Ya-Yaism #100 or so

Elise has said some REALLY funny things over the years.  For the sake of a blog title, I will now be referring to these funnies as "Ya-Yaisms" (I know - not real original).  There have been some real winners, more than I can count, and I know one day I will regret not writing them all down.  I'm hoping my brain holds out for a while and I can continue to store them there.

Anyway, last night I got an email from my mom (who was having Elise over for a sleepover). They were watching TV and Elise said something funny that I felt was VERY postworthy.  Here is how it went:

Elise:  Marna (that's what she calls my mom), can 

you remember a phone number?

Marna:  Probably not, why?

Elise:  I think my mom really needs this.  She has been 

having problems with this for a while, and 

I want to get her some of this stuff to help her.

Elise then proceeds to run and get a pen and paper to jot down the phone number.  My mom looks over at the TV and the commercial is for PROACTIVE!!!

Now, I will admit that I have been a little more "ZITTY" as of late, and have also vocalized my disappointment on numerous occasions, but I didn't really think my 7-year-old would have cause for concern.

So, I'm assuming when she gets home today, I will be given the self-help phone number that will solve all my acne problems!  Isn't she the sweetest?

However, if it makes me looks like this, then maybe it's worth a shot...

One small step for Ya-Ya; one giant heartache for momkind!

Elise has been wanting to have her ears pierced for quite some time.  I have always told myself we would do it when she turned 8 (which is in a short three months), but she really wanted it done for Chrismas.  

So, this past weekend, we finally did it.  I really didn't think it would be that big of a deal to me, and at the time it wasn't, but now I look at her and realize she is growing up.  FAST!!!  It kindof hurts my heart to think that just yesterday she took her first steps (or so it seems, anyway). And before I know it, she will be going on her first date!!  Don't tell her dad, I think he's in denial too...

Knowing that Elise can be very sensitive and a little dramatic (I wonder where she got those traits?), I had been warning her for a couple of days that it would hurt.  I didn't want her to have any surprises going in.  She said she could handle it, and she did, brilliantly!  However, after the second ear was pierced, I could tell it was all she could do not to cry.  I told her it was OK and to go ahead and let it out.  Truth be told, I was secretly hoping she WOULD cry because then I could comfort my "baby girl" and deny that she was getting bigger and more able to do things like this.  I know - I'm pathetic!

Anyway, here are some photos of the big day.  Forgive me -  all we had was a camera phone. YEP - the scrapbooker and photo buff forgot the camera for their first born's big day. LOSERS!!!

Before

I love this picture!!  She has the same "deer in the headlights" 

look that her dad did on the day she was born!

The pain of beauty!

This is right before the tears came

The finished product

We wish you...

I just wanted to wish everyone a very 

Merry Christmas and 

Happy New Year from the Wirick Family!  

May the holidays find you happy, healthy and full of love!!

Comic Connor

These pictures of Connor are just some random shots I took one day when he was being silly (it happens quite often).  But, then I was looking at them and realized they were looking a little bit like a story to me.  So, I played around with a comic program we have on the Mac, and this is what I came up with.  I never claimed to be a writer, so don't judge me...  just go with it!

(Click on the pics below to enlarge)

Mommy GRINCH!

So, a few weeks ago I had what I will call a "seasonal panic attack".  Not to be confused with my everyday panic attacks, this is the one that comes with the holidays.  I'm sure many of you have experienced this same thing a time or two.  I started to stress out about gifts, cards, parties and all of the other things that had to be done for Christmas.  

I know I'm not a very nice person when I'm stressed (big surprise).  Case in point - we were decorating for Christmas last week and I was doing my normal perfectionist thing and ordering everyone around.  The kids weren't doing what I thought they should be doing, things weren't going the way I thought they should be going, and Chris just wasn't doing anything right!!!  

(Ladies, isn't that the way our poor husbands are usually treated during stressful times?)   Chris even asked me at one point why I ask them to help when it just stresses me out.  He said, "why don't you just do this alone?"

That got me thinking...  Maybe I am one who stresses me out.  Maybe I just need to take things slow and enjoy doing them.  Maybe, just maybe, if I started making it more about "WE" and less about "I", things would be better!

So I started looking at old Christmas photos to put me in the mood, and I have to say, since that night, I have had a NEW outlook on the holiday season.  Things are going really smoothly and I am enjoying myself much more now!  

I thought I would post some of those cute photos in case somebody else is feeling the same way.

ENJOY!!!

This is my fAvOriTe - everyone should have one like this!