what we did this week

1. Noah wore real shoes. Out of the house. For the first time ever. Milestone! No one cared but me.
2. I ordered (and received) another book I'll probably never get to read. And by "never" I just mean not for another 18 years.
3. Lily and I worked on an idea for her Halloween costume. She wants to be so many things.. if only Halloween was an entire week.
4. For awhile now, it seems like every time I get in my car, there is some kind of crazy looking bug on it. What in the world is this one? I looked just like a piece of a green pine cone. Same size too.
5. Saturday was National Coffee Day. How did you celebrate?
6. The next generation of gamer- Noah's practicing already. (Or teething. Maybe both.)

Weird neighbors

Lily, Noah, and I went for a walk on Monday. And as usual, Lily and I chatted- while Noah slept. We talked about school and the things we saw as we walked. It was lovely. Then she spotted our neighborhood little-old-man starting down his driveway. "HI!" she screamed at him. "Hello there!" he called back to her. I smiled and we kept going. "That's a crazy looking.." she started to say.. and then paused.

My eyes got wide and I held my breath. We were still 100% in hearing range of the man and even if his hearing wasn't as good as it used to be, Lily was being her usual loud self and I'm sure he could still hear her. And ohmagod she's gonna scream that he's a crazy looking old man! Ohmagodohmagod! All I could think was just spit it out already and let's get it over with. Just get it over with! So I can die of embarrassment right in the middle of the street.. and then move on.

".. roof," she finished. What? I looked down at her. She was looking at the other side of the street. At a roof with two large sky lights. Exhale. "Yes!" I said loudly. "That is a REALLY crazy ROOF isn't it? With all those WINDOWS on it!"

And the little old man was probably thinking, why is that crazy woman yelling about that person's roof?

They say the darnedest things

When I dropped Lily off at school this morning, her teacher asked how my weekend was. "It was alright," I said. "It was okay." Did she really want to hear how boring and miserable my weekends usually are? Did she want to hear about how this weekend had the added bonus of my hard drive exploding? (Figuratively.) Probably not.

Then she asked if she had seen me at the gym. When people say things like that to me, most of the time my inner smartass just reacts. Without consulting with my inner grown-up counselor. "HahaNO!" I retorted. I think the other mother standing next to me chuckled, a knowing kind of chuckle.

Other thoughts that immediately followed (and were quickly told to shut the F up by my inner grown-up counselor) were..

.. does it look like I go to the gym?

.. does it look like I have time to go to the gym?

.. you HAVE met my child, right?

what we did last week

1. The origins of a Tweet- apparently it's the sound birds make. Cool..
2. Found a spotted feather when I brought the recycling out to the curb on Monday morning. Wish I knew what kind of bird that came from.
3. Lily and I drew a picture about her upcoming birthday. And talked about how many days. Way too many as far as she's concerned. Way too little as far as I'm concerned. A FOUR year old! Sigh.
4. Playing Candy Land with Lily is not nearly as frustrating as it used to be. She actually plays a whole game now before playing a second time with rules that change by the second.
5. Half the reason I watch the news on the channel I do, is for the typo hunt. BIG difference between Cloriform (Chloroform?) and Colriform in your water. I'd still rather not have either of them in my water though.
6. AND then there was the dark, dark day that was yesterday. Without warning my hard drive was no longer driving hard. Thank the Lord, my husband retrieved most of what was on it before replacing it with an extra one we had. The only thing I lost (I think), while being the most easily replaceable (it's just software), is also the most expensive. Photoshop.