Never leave your child unattended...

First off I have to tell the story of the make-up bag.

I bought a MK make-up bag from my friend. Shelby takes it upstairs and a bit later says I have to go upstairs because she has to show me something. I go upstairs and she shows me how the top pocket is mine, the middle two are hers and the bottom one is mine. And she has already gone through my make up drawer and put my stuff in "my" pockets. She has gone and put her makeup in the other two. Sigh....

Now, flash forward to this morning. I get out of the shower and find out that she has been putting makeup on. Eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara. Granted for a 6 yr old she did a pretty good job, but not good enough where you can go out in public with her wearing all of it. With the dark lipstick she looked like a floozy or that we had been beating her!

If this is how she is now...what will the teenage years be like??!! I am afraid...very afraid!!

Happy Thanksgiving....

I don't think I ate that much but boy, do I feel full!

So I thought I would post a quick blog with what I am thankful for. Though this may be difficult today since I have not been in the best of moods the past few days. But I will give it the ol' college try.

So here we go....

I am thankful for...

*a husband that puts up with me
*a daughter that makes me laugh in the midst of me wanting to strangle her
*a roof over my head, even if it does leak sometimes and a husband that can fix those leaks
*friends that send me messages when they see I am not doing so well
*a car with heated seats
*a decent enough figure (Hey at least my husband still enjoys it!! Wink! Wink!)
*my own personal scrapbook room
*Starbucks coffee
*Chuck on Monday nights
*Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream
*the internet, though my computer doesn't cooperate half the time
*Facebook and myspace so I can keep in contact with friends (past and present)
*my niece and nephew that make me smile
*to be alive to be thankful for all of these items.

My kid is a Genius!!

Well in my eyes at least! We went for our first of many parent/teacher conferences today. Shelby's teacher could not quit telling us what a gem Shelby is. I was a bit puzzled though when she said this was MY daughter Shelby. I was thinking for a minute there that maybe there was another Shelby in the class and the teacher was mixing the two of them up. I mean she said how organized Shelby was, how she listens, behaves. That can't be my daughter!!

Well at least she acts that way for her teacher. That is all I can ask. Basically Shelby is doing well in all areas. She gets a little upset when she doesn't get something right away but her teacher just says to keep her chin up and keep trying. The only area we can help with is sounding things out which we have started to do. But other then that she knows her numbers really well, good at math, etc. etc. I could not be more proud!!

Oh and tonight I was working on the computer and I heard all this noise in the kitchen. I turn around and she had gotten 3 plates out of the cupboard, gotten out sandwich fixings and was making sandwiches for us!!


I am a proud mama!