Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Affair of the Mailbox


So we've been painting the outside of our house for the last few days. Well, clarification - we hired someone to paint, and THEY have been painting the outside of our house.  The main guy told me that if I wanted to buy new house numbers, mailbox and light that he would put them all up.  I jumped at the offer as if it was left to me and my duck it wouldn't get done.  So I went to Home Depot, and got all the supplies.  The next day we made the sad discovery that the mailbox was too wide for the alloted space.  

Trip two to Home Depot (with all four kids this time).  I had so much selection (one) to choose from, the possibilities were endless.  The mailbox we got had the option to have a lock on it, and a 'metalish' decal that said 'mail'.  I was glad that it didn't come with the decal on it, as I kind of preferred it plain black.

After we got home I took the mail box out and decided we'd keep it, and have no decal.  Later in the evening I was in the basement doing some laundry and Spencer went upstairs to get his toothbrush, and later came back and went to bed.   Well, a couple hours later I went looking for the mail box to show Jim, only to my horror I discovered our mailbox now had a 'mail' decal planted on the front!!!  I yelled "Ohhhh, SPENCER!!"  and went and showed Jim.  After looking at it he said "well, at least he got it pretty centered and level!'  So, because I have no desire to go back to Home Depot with my brood, and the paint guy's last day was today, we decided to stick (haha) with it how it was...



Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Moisturizing







A few weeks ago I was busy making dinner when suddenly it dawned on me - I hadn't heard or seen Lauren for awhile.  Now, while I adore my toddler, I know she can get up to no good.  So, I went searching and came into my bedroom only to discover Lauren sitting next to this...


She had gotten into my purse, taken out my hand cream and once she was discovered, she made a gallant effort to cover her tracks by rubbing her hands together to make it go away!








Wednesday, May 14, 2008

What's with the title??

So what's with the title?  First off, I'm a terrible decision maker so I've sat staring at the computer screen thinking "What should the title of my blog be??" Coming up with the BostonKellys thing was easy enough since that is how we are usually referred to among family.  So, I reflected on titles of my friends blogs, and thought, "what is something I like to do?",  I looked out the office door and see the kitchen and automatically think - dancing in the kitchen with my kids.  The only thing that may top that in the kid activity department, may be dancing in the car with the kids while driving.  We love to get silly and have fun.  Thanks to Auntie A, we have a cool hip hop cd which everyone loves - even buddha!

The other day while driving a friends kid somewhere, a good song came on the radio so the girls and I started grooving.  I said to our little friend "shake it friend!!!" to which came the reply "we don't really do that in our car" Ah well, your loss!