What would I blog about if I didn't have kids?

I am really impressed with anyone who doesn't have kids that can keep up an interesting blog, because I don't think I would have a single thing to write about without them. So, here is another annoying blog post about a mother bragging about her kids.

So, up until the end of last summer Samm was so afraid of the water that she wouldn't even stick her face in it. By August she was finally putting her face down in the water, but only her eyes and nose. This summer she is actually going all the way underneath so I decided I should start teaching her how to swim. so, last week I got in with her for a few minutes and after an hour of practicing on her own she had it down pretty good.

Well, yesterday at the pool I guess James decided he wanted to be like Samm, so he went under the water and started swimming around. Surprisingly really well too.

So, not only do I have two little swimmers, but last week James finally decided that he would be a big boy and out of the blue started going to the bathroom all on his own. I can't even express how relieved I am to only have Macy in diapers now!!!

Bad poison Ivy

Two years ago when we bought our house we learned three things. 1) We have poison ivy growing in random spots along the fence. 2) Poison ivy is extremely hard to get rid of. 3) Samm and Josh are both highly allergic to the stuff. Both have had it several times and it usually takes weeks to clear up all the way. The worst time was last summer when Samm basically rolled around in it wearing apparently only her underwear, right before our two week vacation to California. I ended up taking her to the hospital for that one and had a very mean nurse make me cry, but that is a whole other story.

Anyway, on Friday some friends were over playing and the kids decided to make a tree hut out of the branches that had fallen a few days before in a big storm. I thought it was a pretty clever idea until Samm woke up Saturday morning with a rash on the side of her face and I realized the branches had been stacked by the side of the house where Josh is always having to spray for poison ivy.

Fortunately it's a pretty localized case, but it is on her face and her right cheek is pretty swollen. Once again she is being quite the trooper though and hasn't complained much at all.

Some things to make me smile

So today was one of those days that made me wonder why I even bothered to leave the house.

I was supposed to have an appointment at 10:00 this morning at the preschool to get James all set up, but somehow the clock in my bedroom got set ahead an hour so when I was just about there I realized that it was only 8:50 not 9:50.

Instead of driving all the way home and back I decided to let James play at a nearby park for a while and hold my overly tired and very cranky baby until it was time to go. This would have been fine with me except for the fact that when I got to the school the lady wasn't there. One of the teachers called her on her cell phone and apparently she forgot to pencil me in, even though she had just called me on Friday to find out when I could come.

Still in pretty good spirits, I decided to run a few more errands, stop in and see Josh for a while, and then go pick up Samm at my sister-in-laws house and hang out for a bit before I took the kids to the pool.

Unfortunately we were only at the pool about an hour before some kid majorly puked after going down the water slide and it was so bad they decided to just shut down the pool for the rest of the day.

So, after being gone almost the entire day I really wasn't in the best mood until we got home and I noticed this.

Apparently I'm not completely void of a green thumb. After I planted two of these last year some bugs ate them all up. Both plants grew back this year, but this one has been pretty small and until now hasn't bloomed at all.

And then I got on to check some blogs and saw this cute little girl giggle. And now I'm smiling.