Yuckity, Yuck, Yuck. May 15, 2008

Today I was cleaning the house which I usually try to do on my day off, because even though it’s “my day off” it really isn’t.  I usually end up running errands and doing stuff around the house even though Keith tells me not to and I should relax instead. But I mean really, what am I going to do just sit around on my butt all day and eat nachos while we run out of toilet paper and deodorant and our house turns into a landfill?  

I decided today that I would be nice to my husband and clean a little of the bathroom for him, which by the way is his job.  Side note, it is Keith’s job to clean the kitchen and the bathroom and it is my job to clean every other room.  The reason why we have this deal is because before we got married we made a bet, and if I won he had to clean the kitchen and the bathroom, the two worst rooms to clean, for the rest of our lives.  I don’t remember what the bet was about, but I knew that I was going to win which is why I made the payoff so great.  And Keith still knows that those rooms belong to him.  

Anyway, today I decided that I would help him out a little bit because he has been so busy lately.  I cleaned the mirror, I wiped down the countertop, I swept the floor, I didn’t clean the shower though, I wasn’t feeling that generous, and while I was putting things back on the counter I decided to clean our toothbrush holder.  HOLY COW, has anyone ever taken a whiff of the inside of their toothbrush holder?  I thought I might pass out!  It was far worse than any diaper I’ve ever changed, or the vomit of any girls hair I held back in college.  It was NAAAAAAASTY.  In most cases when something is super gross my first thought is just to throw it away and buy a new one.  I’ve done it with Ellie’s poopie clothes, I’ve done it with dishes that have been in the fridge for too long,  but I figured that Keith probably wouldn’t be too happy with me if I did it with our toothbrush holder.  So I sucked it up and cleaned the nasty thing.  And I gagged a little while I did it.

Snack Time Is Exhausting. May 15, 2008

I keep thinking that Ellie might be about ready to drop her morning nap, and just go to one long afternoon nap.  Apparently I am wrong.  I gave her a snack, and then we were going to go to the park.  Well, I walked out of the room for a minute because I wanted to check the weather for tomorrow and I noticed that while I was gone Ellie was really quiet.  Hoping she had not choked on a Cheerio I went in to check on her and this is what I saw.

After taking the picture her head slid down the side of the chair and she fell face first into her snack. 

I Might Actually Buy This…If It Really Existed. May 14, 2008

Bring On The Bad Habits. May 14, 2008

For the last couple of days Ellie has had this nasty cold which involves a hacking cough and lots of sneezing.  The cough is so bad that I think if she knew how to form a big yucky phlegm ball and spit it out I’m sure she would have by now.  I’m actually surprised that she has lived with me as her mother for as long as she has and not yet learned this skill, as it is part of my everyday life.  And no I don’t smoke, I’m just gross.  

Today we were at K-Mart, which by the way I never go to because I don’t know where anything in that store is, and since there is no sense of order in my house I like the stores I shop in to have a sense of order.  However, I needed something and I knew they would have it.  While we were there Ellie’s cold lashed out and she started sneezing like crazy and when I looked down she was covered in snot.  Of course since I was only planning on being in the store for a short period of time, I had nothing to clean her up with.  I was desperate to find something before she smeared her snot all over her face so I used the first thing I thought of…Ellie’s shirt.  It was long, it was billowy, it was dying to be used as a tissue.  So I did it, I used my child’s clothing to wipe up her snot.  And then a couple of minutes later I used it to wipe a booger off her face that I had missed the first time.  I know I’m not the only mom to do this so I don’t feel that bad.  Sure I thought it was gross, but I didn’t think it was a big deal until I looked over and saw her doing it also.  Great, just the first of many bad habits that I will teach her.  I can’t wait till she starts burping in public and saying inappropriate things at daycare.  Oh joy.  

Todays Lesson: The Superdelegate May 13, 2008

Since this is an election year and I’ve heard it referred to as the most important election year ever (but then again, don’t they say that every election year), I’ve heard a lot about superdelegates.  I’ve never heard so much about these people before and today I was beginning to wonder, what is a superdelegate?  It turned out that no one that I worked with could give me a convincing definition so I needed to find out for myself.  I wanted to know if I could be a superdelegate, but then I realized that would mean that I probably would have had to have voted at least once in my life.  I know, I know, I’m a horrible American for never having voted in an election in the 11 years that it has been legal for me to do so.  I can just see the angry comments coming now.  I’m sure that anything anyone has to say to me about this topic is already something that I have heard before.  And I know that “if you don’t vote you have no right to complain about our country”, so I try not to.  I apologize for the awful citizen that I am.  Moving on, I wanted to know about these super-people so bad that I actually went home on my 30 minute break to google “superdelegate” so that I could bring my findings back to work and everyone would be able to rest easily knowing that they had ended the day more educated then they began it.  Here is what I found out about superdelegates if anyone is interested.  It turns out that they probably don’t run around with capes and a big “D” on their chest like I thought they might.  And it looks like I won’t be one anytime soon.

Is There A 13 Year Old Girl Trapped Inside Me? May 12, 2008

I’m kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I’ve had this song in my head for about a week now.  It has some of the most ridiculous lyrics I have ever heard, but it’s so catchy I can’t get rid of it.  How am I going to fix it, fix it, fix it?

The Most Magical Place On 2nd Street. May 11, 2008

For the past week I have been telling everyone I know about Powell’s Sweet Shoppe.  It opened up on 2nd Street just over a week ago and is by far the coolest place on the street.  I think they probably have every type of candy imaginable.  Plus they have truffles.  Plus they have gelato.  HELLO, It’s amazing!  Last night we got to take our friends the Hutton’s there for the first time and I made sure to preface the visit with a warning to Mike and Beth.  I told them, “Your kids are going to loose their freaking minds!”  I think that Drew was mostly in awe by all of the stuff that was there and of course Jack and Ellie-bean wanted to touch everything.  I felt like such a bad parent because Ellie’s shoes kept falling off of her and I got sick of putting them back on her so we just let her walk around barefoot.  I know it’s gross, but at least she’s not like Brittany Spears, it wasn’t a public bathroom.  If you haven’t been there yet, YOU MUST GO!  I repeat, YOU MUST GO!  Here’s some pics to wet your appetite.

     

  

I Think I Can Get Used To This Mother’s Day Thing. May 11, 2008

This was my second Mother’s Day and I forgot how nice it was to make a request of Keith and be able to follow it up with…”It’s Mother’s Day”.  I didn’t change a diaper all day.  I can’t wait till next year.  

Here’s a picture of Beth and I enjoying not having to wrangle any children.

We’ve Been Stimulated! May 9, 2008

Keith and I got our long awaited stimulus package today.  Thank you US Treasury.  I know the point is for us to go out and spend it foolishly on fabulously expensive items, but chances are it will go to paying off the fabulously expensive items we already own.  Oh wait, we don’t own any of those.

She Knows I Hate It , And That’s Why She Does It. May 8, 2008

Ellie has started this new thing where she points to her nose and says “nose” and then she puts her finger in her nose.  I tell her not to and she laughs and then she proceeds to do it over and over again, each time with a sly little smile on her face and a big laugh after I tell her not to and remove her finger from her nose for her.

When did your child start to do things just because they knew it made you mad?