portugal part one: no one from vancouver, canada has a six hour layover in seattle, except for us!

so this whole lack of wanting to plan any part of "our trips" (it's really greg's trip, i just come along) is starting to not work in my favour.  our flight from bellingham left at 5am only to land in seattle (27 minutes later) for a six hour layover...wth, why?  oh right, you don't want to drive that far "back home" after the trip...FINE greg!  ok, ok... no complaining, you planned the whole thing, it's still six hours without any responsibility... right!  problem, i can't sit still and i don't sleep up right very well and seeing how greg has a seriously strange travel disorder which i shall name as "do all his shit at the very last minute, disorder" (he mowed the front lawn at 9:30 pm and shaved his head at well...12am, then finished packing at 1am), nope i can't make this shit up.  so guess how much sleep i got? yep, your right "bagel" (as my nephew would say). after a failed attempt and slumbering, i coast the hudson news stand for what feels like hours only to be reminded of people and things around me. here's what my left brain was thinking while i was killing time...

my girl kassie.

i should have shaved my legs last night!

my mom, who for sure has been praying and not sleeping since 3 am!

my dad, who more than likely needed to escape the praying and went fishing!

so grateful we live in canada.

amara's birthday party with the uninvited but really welcomed neighbours cats!

what my wonderful, kind, every so giving mother in law will be dealing with for 17 days.  THANK YOU again for allowing us to go away!! and good luck..eek!

 

how my poor little people looked when we left this morning!

tammy.

me currently.

what i wanted to do to greg last night.

no words needed!

" i will not waste athers t i m e s again"

so i pulled out an old school parenting technique today...my eldest daughter made me wait for 40 minutes after school today with no care that I was standing outside waiting!  i'm rather busy and that inconsiderate behaviour really irritated me... so i made her do "lines" when we got home, for real... old fashion lines. "i will not waste others time again"  ...75 of them, which took about 40 minutes!

I then asked if she liked using up 40 minutes of HER time doing lines...she said "NO". Well then "tickles" I found your achilles heel haven't i.

HOLY CRAP THURSDAY'S

in honor of bad glamour/portrait photography i've shared "mommy has a potty mouth" 's link. HOLY CRAP this makes me laugh, not to mention some of these horrible poses (with me in them) are lingering on the walls of my parents house right now... Awesomely BAD Glamour shots

here's my bad portrait confession...

i asked my daughter to pose for her birthday bowling evite and this is what she came up with!  she refused all other suggestions or images and this is pretty much the one we used, minus another preset.  i guess bad pos'n is in the blood!