Has anybody ever wondered...

what a typical car ride is like for the Tackaberry family? Well, I am going to fill you in. First a little background information. Haley, our 4 year old, really NEVER stops talking. From the moment she wakes up to the moment she falls asleep she is talking. (Duane and Lynn, Brittany and Alyssa, when you come on Monday, you will get to experience her! :) ) Well ok...so here is our car ride this afternoon on the way home from errands.

We are happily driving along and for some reason I start in this big long lecture about how I was so tired of telling the girls to put their stuff away. "Put your shoes away, clean off the coffee table of all your stuff, why are the band-aid wrappers all over the living room floor?" I went on and on and finally I said..."I just get sick of hearing my own voice!!" ......And then it all begins...Haley pipes up from the back seat of the van. (She has "graduated" to the back because she has learned, as of this week, to buckle herself, this was the criteria to her being able to sit in the back seat) Anyway she pipes up from the back seat, "Well Mom, I just get so sick of MY own voice too!!!" You can just about imagine the reaction to that one. We all burst into laughter. Jenna said, "Haley, I'm just "spitballin' " here, but if your sick of you're own voice, QUIT TALKING!!!" Haley then for the next 10 mins. took the word "spitballin' " and put it into every single sentence she said from then on out, until we got home!!! Ok, that's not all...

I notice Jenna watching me...(she has graduated to the front seat now)...I look over at her and give her the look like, "why are you looking at me?" and she says, "Mom, you have a double chin!!!!!!" I gave her a look of disgust and said, "Jenna, you are so good for the self-esteem." And she said, "What, double chins are good, it means you can yodel!!" So I guess if I ever take up yodeling I have the chin for it!

Meanwhile through all of this, I notice that Mikayla is strangly quiet, I look back and she is pouting over something. I have decided that I have had too much conversation on this car ride and decide to ignore it!

I am now dropping the kids off at home, paying Jenna WHATEVER she wants to babysit the younger 2 for 1 hour while I go to my classroom and work in solitude! As you can imagine the car ride there won't be quite as funny (or humiliating).