Super Sisters, GIRLIE GIRLS & Wizard

WOW< it is SUMMER. I am just spinning. June is mad for us..... we practically have a birthday every week..........so much to write about but no time..... check out some of my projects:

Here are what I did for my b-day and the invites for the kids parties.... minus the details!!!!

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Kinder graduate & seeing yourself as a child

Yesterday, my third baby graduated from Kindergarten! It was so sweet. They sang to the tune NY, NY but with 1st grade, 1st grade! I just teared up... I can't believe I refrained from crying. The day before I had come across his hospital baby bracelet..... for that I sobbed! Truthfully, I never really got the time flies by........ and everyday it becomes more and true. My grandfather just told me that for him the days are passing even quicker now! I can only imagine.....

The girls are finishing the 3rd grade today..... WOW, I HAVE 2 FOURTH GRADERS!!! Next year, they get to go upstairs. Right now, I can find humor in their moodiness that is developing. Ask again at the end of the summer ;)

Yesterday, my sister told me about something she read by Louise Hay. Ms. Hay is an author our mother has read and loved for years. She was talking about how we need to each look at ourselves as children. Really, imagine yourself as a small child. She does this in an exercise to help us see how critical and mean we can be to ourself. This really spoke to me... I just see so much of me in the girls. Would I say that to my daughters..... No, (most of the time and if not a quick appology is given) I treat them with kindness, show them a better way of seeing themselves and their strengths, and help them with any weakness. Why am I saying it to my self? I am after all a child of God just as my sweet babies. I like this...... GOOD REMINDER!!!!!

Can't Sams

My four year old son and oldest daughter were eating out for lunch when my son yelled, "LOOK, MOM IT'S A CAN'T SAMS! SEE!!!!" He was pointing just next to his plate. After a few seconds of questioning, he just kept repeating until his thick Texas accent slurred the words together, "CAN'TSAMS" became "CAN'TSEEUMS" or Can't-See-Ums or correctly No-See-Ums! A small bug was sitting next to his plate. He thought it was a No-See-Um! It is so cute how kiddos minds work.....he really is so smart to have even connected no to can't and remembered that this is the name for the small bug!!!! Oh listen to me, I may be just a little biased!!!!

FYI: No-See-Ums are a real bug, they bite and are a pain!!!!

Another funny from the four year old..... my daughter was telling him that her chest felt gross. Full of emotion he exclaimed, "Then stop touch me, I don't want you to make me gross!"

Career Day

This morning I sent a Chef, Illustrator, and a race car driver off to elementary school! They were so cute deciding what they want to be when the grow up. One of my oldest kept asking all sorts of questions about how much this makes and that makes. She was also very direct to tell her Daddy that she did not want to do what he does because he travels TOO MUCH. Funny.... he and I think he hardly travels. She decided to do what she loves which is draw..... of course she had to give it in her mind a distingushed title..... illustrator! She does love to read and draw...a great fit I think. The chef....well she is a mathmetician and loves to cook....PERFECT FIT!!! Plus, she loves to put a smile on your face and cooking for others seems an easy way to accomplish this. Well, the race car driver..... he loves to make my heart skip a few beats. He thought of fireman seriously! Also, He wants to be a daddy....JUST LIKE HIS DAD!!!!
Sending my beautiful babes off this morning, I thought back to all the times my own mother sent me off to school dressed for the future. I REALLY remember thinking, "I will be a mother!"....it was the one constant. I had a dream of being an astronaut for NASA. I would be a pilot for the Air Force and then go on to fly in space. THEN I went on a plane ride at about 9 (not my first).... my ears were in terrible pain. Tears streamed uncontrollably down my face. I have alway had ear problems and this was my first plane ride without tubes. Unfortunately, many plane rides to folow would be just as painful. So my Career Day outfit quickly changed.... I love babies.... I will be a mommy and a teacher! I know shocking :) As I got older I became less and less certain of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Something around art..... maybe....
Well heck, here I am almost 31 and Career Day is making me think about how I am dressing today.... runner, playmate, medical transport (taking a kid to the dr), laundry folder, cook.....oh and blogger ;)

Concerned Brother

"I had a terrible feeling about that earlier!"


When getting out of the bath at the end of the day, my 4 year old made this grown up statement. When his dad asked him about what, he thought that his brother was going to get into trouble when he threw a ball on the roof.


It was a declaration to let Dax know he was glad he had not gotten mad at his BIG brother!


Wow, brotherly love! They fight, wrestle, and say really mean things to each other but they also watch out for each other and are bored without each other.

To Freak My SISTER OUT!!!!

DO YOU SEE THE BIRD ON MY HEAD!!!!! My sister is terrified of birds luckily I am not so much..... these birds were afraid of nothing. We were on a field trip to the San Antonio Zoo with Kindergarten. The zoo guy behind me had just told the 3 boys with me not to touch the birds because they might bite. Then this bird landed on my head. It hung out a while... the worker DID NOTHING to help me get it off! It made the boys laugh and luckily did not poop on my favorite Pat Green hat!!! After a while I shook my head and it flew toward another lady :)

Leo, I advise never going in this aviary....not that you ever would ;) They really were pretty birds!!!!! SEE..............................

Learning, reacting, and being aware

I've been working on learning lately. Pretty vague, huh?!?! Well, I have given myself no limits. Anything and everything, I am just opening myself to new things. Even re-learning things in a different way or from another perspective. The other day my 8 year old was teaching me a better way to write some cursive letters. I've also been learning to love things like bugs, sharks and (well not love but appreciate) snakes. OK, so I realize that most of this is just everyday stuff... but what I am learning in the little things is teaching me volumes about myself!!!!



REACTING..... it has always been a struggle! Either I am over-reacting or not reacting and then internalizing FOREVER! Not sure from what book or podcast I heard this in (several I think) but it really resonated with me..... You do not need to argue for the truth.... it is better to be kind than right...... Since I was a teenager I have had a sign that said, "Rule #1: Elizabeth is always right, Rule #2: if Elizabeth is wrong, see rule #1!" Funny, but sad that somewhere deep inside of me I always have needed to be right. I am not proud of this but with the new knowledge that I am not in a battle for the truth.... I feel released! I truly prefer to be kind. I was taught tolerance and compasion as a little child. Understanding where people are coming from has always been a top priority for me. The sad fact is that I had become intolerant on the inside of those who were intolerant of others because of religion, race, sexuality. What you resist, Persist!~Carl Jung / Resistance is Futile (Star Trek).... Now, what I am doing is releasing myself from the fight and choosing tolerance/ compassion. This is not saying that I am going to do nothing but instead I am choosing to focus on what IS to me and not worry so much about the other. Pretty obvious, but it is taking some work to realize that I can not seek compassion for others when I don't have it for those who feel equally just whether morally or socially. After all, we are just plotting out our own path. I love that not all of our maps are the same. They all have different starting points and destinations.

Being aware.... this one is very simple. Why did I react or not react this way? What was I feeling? What were they feeling? What was the outcome? This is keeping me from being so hard on others and myself....just being!