Awesome Kids

Today's topic on Oprah:

Happiness

The many factors that affect happiness: money, marriage, children, etc. This episode including discussions on how to find happiness, how to get more of it in your life, the happiest places to live, etc. During this discussion a psychologist tells Oprah that having children often thwarts people's happiness {at least for a period of time}. He goes on to explain that this is largely due to the fact that it now costs an average of $250k to raise a child.

Upon hearing this Hannah quickly does the math and says "Holy moly, is it really going to cost that much to raise us!?!"

To which I reply, "Yes, you guys are expensive! Maybe we better get rid of a couple of you."

About this time, Mia chimes in, "Mom, you have AWESOME kids! Don't get rid of us!"

"You are right, I guess I'll keep you all!"

The Bobby Pin

Meet my new arch nemesis:

the bobby pin.

Why you ask would such a simple, unassuming hair gadget be such the bane of my existence? It seems that Sophie, Hannah, Mia & Bella have all taken to using these in their hair - every day. We use them to pin our bangs back, to pin various pieces of hair back and sometimes, I think, just to stick them in our hair for fun.

Here is the problem, they end up EVERYWHERE except back from whence they came. Mostly they seem to end up sticking out of the carpet. That's fun. Fun to be walking across and nearly impale yourself on a bobby pin and walk not even 6 more feet and do it again. But my personal favorite is vacuuming, which now feels somewhat like vacuuming a land mine. Bobby pins randomly shooting out of the vacuum at warp speed, hitting various body parts and even the dogs! I now need full body armor to get this chore done and if the dogs weren't afraid of the vacuum before, you should see them run now!

So, here I find myself making a ridiculous statement:

"if I find one more bobby pin laying around, you are all cut off from their use indefinitely!"