Nothing Blog-worthy!

It's been so long since I last blogged, I thought I had better write something or people would start thinking I had been admitted to Vista or something. :) Just been busy, but nothing has been too fun or exciting.

Dottie and I finished up the Westwood book fair today. Together we run the Westwood and North Main book fairs. So, during the school year we spend a total of four weeks at book fairs!! I've been at Westwood all day every day for a whole week. I'm glad we get a week break before the North Main book fair starts. They are fun, but really, really exhausting.

One funny for the week. Blake got a donut one afternoon for snack at the bakery. Dottie had taken them after school and then took the boys to my parents house. So, I didn't actually see the donut. It came up later in the week, and I asked Blake what kind of donut he got. He said "one of those twisted ones, you know, that look like DNA". Seriously, he described his donut as a strand of DNA. He really is smarter than me!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Hopefully I'll have something actually blog-worthy to blog about this week!

Got tickets??

Sunday afternoon Blake and Evan were still grounded, and so they were supposed to spend the afternoon quietly playing in their rooms. I snuck off for a nap and when I woke up this is what I found.

Blake and Evan met me at my door and told me to go look on the bar for a ticket....Here's the ticket: (you should really click on it to see the bigger picture for the full effect!)

Blake was sitting outside his bedroom door with a hat on that said "door man".

This is where I was told to put my ticket!

And this is the magnificent display that was waiting for my viewing pleasure!!

He drew the background on a packing box and arranged the Legos "just so".

Not to be outdone, Evan was also waiting outside his door with a "door man" hat on!

These were the various signs on Evan's door (Blake had obviously helped a little).

And here is Evan's Lego creation! He also drew his own background. But first, he wrapped 3 boxes of coversation hearts in white paper and taped them to a book to make the background! Pretty cute and creative!!

So, that's what you get at my house when two brothers decide to actually play together and get along for an afternoon. I love it! It thrills me to see them playing together and helping each other and actually enjoying each other's company. After Evan's comment earlier in the week that he just didn't think he and Blake were meant to be brothers, an afternoon like this is good for a momma's heart!

Detention

Well, so I said I needed to be inspired. I was really hoping for some uplifting inspiration. Not so much. Today Blake came home with his very first detention slip. Yep, third grade and he's already been in detention. Not only that, but he's also the very first kid in his class to have to go to detention.

Gues what for? Sword fighting with another boy in GT class. Boy is he ever gifted and talented. He can sword fight with a pencil during the lesson AND draw blood on the other kid. Pretty impresive, huh? I bet my kid could beat your kid at pencil sword fighting...

So, we spent yet another afternoon talking about the value of respect and how important it is to obey at all times, not conforming to peer pressure...and on and on 'til I'm blue in the face. Seriously, how long can one kid be grounded. And you know, when he's grounded, I'm grounded. I'm so sick of grounded kids!!

Let's hope for some better days ahead. I just can't take any more bad ones...

Writers Block

That's what I have. I just can't think of anything to write about. We've had a super busy week, but to be honest, it's all just been too depressing to want to rehash.

Travis blogged this week on his "work" blog. Get this, he blogged about a how a project with some emblem on it in their office reminded him of the Twisted Sister logo. Seriously, did you even know Twisted Sister had a logo?

So, that's all I've got. Maybe I'll be inspired tomorrow...