here's another good one from about a month ago:

So the girls are fighting right now and it's absolutely hilarious. first they were arguing because eden kept turning off the t.v. and faith wanted to watch it. i finally said, no more t.v. go play. faith is at the top of her drama moods today and it really is something to watch, lol. just the tone in her voice, as if the whole world is against her and there is no hope left for happiness. and what's so amusing is that eden is learning to copycat her so i've got 2 princess bees in the house! she's yelling at eden to stop yelling at her, eden is crying because faith is yelling at her and continues to yell at faith. once i sent them to their room, faith stands in front of the mirror watching herself cry yelling at eden while eden is still yelling back at her. that's alot of yelling! and the funny part is what they're actually saying. really edie just repeats everything faith says:

"you're not my boss eden, don't scream at me!"
"why you scream at me?"
"leave me alone edie, GO AWAY!"
"don't scream at me! daddy come home and spank you faith!"
"NO! daddy at work"
"yes!"
"no!"
"you're a bad butt faith"
"DON'T CALL ME BADD BUTT! GO AWAY!"
"you go away! why you scream at me?"

~OMG, this is hilarious and goes on for about 5 minutes. i'm just listening outside their door. so finally eden comes out all non-chalant telling me she has a bloody nose (not from her sister, don't worry, it's just the desert) and that faith screamed at her. i clean her up, go back in the room to talk to her and faith. i tell them to apologize to each other and to say i forgive you. they say it in the sweetest voices and they're all smiles now. i tell them i'll be right back (so i can sneak back here to finish this blog, lol) and not even 2 minutes goes by before i hear this:

eden: "no!" (about 4 times in a row)
faith: you're a stupid head!
eden: "I'M...NOT..A..STUPIDHEAD!"
faith: "leave me alone, edie!"
eden: "you leave me alone faith!"

~again this goes on for another few minutes and now i hear edie singing softly "you are so beautiful to me" (which is her fav song to sing right now) and faith being thankfully quiet.
ah the joys of sisterhood! that's the one thing i really wish i'd had growing up. the joys and horrors of living with siblings. although i have siblings, i didn't grow up with any of them so i don't have these memories to look back on and laugh at.

here is a blog from a few months ago. i thought i'd add it here since it was pretty fun:


I have never been a very artistic person. I hated art in high school because everything i did came up substandard. i've always proclaimed that i'm not a very creative person. but, i loove anything to do with the arts. i love going to museums and art galleries. i love going to plays and concerts. if you've ever seen Celtic Women on t.v., jimmy and i got to see them perform in Pasadena and it was beautiful. I'm still trying to get into the Getty Museum. i want to go to the Getty Villa in Malibu where everything showcased is on Ancient Greece and Rome. if it were my choice we'd do "artsy" stuff all the time. But when it comes down to actually being artsy....well that's just not me. or so i thought.

Someone had given the kids some bottles of crayola washable paint a couple of years ago. my first thought, obviously, was "this isn't happening" and stuck them on the top of the shelf and never thought of it again. well a few weeks ago, for some odd reason, i decided that it would be fun to let the kids paint. i pulled out some large construction paper, grabbed 1/2 dozen paint brushes, some stencils and we were set to go. oh, i know what it was, i wanted to eden learn her colors. i realized that she could count to 14, but didn't have a clue what her colors were besides pink and purple, lol. anyway, we had 6 basic colors of paint: blue, yellow, red, purple, green, & orange. (by the way, it did the trick she knew them all by the next day.) we had such a great time coming up with different things to paint and using all the colors.
i must include a note here: i am not usually the type of person to be able to do this. i'm a perfectionist, i have to tell them what to do and how to do it. and i get totally stressed out if they do it "wrong" or if they make a mess. (thank goodness for crayola washables!) but, i've really been trying to change. i don't want to be that type of mother. i want to just let them go, to watch and see where they're own imaginations take them. i want them to feel free. and i want to feel free of having to control everything.

so anyway, as i was painting i noticed how the different brushes made different types of paint strokes. i was intrigued and started playing around with that. before i knew it i had all sorts of things: flowers and trees, sun & clouds, fish and inchworms (lol, i don't know, so don't ask). just whatever came across my mind. and i had the biggest sense of peace during and after. i realized, that i looove to paint. i'm not necessarily any good, but that's not what matters. and so you know, it takes a lot for my perfectionist little self to say this. it doesn't matter what it looks like, but how it makes me feel. i went to Michaels yesterday and bought more acrylic paints and canvas and stamps. i have this idea i want to do and i'm super excited about it. if it turns out well, i'll take a picture of it and post it soon.

so, that's my story. that's how i found something that really makes me feel quiet and peaceful, content and comforted. i'm so happy because i've never really made time to do things on a regular basis for myself. that just comes with the territory of being a mother of 4, i guess. and what's great, is that my kids enjoy doing this with me!