More random thoughts because lately those are the only kind I have:
1. Do you guys remember Revlon's Flex Balsam & Protein shampoo? I found some at Fred Meyer recently and I swear the smell of it is like time-traveling back to 1983. It makes me feel so... clean. Like squeaky childhood clean. Confessional clean. I love it. Even better is smelling it in my daughter's hair.
2. Genoa's hair still hasn't been cut yet. She'll be four in two months. It gets stuck in her butt crack.
3. Alex just now - at age six - figured out how to pump his legs on a swing. I've been trying to teach him this valuable life skill for YEARS, but apparently I have no idea what I'm talking about. He had to learn it at school from his BFF Ryan.
4. Yesterday I got an e-mail from Alex's teacher requesting our presence at a conference to "go over Alex's progress this year" and could we respond as soon as possible? YIKES. I immediately started to worry and sent her an e-mail back saying sure, we'll be there, but WHAT! TELL ME WHAT HE DID!?!? (Nothing, apparently, he just has a hard time listening.) Then I realized that he's only in Kindergarten - this is only the BEGINNING. If my kids are anything like me, e-mails from school are something I need to get used to. I should probably cut my losses now and stop expecting teachers to find my kids any less annoying than I do.
5. According to my children, there is nothing better than watching me play Super Mario Brothers on the Wii. Not playing it themselves, mind you, but watching me play. First thing in the morning, Genoa wakes up and hands me the Wii remote. "Play the sand level, Mommy." I call this a win-win. Operation Rescue the Princess: UNDERWAY.
6. The dog is still shitting in the house. Dave and I are still fighting over who has to clean it up. Bitch, I cleaned it last time.
Another bonus of unemployment - the husband's home to even argue over who'll clean up the dog shit. My dog shits her crate regularly in the 1/2 hour I'm out taking the kids to school in the mornings and being the only one home, I have no choice but to clean it and bathe the dog myself every. single. time.
Posted by: Melissa | February 18, 2010 at 06:55 PM
Regarding #2. Taylor just got her first hair cut 2 weeks ago!!! She will be 4 in a month and a half!!! We went to a cute place called lollipop and they gave us a certificate for her 1st haircut with a little ziploc bag type thing with her hair in it!! It was fun!! Miss ya!
Posted by: Krystal Dixon | February 18, 2010 at 07:37 PM
Ethan is obsessed with me playing Super Mario on the Wii too! It's cool cause I love that game, but it is NOT cool when he deletes the files when i'm *thisclose* to beating it!
Posted by: Sara | February 18, 2010 at 07:37 PM
In our house the rule is that I take care of any cats we get and Will takes care of any dogs we get. This is why we have one cat and zero dogs.
Posted by: Erin (Snarke) | February 18, 2010 at 08:18 PM
Revlon shampoo makes me think of Cindy Crawford. I can just see her in the commercials flipping her hair around.
I've never played Super Mario on the Wii but growing up my brother and I played it on our Nintendo system. I was better than he was so he'd yank my remote (joystick? paddle?) out of the box anytime I passed him. Bad memories. I have a feeling I'd be addicted if we bought it for the Wii. Not a good thing.
Posted by: alison | February 19, 2010 at 03:33 PM
I love this update and specifically appreciate #4. If you can accept that this is only the beginning now, you're going to be a great mom of teenagers in many years. I have a feeling you'll be the "cool mom" with a houseful of kids and friends of kids.
Posted by: LongStoryLonger | March 08, 2010 at 09:37 PM