Election Day Thoughts

My Election Day thoughts are completely unpolitical.  I don’t really do politics.

Election Day means school is out and school conferences and my niece Campbell hanging out and me still hating the dreaded fall back time change which has caused all of our children to awake at promptly 6am.  I really wish Election Day contained a nap.

Who knew strep throat could cause severe asthma attacks.  I learn something new all the time from my allergy kid.  Currently Hudson is heavy on the breathing treatments and amoxicillin.  Anyone else grow up calling this the bubble gum medicine?!?!

Pretty pumped for Full Count’s celebration banquet this Thursday night.  It’s their main fundraiser and it’s always a blast to be with friends.  This ministry is so important and just invaluable to our family.  You can learn more about what Full Count does HERE.  And you can help by making a tax deductible donation to further this ministry’s reach HERE.  Perfect end of the year donation 🙂

November 1st we kicked off our traditional thank you leaves.  Each day a Kelley kid takes their turn giving me something they are thankful for and the leaves adorn our chalkboard.  I kind of love that Hudson chose Grammy to be thankful for.  Makes me melt a bit.

Yesterday evening while I was folding towels in our bedroom Amon took it upon himself to draw all over our couch with a dry erase marker.  I may have lost my !@%*.  Not our new, sweet “I’m in love with you and want to make out” couch.  It was so bad Harper wrote an apology note on behalf of Amon.  The picture below is after I scrubbed and scrubbed…Harper came over to me and said, “Mom, do you think it looks better or worse now?”  Hahahahaha.  I am happy and relieved to tell you cold water got it all out.  I was shocked.

TOMs are my winter shoes.  I have about 6 pairs of shoes total…running shoes are my year round shoes…flip flops are spring, summer and early fall…TOMs are for winter.  It’s just how I roll.  As I slipped on my TOMs the other day…on the first really cold day here in Tennessee, Josh Kelley replied, “Oh, breaking out the winter shoes.”

 And tonight I am excited to report I’m heading out for another birthday dinner.  You guys, everyone should have good friends and at least a week minimum to celebrate their birthday.  It should be a law.  I’m thinking it will be the perfect end to this Election Day!

Happy Tuesday.

Election Day

It’s Election Day which means it’s a holiday, which means all the wee Kelleys are off from school {insert raise the rood hands here.}  I love a good break from the normal day, so even though I’m not very political, I will gladly celebrate Election Day for a day off from the norm.  (And my camera is still broken so again…more phone pictures.  I need a camera doctor asap.)  We started the day off right with Mickey Mouse pancakes.

This guy sat right here until his pancake was done.  Sol takes his breakfast very serious.  And is pretty dramatic about it most days.  He would eat pancakes or waffles every single day for the rest of his life…I truly believe that.  I envision Sol being the guy who says, “Don’t talk to me in the morning before I have my coffee waffles.”

Our November leaves are coming right along.  Today was Sol’s turn again…The Batcave.  This is so beyond fitting.

I discovered a major slice of skin missing from the bottom of Amon’s big toe.  I have no clue what happened, but it resulted in his first bandaid.  Everyone “awwwww” together because I am aware of how cute his little feet and toes are.

There has been lots of outside play.  It is so crazy cold, but are my kids the only ones who behave better outside.  I don’t care how cold it gets this winter.  Parka up kids…we’re going outside.

Giving Amon shots is kind of getting old.  He has an appointment this Friday with radiology.  I am crossing my fingers and toes we will be able to bid blood thinner adieu.

I really like our toothbrushes…I feel like we have a great toothbrush color pallet going on.  I wonder what color Amon’s will be when he finally gets some teeth.

He kills me.  Like were talking just slays me.  What am I going to do?  Seriously, I’m afraid he’s going to ruin our stern and level headed parenting.  I’m afraid he’ll just ask and we’ll cave.  Maybe it’s the eyes.  I must start avoiding all eye contact.

Huddy takes his love of blades very serious.  At any given point in the day, he is always packing some sort of knife or sword or just something that can slice.  It’s very serious business.  You do not want to cross him in a dark alley.

I found this at the top of the steps today.  I’m going to go ahead and make my prediction…Harper will be a heart surgeon with an illustrating job on the side.

And I discovered I can always get at least one good smiling pictures from the kids if I ask them to do a mad face, happy face and then silly face.  Every time there is a good smiling keeper.  That middle one…that’s the gold.  Well, maybe they’re all gold.

Happy Election Day!