Today when I was crying my 2yr old daughter said, "daddy cry" and then climbed on my lap and padded me on the back.

My 8 year old daughter says she's not sure if she wants to have kids. She says she knows it's not like getting your ears pierced!

My twins are going through a phase - I hope. The oldest keeps calling me Adam and her sister continues to call me father. What happened to daddy? I can't wait for their teenage years! :)

My oldest son come in one day and wanted to know what was for lunch. He is only 11. I told him I would make tomato soup and grilled cheese. So after a few minutes he come into the kitchen and want s to know if it is ready. I told him I was fixing it. He asked "Why is it broken?"

My kids are all grown up and gone,, so my list is very long,, but one of my favorites is when my olest son was about three.. I had loaded him the the car seat and started the car.. it was dark outside so the dash lights came on and he started crying.... kept saying there was a monster... he was looking up through the windshield at the sky... I could not console him... I laid down in the seat and looked up in the direction he was looking and the reflection of the ashtray looked like a monster with big teeth... all I had to do was close the ashtray and he was fine! We then started calling the ashtray an ashtraymonster! He still calls it that today and is 24!
Another one of my favorites is when they were little,, I was newly divorced and was getting ready to go on a date! They came into the room and I was putting on my make-up,, my son told me,,, ahhhh mama,, you look hilarious! See his babysitter believed in teaching the children a different big word everyweek and they would get stars for finding different ways to use them in the sentence throughout the week.. the week before the word was gorgeous,, he got them mixed up and confused the definitions.... Or I hope that is the true reason! LOL

Pearljam...be careful what you wish for...during the teen years...you become just another curse word! You do not become a human in your kids eyes from age 14...until they graduate college!

I love my son dearly and we are very very close...but I do remember those years. He'd mutter something behind my back and I'd say "what did you call me?"..his reply..."nothing". I decided that "nothing" was ok...because I heard what his friends called their parents!

My 8 year old has wiped my tears as I have done to her.
The most amazing time was our snowshoe trip to a cabin we stumbled upon in the woods. I was treating water out of the near-by lake when she came up behind me and said You know? I would not be here, in this place, without a dad like you. I love you Daddy. I nearly fainted.

I know and I do think it is funny for the most part. I am enjoying every second I can with them. I am ready for the name calling from the girls as they get older. There mom does it to me so many times I am surprised that the girls don't think my name is f**king a**hole by now. LOL

I am just getting a taste of teenage years. This morning my son asked me to turn down my CD(James Taylor) before he got out of the car at school..afraid that I would ruin his "rep" with my taste in music.

I am also no longer allowed to dance while I am driving or wear my pajama bottoms while I run them to school at 7am. NO ONE CAN SEE that I am wearing pajama bottoms.

high maintanance..

I had to pick up my oldest from middle school yesterday. All she kept saying was how embarrassed she was that I was walking her and her sister home from school. Let the fun begin! :)

lol pearljam..

My oldest was really acting up in the car one day on the way to school. I told him if he didn't stop I would roll down the window when I dropped him off and yell.. BYE BABY..MOMMY LOVES YOU..

He shut up :)

LOL! She was walking too slow - watching boys - and I told her if she didn't hurry up I was going to give her a big hug and kiss in front of everone. I think I now have an Olympic sprinter on my hands! :)

I did briefly gain some respect. My son and his buddies were on the HS rifle and pistol team. So I got this brainy idea to donate a case of ammo to the team. Id been at the range...then stopped by the school and walked in with a case of ELY ammo...well OK not a good idea in this day and age. I became a legend for a while..walking a case of ammo into the school...with an AR-15 in my mini van. Though our house was never ever TP'd...as a red head I was often compared to the Reba McEntrye character played in that movie where she was the gun toting momma!