My self-control, that is.

It seems to be missing. I keep thinking I will find it in the bottom of one of these boxes.

But so far, it’s not there.  I cannot stop eating frozen junior mints.  (Yes, they have to be frozen.)  I blame my mom (don’t we all point the finger at our parents for our issues?)  It all started with a package of Chocolate Twizzlers.  They had been in my pantry for quite some time, and my mom found them while she was here.  During a trip to the store, I tried to buy some more Twizzlers for her, but I couldn’t find them.  Being such a good daughter, I bought her a box of Junior Mints instead, which she promptly placed in the freezer.  And with that, an obsession was born.  I’m averaging a box day…and not the little box, the big box.  I am completely o.o.c.

I do this with food.  I get completely obsessed with one item.  Eventually I get sick of it, but I’m going on week 4 of the Great Junior Mint Obsession of 2008 with no end in sight.

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I took all 3 kids to the store for the first time today, and it was a success!  It helps that it was Target, which we all love.  And it helps that almost all of the items on my list had to do with the kids (like some new art project stuff, backpack and lunchbox for Logan, etc.)  Oh, and the promise of a new superhero toy always helps, too.  Next obstacle…the grocery store.

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So Logan got to pick out a new backpack and lunchbox today.  The first backpack he chose was a pretty pink Princess one.  If you remember, Logan has a thing for princess stuff, which makes me laugh because he is such a boy. So anyway, he picks up this princess backpack and I am faced with the ageold gender stereotype dilemma.  Do I tell him it’s for girls?  Do I let him get it?  Do I try to gently point him in another direction?  I chose to gently point him to the other backpacks.  “Logan, that princess one sure is pretty, but I’m worried you might not like it for the whole year.” That was totally code for “the other boys are going to point and laugh and you are going to want a different bag after the first week of school.”  His next choice was a Tinkerbell bag.  I wasn’t sure he was going to give up on Tinkerbell, but in the end, with encouragement from Connor, he settled on the Hulk bag.  Now it was time for a new lunchbox.  Guess which one he wanted.  Yup, the princess one.  There was no changing his mind this time, and, quite honestly, it doesn’t bother me that he wants some princess stuff.  I mean, they are really pretty, and I just look at it like my boy like pretty girls. So Logan is now the proud owner of a Hulk backpack and a Princess lunchbox.  We’ll see if he really carries it all year.  We do have several other lunchboxes he can use, and I just figured we will have on for Camryn in a few years if he changes his mind.

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I did a little scrapbooking this week!  Connor and I have been having “art time” in the afternoon while Logan sleeps (well, rests on his bed.  The actual sleeping days are getting fewer and farther between.)  Anyway, here are two pages I’ve done this week.

Actually, here are some more, while I am sharing pages.  I never got around to putting these on the blog.  They are all made using Paper Trunk’s newest line of papers, Wrangler.

This blog has officially taken me forever to finish, in between feeding Camryn, feeding the boys, cleaning up spilled apple juice, refereeing a couple of fights, and of course, eating 8,432 frozen junior mints.  All in a days work.