Awesome Sauces....

Today I took my two favorite spicy sauce mixes for a walk today....

 They returned just in time to be paired well with our dinner burritos! In other news, to prove to everyone that our Spring Break wasn't a complete bust, I have photo documentation. First, Buddy had his first meeting of the Color Blind Club for the Color Blind. The first order of business, tie dyeing shirts using unlabeled color bottles!!! FYI-Buddy is the president, also, another FYI, next meeting...Rubik's cube problem solving in less than 2 twists!!!

Unfortunately,  Buddy got sick the next day , so he decided to put his artistic skills to good use while avoiding the wrath of NO MEDIA MOMMY (that lady is tough) .... 

 He did such a fine job of symmetry that we decided to put him to the ultimate test....

Well, I always thought symmetry was highly overrated! So all in all a super fantastic, saucy, day!

Cinderella with my favorite little fella....

I tried to get Buddy to escort me to see Cinderella when it came out on Friday. He regretfully declined, with many words of horror about being forced to watch a "girly" movie. Last night a friend came over to have a sleepover with Buddy. This morning, two little boys woke up waaaaaaay too early after going to sleep waaaaay too late!!!! The severe lack of sleep left my boy tired, whiny and with enough brain power left to be easily manipulated into watching Cinderella....

Of course, his brain was still functioning enough to keep far away from any evidence that he went to go see a girly movie....with a bunch of girls (AAHHHHH THE HORROR)! Errr, what can I say, I like to use ALL of my tools of motherhood....even the tool of manipulation. So all in all a super fantastic, manipulating all the way to the movies, day!

This again....

We decided that we really like to be boring and do the same stuff over and over and over again, so we decided to hike White Road to the "Giant Slide of Death". At least that's what I call it, pretty sure that's it official name. This time we added more people into the mix to see who would possibly meet their untimely demise....

We all escaped alive, and only one of us lost their britches in the process! True story.....well, actually if I'm being accurate two of us lost our britches, but we eventually found one, so that counts for something right?

One of these days maybe we'll find something a little more entertaining to fill our time!!!!! So all in all a super fantastic, one day we'll learn, day!

Mission Accomplished....

Not sure how a whole week passed without me doing the blog, but here's what you missed! It rained for two whole weeks here....which is totally ridiculous because the Hawaii and I signed up for definitely had warm and sunny days listed in it's contract! Anyway, to bust the winter blahs we invited a few of the usual crew to demolish our house....

 Pretty positive the mission was accomplished....That silly rat even got in on the destruction, of course the only thing she destroyed was Buddy's skin while she was gripping his shoulder in extreme fear while she tried to avoid the chaos called "Buddy's Rainy Day  Play Date"....

The sun finally decided to make an appearance today and bring back the heat....just in time for me to actually work a day shift , seriously dumb luck!!!!!! Thankfully, even though it's been two weeks of cocooning ourselves in the house, Buddy still remembers how to party like a local... 

So all in all a super fantastic, that sun better be out tomorrow or we're going to have some fighting words, day!

Rolling with it.....

Buddy has to give an oral presentation on Friday. I asked him if he needed to write notes for himself or practice. He told me he performs best when he just "rolls with it".....I do not doubt that for one second!!!!!! In other news, we believe in giving out lots of love at our house.....even if we have to rough you up to give it to you!!!!

So all in all a super fantastic, rolling with it, day!

Nailing the OCD....

Buddy finally finished his cultural project on the Chinese immigration to Hawai'i.....

and I finally finished sitting on my hands trying to just supervise the project. Trust me, it took a TON of sitting on my hands to not rip off that blue construction paper in the middle top of his poster because it doesn't "go" with the China theme for the rest of his project. I even tried to talk him into using a red background for that piece of paper, since in my mind the colors of China are red and yellow......Buddy wanted a "pop" of color and quickly shot down my OCD suggestions! I'm pretty sure that's for the best! To celebrate all of his hard work and the end of the reign of back seat driver named "mommy", he decided to do some sumo wrestling, unfortunately he couldn't find a partner.....

That's probably for the best too! So all in all a super fantastic, sheesh, no one told me how hard this sitting on your hands as a mother is , day!

Medic.....

This weekend I got a  gig (not paying mind you) playing nurse at camp with a bunch of boys that were encouraged to play with guns, knives, and fire.....

Thankfully we all escaped with all of our digits  and extremities intact.....my sanity, perhaps not so much!!!!!! Did I mention Buddy is getting his Arrow of Light soon which means he'll be moving on up to Boy Scouts....I'm pretty certain they don't play with guns, knives and fire.....errrrrrrmmmm. In other news, Buddy has been working on a cultural project for the last TWO MONTHS.  He's been researching the first Chinese immigrants to Hawaii and their cultural contributions. Friday they're turning in their projects and having a "cultural potluck meal". I offered to make mooncakes with a really cool note in the middle of them  (which apparently were used  to overthrow  an invading army by sneaking in a message to all the village when to attack and now they have them during the moon festival celebrations every year). I thought my idea was marvelous, even if I haven't the first clue how to make them. Buddy however has overruled my awesome plans! Buddy has informed me that for part of the project they are including part of their own culture. He came home today to inform me that  "all the kids" were requesting his fantastic cultural contribution from last year's project... Deep Fried Oreos. Oh southern heritage, we are oh so proud! Today we stocked piled up on Oreos, because according to Buddy they are oh so good...plus he's really trying to sucker up to get a good grade on his project. So all in all a super fantastic, getting ready, day!