The Oborn Family

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Fish Tales!

We decided to go crazy a couple of weeks ago and get our first pet, a beta Fish. Okay, So it was not that crazy. My kids were thrilled though. They named him Nacho and spent a few minutes each day looking at him. He was not that entertaining.
Sadly, in those few minutes each day we noticed that he was moving less and less. I consulted my Dr. Mom, who had nursed my sisters failing beta back to health. She asked if I had put dechlorinator in the water. No! they had not told us to buy that at the pet store. It was to late for our little nacho. We bought him on a saturday and he died the following Saturday. I really did feel bad for the fish. I think we are really not pet people. I told my kids we could buy another one, afterall we had the food, the bowl, and now the dechlorinator. They said, No.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Kids say the darndest things!

I'm sure I'll get some new material soon, but James really made me laugh a few months back and it makes me smile to think about, so I thought I would share.

I decided to try and help James enter the reflections contest this year at school. The theme was "Beauty is..." So in helping him brainstorm I gave him some ideas: Beauty is the mountains, nature, family, friends, the sunset. He didn't like any of my ideas. So I asked him. "James what do you want to do?" He replied after careful consideration, "Beauty is...Lydia." Well, I found out that Lydia was a pretty little girl in his 1st grade class. A few days later he changed his mind. "Beauty is...Anna Belle." Uh,oh!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

James (the culprit), Charlie (the sidekick), and Mom (looking mad, but just actually tired)

I decided it was time to be a better blogger. I guess time keeps me busy and I forget to update our blog and of course I'm slightly slow on computers. This year I'm going to figure it out. I thought I should come up with something fun to blog about so to follow most of the crowd I will blog about the craziness of Motherhood. So here we go.

Entry #1

A few months ago I decided it was time to get out of the house and do something fun with my kids. With all three packed in the middle row of our Pilot we headed out. Of course we had to make a quick stop at McDonalds for their favorite Chocolate Milk and then we headed out to the Discovery Gateway. About half way there My oldest, James threw his empty carton to the front of the car which in hit me in the head. After a quick scolding on how that could knock out Mom and cause an accident the incident was quickly forgotten. We arrive at the museum and got in line to get our passes. When I reached the front of the line the cashier lood at me funny and said, "Did you know you have a straw in your hair" I must have looked puzzled wondering when I had been around a bale of hay, but then she said again kind of laughing, "You really have a straw in your hair." I reached up and sure enough I had a chocolate milk coated straw stuck to the side of my hair. We all had a good laugh thanks to James. I don't think I was making a fashion statement at the Gateway. Hmm.