Paraphrasing

Me: Just tell her to think before she acts and make better choices… And it’s not good to get attention for negative behavior.

Drew: I’m just going to tell her she’s dumb

“War” + Modern Family with the teens = my Saturday night, jealous? (Taken with instagram)

Sammie “lots of people have a crush on me” Ferris (Taken with instagram)

Favorite kid (Taken with instagram)

unamused preteen sporting post Christmas fashions (Taken with instagram)

schooled

me: ugh i am so sick of taylor swift! how many albums about heartbreak and bad boys is she going to make! can’t she get it right?

sammie (age 11): you’re 27, have you gotten it right?

i can’t finish! i’m going through a hard time right now! homeworkism, it’s a disease

sammie, age 10

you know it will not be an average morning around the breakfast table when someone shouts “look a lost dog! we have to rescue him!”

“him” turned out to be a “her”, piper who was returned to her yard around the corner…

(and the girls still made it to school 5 minutes early, my mama doesn’t call me branie poppins for nothing!)

second grade “to do”

i asked her if she would trade lists with me and she refused