tacos and car rides.

gwen (my eldest) is suffering from growing pains. 
she is annoyed with this, and has made it very ... very clear.

off the top of her head, she decided she really wanted tacos for dinner.
i mean - REALLY wanted tacos. 

after spending 15 minutes bundling up the wee sprogs, and delicately stuffing them into my
awesomely horrific momwithalotofkids-van, we headed out on our quest for said tacos.

no sooner did we pull away from the house the insanity began.

mom?  mom!  MOTHER!?

huh?

my knees hurt.  and the spaces between my knees hurt.  and my hair hurts.

i'm sorry to hear that.

mom?  it's tellisia's birthday tomorrow and i need to get her a gift.  i want to give her my lipgloss,

but it's my lipgloss, and if i give it to her i won't have it.  so maybe i should give her something else instead.

that's a good ide -

oh wow!  i can see the whole CITY from up here!  it's like the whole world but just the hills next to the city, so it's not the whole world, but ....

no, gwen, it's not the whole worl -

hey!  if it snows a lot on friday maybe grandpa and grandma will let us play in it?  do you think so?

we could take our boots over there.  do you think?

well may -

mom, can hair hurt?  it feels like my hair hurts.  

no, gwen, hair cannot hurt. 

tellisia got a reflective note today.  she said the word gay to someone.  it wasn't very nice.

i know gwen, you told me earlier, and that isn't nice at all.

mom?  do we have to take a bath tonight?

yes.

but, when i sit in a warm bath, sometimes it makes me pee.

well, gwen, you need to pee before you get in the bath.

but i don't have to pee before i get into the bath!

well then, you need to get out if you have to pee.

but if i get out of the warm bath when i have to pee, i get really cold, and i might pee on .... the floor.

you won't pee on the floor gwen.

but i might!

you won't.

you know, in a few days we will have had 100 days of school!

is that so?

yeah!  school is fun.

yes, school IS fun.

no it's not, it's boring.

but you just sai -

it's okay.

then we got home.  tacos.