Thank GAWD I have two children to remind when to take down holiday decor.....6 hours after a holiday ends.   Thank GAWD I have two children to remind me that it's 8 AM on a weekend.  Thank GAWD they're there to hand me a recently answered phone minutes after I told them I didn't feel like talking to anyone.  And when they tell my mother in law that I said she was 'old' (which I still maintain that I NEVER said).  And when I use them as an excuse and they bust me.  "MOM...I DON'T NEED HELP WITH HOMEWORK, SO YOU CAN TOTALLY GO FOR A WALK WITH MRS. SO & SO"!!!   (For the record, Mrs. So & So rules, I just don't feel like walking sometimes)  And thank goodness they're there to remind me when my boobs look, "disappeared"  or that "no offense, but your butt looks like a bubble in those jeans".   No offense taken! 

They do this a lot when we're at the doctor. 
Dr:  Do they drink pop?
Me: No
Ben: Yes we do, mom.  Remember at Corner Bar, you let us get Sprite
Me: (insert death glare)

Dr. Do they wear helmets
Me: Oh yes.
Gabe:  You don't make us wear helmets at Lita's house.
Me: Because Lita lives outside civilization and there are no cars there. 
Ben: One time there was a car there... 
Me: (insert death glare)

They bust my balls.  Plain and simple, these two bust my balls something good!   I can't get away with anything.  It's like living with my mother all over again.  Except my mother's eye sight and hearing wasn't as keen as theirs.  So, there's that.   I had a bunch of friends over a few nights ago and after everyone has gone home and I'm cleaning up my kitchen, Ben says, "Oooohh, I should have told you, I saw a cobweb up in your grapevines".  (I have grapevines above the windows in my kitchen).  THIS, YOU FORGET TO TELL ME???  Now, he decides to zip his lip and keep his criticism to himself?!?!   That might have come in handy BEFORE 30 people showed up!  

Ok, so they're painfully honest.  There's worse things, I suppose.   This past weekend was Mother's Day.  Each boy brought me home a hand made what-I-love-about-mom project. 

Gabe's said that my favorite food was soup  (?) and that my favorite tv show was 'watching myself on tv'.  Which is hilarious.  "Yep, I'm just sitting here eating soup and watching myself on tv. Jealous"? 

Ben's said that I'm caring, a great nurse (?), a good cook (which is funny because that child only eats toast) and that I have a ton of friends (awe!) and that I 'even love to hunt'.   So, yeah... you could say I'm pretty cool.  All my friends and I....we go hunting and then nurse the animal back to health.  But, if it dies, no big deal because I'll just skin it and make a delicious soup, what, with my being such a good cook and all.    I think he's confusing me with another mother. 

They give me grey hairs and laugh lines, those two. 

Hope everyone had a marvelous mother's day!!!