What I discovered today

1. When it is -15 out it is best to just tell your kids to run fast (like a blur) from destination to destination. This way no one can see that the coats may or may not be zipped, the hats may or may not be on and they may or may not be wearing gloves.

2. If your children's coats do not get fully dry in the dryer during the 36 hour laundry fest, they may or may not get hard and crinkly when they go back on little bodies heading outside.

3. Jello chocolate pudding powder apparently did not give the 3 year old the surge he was seeking.

4. Jello chocolate pudding powder all over a wood floor requires multiple levels of cleanup.

5. If you have your children walk across the Jello chocolate pudding powder in bare feet you can compare food prints to the prints left at the scene and deduce which child did it. Of course, your motherly instincts already told you who did it.

6. If you run into the church kitchen to grab the booster seat for the baby, your 3 year old will pick those precise 30 seconds to spill a glass of lemonade all over the gym floor and take 4 brownies from the dessert table.

7. Apparently people at church don't see enough spills. They all seem a little shocked when pink lemonade hits the floor. Prehaps they should come over for some desensitization?

8. The grocery store is essentially empty at 9:00 at night on a sub zero day (can we just call that "zub"?). However, at the moment you commit to a line and start pulling out your coupons and store credit, three crabby people will get in line behind you.

9. I can get through a day without exercising and not feel the least bit guilty.

10. There is nothing sweeter than an 18 month old pointing at you and calling you mama, and there is nothing more dangerous than an 18 month old pointing at you, calling you mama and knowing that there is nothing sweeter than he.