I have children

I am never shy to admit that I have children.  I love the look on people's faces when I tell them I have 3 children to chase every evening. 

I often am asked if my job is full time or part time.  I chuckle when I tell people that work part time so I can chase my kids after school.  They look at me funny, especially those who have grandchildren my kids' age.  We were never this busy as kids.  I know my mom never had to put together a day planner with everyone's schedules in it so as to not forget this conference or activity.  

I was thinking about the signs in my house that I have children, especially when I went to take a shower this morning and discovered that my bath towel has developed feet and wandered out of the bathroom.  Hmmm, which child has it on their bedroom floor?  Tinkie.  That would be due to the fact that her bath towel is in the living room in the basket of clean clothes I haven't had the desire to fold yet this week.  Then it's the band-aid that didn't make it the 2 feet to the garbage can when it fell off, the 3 pair of kid's shoes by the front door, the copy of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" on the couch and the half finished art project on the kitchen table. No problem finding signs of children in this house, even if you don't look at the pictures of them on the walls.

I'm threatening to turn my son's bedroom into my own personal, indoor beach when he leaves for college and/or is out on his own.  Tarp the floor, dump a bunch of sand into the room via the window and have it deep enough to bury the plastic kiddee pool.  Add a few full-spectrum lights and pump in a ton of heat and I have  my own beach to have my "toes in the water and (tush) in the sand" as the song goes.  Finish it off with fun drinks with umbrellas in them and I'm set to happily survive our Montana winters.

No complaining this week about the weather.  It may have been -5 Monday am when I took the kids to the bus (actual temp, I refused to listen to the radio to find out how cold the wind chill was--but north-eastern Montana had -59 for a wind-chill).  Today it topped out at 38 while I was in town and the sun was shining.  Can't complain about that for the beginning of January!