I Call First Song!

One part of our morning routine that has remained consistent for years - and causes very little drama - is our song rotation in the car. Our drive to school is 10 minutes - long enough for each kid to pick 1 song on the way. The kids {whoever thinks of it first starts it} will call out which song they want. Trent and Paige both want first song and Drew always wants second song. Usually when the kids are eating breakfast, someone will randomly shout out 'I call x song!' and it dominoes from there. It cracks me up when one of the girls starts it while Trent is still in bed and later he tries to call first song, and it's like 'Dude, that ship has sailed.'

Once we get in the car, my phone gets passed around to each kid as they pick their songs. For a long time, Trent was picking clean rap songs off YouTube {usually garbage songs and it made me feel like I was 100 years old complaining about the junk he picked} and the girls were picking Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Ava Max...some rotation of girl power pop songs. 

Then we had a big shift in our song choices, and it has really cracked me up, and it's worth {to me at least} documenting. 

Now Trent is super into Manga {Japanese anime} - he literally checked out 45 books last week at the library and read them all in a week. They are comics so he can read a whole book very quickly. So his song choices are now Japanese TV show theme songs that literally we don't understand a single word to.

And Drew is obsessed with Harry Potter, so she goes from picking classical music from the various Harry Potter movie soundtracks or these YouTube Harry Potter rap songs. Paige usually picks the same thing as Drew right now ha.

So imagine how that feels in my mind to go from rap/Katy Perry/Taylor Swift to Japanese theme songs and classical music, ha! These kids are something else. {grin}

Just because they are so cute and I can't end a post without a pic!

Currently: Summer Dreaming

Current Book

Enjoying all 3 of these but for very different reasons, ha.

Current Song

Y'all. Paige has discovered JoJo Siwa.

A little part of my soul has died.

Current TV Show

One of the Jazzercise instructors recommended this.

I gave it one episode, GARBAGE.

Current Podcast/Audiobook

Still chugging along with A Breath of Snow and Ashes.

I'm on disk 43 of 48 so should finish very soon, yay!

This is the latest podcast I'm trying out - a gazillion episodes - so exciting!

A show that does an episode about The Jonestown Massacre is one I am here for!

Current Drink

My mother-in-law introduced me to this and it is AMAZING.

We are excited to make slushie drinks with it this summer, yum!

Current Food

Brent and I are really focusing on clean-eating.

SO BORING. Lots of grilled chicken and veggies happening around here!

Current Shame-Inducing Pleasure

I don't really think I'm ashamed of this, but others probably would be.

I started Downton Abbey again. {grin}

Current Outfit

5:30 am selfies are the best!

[Crooked leggings are an inside joke with the other Pump instructors!]

Current Celebrity Crush

I just discovered Riz Ahmed, but I am ALL IN.

I also love that his wife is Fatima Farheen Mirza who wrote A Place For Us

which was one of my favorite books last year.

Phoebe Robinson featured him on her Thirsty Thursday last week on IG, 

and it is worth a watch.

Current Mood

Grumpy. Losing weight is HARD.

Current Anticipation

Drew's First Holy Communion is Sunday.

I am so excited and CANNOT wait for y'all to see her dress.

It is the CUTEST.

Current Wishlist

A live-in masseuse and chiropractor. 40 is for the birds.

Current Movie

Allison, this is getting pathetic. Couch date for this soon?

Current Picture

If you follow me on IG, you saw this already.

But how cute are these 2?!?!