1. When I get a Christmas card from someone after Christmas, I immediately wonder if we didn't make their list this year or if they were just running late. My paranoia always wins, and I make myself crazy thinking we weren't important enough to make the list.
2. I drove Nathaniel and Nicholas to school on Monday the 3rd like it was any other day. Turns out, they didn't start back to school until the 4th. Oops. My plan to transfer important January dates to my planner once I got to the office on the 3rd backfired on me.
3. When I'm using the restroom at work, I check out the shoes of the woman in the stall beside mine. If she leaves the restroom without washing her hands, I walk out of there and track. down. those. shoes. I am like a dog with a bone. Because you'd better BELIEVE I'm not eating any brownies or onion dip that chick brings to work anymore.
4. I let my kids go outside in Crocs with no socks during the ice storm this week. They wouldn't listen to me about putting on socks, and instead of forcing them to do it, I just let them go out like they wanted to, hoping they'd learn. IT WORKED.
5. Related: I've wondered many times over the past four days if you can actually die from cabin fever. Because if I'd had to spend one more day inside with three boys who weren't getting any exercise and whose Bucket Lists seemed to consist solely of 1) making as much noise as possible, and 2) trying to maim each other with random household objects, I'm here to tell you that I might have been the very first documented death by cabin fever. THANK YOU, GOD, FOR THAWING THE ICE.
9 comments:
#1 - Don't be paranoid. The USPS makes mistakes. I sent a Christmas card to a friend. It was returned, but there was no mistake with the address (my husband even double-checked after me!). Just a fluke. I told her what happened and resent the card. Turns out, her card to us was returned, too :)
#3 - LOL, but also AMEN!
#4 - Have done similar with my kids, to the astonishment of those who previously thought me sane. It does work!
#5 - We are home for the 3rd day, but roads *should* be clearing this afternoon. You better believe my grocery list of "tomato" is important enough to get us out of the house!!!
When I was working in an office, I did the EXACT same thing.
I choose to believe that many of our friends are just running late, as do I many years. I did get the cards sent out "barely" in time this year. But it wasn't all my fault...I'm sticking to my story.
Not having sons, my daughters were never that loud. Playing board games and Barbies, crafting and such filled our snow days... and watching "Anne of Green Gables" over and over and over.
Beckie
Wow... #1 and #3 are... wow. Mental Note: don't cross Katherine. Or not wash my hands.
I'm so loving #3! I think we would get along just swimmingly in real life!
You are so funnY!
Regarding the ice: There should never EVER be ice anywhere on the roads in a state that has temperatures above 100 in the summer. IT'S NOT A FAIR TRADE.
As usual, MOST of you have made me feel more normal by admitting your own foibles, RACHEL.
And Beckie, "my daughters were never that loud" ... I cannot identify with that at all! I can't imagine having not-loud kids. ;)
So I'm trying to catch up and OMG #3 is SOOO me!!! I cannot stand people that do that!!! DISGUSTING!!!
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