I’m taking the day (night) off.
A personal day they call it – and by they I mean all them people who work at jobs and, uhm, Stuff.
Most of my personal day time will be spent watching the clock, waiting for the numbers to hit 3Pm so I can go and pick all THREE boys up from school.
Uhm also? It’s been nine years since I have had alone time. Just ME time. Tomorrow from 12:30 t0 3PM I will be all alone. I forget what people do when they are alone.
….. I should not be allowed to go shopping without adult supervision!
Me and the boys headed to the city. On my list was :
1.A new fall jacket for Blake
2.The lotion I use for my face
3.A specific kind of lip balm
4.Auction items for Parker’s school auction
5.Kitty litter.
THIS is what came home with us:
1. Kitty litter
2. The lip balm I wanted
3. The lotion I wanted
4. Blake’s new coat
5. Parker’s Auction items (the glow in the dark skeleton and a spider web thingy – it’s there, just under all that stuff!)
I ALSO got :
6. A new sweater for me
(in my defense, the boys told me that for taking them to McDonalds, I deserved a new sweater. I had looked at it and put it back before we ate at McDonalds, and we made a special trip BACK to buy it.)
7. four pairs of finger glove.
(Hey! Gloves always go missing! AND they are sold two pairs for .99. Bargain!)
9. Three boxes of Gobstoppers
(Now maybe they will stop eating MINE)
12. Two plastic swords complete with fake blood.
(The boys were extremly well behaved, the entire day, and I find it hard to take children into a store filled with toys and NOT get them something)
14. Glow in the Dark Vampire teeth
(See #9. Logan wanted the teeth, not a sword. He makes a very cute vampire. I will get pictures tomorrow)
15. Three Clown hair wigs.
(Guess what the boys are going to dress up as for Halloween?)
18. Three packages of face make up, (the packages have different colors in them)
(Again, can you guess what the boys are going to be?)
21. A package of 100 hair ties
(What? I have hair, you know, a LOT of hair!)
22. A package of four hair scrunchies
(Shut up, they were cute!)
23. and lastly, Ferrero Rocher’s (a chocolate) for Hubs.
(They make a good bribe)
I Love Shopping!
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - It wasn’t just the caffeine that gave an Iowa woman an extra jolt after she had her morning coffee. It was also the bat she found in the filter.
The Iowa Department of Public Health says the woman reported a bat in her house but wasn’t too worried about it. She turned on her automatic coffee maker before bedtime and drank her coffee the next morning.
She discovered the bat in the filter when she went to clean it that night. The woman has undergone treatment for possible rabies.
Health officials say that the bat was sent to a lab but that its brain was too cooked by the hot water to determine whether it had rabies.
OMG SHE DRANK THE BAT! SHE DRANK THE FUCKING BAT!
He bounded into the house, bringing a new wave of cold air and dripping sand on the floor. I envied his energy even as I yelled at him to close the door. Kicking his shoes off, spreading more sand on the freshly swept floors and oblivious to my growing anger, he skipped towards me.
“I found this for you Mommy! Flowers mean love, you know!“ he told me as he leaned in for a kiss. His face was red with cold and he smelled of bubble gum and dirt as I kissed his cheek.
Flowers mean love…
Children teach you something every day, Don’t they?
I can only stare at this blank page with nothing to write for so long.
Tell me something. Anything.
Then guess what this is:
