I'm A Magician

I've come to realize that I am a magician. I have one trick that I can do fantastically. Sometimes I still amaze myself when I do it. It takes talent too and lots and lots of practice. Wanna know what my super duper amazing trick is? I can make things disappear just by thinking about them! I swear. No abracadabra, no magic wand. I simply think of the thing that I need...er, want to make disappear and poof, it's gone! And usually it's VERY gone. I'll even try looking for it, in all the places it's suppose to be, anywhere I might have seen it or set it down. Anywhere the kids might have taken it, everywhere it shouldn't be but noooooo. It is gone. Now you might think, Wow this should work in my favor sometimes. I could just think about the kids and bam, they'd be gone, peace and quiet. But no. Actually quite the opposite happens with my kids. Anytime I think about my kids, one suddenly appears attatched to my leg, the another whining right in front of me and the third one mysteriously wakes up from her nap, as if...she knows. Although, I'm sure that in just a few short years whenever I need help I will magically make everyone disappear and have to do everything by myself! So what does one do with such an annoying..I mean awesome trick? Stop thinking. Hey, it works for me :)

"Daddy Killed A Frog Today"

This was so funny, I had to blog it. Today I went to a b-day party for one of my friends. Andy was awesome enough to watch all 3 kids. He just took the time to get some stuff done around the house. One of those things was our mailbox post. It's been majorly wiggly since we moved in. He dug out the post and set it in concrete. In the process Andy found a hibernating frog. He dug it up and it jumped around a little without showing too much energy. He thought it was just waking up. So a few hours later I come home and they were telling me about this frog so we decided to go out and see how it was doing. Well it died. Andy had accidentally clipped it with the shovel and it died. Andy got to it before the kids and one of our friends distracted the kids while Andy buried it. Now, I am not one to shield my kids from death. I don't want them to think it's scary or bad so I told Andy we should just tell them what happened. So he did. I told them the frog was in heaven and it was okay that he died. The kids just kinda thought it was funny that he was in heaven and away we went on with our day. Fast forward a few hours later. Terhan is sitting on the couch telling a story. He had found a song sheet of Andy's and was pretending that it was a story of all the things he had done today. And guess what the beginning of the story was? "Today, Daddy killed a frog." I laughed and laughed! He didn't say it sad just very matter-of-factly. Kids, they are sooooo funny!