The Results of an Empty Idea Journal

My idea journal where I keep ideas for new blog posts or things that I think will make a funny story is empty. I am not really sure what I am going to do about that. I keep waiting for things to come to be but they are not. Could it be that I have lost my touch?  So I guess that means the only thing left to do is write a totally random post.

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My new favorite guilty pleasure reality show is Wife Swap. I don’ think that they make new episode but I found out that Lifetime plays this show for hours every afternoon. I put the kids to bed, grab my lunch and enjoy the crazy. I think that I like this show so much that it makes me feel normal and like I sorta know what I am doing in the job as a wife and mother. I mean, at least I have not installed video cameras in every room of my house to keep an eye on my kids or make them perform belly dancing shows.

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Claire has taken to stomping her foot when she is mad or really wants something.  So when she walks in the room her conversation goes a little something like this. “Mommy!” stomp stomp stomp “I want a snack!” stomp stomp stomp “I want a snack, now!” stomp stomp stomp “Please.” I have no idea where this came from, maybe she is part horse.

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This is just a typical dinner time conversation.

Hayden: Everything that moves and eats has a brain, right?

Me: Yes, Hayden.

Hayden: Because if you didn’t have a brain you wouldn’t be able to do anything. Brains help us live.

Me: Right. Now eat.

Jeff: Well, zombies don’t have brains and they move around.

Hayden: What’s a zombie?

Jeff: It’s an undead monster that hungers for human brains. They eat brains because they don’t have one.

Hayden: They have to have a brain. Everything has a brain.

Jeff: Nope they don’t they are zombies and zombies don’t have a brain they just eat them. Right, momma?

Me: *glaring*  Will you both just eat!?

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When I buy the kids winter stuff like coats and boots, I try and buy them a size bigger than what they need in hope that they can wear them for a couple years. This is actually what I did when I had to get Hayden new boots this year. So I guess that it figures that he would lose one boot.  How a child loses only one boot is beyond me.

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Jeff and I recently learned that even though the kids are being entertained by the electronic babysitter, we still need to lock the door when we decide to get a little ‘frisky”. You see the kids can now open doors and they don’t care what you are doing in the room. They just burst in no matter what.  All I have to say, is thank God it was still dark in the room, we were pretty much done, it was one of the little kids and they only ran in and out.

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