Three for Thursday

Three excuses:

1. He started it! (I HATE this one. I honestly, truly, do NOT care who started it.)

2. I was on my super-cool new smart phone.

3. The price of beef is going up. So is the price of milk, and chicken, and cereal, and chocolate.....

Three favorite children’s books:

1. The Piggy in the Puddle by James Marshall.

2. The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Sciezka

3. You are Special by Max Lucado

Three decorating styles I like:

1. NieNie's. {vintage}

2. Calico's. {simple, eclectic}

3. My own. {traditional, contemporary}

Three things I do differently than my mother: (Hi, Mom!)

1. My children play video games (though I'm pretty sure my mom had it right).

2. I blog.

3. My mother was surprised by the gender of each of her children, and I always thought I wanted that, but I don't.

Three things I’m waiting for:

1. A minivan.

2. Big Bang Theory 5 days a week on the CW in the fall.

3. The discovery of a rich, nearly-dead distant relative with a special fondness for witty/sarcastic young mothers.

Three things I want to be when I grow up:

1. A finisher

2. Organized

3. The kind of woman my daughter wants to be.

Three things I do because they’re good for me and NOT because I like doing them:

1. The dishes

2. Stick to a cash-only diet. (I should say TRY to stick to it. I really do try.)

3. Keep the cable turned off.

Three things I appreciate about my middle child:

1. The sparkle in his eye.

2. His most adorable metathesis's. Flosted Fakes, gollos (girls) (also probably not a metathesis but still cute) and I can't think of any more. At five he has lost most of his cute speech idiosyncrasies.

3. His sense of humor. The kid is genuinely funny.

Three truths about me:

1. I felt like a huge mom failure today. (Post for another day.)

2. I stay up way too late.

3. I need friends. Not saying I need more. Just that I, in general, need friends. I need other women.

Three pictures:

Miss Marvel edition

Just Monster being Monster.

I realized today that I never posted pictures of Lil' Miss' room. It's not as cute as I want it to be, but it is what it is. Her crib was under the window until she started messing with the blinds instead of going to sleep.

A better view of the shelves. This entire wall is book shelves. I hope to paint them white one day. Especially that lovely wood paneling behind the shelves. I'd like to paint the paneling and walls a pale pink.

So there you have it, posted last minute on a Thursday, as per usual.