. I look at the diner's highchair and there are now a few new racing strips to it. I take a napkin and wipe it off and shove in those convenient 'kid' paper cups, the ones with a lid, thinking it will keep the smell away. I look around and spot the busboy's cart, but notice there is no cleaner on it ... I have got to tell the waitress to bring me some disinfecting spray, she'll understand, it's wiped away, but needs a disinfectant.

As we are sitting there waiting for the waitress to come and for Frank to return, Jake starts to make faces and proceeds to talk LOUDLY about what his sister just did. I keep telling him to be quiet, but he isn't listening. By this time the couple across from us starts to look at us. Did I mention they know us? Yeah, well, they do. Their grandson is in Jake's class and has been in Jake's class since pre-school.

Finally, Frank walks out with Juliana, who is walking like she has been contaminated and as if something is up her lovely butt. Frank stops dead in his tracks, looks at the floor, then continues to walk towards me. He mumbles to me that there is a load on the floor and proceeds to tell Jake to come with him.

I turn around and look at the floor to see a softball size of dookie in the middle of the floor...not only did I look at it, but the couple (the ones that know us) looked at it at the same time.

I sit there, stunned. I can't move. After what feels like several minutes, the couple looks up at me and proceeds to make small talk with me. While talking, I get up with a napkin, grab the dookie, and shove it in the cup with the lid. I accomplished the task of talking and gagging and picking up dookie. I'm a mom, I can do numerous things at once.

I can see Jake running wildly towards me with wipes and a bag (from Frank's car) and saying loudly that it smells horrible. Let's just say that this is not the kind of attention from the diners that I wanted. I would have preferred them to look at me as if I was a glamorous mother of 3, not a tainted mother of 3 with a dookie cup.

I open the fresh smelling wipes and disinfect the highchair, throw the cup and wipes in the bag, tie it up, say good-bye to the neighboring table with the nice people we know and head to the bathroom to discard the dookie bag. There, on the way to the bathroom, is a strategically laid trail. A trail of 3 small penny size dookie's.

What do I do? I throw away the evidence, bury it deep under the paper towels, leave an extra tip, go to the register, pay, and go to the safety of my car for a fast getaway.

Wordless Wednesday ~ Entering the Panama Canal