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Cool Mommy

Leah came to me tonight with a dollar bill in hand "Make me a necktie."

Uhhhh. What?

Then I remember once at her dance class the teacher took Leah's dollar bill and made it into a bow tie.

So she sees it once and I'm supposed to know how to do it??

Well, being the coolest mommy ever, I have to find a way!

So I google it and a you tube video pops up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsYjFP2ziDE (it says the the embed feature is disable. weird but it was the best one)

I make the bow tie & call Leah back in the room.

"Thanks. I want to wear it now."

Um.

I got a paper clip and clipped the bow tie on the front of her shirt.

"Thanks, mommy!" and off she went on her merry way!

*****

Today for preschool we made the Halloween Gingerbread House & I played "Go Fish" for a good 30 minutes with her today.

I'm just sayin', It was a successful mommy day.

Of course, now Leah has my sickness I think. 101 Fever. The next few days may not be so great!

Huh?

As I'm sitting here at my laptop reading my scriptures online...

Drew: What are you reading your scriptures for? You already know what happens.

And then he laughed really, REALLY hard.

Work

Where do you work? I thought you stayed home with Leah?

I do mostly stay home with Leah. I work as a vendor/merchandiser at the grocery store. I only took the job because I can take Leah with me. I actually wasn't looking nor did I *need* a job but most of the time it's fun and since I don't have to leave her I keep doing it.

When we do another adoption & have another baby, I will quit I'm sure. Leah's at the perfect age for this to work out but it's just a temporary thing.

And really most of the time I think it's fun. It's NOT fun this week because I'm sick and it's a pain and it's a reminder that it's become a responsibility. LOL

Really, I'm just whiny still.

Hack, Hack. Sniffle. Cough, Cough.

;)

People are gross.

Today while I hauled my sick self to the grocery store to get some work done (Drew came with me and did most of the work. I love that man!), I saw the nastiest thing.

This woman is walking down the aisle chatting on her cell phone. Toddler child in the cart. He's playing with some type of shelled nut. He asked her something in Spanish (I'm assuming to open the nut). She looks around, sees only me - and what? I work there so I don't matter?? - drops the nut on the floor, stomps on it with her tennis shoe, and then picks it back up and hands it to her child.

He eats it.

Ew.

Grocery stores are DIRTY. The floor is filthy. The bottom of your shoes? FILTHY. Combine the two and then feed it to your child? SICK.

Sick. Again. Still.

I'm still just sitting around sick. So much for sucking on Cold-Eeze while this one quickly disappear like last time. Not your everyday cold? I don't know. I have a fever on & off, body aches, GI issues (flu symptoms) AND swollen sinuses, hacking cough, stuffy nose.

Good. Times.

At least Drew is here now. I shouldn't be blogging. I'm entirely too whiny!

Sick. Again.

This about says it all for now...

Two Dogs?

Um. I only have one dog. And yet I went to my back door and discovered this pair.

It's my neighbor's dog on the right. The dog that barks nearly constantly and acts like she's going to rip my head off when I'm standing next to my own fence.

But in my backyard? Totally friend. Petted her, gave her treats. I'm not totally sure how she got in. And my neighbor isn't home.

Aye aye aye!

Picture

I can't think of a witty caption for this. I saw the picture and started to cry. I love my husband!

Punishments

Leah ran away from Drew in the grocery store today. Passed a few aisles, the meat department and through the doors to the back room in the receiving area where I was. She knows her way around the store but running from Mommy or Daddy is strictly against the rules of course.

So today she is not allowed to watch cartoons. She is coloring/drawing while eating strawberries right now.

This is going to be a LONG day. It's insane that doling out such a punishment is as much a punishment for the mom! You never realize that when you're a kid, eh?

She keeps saying to herself, "I can't watch cartoons. I ran away from Daddy." So at least she gets the point.

Ah well! I wish I could nap. I'm so sleepy today!

PS She started in her room last night and then woke up and started bawling and yelling for me. Drew had turn out the light that serves as her night light currently and she woke up in pitch black dark. I wanted to beat him up. So she came to be with us after that. Drew snored an insane amount and Leah was all over the place.

It's amazing how quickly I could get used to her sleeping her room! LOL

Drew's gone tonight & if she sleeps in there... perhaps I could get a solid night's sleep. That would be lovely.