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Have this wish I wish tonight ….

Please allow me one night of extreme silence

To read a book or lounge around

Please let me be free one night

To sulk and eat ice cream in delight.

No children around to beg for my food

I think this wish would be really good.

Please oh please I wish I may I wish I might

Have this wish I wish tonight….

Mama is ready for a break before midnight.

I seriously do not understand my sons, at all. Maybe I just simply do not understand the male species in general, and so that would explain why my sons are often putting me in states of confusion!

My sons, ages 2 & 4 have learned a habit, this habit was taught to them by their 8 year old sister. The habit is eating peanut butter with a spoon from the jar. This isn’t a totally bad habit, I don’t mind if they do this, but my evil recliner and me no longer are friends because I sat in my evil recliner one morning and passed out. Without realizing I was asleep I opened my eyes to a two year old with peanut butter all over my couch, his arms were like gloves of peanut butter too. It was a mess, so now I no longer sit in my evil recliner, I sit on the uncomfortable little couch I have instead, because there will be no Mama falling asleep with a two year old eating peanut butter incidents anymore!

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Okay now back to the sandwich ordeal, my sons obviously love peanut butter, but they do not love it on a sandwich. Seriously! They request for lunch a jelly only sandwich, do not put peanut butter on this sandwich because they will not be impressed and refuse to eat it until you scrub off the peanut butter, or in my case make a new sandwich with jelly only.

I don’t know when these boys started this jelly only habit, but I have to keep reminding myself because it is habit to make a PB&J sandwich, not a J sandwich….

So do your kids have or did they have any odd habits that made no sense to you?

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Oh my gosh, my kids LOVE ketchup but it is partially my fault as I am a huge fan of using ketchup in extreme amounts on just about everything too. My kids love ketchup with their chicken alfredo, instead of the alfredo sauce, ketchup on eggs, ketchup on pork chops and the list can go on and on.

Ketchup and kids was not a huge deal up until about a week ago when my youngest who will be 2 in August decided that he could use this wonderfully red product as finger paint. Yes Baby K insists on painting his brothers face, cheek and his sisters arm and clothing with red ketchup.

I have wondered what methods I can use to deter him from using ketchup in this not so great way. Maybe put him in the time out corner when he does it, raise my voice at him, explain it’s not okay or better yet J has told me that I should simply take ketchup away from him until he starts to use it right. Meaning he won’t have ketchup for any of his favorite foods and will watch as his sister & brother use it in full amounts.

I love the idea of taking the ketchup away from him altogether, however, this almost 2 year old boy watching his siblings use ketchup may lead to more issues than just a little bit of ketchup on various parts of bodies … he may have a total melt down which may lead to his plate being thrown, food tossed at us, and so much more.

As I work towards figuring out a resolution to ketchup and kids I write on here to see what ideas you have to help me fix the ketchup and kids dilemma! Any tips, advice, what you would do comments are encouraged!

My children were with their father on Memorial Day weekend so I spent the weekend doing the not-so Mom things I don’t normally do when my children are home. Such as having a few bud lights, going to the family farm to watch everyone get drunk while I was the designated driver who got hyper on Rockstar Energy Drinks and slept in until whatever time my body felt like waking up. Speaking of sleeping in, do you know that I used to sleep til noon?! Yes that was always what I considered sleeping in, then I became Mom and simply being able to sleep until 9am is considered sleeping in to me!

After my long not-so Mom weekend my daughter came home first after dinner on Monday evening. Unfortunately I had gone for my first motorcycle ride in near 6 years {if not longer} and thought my daughter would be home around 6:30 or 7pm so we rode until about 6:30pm. When we pulled up into my driveway my daughter and her father were sitting there, apparently my ex thought it would be really sweet {and it was} to bring Ki home a bit earlier than normal so that I could have that extra one on one time with her.

My daughter ran right up to me, who cares who Mama is with, and started reaming me out, lecturing me about how I was suppose to be home waiting for her and she had been there half an hour calling my cell and my house phone thinking I was sleeping {since my car was in the driveway}. I had to laugh at her and remind her I am Mom and not to speak to me that way. I also buttered her up a bit since my plan was to go get an ice cream cone and take a walk together, something we barely do since the double trouble team was born {my two sons}.

The idea of ice cream stopped her in her tracks and the walking, well she was sort of excited. When her Dad left we got into my car and drove off to the local small airport in town for ice cream only to find out it was closed. Then we debated where to go, if we went to the next town over for ice cream there would be no time {on a school night} to take a walk together. Eventually we figured out that a new ice cream shop was in town near our bowling alley so we ventured to the ATM at my local bank, took some cash out and ordered from the new local shop.

This ice cream was fab and the hot dog I decided to get for a quick dinner was fab too! I love hot dogs! Next we moved my car to a safer area to leave while we ventured on a walk through town. Not even 1 minute from the vehicle my daughter starts complaining about walking, well if she hadn’t been walking like a cheetah on a mission she wouldn’t be out of breath already. We slowed it down and I gave her a hard time {sarcastically of course} about how when she was younger we would walk 2 hours a day without a problem. I am a smoker and wasn’t even out of breath during the walk.

Once my daughter got into the walk, I allowed her to pick and choose our destinations. First we went down a ton of side roads and back to the town common where we sat and enjoyed being silly together. We took many pictures and the pictures reminded me of just how beautiful my little girl is and how much she is growing before my eyes!

Even though my daughter started the walk with complaints, towards the end we both were holding hands, swinging them just like when she was a little 2 year old girl who had no choice but to hold my hand to ensure she didn’t fall. These are the moments I will cherish and keep in my mind forever, the days when my daughter, my first born child, and I are able to get some one on one quality time without me having to keep a steady on her brothers. Memories are wonderful, motherhood is full of so many journeys and I feel I am not even halfway through them yet!