You know you are a Mom of 5 boys when....con't

.......while playing the game Zoo Tycoon where the objective is to make the zoo animals and those visiting the zoo happy, my kids take part of the fence for the lions away and laugh hysterically while the lions eat everyone. ( Do I need to pray harder for my kids?)

......... 3 entire boxes of cereal are considered one breakfast for the gang. Any wonder why nothing gets bought unless it is on sale, I have a coupon and it is double coupon day.


......... a typical visit to Sam's consists of one flat bed full and one shopping cart full of food. On the ride home all the boxes fall on the kids heads and we get to hear them complain all the way home. It is a fun experience!

......... finding a dead critter on the farm fascinates them and they will take any chance they get to gawk and it and usually poke it with sticks.

....... At the end of the day they always smell like they found something dead and were poking sticks at it.


........ Showers and bathes at the end of the day are a necessity!


........Any game, no matter what it is, ends up as a full contact sport. Riding bikes turns into bumper cars or see who can chase down the kids without a bike the fastest. A matching game turns into an all-out war with cards flying. We don't let them play twister anymore ;)

....... Life is never dull and as the Mom I usually get treated like a queen.

........The time-out chair is the most used chair in the house (except maybe the throne)


........ No one(except Mom) can ever find anything. I can give out precise, detailed directions, but it is nowhere to be found. It just amazingly appears when I go to look for it. It is funny how that works.


........ At bath-time you don't know what is suntan and what is dirt.

.........Life is good and full of energy and laughter.

You know you have 5 boys when............

.......At Wal-mart you get looks of pity from other Mother's.

......You have 2 boys in the cart, 2 hanging off of the cart and one trailing behind complaining about wanting to look at video games.

........There is more dirt and sand dumped on the bathroom floor than is left outside.

........ The dryer lint trap has more sand in it than lint.

........ There is no safe place to hide from the nerf and pellet wars. ( Not even the bathroom!)

......... Finding a kid tied to a chair is not an unusual find.

........ Brotherly love is shown more in a punch or kick than a hug or kiss.

........ Hosing a kid down, to remove the layers of dirt, before they can enter the house is pretty common.

......... having, bugs, toads, frogs, snakes and worms given to you as loving gifts throughout the day.

......... you have a vase of weeds on the kitchen table.

........ " Stop that, you're going to get hurt" gets repeated over and over.

....... You get showered with hugs and kisses

........You find the youngest peeing in the dirt to make "mud"

........ More to come, when time permits!