Totes Adorbs

I’m alone in our house for the 4th time in 2 weeks.  Holy smokes.  I’m afraid the rapture is coming soon.  It’s amazing.  I am working like crazy and loving every single minute of it.  After Amon ventured off to Mother’s Day Out last week and I blogged about how awesome my day was without him, there was one of those ‘guilty mom articles’ on Facebook and I about punched my computer screen.  I started to feel a twinge guilty for loving my time alone, but then I realized nope…no way…I’m not going to play that game.  I love my kids and I love my job.  Do I love my kids more than my job, yes, but do I still love and enjoy and find value in my job, yes!  What’s with all the moms making moms feel guilty anyways.  Everybody’s doing the best they can…everyone’s best looks different…let’s three cheers for that.  Now I shall exit my soap box.

Okay so, so many random things to tell you today.  Today has been awesome for packing up five thousand name pillows and some art and some key fobs and getting all those shipped out.  If you’ve paid and I’ve completed your order, they are on their way.  Hallelujah.  Car seats were made for more than just holding babies.

My August running mileage was low.  Back injuries are from Satan himself.  I’m feeling so much better and for September I have decided the running IS.On.  Like donkey kong.  Does anyone else say that…it’s on like donkey kong???  We say that way too much in the Kelley house.

Remember the 21 Day Fix I did a while back?  Well, I loved it so much.  It totally changed our eating habits and I picked up so many tips and tricks.  Here’s one of my favorites.  I like to call them “Nut Bags.”  Hilarious right?!?!?  I love when Josh Kelley comes home and I announce, “I made up some more nut bags for the week.”  Just so he know’s there are ample nut bags available.  I die.  Anyways, I pre make these up each week…peanuts, sunflower seeds and pistachios.  Want to know how super crazy I am…each bag has approximately 20 pistachios and 2 tablespoons of peanuts & sunflower seeds mixed.  I’m super cray.  The big thing with the 21 Day Fix was portion control and I loved learning what this actually looks like.  Now if you’ll excuse me I have to devour my Chickfila for lunch.

Every day they play Legos.  I’ve donated almost all their toys because hello, Legos-4-Life.  Everyday they talk about Legos and discuss what they are going to build.  Everyday Hudson talks about his birthday and he waivers between a Star Wars Lego themed cake or a Chima Lego themed cake.  Or, no wait, maybe a Ninjago Lego themed cake.  Everyday he worries and frets over which Lego set to officially ask Josh and I for for his present.  Everyday he asks to look up certain Lego sets on Amazon so he can really examine each piece.  This is stressful legit stuff people.  Oh to be a 5-year-old boy again…wait a second.

This little guy, well he has it made.  Harper is coiled so tightly around his finger.  They will be each other’s man of honor and best woman.  I just know it.

Friends who are fun and nice and easy going and no drama are the best.  Harper and Kylee are a match made in friendship heaven.  The conversations, the play and the laughter is amazing.  I love their little personalties.  They both beamed with time together.  And I so wish everyone could have heard their conversation about their school clothing policy…”Now what’s your school’s policy on shoes?”  Hilarious.

And you should have heard the excitement over matching PJ pants.  The best.

Speaking of friendships…aren’t these two just totes adorbs?!?! #middleschoolslang  They really enjoyed themselves at our First Tennessee Football Game Of The Season Kick Off Fish Fry.  <—–I just made that fancy title up.  I love good friendships.  I’m thinking about making up some Christmas cards with these…maybe “Have a totes adorbs Christmas.”

 

And thank you for the sweet response to yesterday’s post.  If you missed it you can READ IT HERE.  You guys donated $555 towards our family’s goal of $5K for the American Heart Association in honor of Amon.  For every donation of $15 or more, I will send you a thank you key fob.  If you want to get in on the key fob fun, go to AMON’s PAGE HERE and click the ‘give now’ button in the right hand side bar.  If you’d like your key fob, once you’ve made your donation send me an email at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com with your name and shipping address.  A big huge thank you for everyone who has already donated and for those of you sharing Amon’s story.  We deeply appreciate it.

That’s all I’ve got for today.  Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

Happy Thursday!

4 Comments

  1. Miss you! Let me know if you want to meet up for a run soon. Are u by any chance @ moss wright on tues or thur nights?

    • Awwwww, miss you too! Miss the whole gang. And yes, we are there on Tuesday nights, but alas I am always accompanied by 3 other small boy humans 🙂

  2. First paragraph – agreed! You gotta read this. http://christywright.com/2014/09/the-ties-that-bind-us-together-as-women/

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