Pens, Pens, Everywhere..........

OK maybe not "everywhere". If they where everywhere, I might actually be able to find one!!! I just bought 36 pens last week. 36!!! The 12 packs were on sale for .99 cents each. I brought them home, put them in my nice wicker basket on the computer desk, reached for one today.......NONE!!! What the......where did 36 pens go in a few days? I'm guessing they grew legs and walked away, or maybe the green martians scooped them up from space. There could be a million reasons for the disappearance of 3 dozen pens. Of course none of these reasons could be further from the truth. As the kids got home today, one by one they came off the bus, and one by one they all got the same question. "Where did all my pens go?" Now the 3 different answers I got, really wern't all that different in context. "Not me", "Wasn't me", and "I dunno" Now for the rest of you parents, you know that these 3 entities (that have never been proven, or disproved), are all related. They are cousins. And I truly hope that when my children grow up and move away, they take there beloved spirit friends with them!! Now the only answer that was "slightly" different was the "I dunno". It came with such venomous attitude that can only be housed in a little girl of only 8 years old. **Side note: This attitude MUST be inherited from her fathers side.....I know for a fact that I NEVER had such attitude.......right mom? he he** So it was the "I dunno" that I honed in on. The conversation went something like this

Me: Are you sure you don't know where the pens are?
Rachael: I said I don't know.
Me: Your telling me that in less than a week, 36 pens have left the premises?
Rachael: What is a premises?
Me: *sigh* this house!!
Rachael: Oh. Well I'm sure they are still in the house.
Me: If you didn't take them, how do you know they are still here?
Rachael: I didn't say I didn't take them. I said I don't know where they are.
Me: I think you better go up to your room and find them.
Rachael: ** I cant even type the sound that was emitted from her**

I swear some days she is within inches of her head spinning around. So by bedtime, she brought me 3 pens. I guess 3 isn't too far off of 36. Who needs to write anything down anyway? Writing is overrated.

So we have added to the long list of nieces and nephews again. Our niece Dawn and her boyfriend Marc welcomed there first baby into the world yesterday. A boy, Cai Alexander. I love the name. So baby Cai makes 20 great nieces and nephews. WOW!! ( I had to actually sit and figure it all out...the number has gotten away on me LOL) So 17 nieces and nephews, 20 great nieces and nephews......and that's just the Shannon side. So far there is only 2 on my side. Sooo all in all the numbers are 19 and 20. Amazing. And I'm only 28....can you imagine what the numbers will be when I'm 50......I don't even want to think about it LOL.

So that's a look into today. Sleep tight.