Moving boxes?!? And yes my baby boy is eating pink crayons

So we got an awesome letter in the mail today, didn't open it until right before dinner. My husband read it first and told me what it said...any of you who knows HIM knows he's always joking so its hard for me to take him seriously!!

Nope he was correct:

The owner of the house we are renting wants to either move back into it or sell it so we get the boot and have to be out in a month. ONE MONTH! How is this going to happen? We don't have time for this!! Don't they know we have two crazy kids and TONS of toys to pack up? Don't they know my hubby has an insane work schedule and is even traveling for work this month too? Don't they know I'm trying to get to my sister's house to spend time with her sweet family before they move across the big pond?!?

We've had lots of "trouble" with our rental company, including about a three month stretch where we were saying our AC wasn't working and they didn't do anything about it until water was literally filling up buckets on our second floor. Even though we live in Texas and it was over 100 degrees outside and at times 98 degrees inside and I have two children under 3, ACs aren't considered emergencies! I'd like the people at the front desk I talked to several times to come spend the day with me and my babies in the heat and then see what they think is an emergency! But I digress.

After the shock wore off, we had to laugh. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! We are military and will most likely be stationed somewhere else next June so another move now is just awesome (hope you're getting my sarcasm here) for us.

I eat dinner-hubby busy with work stuff. I wash dishes, play with kids for a bit, read a few books and start a double bath solo. Bubbles is the request from my oldest, so bubbles it is. I put in bubble solution and turn to see my son with pink crayon all over his mouth and a big smile. I clean him up and fish the remaining pieces out of those sweet chubby cheeks trying not to get bit! I begin bathing my babies, more pink crayon. I can't figure out where he's getting these pieces! We have bath crayons but I can't see them anywhere (I've fished most of them out already to prevent this AND there's Mr. Bubbles everywhere). I clean him up.

I rinse out my daughter's long hair. This is always fun because she's terrified of getting soap in her eyes. More pink crayon again! I clean him up and sweep the cheeks! I bathe him and begin the drying cycle! Take Mr. Cheeks into his room for jammie time. He smiles super big while we are singing Jesus Loves Me and MORE PINK CRAYON! I still don't know how he got so much or where it was coming from but

Moving boxes and yes baby boy eating pink crayons!
You can't make this stuff up!

Crazy Walgreens Mommy

Here's the first of MANY crazy adventure stories:

So my baby boy was born last February. He put me through the ringer with colic until about June. Everyone had their own "remedy" for colic but one thing that seemed to help him at least to sleep most of the time was a homeopathic medicine called Colic Calm.

I try to have a somewhat structured day that I'm sure looks more like chaos than structure to any outsiders :). I usually start making lunch around 12:00 and try to have both little ones (who usually still take at least an hour nap) down for a nap around 1:00-1:30 every day.

We were out of Colic Calm and I knew we would need some for naptime but especially for nighttime. It was about 11:30 so I thought ok, we run to Walgreens (one of the only stores that carried this magic elixir) to grab it and be back around 12:00. I load everyone up in the car~which is a feat in and of itself~and head out.

We get there and I put my daughter, who is 2 1/2 at the time, in her new Minnie Mouse stroller. This is the first time she's been in it so she's super excited and willing to sit there while I get her little brother situated. I bring her, in the stroller, over to my baby's side of the car. My plan was to put him in our baby carrier (we call it the harness). I open his door to the wonderful aroma of a nasty poopy diaper. And there's poop everywhere! I mean everywhere! All of him, all over the carseat, on his face~everywhere!

We live in Texas and it was hot, like 95+ hot and humid! I try to get my daughter out of the stroller and back into the car while I clean up her brother. Of course she can't bear getting out of her new stroller when she'd only been in it for less than five minutes. So I park her best I can, safely and close to me, while I clean him up. We are all sweating at this point! He is finally clean and we head inside!

I know exactly where this medicine is so we go straight there and grab it. All of us are hot and sweaty and now the kids are both hungry. I get up to the counter only to realize that in all of the excitement outside, I forgot to bring in my debit card. Awesome, right?

Run out to the car and just go straight to counter. The very nice employee comments on how cute my baby is and tells me about the latest discounts and coupon programs. Do I look like I have time for that at this very second? Since we had just come in and went straight up to the counter, I had left my daughter, in the stroller, facing the rest of the store. I pay and go to grab her and she's not anywhere to be seen!

She's "walked" herself down towards the food aisles on the back wall of the store. She's hungry! I know this because she's yelling EAT! But she's not saying "eat", she's saying "scheat". So she's stroller-walking (she could probably win an Olympic medal if that ever becomes a sport) away from us yelling "SCHEAT" SCHEAT!!

Everyone around is losing it laughing at us~all I can do is laugh along!!! It aint over yet folks! We get out to the car, I get everyone back in their carseats. I catch my breath and put the car in reverse thinking to myself "Wow, that was way more complicated than I imagined" and "wonder if people are watching and what they've thought of this whole ordeal" and noticed it was now 12:45!

Car's in reverse, I back up~Crash!!!! I think "What in the world?!?!" Put car back in park, hop out to see what I hit~ OF COURSE, I ran over the stupid Minnie Mouse stroller!!! I laugh out loud literally and shake my head. I check it out and the stroller is fine. It recently made it through a whole week at DisneyWorld!

You can't make this stuff up! This is my crazy life, but I wouldn't have it ANY other way!

HELLO!

Hi. My name is Ashley Dickison. I'm pretty new to this whole blog thing. I've been told for years that I should join the blog scene, so here I am. :)

Where to begin? I love life! My faith, my family, and my friends are my life. I am so very happily married to my best friend and high school sweetheart (I know, I know how cliche). We have a beautiful three year old daughter and a handsome one year old (just turned one, still so weird to say that) son. Both of them are super energetic, have no fear just like their daddy, have the sweetest little personalities, laugh all the time and keep this Momma on her toes!

When my daughter was born, I became a full time mommy and have loved it ever since. Now that I have two little ones at home, my days are always full of fun times, crazy stories, lots of messes, and busyness! I'm sure I will probably overshare on here about my babies but they are too funny!!! And you can't make this stuff up!

I also recently began living a longtime dream of mine and started my own photography business. It's been such a blessing for me to get out there and capture clients' exciting moments now to have and cherish always.

I guess more than anything I am just a normal stay at home mommy that has crazy adventures. Hopefully if nothing else, this can be a comic relief to any followers. Can't wait to meet some of you soon.

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