100

It is way too late for me to be blogging, but here I am.  Lately, it seems like if I'm going to blog, it's going to have to happen at 1:00 a.m. with my eyes half crossed and I'm not going to be able to worry about silly things like grammar and coherent sentences.  I've decided that I'm just embracing the dementia that comes with my crazy life.  Sometimes you just gotta own it, ya know?

My friend, Tara and I got Jack and Piper's pictures made in their Halloween costumes today.  Jack needed a little makeup this year.  Ever tried to put eyeliner on a kid with sensory issues?  It is F-U-N.  Let me rephrase, it is MORE fun than you EVER want to have.  Just FYI.  Anyway, after pictures, we took the kids out to eat and to see "Puss N Boots" (very cute movie).  I gotta say, though, without the costume, the makeup turned up the feminine quotient on my son a little higher than I'm comfortable with.  Not enough for me to actually try to get it off of hi, you understand, but I was slightly bothered by it throughout the night.  

After the movie, we decided to make a late night trip to Walmart to get our last minute items for the Fall Festival on Sunday night.  We have a work day tomorrow and we thought it would be wonderful if we didn't have to run to town tomorrow or Sunday while we are setting everything up.  A good idea, right?  Except for some reason, this Walmart had apparently heard we were coming and were in on some conspiracy to keep us from being able to get ANYTHING done ahead of time.  They had next to nothing we needed (and it wasn't like novelty items - we're talking like children's soap here...)  Honestly, I wouldn't have known how to act if I had something done a day ahead of time.  Again, sometimes you just have to own who you are:)   

We finally headed home with some sleepy kids and on the way, my cousin (and next door neighbor) called me and said their barn and his truck had burned down while they were in their house.  They don't know why or how, but when I got to the house, all the firetrucks were still there so I drove down there and stayed with them for a while.  We are all thankful it wasn't the house and that everyone is okay, but it was still tough.  Lots of loss there:(  

So, Jack and I just got home a few minutes ago and I decided to catch up on everyone's blogs because it wouldn't make any sense for me to get in bed before our big Fall Festival work day early in the morning:)  I don't normally pay a lot of attention to the box in the corner that shows my followers, but I happened to glance at it before I went to my google reader and saw that I have 100 followers.  I don't know when that happened and I am under no assumption that 100 people actually read my blog, but I gotta tell you, I got a little thrill.  I've come a long way from my first post of pictures of a sleeping child at an Alabama game. 

 I'm still amazed sometimes that anyone reads about our silly, fun, ridiculous, busy, crazy life especially since most of the time, I'm so tired and strung out, it doesn't make much sense.  But, I do love reading about all of you guys and everything that goes on in your lives.  I love learning from all of you about parenting, cooking, dealing with stress, how to find humor in craziness, and the myriad of other things I've learned from one of your blogs.  So, whether you read mine or not, thanks for following because on a really long day that ended pretty sadly, the 100 in the corner of the screen made me smile.  And you know what, blogging makes me smile a lot too.  Thanks followers!