But the Ninja Turtles Need Pizza

 When my boys were little, they were obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!  We had every turtle created with all of the unbelievable accessories.  Belts, knives, helmets, and whatever else a turtle needed to take over the world.  But there was one thing that I did not have and that was the sewer for them to live in.  So these poor guys had to live in a toy box, which I'm sure they were not accustomed too.

There was one thing I knew about these turtles, they loved their pizza, and so did my kids.  If dinner was not ready or it looked like mom may order out, PIZZA!!!!  was the tribal call.  Sometimes they got it, sometimes not.  (I love to cook so mostly they got what is better known as a HOME COOKED MEAL)!

One evening when pizza was a possibility, they were supremely excited, about the pizza not the style, LOL....so Cheese and Pepperoni it was.  Little did MOM know, they were saving some of the pizza for their turtles....their plan was to feed their Teenage Mutant Ninja's what they had left, but then head to the bathroom and send some down for the local TMN's that lived in the sewer!!!  I heard them laughing and talking so I left them alone, no one was fighting, no one was crying.  Time for mom the clean the kitchen.  THEN I heard it!!!  WATER pouring...where was it from?  To my not so great surprise, the TOILET!  They had overflowed the toilet with pizza leftovers they were sending to the turtles in the great abyss.  Now came the crying, the fighting, it was me!  Fussing at them and crying because I had to clean the bathroom too!

I asked my little Turtle lovers what the heck they thought they were doing?  They told me that the Ninja Turtles were hungry and they had promised to feed them the leftovers.  I asked them when did they talk to these Ninja's?  With cute little smiles, and sheepish grins, they told me they have conversations with them every day at 3, when they came on the TV.  Of course they did!!  Sheesh!!  

Well I cleaned up the pizza and toilet mess, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the kids, cleaned my self after that fiasco....sent them to bed and NO MORE PIZZA for a very long time!!  Do I miss those days?  ABSOLUTELY I do.  I don't want to do them again anytime soon, but my fear is now that my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle lovers have grown up, they plan to supply me with a new chain of turtle lovers!  And they have started.  So I may be cleaning up Grand baby turtle loving pizza messes for a long time to come!

Did I Remember Everyone at Christmas????

As each and every Christmas Season rolls on in, I'm always in the daunting task of making sure Santa does not forget anyone!  I'm not an organized mom!  I don't even think disorganized could be a description.  It's much worse than that....I'm not even sure there's a definition of it!

I'm about to head to one of my sons rooms to sit through the clutter and start counting out how many presents I have, and how to distribute them properly.  I try to make sure that all of my kids get the same amount of presents.  Not sure why I do this, but it's a part of how my brain operates.  I start to make piles, then I start to dismember the piles, then I remember that this one asked for this and his this is in that one's pile....OH NO  have to start all over again!

Somehow on Christmas Eve, Santa manages to get it all right.  But it's always by the skin of Santa's teeth.  My mom used that expression all of the time as I was growing up!  Never understood it, but at Christmas time it seems to take on a meaning all it's own.

I have no idea what I'm going to do when grandchildren start to enter my already crazy life.  I may have to actually start writing stuff down, as my husband tells me to do all of the time.  But my biggest problem is....when I write something down, I put it somewhere safe, then I forget where the safe spot was, then the rest of my time is spent trying to remember where the safe spot is, and I lose all of my shopping time for the kids.  It's NEVER worth writing down for me.  Even if I put it in my phone, I forget to label it correctly, then I end up going through endless tasks and messages in my phone looking for the same thing that is written down in the other safe place.  NO NO not worth it!

In the end, we still have the most joyous of Christmas' with tons of chaos, lots of wrapping, lots of lost parts, making sure we don't throw the cat away, (he likes the boxes and usually is in one), and making sure the dog does not run away with one of the little ones toys thinking it's for him.  

Have a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!!!  From my family to yours!