the moral of the story is..
March 23, 2011
Two important things happened in the last 24 hours….that make me feel like a total failure as a mother.
First…
every Tuesday evening….i load up the kids and drop them off at Awana.
{I love Awana}
Awana is a program through church for kids to go and have fun while learning bible verses.
{you get to drop them off for an hour and a half}
But last night as i was dropping off the kids….Fin’s leader pulled me aside and asked if she could chat with
me for a minute.
{no one likes to be pulled over in the corner for a chat….just saying}
I looked at my phone….and said sure…i can spare a minute because i’m supposed to meet Bryan
for our weekly Tuesday night date night.
{I love Awana}
She pulls me aside and asks me if i am sitting down with Fin every week helping him learn his verses.
I look at Fin…..blank stare.
Fin looks at me….blank stare.
We both look at the leader.
Fin says no….
so i say no.
{i guess i missed that part of needing to help the kids when they handed out the rules handbook}
i didn’t realize we were supposed to be helping him….
i just thought we dropped him off every tuesday night….so that i could meet bryan…
and we could have a weekly date night.
The moral to the story is…..
Awana is awesome….just make sure you help your kids not feel like child failures because their mom
wants to make it to her dinner date in time.
Secondly….
i took Fin in for his 6 year old check up this morning.
He steps on the scale….his weight is perfect.
He gets measured….he is right on target.
Blood pressure…..normal.
He counts..he talks…he passes all his little tests the Doc gives him.
Then she listens to his chest…..and pauses….then slowly turns around and looks at me.
And she says…..
has this cough been bothering him at all?
I get that blank stare….you know the one….
the one that says…..
please don’t tell me he can’t go to school today…pretty pretty please
oh…you mean that cough that he’s had for a few weeks but he’s not allowed to miss school….
you mean that cough?
So…i go ahead and tell her….
no…it has not been bothering him at all…as a matter of fact…i’m the one that has been in bed sick
the last few days….and i even got up early yesterday to make the teachers at school breakfast for teacher appreciaton
and yes..that was me that even went back into school later in the day to read a book to Lola’s class…..
but no…to answer your question Doc…the cough has not been bothering him.
Then she looks at me…{evil eye}
and i look at her….{puppy dog eyes..with a tear in the corner to help the situation}
when she tells me that she’s going to call in an antibiotic because he has…..
walking pneumonia.
Moral of that story is….
us moms can’t all be superhero’s….so thank goodness for Doctors.
Oh…and thank goodness for Antibiotics….
and one more thing….
thank goodness for pink Cake Pops from Starbucks when we feel like mother failures.
hello tuesday
March 22, 2011
On Saturday…the weather turned really nice…so nice in fact that the sun made an appearance…
and i do believe that the thermometer jumped to the mid 50′s.
Bryan brought out the scooter…and he took the kids around the neighborhood one by one.
I actually forgot about the scooter because it sits in that thing we call a garage…but we don’t
park in it because there is so much crap in there….but it does house our beloved scooter.
In my next home….i will have a garage that we park in…and hopefully it’s not a detached one…
and even though it’s my closet that sold me the house…i really miss having a garage.
In case you forget…it’s really cold here 6 months out of the year and i have to go out and start my car
15 minutes before we even leave the house.
This is the scooter that i will ride thru the streets of Paris when we move there.
{bryan…are you reading}
Actually the reason we bought the scooter is for bryan to ride to the train station every day when the
weather is nice.
Bryan commutes all five days a week on the train…so having the scooter as an alternative…
because it only costs around $4 to fill up…it saves us some cash….so that i can buy pretty things at Anthro.
Parking used to be free for bikes and scooters…but they changed that a year ago..
the town of Geneva got greedy…
and decided to make scooter parking the same amount as car parking.
Anyhoo….we love the scooter…as do the kids.
Once it gets really warm out…you might see me cruising around on it…..but i found out the hard way..
that it is indeed really hard to ride it and hold a grande latte at the same time.
The kids asked to do a lemonade stand late saturday afternoon….
and yes…that is Fin waving cars down with an orange flag HE stole from someones yard….
but don’t worry…i made him put the flag back…because apparently…that persons yard had to be
flagged due to some electrical work they were having and i would really hate to have to evacuate the street
when they accidentally break open a gas line because of one missing orange flag.
But the lemonade was good…real good.
{even if we can’t spell it}
I didn’t happen to have any frozen lemonade….but i found out the frozen mojito mix works just as well;-)
{non alcoholic of course….}
I spiked mine though….it’s the least i could do after finding out about the stolen orange flag.
Later that night….Bryan and i were able to sneak out for a little date on the town
and i had my sitter grab a couple of photos of us…
and because i just wanted to show you i really do have a husband.
oh…and yes….since you asked…
that is a new purse from Anthro that i’m sporting on my left arm.
We went to one of our fav little places called Preservation…it’s in Geneva..and if you are local…
i highly recommend it.
It’s a cafe and wine bar…but they have lots of little dishes to share….like…
wild mushroom and goat cheese tarts.
We got there and sat down when i noticed an older couple by the window….and they were
both sitting there enjoying their meal…all the while…reading their books.
They might have looked up once and said a few words to each other….but i told bryan…
that will be us when we are that age….because really…all that tells me is that they are so
comfortable with each other…
{and probably REALLY have nothing at all left to talk about}
that sitting there just enjoying a good meal with a great book is pretty dang fantabulous.
I told bryan to sneak over and see what the older gentleman was reading…
so bryan obliged….
and took this photo with his phone…
it just goes to show you….you can never be too prepared..at any age.
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