From the child who's favorite word is NO Mommy

So I just had a great moment with sweet little Red as she said to me "help momma" so I went over, with a big smile to help her with her task. So I said "how can I help?" She looked me right in the eye and said "NO help." Of course, she always says no. I guess she didn't understand what she was saying when she so sweetly said "help momma". For a child with such a fabulous vocabulary she sure says no allot.

Okay so after that depressing post, I had to add something fun!

The Memphis Literacy Council is hosting the second (I think its the second) "Taste of Cooper Young" night tonight. Me and my fab friends are going and leaving the husbands with the kids. I went last year and had a blast, even though lots of the restaurants have fish from the sea and that is on my do not eat list. There is definitely something for everyone and yummy wine as well. Would encourage everyone to go and support such a fantastic organization and community! For tickets or info visit http://www.memphisliteracycouncil.org/

Lesson of the week

So my lesson of the week is to always get the job done completely especially when it involves forest creatures that aren't supposed to be living in your house.

My week started normally enough. Big Red was out of town but no big deal. Since I am paranoid I decided to sleep on the couch downstairs just in case an intruder came into the house and I don't know, I guess I thought I could react faster downstairs- I can see it now me and my five pound dog and 20 pound dog against a gun-toting intruder- okay so back to the story. Well I didn't have to worry about a human intruder, little did I know I would be battling intruders of another kind. My two sweet dogs are just no help at all. However at 1:30 in the morning Huck decide to whimper just a little bit and then just put his head back down, fast to sleep. I sat up to see what the problem was just in time to get a front row viewing of Mr. Ratatouille. While I am a true animal lover, I don't go for the species that carry disease and whipped out most of England a long time ago. Glad Huck could be of help. So we called the Humane Trappers again and said that Mr. Ratatouille and family were back. Since we had a small attic problem a couple months back I assumed the company's guarantee would come into play however their guarantee didn't cover this problem because we didn't do all the work they recommended, can we say "loop hole". So how only three months later we are giving all of our vacation money to the Humane Trappers so Mr. Ratatouille and family can go live in another house. Actually this time, I told them to go for the kill so Mr. Ratatouille and family will be going to live in heaven.

Lesson learned...get all the work done at once so you don't have to pay double.

Oh to Gus's We Will GO!

My family is no stranger to food. We like to eat (okay let me qualify here- I don't really like to eat and could care less- I know you can't tell can you...anyway but Big and Little Red like to eat so I am going to bunch us all together for sake of this story). So off to Gus's we went to celebrate a friend's birthday (little Red stayed home so we could be adults for the evening). There was quiet an eclectic group of people but that's normal for the birthday girl's following. While at dinner one of the guys decided he would be really cool and eat a very hot jalapeno (again just to qualify I like everything hot- as hot as possible- but I wasn't silly enough to try that!). Big Red feeling his masculinity was being challenged decided to take the challenge. And the moral is the poor guy could feel his tongue for days....

The first bite is sometimes the easiest.

Sorry but beer won't help.

I think the Count really thought his eyes were going to pop out.

















I would like to personally thank the Count for using her handy iPhone to capture the moment. I have got to get me one of those things.

Some day she will hate me for this.

I know there are many things that I will regret as a parent and some things that little Red will never forgive me for. This might not be high on the list but I have a feeling she will one day hate me for posting this picture. I just had to share it. She thought being dressed up was so cool and wanted to sleep with the costume. If only she could stay this sweet and small forever.

It's Wednesday.

It's Wednesday and I don't want to be at work. I would like to be at home or at the lake with my little and big Reds. However if you asked little Red if she wants to go to the lake she would say "no". That is her favorite word these days. I have always been so proud of her because her advanced language skills but now-a-days its just "no". "No I don't want to have milk" (her favorite), "no I don't want a cookie" (second favorite) and "no I don't want to see "K" (her best friend). Not sure why she thinks "no" will get her any where but I am going to say this is just a phase or at least I hope so. This might be foreshadowing of her teenage years and that scares me.

SO I was with some girl friends of mine the other night and some very smart person said something very profound. She said "no one ever complements that". "That" in reference to the good things about our husbands or other peoples husbands, marriage, kids. Its so true, we sit around and gossip about divorce, break ups, heart breaks, weird text messages, skinny women with no souls but we very rarely talk about how great we have it and how wonderful (minus the stuff we complain about) our partners are and our precious little ones. So what did I learn you ask? Next time, I will make a point to say one good thing before I gossip about Big Red and other peoples weird text messages.

And I will leave you with Little Red dancing in the plastic pool without a care in the world...