Some things you never outgrow

And I don't mean shopping online at Target.....

Delaney stayed home sick today. From the minute she woke up, she kept telling me she didn't think she should go to school. So I ignored her and made her get dressed. Then I ignored her some more and made her breakfast.  I told her we weren't "those kind of people" who stayed home from school just because they didn't feel well. Then I felt her and she was burning up. I called the school and then I started to feel guilty (despite her skin being on fire) that I was letting her stay home RIGHT UP UNTIL SHE RAN TO THE BATHROOM TO VOMIT!!!!!!!!!!

From now on, I will listen to "Delaney's intuition".....

Me: "Delaney, how are you feeling"?

Delaney: "I feel like I have one of those bugs in my stomach"

Me: "You have a bug in your stomach"

Delaney: "Oh, you know, one of those "stomach bugs as they say"

Yoga v. Editor

As I was in the pick up line at school today, I was texting with my friend who was getting ready for a trial that was about to start. The prep work for trial can be summed up in one word EXHAUSTING! 

As I waited for Delaney to come out, I realized how different my life is compared to almost 6 years ago. Of course now, my work clothes consist of yoga pants instead of my all time favorite work pants (Editor from Express).  By the way, my favorite yoga pants are from New York & Company!

Don't forget about me Corporate America, I'll be back someday.............but for now, I'll keep my Editor's in the closet, I think I'm right where I'm suppose to be............................................

The other night she said "mommy, can you believe I was born with so much character"?

My cup runneth over Delaney Catherine!

Her teacher told me last week that Delaney's heart is so full of joy. That's more important to me than any grades, well, within reason!

Please disregard the pile of clothes on her dresser, we were purging...and by "we" I mean "me"!

"I Wanna Be In A Play".....................

 I asked Delaney the other night what sports she wanted to do.....

I thought maybe she would tell me she wanted to do dance again,

Or gymnastics,

  Or maybe soccer,

But the answer was NONE OF THE ABOVE!  She said "I wanna be in a play".  I just told someone last week I need to get her into acting classes.  Then I realized she would probably grow up and be an actress out in Hollywood and leave her momma behind...................I think we'll just stick with golf.

Dear American Idol,

Are you SURE this is your last season??

Record Time

This was at 3:15 friends........now do you believe us when "we" say Kindergarten is exhausting????

100th Day of School

I must confess, I probably definitely get more excited than Delaney when she gets home from school and doesn't have homework (in addition to the nightly homework of vocabulary words, 5-10 minutes of reading, one activity from her "family fun calendar"---I personally can thing of another word besides "fun", and writing her numbers 0-10).

When she got home on Friday, she had a project she had to make with the number 100. And since I'm not a crafty mom AT ALL, I may have shipped her off to grandma's house!! Here is Delaney's "critter" to celebrate the 100th day of school today....................

Three Day Weekend

This is about all I saw of Delaney this weekend. Home from one grandparent's house and waiting to go to another's.....

Perhaps she should have stayed home to wash windows (no dog, just a five year old in the house).

"Kittys Don't Belong on Your Head"

At least once a day, I tell Delaney that she acts just like her dad. And if she's really acting like him, I call her David. She, like most 5 year old's I presume, takes an enormous amount of time to do just about anything. Since there isn't an enormous amount of time in the mornings before school, that can lead to some "tension" in the house.  And by tension, I mean a lot of yelling!

She takes a good 20 minutes just to get out of bed and get dressed. And that is a conservative number!

I was doing a lot of yelling this morning and was so frustrated with her lack of motivation to get things done. As I was making my bed (little known fact...I MUST make my bed every morning as soon as I get up) she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth when she yelled "Ashley, come here, I need you to put the toothpaste on my toothbrush".  And just like that, I wasn't mad at her anymore, I was laughing that she called me Ashley.  Then I said "how do you do that, just like your dad, one minute I am so stinkin' mad at you and then you say or do something funny and I melt"!

So onto our next "issue"---(the melting quickly passed). Delaney puts on her ear muffs (kittys), coat, and gloves and by the time she is in the car (2.2 seconds later) they are OFF!  I looked in my rear view mirror and noticed her ear muffs were already off and she told me because she wants to wait until she's in the drop off line to put them on and besides "everyone knows kittys don't belong on your head".

As we were in the car line, Delaney put on her gloves at her 5 year old pace and when it was our turn, I looked back and yelled said "put on your ear muffs".  She looked back at me and said "sorry mommy, it's my turn, gotta go".  Then she looked at me through the passenger window and had the nerve to smile AND WAIVE!!

All I can say is she is one lucky girl I was in my pajamas!  Oh, and then she didn't shut the door all the way, but like I said, I was in my pajamas! Thank goodness it's a short drive home...........

I think Delaney is embarrassed to wear her ear muffs because after all, "kittys don't belong on your head"..........or do they????

My Little Colts Fan

No, you didn't miss our Christmas post....it will come (but yes, we had an AMAZING Christmas, I just told someone today our Christmases just get more and more fun with this little girl).

Delaney put on my hat and said "mommy, when do I get to go to another Colts game"? You may recall, the game she went to earlier this year lasted exactly 12 minutes, well, not the game, her attention span at the game.

On Sunday, the couple who sit next to us at the game told me it was their last game. After 19 years, they gave up their season tickets. And then the man said the nicest thing I will never forget. He has seen me bring lots of friends over the years and he said "you'll have to tell your friends that we won't be sitting here anymore". Then he said "you've got some really great friends".  I told him he had no idea..............What an observation from a die hard NEVER MISSED A GAME Colts fan!!! He may have been focused on the game, but he took the time to notice (it's not hard to).

Oh, and to answer Delaney's question.....once he told me what they sold the "rights" to their Colts tickets for, well,..................we may never go to a game again :-)

While I was working on this post, one of Delaney's grandmas told me it makes her day to be around Delaney. I said "mine too". And then I thought how awful it must be to not be around her all the time! We're sorta attached at the heart this girl and I...............................