Moments that Just Make You Smile & Laugh
(Thank goodness!!)

Don't children (and especially really young ones) seem to know when you need a pick-me-up? You can be having a pretty stinky day (and yesterday DEFINITELY had its moments, let me tell you!) and you walk in the door and the little one says, "Mommy! I love you!" without any prodding whatsoever. Kinda makes you stop and re-think things a little bit. And I say, "Thank Goodness!" for that!

Yesterday, Sydney was in some sort of rare mood--she was all about pretending she was something else. She came to me throughout the day and declared that she was something new!

Can you guess what she was in that first picture?

Yep, she came to me and said, "I'm a softball player!" All by herself, she had put on Delaney's cleats, sliding pad, and sunglasses. (She also said she had on her "baseball shirt," although you can see it's really basketball!). And she said, "Poppy teach me to bat." So cute!

Then, later in the afternoon when the girls were home from school, Delaney found a hat that she'd been missing for awhile and put her hair up inside it. When Sydney saw her she said, "I'm gonna be a boy like La-la." So off she went to put on a hat, because I guess it made her into a boy (forget the fact that she was wearing a dress!)



Then, later on in the afternoon (notice the change in clothes AGAIN--and she changed at least two more times before bed!), she got out a piece of paper, pens, and those scissors again. And she told me, "Look, I'm an artist!"



She also was a majorette twirling around her baton, in her pajamas. But that picture didn't turn out well (and really, none of these did either, but I'm suffering through using a very OLD digital camera while Gary's is on the blink!).

She just cracked me up and made me smile when I definitely needed to!

Now, speaking of smiling and being cracked up . . .

This has got to be one of the most fun websites I've found in a long time. Go to www.bedjump.com and see pictures of people jumping on hotel beds. It is hysterical!!

And now let's be honest--how many of you jump on the bed when you stay in a hotel? Well, I'm being honest and saying I DO, and I give my kids permission to do so as well! Hey, you only live once!!

So, the owners of the site encourage you to send in your own bed-jumping pictures so I sent in these two of McKenna and Delaney jumping on the beds at our hotel this past summer in Savannah, Georgia.





I just love those pictures!!

So, who knows? Maybe my darling (and MATURE and SERIOUS) children (LOL!) will be featured on www.bedjump.com sometime soon. I'll have to check it regularly to see!

On this Thursday, take time to remember that even when things seem pretty hopeless, or you're stuck in a depressed funk, or you're just simply frustrated about something . . .

SMILE,

pretend like you're something else,

crack someone up,

go jump on a bed!!!