Mother's Day Survivor Series

My friend Jen sent this to me for Mother's Day, and I just had to share. This is too funny.

SURVIVOR SERIES
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and take either music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget enough money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time--no emailing. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Emergency Room.He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a school function.Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside, and keeping it presentable at all times.The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn themselves with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished, and eyebrows groomed During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, backaches, headaches,have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties. They must attend weekly school meetings and church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:30 am.A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size, doctor's name, the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear, and what they want to be when they grow up.The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice. If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years, eventually earning the right to be called Mother!

Skillet and Toby Mac

I know, I know. I haven't updated since December. It's sufficient to say that we have been so busy with school, work, birthdays, illnesses, soccer practices and games (both Danny and Megan played, and I was assistant coach for Megan's team) that I just haven't had a chance to update. One day I may come back and fill in the gaps. However, I just had to post this. Thursday night, we all went to the TobyMac/Skillet concert from their Awake Tonight Tour. If you don't know who they are, they are two of the top Christian acts out there. I will post links to their sites here and here. House of Heroes opened for them (picture 1), and it was a full night of rock, rap, and praise. We were in the second row behind the "dance floor" (no, some pics are not ours, but they're good ones), and the kids had a blast. Skillet is Zachary's favorite band, so he was crazy stoked.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Vol. 7

This morning before church, I made french toast and Christmas ham for breakfast. The boring members of the family had french toast made with plain bread, but Danny and I had Panettone french toast. The recipe follows:

8 slices bread (Panettone or dense white)

4 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla (I used my home-made vanilla!)

2 tsp. cinnamon

Maple syrup

Powdered sugar

Beat eggs, then add milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. Dip bread on both sides and brown in pan. Enjoy with powdered sugar dusted on top and maple syrup. Yum!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Vol. 6

Zachary came home the day after Christmas, and we opened presents to and from him. We;re so glad he's home! We spent the rest of the day shopping and going to soccer practice. Back to the hectic pace of normal life, I guess!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Vol. 5

A new Creamer Christmas tradition - dinner at a Chinese restaurant and a movie. We had a great time, and Sherlock Holmes was well worth the wait.

We hope everyone's Christmas was as wonderfully relaxing and stress-free as ours was!