Six Word Saturday

Funny how kids change your perspective.



Bringing back the Six Word Saturday because I can manage to come up with six words a week at least!  Click the button above to check out Cate's blog, the ever-wonderful founder of 6WS.

Where does he get this stuff

Last week I got out of the shower and went into my bedroom to get dressed.  Just as I take off my towel my son, Ian, bursts into the room.

He can open doors now...all by himself.

He takes one look at me naked, runs up behind me and slaps my butt before running off laughing like a little hyena.

He didn't bother closing the door behind him.

Where does he get this stuff?


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In this house we just "OK" a lot.

Do you want a cookie?  OK

How was dinner?  OK

So naturally Ian picked up on this pretty quickly and when he doesn't answer affirmative with "yaaaa" he says "OK."

Through he has taken this a step further, much to my amusement.  Should the answer be negative he now says "No-K" instead of just "NO"

I can't even write "No-K" without laughing.

Where does that little smarty get this stuff?

Unprepared

Tuesday was a windy day here in Michigan.

I very, very windy day.

Chris left work early to pick up the new NHL video game.  The game his life revolves around for months every single year.

He gets home with enough time to play a game before I get home with Ian.

When he walks into the house he finds the power is out.

After I get home with Ian we swing through Burger King to pick up some dinner, since we are totally unprepared for an uncooked meal.  Burger King has Mac n' Cheese so we know that Ian will at least eat that since one of his four food groups is Mac n' Cheese these days.

After dinner I get my cell phone, which has been charging in my van with a GPS power cord (I don't have a car charger) and I call the power company.  After going through the automated system the robot women voice tells me that "the estimated restoration time is Wednesday September 8th at 4:00 PM"

Wednesday. 4:00 PM.  THAT IS AT LEAST 24 HOURS FROM NOW!

Oh $#^%!  We just went and bought nearly two weeks worth of groceries on Monday!  What the hell do we do with everything in the refrigerator?

Off to Meijer the three of us march.  $60 later we have a giant 5 day cooler and 3 bags of ice.  Hopefully enough to salvage our bounty of food until the power comes back on.  In retrospect we probaly could have just used the $60 to replace the food but we were in survivor-mode.  Chris was even talking building a fire just like Les on Survivorman would.

After hauling the cooler and ice in the house and getting everything I can moved over into the cooler.  We sit around trying to figure out what to do with ourselves.  Ian keeps bringing us the remote, his way of asking for TV time.  How do you explain to a two year old that you can't turn on the TV because there is no power?  You don't.  You just are the bad guy that won't let him have TV time.

As the clock rolls past 8:30 PM it is starting to get pretty dark in the house and our meager lantern and candles can barely cast enough light for Ian to play by. 

I decide to hop into a candlelit shower and get Ian to bed in our bed, so that we can keep watch over him should the weather get worse.  Besides with no light what is there to do while awake anyway.

As I start the shower I hear a whoop from the living room.  Chris was hooting and hollering that the power came back on.

By the time I wrapped in a towel to go blow out the rest of the candles Chris was already firing up with new game.

Later we both marveled at how unprepared we are for emergencies, and how much we really rely on electricity in our lives.

It takes a little reminder like this now and then to reaffirm to us how blessed we really are to have the luxury of power and gadgets to help us every day.  Just a few hours without and we don't even know what to do with ourselves anymore.

Whine and Cheese

Recently I have been hit with so much craziness in my life (mostly through work related issues) that I have been sinking into an "I hate the world" frame of mind.  Because I don't really want to write about all negative things I haven't been writing at all. 

I miss writing.

So I have decided to allow myself to complain about five things that are really have been grinding my gears lately.  The rules are only one sentence per complaint and I have to come up with five things that make me happy to balance it all out at the end. 

OK, here we go it is time to vent!

1. Thanks to the economy we are doing more with less staff where I work and it is making me very stressed out a busy.

2.  Personally, my husband and I are having a little money crunch and no matter how much we cut back we are still not where we want to be...and it is stressing me out.

3.  My son screams like a banshee and clings to my leg when I drop him off at day care and it breaks my heart because I would much rather be with him all day.

4.  I am so drained at the end of the day that I have no energy left to clean my house or have me time.

5.  It really bothers me that when you pull the mascara wand out of the tube the glob of mascara on the end looks like an earwig pincher.

Looking on the bright side:

1.  I got two pairs of jeans at Gap this weekend and only paid $45 total thanks for my Groupon and a really great sale.  I love getting a deal, especially on something I really needed.

2.  I actually found a pair of skinny jeans (see above) that work on my big butt.  I never would have thought I would be able to wear a pair of skinny jeans! 

3.  My son went up to my husband yesterday and said "I love you!"  Melt!  It is my turn now Ian.

4.  After a lot of thought I have decided to open up an Esty shop in the near future to sell the molded crayons I have been having fun making lately.  I have more supplies on order, and I am ready to get producing and hopefully making a few pennies along the way.  Look for an announcement in the next month of my shop opening!

5.  My husband not only vacuumed yesterday but he also did the dishes.  How lucky can a girl get?

I feel better now!