Cows, Car Repairs, and Underwear on Heads: Our Life in 2015

Highlights (some in hindsight) from 2015:

Highlight #1: Eat Mor Chikin

As always, Chick-fil-a continues to be a driving force in our lives because we crave it.  Constantly.  In July we participated in Cow Day, and ate for free the entire day.  I maybe stopped craving it for a bit after that.  Our kids look forward to this day every year as demonstrated by the below pics. 

No, seriously.  They love being forced to wear spots from head to hoof.  Okay, fine.  Maybe just Hudson.  Although, he is kind of easy going about everything . . .

My love for Chick-fil-a was fully demonstrated this year by camping out at the grand opening of a nearby Chick-fil-a for 24 hours in order to get 52 free meals.  It was cold, sleepless, and absolutely worth it.    

Dan Cathy, the CEO of Chick-fil-a (to my left) camped out with us.  Pretty amazing since he's like a bigger deal than Matt Damon and Brad Pitt combined.  Well, at least in a cow's world he is.

Highlight #2: Car Repair Adventure

 I decided it would be a fun adventure to drop my van off for repair and then sit there stranded for four hours with two 4 year olds and a 2 year old.  Yes, this was one of those fabulous ideas kind of like taking your kids with you to a dental cleaning (see May 2014 post to recount that Hallmark moment).  While we waited, we walked around in the summer humidity, tasted smoothies, strolled to the library, and feasted on pizza.  All this doesn't sound too bad.  And if my life was an episode from Caillou, it would have been glorious, and my day would have looked like this.

But instead, it looked more like this:   

I didn't take any actual pictures because I was too busy pulling screaming kids off the sidewalk, throwing away a nearly full smoothie because, come to find out, the four of us hate smoothies, yelling at my boys to stop dumping salt on their pizza, and going cross-eyed when I found out the cost of the repair. 

The real kicker is that Corbin keeps asking when we can get our car repaired again and walk around town.  Apparently, I was the only one scarred for life . . .

Highlight #3: Laughter

Maybe my kids are getting funnier in their old age or maybe they're just misbehaving more and I'm getting too worn down to keep correcting them.  Whatever the reason, it's been hard to stay too grumpy or mad around these parts in 2015, because someone's bound to grab your mascara and transform into Ozzy Osborne

or run around all afternoon with underwear on their heads (crossing my fingers it was clean underwear).

And in 2015, I found that sometimes those moments are best shared laughing rather than reprimanding. 

I also found it's easier to chuckle at your kids' innocence than to tell them the truth when they think you're the best ever because you bought them kids' meals on their birthdays instead of making them split a 12 count nugget.

Or are the craftiest mom in the world when you let them decorate a pre-built gingerbread house from Target. 

Go for the pre-built houses next year, Moms.  You know you want to!   

We're glad we've got our kids fooled.  But also glad that they've spent another year fooling us with their bright blue eyes and smiles.  It even makes a 4 hour trip to the repair shop worth it.  In much later hindsight.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our group of crazies to yours!