Conversations in Crazytown

Maisy:  Mommy if I was a serial killer my nickname would be The Suspense so my victims would say, "The Suspense is killing me" and then we would both laugh right before I killed them.

You can't make this shit up.

Love,
Kristen

Fall/Winter fashion notes

I have always had a toe in the grandpa style fashion pool but this Fall I dove straight in.  My new favorite jeans look exactly like my dads' Levis.  I have mens' Wallabies on my feet.  With socks possibly showing.  Add to that the huge cardigans and quirky hats and I'm like a Walter Matthau impersonator.

I have this exact outfit

Love,

Kristen

P.S. Sorry Katie

Conversations in Crazytown

Just when you think you have nailed down the crazy one in the family.  This happens.

Jack:  Mommy I took a pregnancy test in Health.

Me:  And?

Jack:  I'm pregnant!

Me:  I'm going to be a grandma?

Jack:  Yes.  And he's going to stay in the shed.

Maisy:  Jack he should stay in the basement.

Jack:  Maisy, I didn't ask you.

Maisy:  I'm just saying.  It's warm down there and it's bigger...

Jack:  Mom!

Me:  Maisy stop.  It's Jack's baby.

Love,

Kristen

Conversations in Crazytown

Lulu:  Mommy I'm never going in the ocean.

Me:  Why because of the clinging jellies?

Lulu:  No there's this other kind..

Maisy:  They're called Portuguese Man Whores.

Me to myself:  That can't be right.

Lulu:  Man o' Wars.

Love,
Kristen

Conversations in Crazytown

Me:  Maisy I am cutting your nails tonight otherwise people are going to think you are a weirdo.

Her:  Mommy!  I prefer the word whack-job.

Ten minutes later...

Me:  When I said you were a weirdo what did you say?  I want to post it and I forget.

Her:  I didn't say anything.

Me: Yes you did!  Wait....Oh!  Whack-job!

Her:  Oh, right.  I thought I just thought it.

Me: No, you said it.

Her: Oh.

Love,
Kristen

A dog says what now?

I love our dogs to bits but Tikkanen, the puppy, has a bark that makes my ears ring.  And barking is his way of communicating, whereas Zimmer will stare at me and then tap me with his paw and walk over to whatever it is he wants.  His bowl or the door, etc.  It's all very civilized.  The other day my husband and I made a list of reasons that Tikkanen barks.  Here it is.

Air

Sounds

People

No people

The tops of stairs

The bottom of stairs

Beds

Doors

Sofas

Trees

Apathy

Paper

When no children are crying

When you take him where he barks to go to

Sleeping

Being awake

When you walk

When you are happy

Ghosts (fair enough)

Love,

Kristen

Oh Grace

Have you seen this?  I can't stop watching.

Love,
Kristen