This is Super Mom... One version anyway.. :)

This is the first of many cartoons to come from Super Mom! They will be scattered here and there because some times.. Pictures are just fun to look at! ^_^ Have a great night!!! -Super Mom

Crazy Mom Annoyances.. Is it just me??

         Hello again! Today I discovered, as I probably will for the next WHO KNOWS how many years, that there are some things in my day to day routine that just ANNOY the hell out of me. It's not even like the people who do it annoy me.. Just the THINGS themselves.. The instances.. (Ok well they wouldn't happen if it weren't for the people but still..) They just somehow seem to repeat themselves.. Over.. and over again.. I'll give you some of MY annoyances.. There is a laundry basket in the corner of a room.. Next to a closet and close to the bathroom.. An easy deposit place for dirty clothes right? Yet.. somehow.. I seem to find stray clothes on the floor at times.. sometimes even RIGHT NEXT TO THE BASKET!?! I mean really??? My youngest daughter has this problem particularly with her freaking socks... She's like a rat when it comes to those things! I have found smelly kid socks under and behind the couch, IN THE COUCH, under the dining room and coffee tables, IN MY BLANKETS, under my bed AND hers, in my closet, stuffed in her shoes in the hall, and I KNOW there have been more places than that! It's gotten a little bit better since I collected them for four days and put them under her pillow on her own bed... ;) Small victory, but victory just the same.. Anyway,  I'm sure you've had your share of these.. Go for a glass of milk or even looking for a small amount to put on your cereal and instead find that there are only DROPS left... or.. Going to the bathroom just to reach over and find ONE SQUARE of toilet paper left on the roll (or see that there is a new roll sitting ON TOP of where the roll should be! Seriously? It's not like it's hard to put on!) or.. You go to wash your hands in the kitchen sink and instead find a PILE of dirty dishes while the dishwasher is surprisingly EMPTY.. OR.. You tell your kids they can have some of your favorite snack (chips, cookies, etc.) as long as they save you some.. You're amazed to open the pantry and actually see the box or bag is STILL THERE and just when you go to reach your hand in... There are two pieces of whatever it was left... Not only that.. but the bag or box was left OPEN and so.. they're not only almost gone.. they're also GROSS! I swear.. Some times I think that people do these kinds of things just to mess with me or at the very least, see how long my patience will take it before I just LOSE IT. How do you win these pitiful small battles..? Do you just pick up the clothes, get your own toilet paper, and hide all your snacks? Or do you retaliate... Turn the tables.. Be the one in charge of the sabotage.. (Evil laugh while rubbing your hands together..) I try not to let the smaller things or annoyances in life weigh me down. However, that doesn't mean I'm the worlds doormat either! :) A perk of being a crazed super mom is that you can get so swept up in your millions of daily tasks and expectations that you can pull the "I don't know how that happened.." and the "Oh... That was YOUR piece of cake on the counter.. I had no idea.." cards and nobody can even THINK about getting angry with you! You know WHY they can't... Because even if you're not thanked on a daily basis for all you do or places you go or things you remember or meals you prepare.. They (family, friends, whoever!) know DEEP deep down that if they tip the scales and jam the buttons.. then some BAD things will happen.. Laundry will start to take on a mountain shape... The fridge will keep getting emptier.. The meals of PB&J and mac & cheese will be greater.. and so on.. You know they know that when you don't even have to remind them.. just shoot them THE LOOK.. The "go ahead, I dare you.. You won't like what happens if you do it.." look. Muahahaha! If you don't have that look down.. Get a mirror and get to work! You won't be sorry. I have one of those animated kind of faces where especially if you KNOW me, you can usually always tell what I'm thinking.. So I have ALL KINDS of looks. But my family knows the ones they need to know... And they are very lucky they do! ;) That was a small release on the old steam valve.. But really.. Is it just me? Ahhhh... Here's to tomorrow everyone! May you make it there as sanely as possible! ^_^ -Super Mom

My kids call me Super Mom! (But only if I wear if my fleece blanket cape and talk all animated... Thought that counts!)

Good afternoon everyone! It is almost the end of July in the ever so muggy South Carolina heat. We all know what that means... The "calm" of summer or if you have kids like me, summer "vacation" is winding down.. The back to school train comes in a couple weeks and from then on it's homework, more activities, and holidays!!! Does that not sound like a TON OF FUN?!? Uh, No. My kids are going into the first and third grade AND I am currently four months pregnant with baby girl number three... So by the time Christmas comes, everyone I know will be all smiles and cheerful excited for the wonderful time of year while I sprawl on my couch in yoga pants and an extra large tee looking like the knock off version of Shamu. Yay Christmas!! :-/ But that's months from now. For the current time I have the joy of school supply shopping, clothes shopping and hearing which characters face will be on my kids' back packs this year... I wouldn't trade mother hood for anything in the world, but I never thought when I was younger that I would have SO MANY little things that would make up my many days of being a school mom. Wake up at 6:50am, make breakfast, make lunches, make sure homework and everything else is in the kids' bags ready to go, help my kids brush their hair and find their shoes, sign whatever form I didn't sign the night before, fill out a reading log, remind the kids to not forget their homework, get everything and everyone in the car, take the usual route, hit the five minute five way stop across from the school, wait to be directed into the parking lot, drop the kids off at the designated spot, wait for the crossing guard to give me the ok to pull out of the parking lot, back to the stop sign of five ways, and then back home. SOME days I would be lucky enough to crawl back into bed for an hour, but most of the time it was that "since you're already up, you're staying up" kind of thing. Afternoons varied from laundry and other house like fun to running errands and paying bills with the occasional lunch date with a friend from work. Then by 1:30pm it's back to school to sit in the car load zone with the few other early moms before the line wraps all the way down the street and around the corner. Did I mention school gets out at 2:30. So there is an HOUR five days a week, every week until school is over! Insane I know.. I had this feeling last year that it would be better for ME to wait an hour every day so that by the time my kids got outside, we could just GO instead of them waiting outside for my car to make it to the front of the line.. Yeah.. Definitely putting in a bus route request for this year! Imagine being super pregnant and having to hang out in a car just to BE there an hour early... I don't really see that working out for me this time around.. I also worked for a company for the last three years where I could go in and close so I could be there for my kids during the day. Talk about going crazy! I was able to eat dinner (on a good week) three MAYBE four nights a week.. The other nights I wouldn't make it home until 10:30 or 11:45. Not fun... It was a retail job too so by the time back to school started... It was down hill until February. This will be the first year in THREE YEARS where I actually get to STAY HOME on Thanksgiving and ENJOY the food I will spend all day making! Man that makes me want roasted turkey so bad... I left there a few months ago to get a good start on photography (harder to do on a limited schedule!) and haven't missed it that much at all. I put in my two weeks and then a week later, found out we were pregnant! Isn't that just the way the world works. It didn't come out the blue, I mean we were trying for months before that.. But when it didn't take immediately, or the next month, or the month after that... I kind of let it go and was ready to dive into business. They say good things come to those who wait AND things happen when you stop FOCUSING on them all the time... Indeed. :) I am probably the most impatient person in the world and so when I want something, I WANT IT THEN AND THERE. I'm learning to try to change that a little.. Three girls.. My poor husband. The first time I said I really, really wanted a girl... Got her. The second time went like this.. "Every girl needs a sister!".. Got her too... And now.. well, I'm just glad I kept a lot of their clothes! He says I'm creating a mini army of little Me's.. HA! She will have him wrapped just like the other two do.. Well, we covered a little scattered version of a few different things.. I'm actually a little sad that I can't have roast turkey for dinner tonight.. ANYWAY. This wraps up blog 1 from a super tired mommy. Good timing too (bathroom is calling me!) Here's to the start of.. Something. Thanks for hanging in there!!! -Super Mom