Bunnies: Princess Bride

Top 100 things that I love: no order

1. Family- No contest.
2.  New challenges
3. A good book
4. Camping
5. When the kids actually do what they are told the first time.
6. Singing as loud as I can to my favorite song at a stoplight, and not caring if anyone hears.
7. Looking at clouds trying to figure out what they "really" are.
8. Writing thoughts and feelings
9. Reading a story out loud to anyone, kids especially
10.  Baby giggles.
11. The feeling of accomplishment after a hard days work.
12. Learning something new
13. Watching a good movie
14. Lasagna
15. Driving other people's cars
16. New underwear- its a girl thing.
17. Painting your toenails
18. Eye contact with a stranger ( x10 if he's cute)
19. Maintaining good relationships with everyone
20. Rain
21. Hiking
22. Picnics
23. "Make up" kisses
24. Finding $$ in a pants pocket you didn't even know you had!
25.  Wind chimes
26. Watching one child help another
27. People watching
28. Mp3 player full blast on favorite song
29. Doing anything that betters yourself or the world in general
30. Chess
31. Climbing a tree
32. Watching someone do something you know you couldn't do, and respecting them for it.
33. Rock band
34. Playing Basketball
35. The brief second you look at yourself in the mirror and think you almost look good.
36. Hanging out with your best girlfriend and having the time to "girl talk"
37. Cloths fresh out of the drier
38. Whistling back to the birds
39. Getting all dressed up with no place to go
40. Getting off work/or school early
41. Chocolate cake
42. Wind through your hair
43. Days that a film comes over your eyes and your soal and you can only see, and feel good
44. Seeing someone you haven't seen in a LONG LONG time.
45. Bubble baths
46. Tubing with the family
47. Oreos and milk
48. Green lights
49. No traffic
50. The ocean
51.  Fishing
52. Water slides
53. Having someone you love to share experiences with
54. Full bottle of wine and friends to help you drink it
55. Lazy mornings
56. Dimples
57. Friends that know what you are thinking, and don't have to ask
58. Saying the same thing, at the same time as someone else
59. Curling up by a fire in the winter when there is a blizzard outside
60. Paydays
61. When the house stays clean for more then ten minutes
62. Flowers
63. Going through old pictures and having the time to remember the stories that go with them
64. Laughing at yourself
65. Taking friends out for dinner and a movie
66. Knowing that they will do the same for you when you most need it
67. Making peace with the world around you
68. Forgiving your parents for being human
69. Accepting that the world is what you make of it
70. Recognizing that there are no such thing as limits
71. Breaking free from yourself
72. Finding people who think like myself and learning from them
73.  The belief that all of us already know all of the answers to all of the questions we store inside our minds
74. LIFE
75. Fruit
76. Kittens
77. Singing in the shower
78. Tattoos and their meanings
79. A sudden great idea or solution to a problem
80. Laughing to yourself when OTHER PEOPLE'S kids start acting up,
81. Knowing your not alone when yours do.
82. Achieving a goal
83. Ice cream
84. Helping anyone for any reason
85. Foreign countries
86. Amusement parks
87. Alchohol after a long day
88. Coffee the next morning
89. Animal friends
90. Yoga
91. Sleeping in
92. Clean sheets
93. Realizing there are soo many adventures left you must have, and
94. Having them
95. Skydiving
96. Enjoying the look on your kid's face after they have just tried something new
97. Mowing the lawn
98. The smell of dirt.
99. Going to the store in PJ's
100. Making pancakes for the ones you love.

wait wait wait...clean clean clean....wait .....

 We are still waiting for the nice lady to come back and deem us "good parents", the irony is that I am having to leave the baby screaming in her walker an extra miniute or two longer then I normally would to make sure all of the dishes are in the sink, or that all of the laundry -- a never ending battle-- is not laying around. I wish she would just come so we could get this overwith. I seriously clean my way out of rooms before I leave to go anywhere as though my home were a 'model home' and not a lived in thing.

I would be lying however, if I said I didden't like it this clean. I just hope maintaining it dosen't kill me.

Day before yesterday Husband, not only cooked dinner...BUT WASHED DISHES AFTERWARD!

I thought I would have a heart attack!! And his 'deal with it later' pile of crap in the yard --that I have been begging him to deal with for three years-- is gone!!!

It is true what they say, good things come from everything. 

I still contend that it is freaken ridicules that anyone for any reason could phone child protective services and disrupt my life this way. It is a violation of privacy in the name of the children and their safty. Seriously. I have nothing to hide, it is  very frustrating to feel so powerless though.

It dehumanizes people and suddenly makes everyone a bad guy. I don't want to let people into my home anymore. Even if it is clean, it is BS that some judgemental ass could step two feet into my home and decide, for whatever reason, that I should be investigated.

 Maybe it is because I don't go to church? Or don't attend 'social functions' at school (sorry, but it is a little difficult to do that with a child strapped to your hip and another attempting to run down the hall and terrorize the school). 

Maby the neighbors just wanted our yard clean, I couldn't blame them...but really??? WTF? 

When people who have as many kids as I do start telling me my house is messy --and seriously, everyone who has the same amount of kids I do, who's house I have been in...has been way messier then mine--- Then I will listen. Maby. Until then....Please feel free to mind your own damn business or if there is an issue at least have the nerve to come and talk to a fellow human and tell me what is up. That is all.