My gifts just kept coming...



My Moters Day card from Ashlyn



Gorgeous art work from a 4 year-old,

pretty much all a mother needs... and also, has 38 of on her fridge, stuck up with alphabet magnets, and jelly, oh and that one permanently glued (upside down) that makes 39...

So, this is me apparently... after Bostyn must have given me another hair cut, or shaved me, and it could be a dangling banana peel...

my feet bound in duct tape, or maybe bandages from walking like an Indian on glass, to sneak out of a finally sleeping toddler's room (or I guess it could have been from another Lego laceration, as well ?)

and the green shit in my teeth (you know the stuff no one ever tells you about, and just still may be there tomorrow, too)  

and it also appears a giant slice of watermelon being dropped on me... Love it!

Now, I could have been completely satisfied with my drawing above,  

 BUT, there's more my day just kept giving...

Ashlyn asked for a roll of wrapping paper to wrap my gift...

Certainly, first noticing it was the very same kind Santa used this year, ... AAAA? Ouch,

Yes, could have been tragic, but I caused a diversion by sneezing so intensely, I farted, and suddenly she had further questions;  like what I had for breakfast?  and if I had pooped?



So here's my gifts, the watermelon card, and two complete rolls of Scotch tape:



And then I opened it... Oh, wow!

Yeah, I can tell you're as surprised as I was...

My husband went all out this year getting his kids a gift for mom.

So, I asked her to narrate as I opened...curious as to just what she had selected here...

My hair brush... Nice, and with my hair still in it!

 She said,  "I just know you were looking for it.."  Of course, because it couldn't seem to find my head since the day she was born.

And a movie: Where she explained, she was the Princess and I the beast...

Kay... got it, need to brush hair and also shave...

...and a short pencil, appearing to be stole from a bowling ally or putt-putt golf,

"but, you probably shouldn't use it because it doesn't have an eraser and it's not very sharp!" she says.

So she took it behind her back and said, "never mind, this one."

"Coldyn, here's your stupid pencil!"

..and then there was some other crap, but my favorite was the three legged pig...

She claims, "I gave it to you because, I thought if it was your's, you would finally sew its leg back on.

But, after you fix it I want it back! OK? ...So, can you go fix it now?"

(Wow, she will one day be president!)

But, I told her "I think this one is supposed to be for grandma, so go wrap it again." 

I LOVE them all! Especially her reasoning for each selected item... priceless at four years, and priceless for mommy; as it kept her busy, quietly, for hours to waste three rolls of wrapping paper and drag out all kinds of crap to re-wrap 11 times...

My 8 year-old a bit more like... "I have a card for you in my book bag... well, I started a card, but it's not done and I'm busy right now, so can I give it to you next week or something?"

(Then ironically, he wanted to finish when he found out it was bedtime...)

I love you too, buddy!