Walking in the Rain

So today has been nuts. I have to get a certain amount done or I'm hosed, so this morning I woke Missy up early and got Turbo out of bed and dressed quickly and immediately left the house to run errands. It was about 8:30am when we left.

I got to the copy place to get my fliers for the neighborhood watch copied and cut out and found that they didn't open until 9am.

This really sucks because last night I wanted to go to the self serve 24 hour copy place and get the fliers done so that I could start putting them out in the wee hours of the morning... you know, after exercising and before Goober got up for school. But low and behold the place had closed down and the other self serve one is in another store that locks up after they are done.... what is the point of having a self serve copy place if people can't access it at any time? They need to totally put one in a 24 hr service station or something, cause seriously this city is how big and RIGBY has a self serve 24 hr copy place....

 Then I realized the bank didn't open until 9 too. Ugh. So I headed to the DI to empty the back of my van, because I've had stuff in there For-ev-er (said like the kid on Sandlot). Thank goodness they were open, and then by the time I got back to the other places they were open too.

I then spent all morning taping fliers to people's front doors and mailboxes. It was nice weather this morning, did I mention that? Only a few sprinkles here and there, and they were kinda Oregon-eque... you know misty, so not a problem. I headed back to the house about noonish because Goobers last day of school was a half day and we needed lunch anyhow, then we headed back out....

'Cept this time it was raining.... had I realized it would rain I wouldn't have stuck fliers on mailboxes, I would have gone back and put them on front doors but I was wet and tired and I still had more houses to do!!!

This little project of mine took from 9am this morning until 2:30pm to complete... at a certain point we had to go back to the house and get the van because the kids were cold and becoming wet in spite of the Wike and the Umbrella...

Needless to say, my kids weren't terribly happy about it all.

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Update: After all of that, I found out that the time of the meeting was not on the fliers....

Look Mom!

The other day (about a week ago) Goober came home from playing with Mr. K (his best friend in the neighborhood) and said to me: "Mom, I can ride K's bike! And he doesn't have training wheels!"

So what did I do? I promptly took off the training wheels that were on his bike and sure enough... the kid can ride a bike without training wheels! I asked him if any adults had helped him and he said that K's next door neighbor had...

Thank You neighbor-lady! I really didn't mean to pawn that responsibility off on you! Really, he didn't have any inclination to ride his bike AT ALL last year... he wanted his razor scooter... anyhow! Thanks!

I think I may have to take her cookies or something...

...Maybe Later...

So lately I've become a pro.

I'm telling you.... I'm awesome at this...

Procrastination.

Yup. AWE-SOME!

Here are some of the things I'm procrastinating:

• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Organizing
• Getting Insurance put on the Scooter
• Canceling my trainer for tomorrow 
• Laundry
• Finding stuff I'm going to need to travel
• and much, much more!

Here are some of the things I use to procrastinate:

• Scanning photo's 
• Labeling photo's
• Playing on Facebook
• Reading bloggs
• Playing video games and "helping" my children open new levels
• "supervising" the kids riding their bikes
• and anything else I can think of!

What are some of the things you avoid, and what do you usually use to avoid them?

Missy's Last Day of Prechool!

Yesterday Missy had her Preschool Program because it was the last day of preschool for her this year. I couldn't help but chuckle because the most of the program was her being mildly interested in doing what she was supposed to be doing and the rest was her raising her eyebrows at me! lol I even caught a video clip of it!!!

Enjoy!

Cake Wrecks...

Okay, most of you know I'm not really keen on cooking. I really don't like it much, I tend to use mixes or pick easy fast recipes if I do cook. Either that or Jer cooks.... cause he likes it.

Well, on Friday I decided that we would do a get together for Missy's birthday... just family, you know the routine!

Anyhow, on Friday morning I clean, clean, cleaned the house (cause it was narsty and looked like the filth-monster had come and vomited all over and that is just embarrassing with the in-laws and everyone comes over!). Somewhere in the middle of all of that I got Missy up so that she could get ready and then help me make her cake. She had expressly asked if she could help the day before and I said yes... so, we mixed the cake (cause I was very non-molly and bought a mix from Voldemort) and shoveled it into the oven and I set the timer.

Missy and Turbo went downstairs to watch the Incredibles while I started to clean the narsty bathrooms...

40 minutes later my timer goes off.... and I take the cake out of the oven (burning my thumb in the process, see I told you I had skill!). I took a look at the cake and thought "that doesn't look right...." and then I raced off to take Missy to preschool with her store bought treats for her classmates and went to lunch with my mom. Once I got home I showed mom the cake and said "I don't think it raised..." and she reaffirmed my thoughts with a definite... "Nope, didn't raise! But that's okay, I'm sure it tastes fine."

So after I went to pick Missy up from preschool and Goober got off the bus I loaded everyone into the van and headed back to Voldemort... and bought another cake mix, but a different brand... because HEY! The last one was FAIL. Then we all headed home and I made the cake again, put it in the oven and went beck to cleaning....

This time the cake did rise. Unfortunately it didn't cool fast enough though and I tried to get it out of the bundt pan before it was ready because, dangit people were going to be coming soon!

Yah, then commenced the cake wreck. I even said it was a cake wreck, which triggered Missy's tears... I quickly told her it would taste great and that I would still let her put the sprinkles on it! Because Missy really wanted to put the sprinkles on something...Which meant I had to try to frost the narsty thing...

At least she had fun pouring the sprinkles on it... and I wasn't in the least tempted to micro manage that, it was unlikely that the poor girl could make it any worse than it already was....

So I quickly called my mom and had her pick up a cake!

Much better! Happy Birthday again Missy!

For your enjoyment:

I think I must be missing something....

Last night I went to a board meeting for my kids soon to be new school. It was very interesting and answered a lot of questions I had. I'm excited to see how they do with the Montessori teaching method.

As the meeting went on someone asked the board members why they were in the position they were, basically what qualifications they had. It was interesting to listen to many of them list degrees and past jobs etc. There were also two new board members voted in, one of whom I know from high school. The one I know is currently working on his PHD and already has a MBA and a Masters in something else.

He is my age. Literally graduated the same year I did.

As I look around at the people that surround me in life I start to realize I have about zero qualifications to make it in the "real world". Sure, I have an associates degree.... but it's in "Floral Design Management". If that isn't a "fluff degree" I don't know what is. I have worked as an office assistant ie "gopher girl", as a florist, and as an order filler for a local music company. If someone was looking for a leader in any way I would probably be the last on their list by the look of my resume.

Maybe if I had worked on college when Jer and I were newly wed... maybe if I had let Jer be the stay-at-home dad instead of me staying home. I know he would have been awesome. I'm starting to think that many of my choices when I was younger were just plain dumb... and not only that, I think they took away opportunities for both Jer and I in this life.

I would so love to go back to school. I really would. It would be so nice to get a BA and have that sense of accomplishment. Or to learn something really cool in a field that I really enjoy. To be an example to my children of what I want them to be able to be... basically whatever they want to be and not settling for anything.

Now, I'm not saying that I settled on being a stay a home mom. I'm very grateful that I can do that. I wouldn't want anyone but Jer or myself raising our children! It's just that sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't all have been happier if I hadn't just done what my religious culture had told me to. If I had only realized that happiness sometimes requires much more than having children.

I love my children dearly. I also love my dreams and want to see the possibility that some day they might come true. Right now I don't see a way, and that really sucks. How do people DO school, work, and family and actually keep food on the table?

I keep looking around myself and wondering "I must be missing something" and "Am I failing at this?"