Coming Up Collins: Just a few random thoughts...

1.) I don't feel good...and this is the first time I've gotten "sick" since over a year ago when I decided to stay at home with the kids. I miss my sick days where I could still bring the kids to daycare =( So if anyone would like them for the next day or two, you just let me know. (Although I must warn you, Ayris requires timeouts and a few spankings from time to time but the ease of Asher makes up for that...)

2.) The surround system/DVD player remote has been lost for the past two days. Two seconds ago, the sound of Tom and Jerry came on which sent me frantically digging for the remote where I was sitting or where Asher was standing since SOMETHING had to have turned on the DVD player. There it was...laying on the down comforter right next to me. How in the heck did that thing just "turn up" on it's own after being lost for two days? Whatever, it's just going to be nice to not have to physically get up to turn on the sound (not sure how anyone EVER made it without remotes!)

3.) Asher's two new favorite sayings as of late: "I'm hungy!"...and he says this with such seriousness that you'd think he was going to drop dead of starvation if you don't produce something right then! His other saying is "Be nice mommy!"...today I ssshhhuusshhed him so he'd be a little quieter (since I don't feel good and have a headache on top of my cold!) and he turned around and emphatically told me to be nice. Glad I'm being schooled by my two year old in the manners department.

4.) How do you get the taste of onion out of your mouth without waiting what seems to be a 24 hour cycle time before it goes away on it's own? I just had half a bag of funyuns for lunch (those were for me...I had cottage cheese and pears for the baby) and now my mouth tastes gross and will continue to until sometime tomorrow morning (regardless of brushing and using mouth wash.)

5.) Speaking of lunch, I guess I need to start buying napkins...Ayris has started using the tablecloth as her napkin. Which I guess is better than her shirt (like normal) or more recently her underwear. I thought she was digging in her butt at the dinner table the other night but she informed me that she was "wiping her hands on her underwear because she didn't have a shirt to wipe them on!" Yeah, ghetto is how we roll in this household.

6.) This is what my house looks like right now...and suffice it to say, this is probably what it's going to look like through the weekend. Probably worse...