Author Archives: Jen
The story of my Life.
I love this cartoonist: Fowl Language Comics
Dancers with hats.
The kids have started wanting to watch music videos—and dance along with them. This was during a break in the action.
I love apple cider season.
Four days of the spider!
It is finally starting to come off. I haven’t shied away from washing it but I haven’t really tried to scrub it off, either. That makes three showers. Can your lipstick do that?! 😂
Before and after 5-minute face!
I had a Facebook party live demo tonight and I show the products I use for my 5-minute face. Of course it takes me longer than five minutes to demo because I’m talking and answering questions… But realistically it does only take five minutes. And the difference is striking.
Look who I saw at the bus stop.
Well, while I was at the bus stop.
Two Katie bugs
We felt bad about Owen not getting to trick or treat so we went to another city.
Owen missed trick-or-treating since he was at the MSU game…and I felt bad that he didn’t even get to wear his costume. So Tom and I agreed to go to a neighboring city to take them. It was freezing so it was a big deal.
We actually went to a fellow TCFers house to park.
I am definitely not a lipstick artist!
I was volunteering in Owen’s class party so felt I had to do something since I wasn’t dressing up. This took two tries and is still kinda pathetic…but it won’t come off!! 😂
Parenting is like death by a thousand cuts
Parenting is like death by a thousand cuts. #youarenotalone #itsnotjustyou
😑 We’ve told the kids literally 200 times that when you let Maggie out of her crate, you immediately let her outside. This morning, yet again, they didn’t.
😑 The same goes for putting the milk and cereal away after breakfast, yet it was still on the table this morning.
😑 Katie has “not lost” two (TWO!) pair of gloves this week. (She says she didn’t lose them but she doesn’t know where they are.)
😑 They have a chore chart to help them remember what they need to do in the morning and both of the above are on the list. They never look at the list.
😑 Owen managed to misplace his report card folder from the walk between the living room past his backpack (where we told him to put it) to his bedroom. It is nowhere this morning.
😑 We have told Owen at least 100 times that as soon as he does his required reading minutes to write them down (or else he doesn’t get credit for them). Yet again he didn’t write down the last two days so that’s 40 minutes I won’t give him credit for.
😑 Owen is supposed to show me his folder every day yet I only sometimes manage to see it the day he needs it signed, and even today he didn’t get that far.
😑 I am so tired of hearing “Why do I always have to [fill in the blank]?” the first time I ask them to do whatever.
Yeah, it’s been a long morning.
Lazy bones pets
Picnic with Elsa
Makeup Galore
I had some old eyeshadows I was going to toss but decided to let Katie have them instead. And boy did she have fun. Owen even got into the game…
As you can see there is no such thing as moderation. Six layers later: “Mom, I’m part Anna and part cat!”
And then Sophia came down and got involved.
And daddy even for roped in.
Surprise Halloween delivery!
We truly live in a great neighborhood. We just had a neighbor lady we’ve never met ring the doorbell with BAGS of candy for the kids (and us!)! She said she loves Halloween and wasn’t home last night so she was delivering bags today and knew that kids lived here… 🎃🍫
Owen’s first MSU game!
They’ve had tickets for months and have been getting more and more excited… Unfortunately it was coooold and required many layers but that didn’t hamper the excitement. 🙂
It was an exciting game, but unfortunately the outcome was an MSU loss in triple overtime… They ended their outing at Culver’s for dinner.
Katie’s Halloween Afternoon
While the boys were away at the game, Katie had a birthday party to go to…and some trick or treating to do. (Our city, for whatever reason, holds Halloween the Saturday before.)
She made me a mask.
The group of birthday trick-or-treaters.
It was a tiny bit insane as they literally made a mad dash from house to house. It was also freezing.
And then they were all tired and cold after only 30 minutes so it was back to the house for a piñata.
A good time was had by all… And Katie even stayed to play and watch a movie so I had the house to myself…
Eyeliner is hard.
When you start to do fun eyeliner for a kids birthday/Halloween party and it keeps growing out of control. Then you just figure it’s a good time to practice so why not just go for it. 😂
It’s snowing. On October 28th.
😳😭
The only positive is now, according to my own previously set rules, I can officially listen to Christmas music. 🎄
Maggie rarely sits here.
Our Katie bug is a ladybug!
The primary classes had a costume parade. Of course it was freezing and Katie’s class was the very last one!
This is what usually happens when I try to get a picture with Maggie.
She wanted to read to me this morning.
I thought she was just going to make up a story to go with the pictures but she was actually reading it! Of course she couldn’t read it all but she did pretty well.
He LOVED his magic class!
I love accidental cool shots.
What is it about boys and sliding?
Owen wore these pants twice before he ruined them. He runs and slides everywhere. I don’t even want to lay out all of Katie’s worn-knees-pants. 😣
When your lips are on point with your sweater…
…it feels like it’s going to be a great day! 👍🏻❤️
Goofy hat girls
How I spent my day.
This morning was the first really rainy/windy/cold morning we’ve had. I’m frozen from being at the bus stop for 10 minutes. I’ve been inside for 10 minutes now and my hands are still ice (and I was wearing gloves). I just couldn’t get warm so when this happened I sucked it up.
Spirit Week: Crazy Hair Day
Monday was wear red day… Which we didn’t remember until after Owen was gone and I forgot to take a pic of Katie.
Today was Crazy Hair Day. I thought we were going to do a mohawk on Owen but he refused. And this is all Katie let me do.
