Yay for science

So today was Charlies school night at the Discovery Center. For those of you reading NOT in Amarillo or familiar with what this is let me enlighten you. The Don Harrington Discovery Center is at it's core an attempt to interest people of all ages in science. Fantastic. I have to admit that most of the time I don't really understand what each "station" is supposed to do or represent. It's cool, don't get me wrong! I am just not a budding scientist...let's paint or draw and THAT will get me going! But my Charlie thinks that there are 2 places that represent the most fun a kid can have, the dreaded Chuck E Cheess, and the above mentioned establishment. Needless to say I could not say no to going to free admissions night for his school. It's events like tonight's that inspired my idea of needing circus music. Ha...it's funny it really is. Me with the 3 boys with half of Woodlands Elementary Scool and a plethera of stimuli to pull all 3 in a million directions, all of which ultimately ending up in the same direction as Charlie because he is afterall the big brother. Unfortunately his legs move a lot faster than the little brothers and his attention span is actually less than theirs. This made for a lot of catching up and then setting off again as soon as we arrive. This causes problems on many levels for me as the leader of the band of monkeys. For though little brothers desire to be where Charlie is, they want their fair turn at each "station" (which, again I don't understand)and so of course there is a mini battle at least every other stop. And Charlies attention span, or lack thereof, means he doesn't see that his enterouge has been held up so now I loom up and don't know where my oldest child is. Let's cycle through this sequence of events about 15 times and that's my "fun" from the evening. No I take that back the fun was seeing the three saying "awesome!" at stuff that, as little as I understood, they completely didn't understand and just wanted to do it again and again (well not Charlie he was happy with one try and move on to the next thing....see above list). It was fun to see Oliver lose track of his brothers on the climbing aparatice and instead of freaking, you could see him say "screw it, this cowboy stuff over here looks cool anyway" and just walked over by himself to investigate on his own. Literally on his own so this meant I'm quickly hunting Charlie and Henry down to let them know I have to get Oliver and so they are not to leave, grabbing my purse that's now unattended and leaping over a barrier to follow my littlest and most independent child. Of course it turns out it's not just that the cowboy area looked cool, Ollie needed a little "private" time. Yeah, that just happened....at which point I say..."

Here we go!

Yes, I am finally blogging.  I gotta do something to document the craziness that is my life! Ha!  Those of you who know me have often heard me say "Throw it on the pile" or when things are particularly crazy with my boys I joke that I literally need circus music following me wherever I go.  And those of you I am speaking of know that I actually do have a growing proverbial pile of "life" that keeps being added to, and I also really should have circus music. :)  I don't know whether the music is more of a theme song for my boys and I or perhaps it could be used more of a warning device.  You know how when you hear the "ice cream truck" music and  you hide your children?  Oh come on!  We all know someone is getting abducted in that little pick up truck piping out that creepy music!  Alright we aren't THAT bad, but it is crazy.  Crazy AWESOME for anyone that hangs around a while.  Which you are always welcome to do.  I'm forever ready to share my stories and life.  So like I said in my little about me shpeal grab a glass, lets share some wine and you can listen to my daily stories, shake your head in disbelief at times, and smile knowing you can hug me, get in your car and go home to your own circus of a life. :)
Looking forward to taking you on the ride with me!