Saturday, October 13, 2012

what we did this week

 

1. For the first time, I saw a car decorated for Halloween- with giant cloth spiders all over the passenger side of the car parked next to me.
2. Legos. Lots of legos. Not much else to say about it.
3. Using the magnetic alphabet app on ipad, Lily depicted her and I driving. I'm in pink, at the steering wheel, and Lily is sitting in the back. Yes, we are wearing our seat belts- if you couldn't tell.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

I don't like Sundays

Sunday morning I woke up, went to the bathroom, made myself breakfast, and got Noah out of bed. I prepared Noah's bottle, fed him, changed his diaper, and got him dressed. I woke Lily up, got her out of bed, made her breakfast, helped her with going to the bathroom and brushing her teeth, and then tricked her into getting dressed. I played with Noah and Lily, went through my coupons, and determined what I needed to get at the grocery store. I brushed my teeth, got dressed, brushed my hair, and asked Lily to go wake up Jason.

Then I had to tell her to specifically tell him to come into the livingroom (like, actually get up OUT of bed). I followed her down the hall to ask him if there was anything he wanted from the grocery store. He said something like, "you're going to the grocery store?" (Insert blank look in lieu of response here.)

So he did actually get up- to see me sitting on the floor, putting on my shoes.

When are you leaving?
Uh.. right now.
I wanted to take a shower.
(Insert blank look in lieu of response here.)
It's my only day off.
(Insert blank look here.) Ya. (As in 'ya right, it's really not. And I'm going to the grocery store not Disneyland.')

So I went to the grocery store. Limped around (good ole slipped disc) and bought groceries. And drove back home.

I dragged everything inside, put it all away, and went to see what my family was doing. Noah was sleeping. Lily and Jason were sitting on the couch playing Little Big Planet. Right. Okay.

I went back in the kitchen, put away clean dishes, washed dirty dishes, prepped Noah's bottles, cleaned up some recycling stuff, and swept the floor. Some time near the end of that, Jason made an appearance in the kitchen asking me if I was almost done.

Why?
It's my only day off- I have stuff to do.
(Insert blank look in lieu of response here.)

[What I was really saying in my head: 'Suuuuure, let me just put away my bon-bons that I'm chowing down on here so that you can go into the bathroom alone. And take a shower without an audience. Because when was the last time you took a shower? Yesterday, maybe the day before? Do you want to know when I last took a shower? No.. you don't. Alright, no problem. Have a nice day off. I'll just be over here wondering what that's like.']

Saturday, October 6, 2012

what we did this week


1-3. You would think that with all that went on this week, I'd have more pictures.. but I totally don't. Lily turned 4 (FOUR!) on Sunday. We had a tiny party at home and let her play way too many video games over the whole weekend. Kind of like well, it's HER birthday so..

Monday, October 1, 2012

Volunteering my time

When field trips were just an idea, for the future, for my preschooler.. it seemed exciting. Ah yes, field trips- very cool, Lily will love that, blah blah blah.

But when field trips became a notice on the board at Lily's school.. um.. that's different. And ohshit.

I spent a week panicking about it. Until I decided that, sigh, I just couldn't let her go. And she'll be fine, she won't care, I'm pretty sure the teachers haven't even let them know about it (because some won't get to go- I assume?). So.. it's fine. Let's move on. Etc.

Then I realized crazy people parents could volunteer to go along. Hmm. Well, that's something to consider. But I don't know- other people's children sometime make me nervous. In the sense of really not knowing them at all, but feeling obligated to foresake my own life to protect theirs. Right?

I really don't know. Arranging for someone to look after Noah. Paying more money for the trip itself. Losing out on time at home not having to keep the world from being destroyed entertain a 4 year old.

But then somehow I found myself losing my mind volunteering anyway..
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