Let me tell y’all how this entire conversation went (with a 4-year-old boy): Him: Mom, I need a  ✏️  for my homework (i.e. his coloring book  🙄 ). Me: I don’t have one, but here’s a  🖊 . Him: Oh, I have an idea  💡 ... (walks over to my make up pencils, grabs one and starts walking out the room... youknow, so he can complete his homework... in a timely manner). Me: Wait, you can’t use that, that’s my makeup pencil! Him: Oh  🤔  (In a very inquisitive tone)... This you makeup pencil? (He proceeds to walk to me and my face) Mommy, hold still! Me:  💭   # InnerThought  1)Body slam him just because and start a wrestling match (nah, too tired to play); 2) Give him a lecture about not playing with makeup (nah, I don’t want to impose ridiculous gender norms... not today anyways); 3) Let him have artistic expression on my face  😳 ??? Well, you see the end result  🤷🏾‍♀️ ! I followed up by asking ...

Spats with a 4-year-olds be like: Mom, I’m hungry... can you fix me a  🌭  ! Sure son, you want this, right? (Points  ➡️  in fridge to designated  🌭  drawer to confirm because he’s a picky 4-year-old eater... as they all are... and mom wants to make sure she’s giving appropriate requested cuisine)... No mom, not that  🌭  ... The other  🌭  ... (good thing she pointed  ➡️ , right 🤷🏾‍♀️ ?!) 😳  Son, those are the only hot dogs we have! No mom, I want the  🌭  with the bread on it! Son, you mean a corn dog? But you pick all the bread off and only eat the  🌭 😒 ! Yes mom  ✔️ , I want YOU to pick all the bread off and then I can eat it! But I don’t want a hot dog! Who do you think will win this battle  😤 ? And yes, the  🌭  drawer is a real thing because my culinary skills are - 💯 ! And on day 1,257 of this quarantine, these kids are lucky I feel like fee...

Sooo... In the time of Corona 🦠 Virus, something good has come from this pandemic! My 12-year-old daughter, Jayda-Monay, has created her very own YouTube channel  🎉 🎈 💃🏾 !!! Please support be watching, liking and subscribing  🤗 !!! When I tell you, she did SUCH A GREAT JOB  🏆  !!! I honestly was sleeping  💤  on her talents  🙌🏾 . She is a natural! She even created her own intro and outro by herself 🤞🏾 !!! And together we dabbled with  🍎 ’s iMovie and Clips to get a wonderful, finished product. (She told me she wanted me to be her editor because all the famous YouTuber's have editors  😒 ... to which I replied, "Puuhhh-lease 😆 ... you're going to learn those skills so that you can be even more marketable! You can then take your hustle and become a freelancer on the side, along with being a huge YouTuber and everything else you want to be  💰 💪🏾 💰 💪🏾 💰 !" Anyways, back to the point... please "like ✅ ...

Long post, but maybe someone needs to hear this  🤷🏾‍♀️ ... First, I’m not a cook, at all! Got off work, picked up the kiddos and was trying to be proactive about dinner so I went to the grocery store and grabbed a couple items and got home early; all by 5:15 p.m.  # TeamWinning 💃🏾 ... I know my kids... they  boycott my cooking so I got them pizzas... the kind that you just pop in the oven. My 4-year-old was crying bloody murder because he wanted a McChicken sandwich from McDonald’s. I’m like, I’ve got french fries that I can either fry or bake and boom! Dinner (ignores pathetic whimper of preschooler because I’m skilled at that)! I also had a few drumsticks in the fridge thawed out for whatever occasion, so I attempted to fry those. Real quick dinner solution, nothing too strenuous and a bit mix-matched, but who’s judging? I’m giving my kids what they like (no need to feel bad about not forcing veggies down their throats everyday... sometimes you just don’t feel ...

So, I often think about the movie “Bad Moms” and wonder which side of the spectrum would I be on 🤷🏽‍♀️ ... Am I more of the “non-cookie-baking” mom who buys store bought treats and the “I conveniently forgot to wash (for three days now) so I sent my kids to school with dirty socks and drawers (for three days now  😂 )” type of mom... or am I the perfect mom who has everything together? I’m definitely NOT the latter. As such, when my four-year-old reaches for garlic bread sticks and Cool Ranch Doritos in the a.m. after I’ve told him to just wait until he gets to school for breakfast (because, “Ma, I hung-wee”) and he doesn't listen (because apparently, that’s against a preschooler’s religion), then I unfortunately have the burden of feeling guilty about sending him to school with rotten breath! Granted, I do have extra toothbrushes and toothpaste in the car, but that doesn’t work on such a deadly combo! As such, I feel bad because his dragon breath will soon be firing ...

This was originally my Facebook post in a mommy-group that I’m a part of. It was pretty funny so I figured I’d share in my blog, since I’ve been awol for so long. Enjoy😘! My Morning List📝: Wake kids up on time for school ✅ Start car ahead of time so it’s warm for kids ✅ Make it to bus stop #1 on time ✅ (⚠️ don’t embarrass 7th grader in the process, i.e. don’t breath)✅✅ Arrive at school to drop kid #2 off on time... ✅ #FeelingAccomplished💃🏿 🚫⚠️🚫⚠️🚫WAIT: Instantly realizes that this accomplished woman forgot to put on a bra 👙this morning and I’ve gotta go inside the school to sign-in my preschooler😳 (for anyone over a DD cup, you know this is a no-no in public spaces 🥴)! Hmmm🤔... I literally didn’t even realize that I still had on my pajamas 😵🙄😭... no wonder I was ahead of schedule today 🤦🏽‍♀️! #TrueStory  Whatev’s...🤣🙌🏾! Happy Monday Mamas!!! #ThisIsQuayesPayne #InnerThoughts #OutwardExpression #JustJacQuaye 💋