life with WE

Another one of Julie's faves!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, it's time for random thoughts dumped straight from my head!

• I want my kids to enjoy summer.  However, I don't particularly like it when they are enjoying summer without me on the two days I work each week.  How selfish am I?  Very!
• We got an email from the kids' school district with information about an online math program they should work on during the summer.  I'm down with that, however it means sharing my laptop.  I'm NOT down with that.
• I'm currently working on Jillian Michaels' Fitness Revolution.  Um, the first four weeks weren't so bad compared to these last three days of week 5.  I think I might cry my muscles ache so bad.  And I've returned to counting calories because what's the point of working out if I continue to eat like crap?  Eh?
• I love how cool it is today.  I wish it wasn't raining, but whatever.
• I hate it when my kids get worried about adult things.  That's a fine like to walk as a parent - making your child aware so that they aren't naive, but keeping them sheltered from adult worries because hello?  You only get to be a kid once.
• Some lady wandered into work Tuesday because she was lost.  Which is fine.  EXCEPT that she was beotchy.  As if I was the one that had made her lost.  I offered to map the location she was going.  I said, "honey, this is in Creve Coeur, not Earth City."  And she just kept shaking her head no telling me I had the wrong spot.  Um, just typed in the address YOU GAVE ME.  Also, this is not a gas station and I have work to do.  Finally she realized she had given me the wrong street name, I found it, and it was one street away from us.  Still she did not believe me.  I finally said, "I'm not sure how else I can help you and I have work to do."  You know what?  If you need help from someone, you should BE NICE!
• I want to grow my hair out, but have you ever grown your hair out from a short hair cut?  It sucks.  Don't do it.  Think of it like growing bangs out but on a bigger scale.  Blah.
• I miss my friends.
• I think it's now safe to say that my sister Jessie is pregnant.  WOO HOO!  I'm going to be an aunt again.  Will she help close the gap between nephews to nieces?  Or will she add to the girls' side?  I'm currently at 4 nieces and 2 nephews from Mike's family side.  We'll know in December!
• Babies are fun.  Especially when they aren't yours!
• Coordinating my kids life is hard work.  And I only have two, and I only work part time.  I'm not sure how the rest of you do it.
• Elaine is going to be that kid that sleeps until 1 in the afternoon when she's a teenager.  I'm insanely jealous of that.  Oh you can bet I'll wake her up just like my mom did to torture her.
• If you start talking to W about baseball, beware.  That kid just spouts off random things and assumes you too should know them and what is wrong with you for not knowing them?
• Do you do electronic to do lists?  Or write them?  Or make them as appointments?  I flip flop between them all.
• Flip flops - I hate the ones with plastic between the toes.
• That darn "call me maybe" song is insanely annoyingly addictive.
• The outside of my house is dirty.  My dad has a powerwasher.  Seems like I could solve this problem, doesn't it?  Yet, I don't.
• OMG, I had best go take my meds...

Ah sweet summer!

Summer is when everything should slow down.  And it seems to schedule-wise.  But at the same time, this first week has gone speeding by.  Even Warren made that comment.  "Wow, it's going too fast!"  We've done some family things.  We've had a great time, but yeah, the first week has flown by.

That's good and bad.

Because this year, we have a longer summer break than normal.  Which is great.  But this year I am also working two days a week, which adds to scheduling fun.  Thank goodness my mom and stepmom are helping out as well as neighbors and friends who have offered their services.  It takes a village people, it really does. 

I've promised the kids their summer will be the same as always.  They'll get to go to a couple of camps, and we'll try and do several fun (and please also inexpensive) things on my non-working days.  Other than that?  They'll just be kids doing the summer thing.  And of course, I'll be making sure that summer thing includes reading and some math time, as well as limited tv time.  Because I'm mean, and hello, I'm working hard on meanest mom of the year!  Meanwhile, I think our summer will be made up of the simple pleasures, like water gun fights in the front yard.

 

Next up?  Water balloons.  I'm planning an ambush!

I do indeed talk to strangers.

I'm that person who will tell you that your tag is sticking out of your shirt, even if I don't know you.  I'll also let you know if your skirt is tucked into your underwear, if you've dropped your wallet, if your gas tank cover is open, if you are wearing a particularly awesome shirt/outfit/pair of glasses etc.  I talk to babies while waiting in checkout lines.  I commiserate with other parents when kids act up in a store.  Yes, I'm a talker and I'm about to get all up in your business.

I do these things in the hope that others will do the same for me.  You know, build a community, show some compassion and/or kindess and all that jazz. 

Why won't anyone tell me when there is a giant whitehead on the side of my nose ready to pop?  WHY?

I mean, when you go into the bathroom and see something like that, you die a little inside.  You  begin to wonder how many people you've interacted with that day that noticed that and wondered, "why doesn't she pop that thing?"  It's because I DIDN'T KNOW.  You're supposed to tell me. 

Is it wrong to mention zits to people?  I guess perhaps there should be rules.  For instance, if it is a teen or even adult who is clearly battling acne?  Let it go.  If it's me, and it's a giant underground red zit generally associated with that time of the month?  Don't mention it at all.  In fact, compliment me on how thin I look and how pretty my face is.  But your typical whitehead sticking out ready to go? 

Please tell me.

Won't you?