What We Did On Earth Day

This morning while taking the twins to school my five yr old daughter's voice yelled from the back of the van, "Mommy, can we walk to school?" I laughed and told her, "You all barely made it home from school the day the van broke down. It's too far to walk." To which my little John John(oldest twin) quipped, "Yeah, I almost didn't survive". I just about bust a gut when he said that. I was laughing so hard. I looked at him in the rear view mirror and he had these cheesy little grin on his face.

As we pulled into the parking lot at school, I told him "I know, you should be on that one show I shouldn't be Alive.  You walked a total of 1 and a half miles that day John John, forget being stranded in the Mojave desert or on a polar ice cap in freezing temps, walking from school on a warm spring day a mile and  a half I AM surprised you made it alive". I giggled and he grinned.

My kids are hilarious sometimes.

I wish I'd write down more often some of the things that escape their mouths, instead of waiting to blog them.

Yesterday as the kids were coming inside for the night my daughter looks at me with this silly girly crush look on her face and told me "I told Gus that I love him". If you could have seen the look on her face. Gus is our 8-year old neighbor whom my daughter has a little spark in her heart for. I laugh thinking about my first crush.  Oh to be five-years old once again. Then my daughter tells me, "John John told Gus he loves him too." He looked a bit embarrassed. So I told him, "It's okay sweetie. We should love everyone.  We are all brothers and sisters on the planet," I told him as I rubbed the top of his head with my palm.

We went inside, had dinner, and then we got out homework. As I went through his backpack I saw a book he made. They were suppose to title their books. It had a picture of the earth they had cut out and beneath the picture of the earth they had colored he wrote for his title: Muthr Eirthe (translation: Mother Earth) Bless his heart. He was so excited about the title of his book. He and his brother asked me about things that are on Earth besides plants and trees. I had to really think about that, then I told them dirt, rocks, stones, animals. We then went to the puter where I showed them the Earth video from Michael Jackson. Oh did they have questions. "Why is that elephant dead?" So I had to tell them that people take their tusks and sell them. "Mommy why is that man crying?" I explained that there was a war and the little girl was killed in the war. Was a very serious discussion. Then I explained to them what bio-degradable means. What compost is. We talked about oil spills and what happens.  Questions and observations were just flowing out of their little mouths and minds. It was quite the learning experience for all of us.

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I'm having what I tend to term a random lazy day around here.

I managed to pick up in my living room and surf the net a bit this morning while the twins were at school and my daughter visiting her little friend a few doors down.

Took a shower, started to pick up in the kitchen and before I knew it I had to go and get the kids. Not much accomplished in a two and a half hour window that I had to do anything. Went to pick up my kids at school, only to have them begging me to take them to take them to the park. "Sean is going to be there!" Now, I hadn't heard from Sean's mom, nor do I know her well enough to assume just because her kid says they are going to the park that they are actually going. I called and left a message with no response. So, when the kids kept hounding me to go, despite the chilly temps, wind, and looming rain in the distant skies over the mountains, my kids were so persistent and I caved in. So I brought them home, made sandwiches, grabbed the juice boxes and krispie treats and threw them in the bag we took. I told them on the way down there, "I'm telling you now, Sean isn't going to be there. Look at this weather? I doubt anyone will be there." They all sat silently in the back of the van. What kind of mother would I be if I didn't give one of those "i told you so because I know it all" lectures LOL?

We get to the park, and of course, no Sean. I know they were devastated but I wanted them to learn patience first of all and secondly I wanted them to grasp the concept that sometimes(not always) mom knows best which is why I took them despite the fact I had work at home to do. The park was empty. I saw a mom with her son that I knew from my daughter's dance class, we chatted briefly and then they left. There was not a soul out there. It was kind of nice actually to have the park to ourselves, however, as cold and windy as it was we didn't enjoy it very long. We ate lunch and then fed the birds, I let the kids go play for about fifteen minutes and then I had enough of the chill and the wind and we left. Just as we were leaving there were raindrops on my windshield. I told the kids, "see, I told you it was going to rain".

I'm really annoying as a mom sometimes. LOL

We got home and I told the kids they have half an hour to watch their show(which is just about up here as I look at the clock) and then we are cleaning this mess they made. I'd really love to mop my floors finally. They need a good wash down.

This weather makes me lazy though. I love sunny, warm spring days where I can open the windows, blast my music and just go to town in the house. Such is not the case today. i'd rather curl up with a good magazine, turn on a show on the tv and veg out.

Hoping the sun peeks out sometime today. I was hoping to plant some more stuff with the kids today, but that's just not going to happen.

I hope everyone is having a great afternoon. I'm going to scoot now and see what organizing and cleaning I can get done with what little energy I have at the moment.

Bright Blessings Everyone!