Life Lesson #1

There are winners and there are losers. We have a little routine in this house at nighttime....racing jammies. This started maybe 2 or 3 months ago to mainly get Kyle to cooperate putting on his jammies instead of chasing him around the room getting the top on here and the bottom on there while he acts like he's hopped up on sugar. It worked like a charm. Oh did I mention the race is between him and his unsuspecting little brother? Rick and I team up with one of them, it's not always the same. Anyway, it's turned into an obsession. Every night it's "Can we race jammies?" Well, we use to make sure Kyle won because he was so excited about it. But, after the "gloating" I realized maybe that wasn't such a good idea. So, we rigged it one night where little brother took the gold and Kyle came in a close second with the silver. He really wasn't too upset, so I thought we were good. Then it happened a few more times by chance. Well, we're not so much the gracious loser anymore, more like the extremely ridiculously kicking and screaming soar loser. So, we had a little talk about winning and losing tonight. I'm pretty sure that talk will be long forgotten at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow when the green flag drops, but we'll just have to see.

This weekend was so beautiful. We couldn't have asked for better weather, so we spent a lot of time outside. Unfortunately, there is some serious pollen floating in the air this week. Everything has a nice yellow dusting. It looks like poor little Ryan is suffering from an allergy to something floating in the air because he has been sneezing like crazy and sporting the red eyes and a wonderfully runny nose. I hope it passes soon because after the winter we've had, I am SO done with wiping noses! We decided to suck it up and have a good time outside anyway, so we had a little picnic in the backyard. Here's our 39 weeks and counting: My kids and I.....