The Mind of a 6-year-old is Priceless!

This Spring I have been doing some redecorating around the house.  I ABSOLUTELY love Pottery Barn!  So, I signed up to receive the Pottery Barn Catalog for some inspiration!  I don't have a Pottery Barn Budget, but like I said, the catalog can serve as great inspiration for redecorating your home and if you are patient and a savvy shopper, you can find VERY similar items at stores like TJ Maxx, Gordman's, etc....

Of course it didn't take me long to find inspiration when my Pottery Barn catalog arrived.  They had this awesome wall filled with various shapes and sizes of old-looking clocks.  BINGO!  I found what I needed to hang over a piece of furniture in the kitchen.  So, I began my search via the internet and found a LARGE 24" weathered clock for a steal of a price.  Here is a picture of it:

The clock arrived in a box about twice the size of the clock and I was bringing the box downstairs to store and my husband asked what that was from and I said my new clock. He replies, "MY GOD!  That is a HUGE clock!"  I proceeded to tell him, the clock was not in fact as big as the box; it was half the size and I already put it the wall myself!  So relax!

Later that day, my 6-year-old gets home from school and I asked him if he liked my new clock?  He takes one look at it and with eyes as big as 50 cent pieces he asks me, "DOES THAT CLOCK HAVE AN ALARM?"  I once again defend my clock and said, "No!  It doesn't have an alarm."  He replies, "Well, that's good, because if it did it would shake the WHOLE house!"

Potty Training: It's Not a Private Matter.

My niece is just the cutest little almost 3-year-old in the whole world!  Okay – so I am probably a little biased, but after living day in and day out in a house full of testosterone, it is refreshing to hang out with her, or so I thought..........

My sister and her family met our parents at our family's favorite pizza place one night after my niece's last gymnastics class.  This pizza place truly is a family favorite – so much so that my parent's eat there literally EVERY Friday night and are on a first name basis with the wait staff and owner, Moe. 

So everyone gets to the pizza place and my niece tells my sister that she has to go to the bathroom.  My sis takes her into the bathroom and she is doing her business.  Meanwhile, Moe, the pizza place owner, makes his way over to my parents and is chatting with them when my niece and sis make their way from the bathroom back to the table and my niece PROUDLY and LOUDLY says, "Hi Moe!  I was pooping!"  Moe was speechless and for as the rest of my family they were crying with laughter!  Moe finally got his wits about him and told her he was glad he could help her out!