Puberty.

A week or so ago, while the whole family was enjoying a nice soak in the hot tub, I looked over at Anthony and noticed something. Something that pretty much signals the beginning of a new chapter. Something that I'm not ready for. 

One single arm pit hair. 

I promptly demanded view of his other arm pit, against his will. Yup. Another single arm pit hair. 

This is it. Puberty. Not even done with his first year in the double digits and he's got to go and try to become a man with his arm pit hair and such.

I thought I'd have more time. 

He even declared the other day that it's not so bad taking a shower more than once a week, because you get to smell all clean and stuff. 

Ummmm, what's next? Cologne? A mustache? A girl friend? Teen angst? (clearly not table manners yet....still need to work on that one for some reason....) 

Heaven help me. 

Now Tim is walking around telling people his brother has a mustache in his arm pit (haha!!) and Anth wants to wear deodorant because his friend does and asked me to teach him. 

Slow down there, boy. Your pits don't stink quite yet.  

Ohhhhh but it's coming.....

*sigh* 

Guess what he's getting for his birthday this year? A totally non-toxic, oh so good for your skin deodorant from my most favorite skin care online shop, Toups & Co Organics. 

With love,
Mama Hauck

Oh, Hello Spring!

Thanks for showing up! It's about damn time. 

Ekkk! Things are starting to turn green, birds are starting to chirp, flowers are starting to emerge, and the temps are slowly starting to rise. 

We even have the garden ready to go! The kids put in a solid couple of hours tilling up the beds and helping us clean the place up. We're pretty excited to get the garden up and running again here soon. Raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, carrots, and we're thinking garlic and peas. 

We were even gifted broccoli and cabbage starts from a friend in exchange for some pallet sides. Super excited about the broccoli! That'll be new for us. 

Happy Spring! (Except for you, East Coast. You're not included. Haha)

With love,
Mama Hauck

Just Another Day

The look on my face when I accidental step in dog poop....in my slippers....and track it in the house, the kids are fighting back and forth over who gets to wash their hands first and in which sink....who got more pretzels for a snack....and who gets the sharpened pencil (instead of one of the dull ones.....), my phone is ringing, Timothy went poop and needs help because "it's a wet one",  I realize I can't do 5th grade fraction and decimal math homework, the dog is mauling the cat, the cats are eating the Easter basket fake grass, Molly is belting out Journey's "Don't stop believing" for the 12th time in a row, I have the worst back ache and I'm on the verge of a headache, the microwave has been beeping at me for 10 minutes telling me my tea is still in there....now cold again, there's three loads worth of laundry piled on the couch (fuck it, everyone can go naked), I think the awful stench in our bathroom is a dead mouse in the vent, someone dripped yogurt on the outside of the trashcan, all I have to feed the kids for dinner is hot dogs (without buns) and carrot sticks because....well, because. And Sam walks through the door and says he's going on a quick run.   

Hahaha

On the bright side though, we're halfway through March and almost done with the three worst months of the year.  

Not too much to talk about when you're busy just trying to survive. LOL 

With love,
Mama Hauck