Tag Archives: Everyday Life

Chatter about everyday life. This may include kids and work stuff.

It’s Starting

You see this cute little boy? He was about three when this photo was taken. Just a little moppet in a bookstore.

Well, he is 11-years-old now and tonight, I get to take him to a junior high parent meeting.

JUNIOR HIGH.

It’s all starting, the girls, the text messages, the girls walking by our house at night, the deeper than deep voice that came out of nowhere and oh, did I mention the GIRLS?

Now I realize that back in the day, I did not have a cell phone to text my friends, but I don’t recall being into the boy-girl scene until I was about thirteen.  The other day he woke up, had a girlfriend and then by the end of the day, they broke up. How can this be? No dating took place.

Anyway, tonight I descend upon the school for the very first time. He’s mortified that I have to take him but it is a parent meeting afterall. Do you think he’ll survive? Do you think I will survive?

The Sunday Salon: Where Did the Weekend Go?

This weekend came and went without too much to show for it. I wanted to get some things done around here but I didn’t get to any of it. I guess it’s because I lacked a plan and just sort of went with it and that never works for me. This was my weekend:

  • On Friday, I ate way too much which started my weekend off on the wrong foot. Part of it was because of not eating enough the day before because of some testing I had to have, but really I am just using that as an excuse.
  • Saturday morning I went for a long walk. I haven’t been doing my walking but it felt good to get it in and on the weekend no less!
  • Saturday afternoon I had to buy shoes for The Girl since she is growing like a weed and her little, fake Ugg boots are beginning to look ridiculous in this 75 degree heat. We couldn’t do anything as a family since The Hub committed to helping a friend, so the kids and I just hung around the house afterward and didn’t do a darn thing.
  • Saturday night we watched 2012 which was totally ridiculous but highly entertaining and then because I couldn’t get enough destruction, I went to bed with The Dead and the Gone and stayed up all night reading it. My review posts tomorrow.
  • Early this morning The Girl came into our room and had a breathing episode. She has reactive airway and something set her off, so a couple of breathing treatments later she was bouncing off the wall and begging for blueberry pancakes and bacon. Cooking at 6am on a Sunday morning should be a sin. A yummy sin, but still a sin.
  • After breakfast we went to buy a steam mop. Whoopee!! You know you’re too old when you get excited over an appliance.
  • Tonight we are going out for pizza (see how overeating on Friday has caused an avalanche effect on my eating?)

Right now I am going to try to finish Mockingbird. Only a few pages left but the house is sort of filled with kid noise right now so it may not happen.