Target Snob

It's official...I am a Target snob. I know I know...I should just be happy about having a Target in my area, but why does it have to be so old?? I went there for 3 or 4 things and they only had ONE of them. I had a great idea for Dustin for Valentine's Day, but surprise surprise...they didn't have it!! They clearly had a place for it, but the shelf was empty. I asked someone when they do restocking, and they said "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday." Wonderful. That's helpful.

I miss Super Target of Maryville...and even Turkey Creek...

Questions of the Day

One - Did whoever said "Silence is Golden" have a 17 month old? I ask this, because today I found myself listening for the silence. While we are living in Jonesborough, we are in a condo and our makeshift office is in the kitchen. I can do things in the kitchen and listen to Taylor play in the next room. Today I was using my new label maker, which is wonderful by the way, to label anything I could, and I noticed the silence. Knowing my child... this isn't very safe, unless Diego is on. I found my spider monkey of a boy half-way up the stairs. He has decided it is SOOO much fun to go up stairs. Sadly, he doesn't enjoy going down quite as much. Once we got settled back down, he went to the toy store, oh, I mean our living room, and played in his ball pit. A little bit later, silence hit again. I snuck into the living room and found Taylor trying his hardest to climb around, and so carefully not touch, the bean bag that blocked his way up the stairs. We have a sneaky boy on our hands.

Two - How many teeth will a child get??? I feel like we have battled teething for a year now. Taylor is now getting two more teeth and has been working on two others for a little bit now. We keep Tylenol and Motrin on hand at all times. While I appreciate people asking me if we are keeping Orajel on them, I enjoy my fingers. When you find your fingers knuckle deep in a toddler's mouth with like 12 teeth who doesn't enjoy it, you learn to pick your battles. I enjoy having 10 fingers.

Inspired

I became inspired today by my long lost friend Leslie's blog. I happend upon it from a survey on my-space and I found myself reading previous posts and enjoying "learning" about what is going on in her life. I thought to myself, maybe, just maybe, someone might want to do the same thing on mine. It was also enjoyable to read what she felt and thought about what was going on in her life.

Because of this, I decided to start my own writing blog. I felt the title "A Mother's Mumble" would be fitting. Let me explain why. I have been blessed with a husband who acts ALOT like his father. If you haven't seen a picture of them together, it's pretty scary how alike they look. Along with looks, they also share many life characteristics. One in particular, they both tend to mumble sometimes. I have learned over the years (almost 10 together and 5 married, but who is counting), that there are two ways to deal with the mumble. One - you can smile and nod and act like whatever they said is exactly right and they can never be wrong, or two - ask them to repeat and listen carefully while trying to understand.

So, that is how I want you all to enjoy my blog. You can either read it and try to understand where you can, and relate or laugh where you can, or politely smile and nod and move on.

God Bless...