And the MOTHER OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO....................

Not me. I know this because my children have a way of proving to me in their subtle little ways.....here are two from just today...actually in the last two hours...

1. With Christmas being just around the corner, every commercial on TV is Christmas related, latest toys, latest gadgets, everything, like the "He went to Jarrod's" or "Every Kiss Begins With Kay" commercial. Yaknow the ones that say "spend $42,000.00 on her to show her you love her" Anyway the one of the Kay Jeweler commercial shows the couple using the wishbone, them breaking it and him handing her the pretty bracelet or whatever, anyway Hoss says "Whats a wishbone" so there I go trying to explain to him what a wishbone is and then he asks "Well where can we buy one because I want to try to break it" so I then procede to tell him that they are in a chicken and when you eat the chicken you find them. Well he let me know right fast that he has never seen a bone in a chicken before. Now when I was a child I witnessed the life of a chicken many times ( I know I know I am well versed) I watched the eggs in the incubator, the eggs hatching, the little chickens growing up, to the laying of the eggs, right down to my granny with a pair of pants under her skirt out in the yard with an axe propped against the smoke house, grabbing a chicken just to wring its neck, then taking the axe and chopping it's dang head off. It was gross, then taking them in the house after flopping and squirting blood all over us and the yard, sticking them in a boiling pot of water (this is when it started to reallllllllllllly stink) pluck the feathers off and then dress the chicken and put it in the freezer. So needless to say as a child we did not eat chicken strips or nuggets, we got the bone in of some of the best tasting fried chicken. Now my children on the other hand have only had strips, nuggets and the occasional chicken leg from KFC or maybe a grilled breast (boneless and skinless). So the curiousity of my dear eldest offspring has proven yet again without knowing it that I always take the easy road out. Still he doesn't understand why you can't buy a wishbone.....so if anyone knows where I can find a wishbone dealer...tell them to hook me up!!!!

2. My youngest offspring, now potty trained was in the bathroom earlier, went in and shut the door, came back out smiling holding his cup that I had put marshmellows in (he makes a mess so he only gets a cup at a time, I know its just fluffed sugar but he loves em or he just likes making Hoss mad by eating all his bullets to his marshmellow gun) Anyway I bragged on him for being such a big boy and having manners by shutting the door then I coughed and he said "Bless you MomMom" Well my proud moment only lasted about 20 minutes because after that little angel crawled up on the couch and went to sleep, his brother asked for me to go look in the bathroom at what the sleeping angel had done. Apparently he also snuck into the bathroom the entire bag of marshmellows and filled the sink up with them, but he didn't leave the bathroom before turning on the water in the sink (at the time I thought YAY he is washing his hands) which he did turn the water off, but he left it on long enough to turn the colored marshmellows into slimey gunk! So not only do I take the easy road, I am also clueless when it comes to what my children are really doing.

**I would also like to add that Scotty being the great man that he is cleaned the sink out for me because the marshmellows texture was so awful that I thought I was going to puke**