Crazy Hat Day

Kindergarteners at Longmont Estates have and End of Year Program..."Crazy Hat Day"...

It gave Olive and I an opportunity to brain storm about Spring and do a bit of crafty stuff.

We needed it because we have all just been total Bitches in my house lately. Screaming and carrying on like ding dongs.

So, we headed out to the ARC to find a vintage hat that looked Springy...

There was one perfect hat amongst the old cowboy hats...the perfect Spring base to our crafty hat.

We then headed to Hobby Lobby to find the little birds.

Here, Olive announced to everyone and anyone who would listen that,

"Everything is made in China!!! Why can't we make things in the U.S. of A!!!?"

good point kid.

Found what we needed...headed back home for an easy project with her singing some crazy song about smashing bumble bees.

We arranged the hat over brilliant conversation. Topics like : we love Nature...

Why do little birds only lay three eggs? And Chinese people must have tiny hands.

Then we were done.

and she went to show her ever lackluster father.

"look---!!!! Mommy and I LOOOVE nature...But Daddy you hate it.

You run over squirrels."

and I smiled, because he was caught, once again...

by a 5 year old.

Try to be a halfway decent Mom...just for once

i'm really trying to be a good mom this weekend...it's my last weekend before I start all my clinicals and hard ass stuff. With that said I headed to Sally hair crap supplier and picked up some stuff for my all ready pasty skinny kid who has been wanting to do something a little more Punk" with his hair.
I told him as long as he gets it trimmed up I would fix it...while I did his, the Awesomely awesome Mom that I am, did Olive's.

then we sat and ate the only mudpuppies I could find in land locked Colorado. The kids didn't know the difference...I did, but why ruin a good thing?

Next on the agenda...take Olive to get a new wardrobe for under 60$ made by overworked, under paid Chinese children from Old Navy...and try to be friendly...to everyone, because this is it...after this weekend the shit hits the fan nursing school wise for the next 10 weeks

In the depths of the phone...

I found this:

olive baby, originally uploaded by v8grrl.

it appears the pixels are off...but it cracked me up, buried in the depths of my crappy ancient phone was this blue eyed doe. Chubby cheeks and all.

I look and this and try to remember that I do love kids.

although it's hard when she is upstairs screeching at how mad she is right now.

you know...

she is older and obviously much wiseassier now.

she sure was cute.

was being the key word.

joking...she still has her moments.

360 days of my life #17

louder than the kids, originally uploaded by v8grrl.