oh dear
BS has gotten something stuck in my head. i won’t even say what it is in reference to. but all i can think of at the moment is…
i’ll get you for that, my pretty. and your little dog, toto, too 😉
Category: BS (beloved spouse)
happy mother's day
i think it hit me at lunchtime today.
BS walked over with three mother’s day cards this year. if i had been a cartoon character, you would have heard me exclaim, “DOING!” or something equally brilliant. but it hit me, and i said, “three cards, huh?…pause… THREE CARDS!”
one card was from BS. one card was from BC (and she wrote her name all by herself, which is just wonderful 🙂 and one card is from julian. BC helped.
i started to cry when i read the cards. BC looked at me puzzled. “remember, honey, how i told you that sometimes, when grownups are really happy, they cry?”
“yes, mama.”
“well, i am so very happy, and i am crying. i am not sad. trust me, when you are a grownup, you will understand this better.”
“let me go and get you tissues to dry your eyes, mama.” and she ran off to her room and brought back probably the only box of tissues left in the house. and she started dabbing my eyes.
i received three cards this year. three wonderful cards. because there is another person who has helped me to qualify to celebrate today.
and he’s almost here.
oh no, she's been to giant again
just got back from Giant again, my favorite food store. (actually, fresh fields is my favorite, but they are more expensive.) i am having even more trouble pushing the cart now that i am 36 weeks along. and sure enough, as i left the store, huffing and puffing, there was my “old” friend julian and his smile and stutter.
“mmmmmmmmmmmmmay i help you?”
you know it! i think my days of lifting 200 oz bottles of Tide are over.
anyway, as we walked to the car, i did the unthinkable. “your name is julian. you know, the baby i am having is also going to be named julian.”
“really?”
“yes. i think it is just a wonderful name.”
shy smile.
sometimes, i can’t help myself.
and when my husband gets home, he can take the 200 oz bottle out of the car.
when the going gets tough…
…the tough get pedicures. that’s exactly what i did. and i feel fine.
afterwards, i stopped by starbucks to treat myself to a “why bother” (READ: something without caffeine and without fat) and ended up winning a tall chocolate frappucino. the trivia question was: “what fruit is used to make calvados?” (answer: apples.)
see, it pays to drink.
but seriously, i actually learned that from high school french class. madame donovan (i swear), the wackiest french teacher ever, at some point mentioned calvados. why we ever discussed that as underage chillin, i have no idea. (and no, as a 35-week preggo, i have not been imbibing, so please, don’t call the division of family and youth services.)
see, high school can be useful.
in the funniest news of the week, though:
last night, BS, BC and i went to dinner at one of our favorite, hole-in-the-wall southwestern/mex restaurants. for some unknown reason, they were playing a ton of ’80s hits. it was kinda fun, despite the fact that BS and i were probably the only ones there who remembered the ’80s in quite that way. at one point, they played the j. geils band hit “centerfold” and we started tapping on the table. and the conversation went something like this:
BC: “mama, what is this song about?”
BS and i look at each other and smile guiltily.
BS: “well, honey, it is about a man who is upset because he sees a friend from a long time ago and she has changed. but you know, people change over time, and that’s ok.”
BC: (thinking in her little 4-year-old-way): “how did she change, dada?”
BS and i open our eyes. i decide to answer.
me: “well, honey, his friend looks different now then she did when he knew her long ago. she is wearing different clothes…gee, we can all sing this part of the song — c’mon bunny — ‘na NA na na na na, na na na na na na na na na!”
BS and i look at each other and, i imagine, are psychicly high-fiving each other.
what a save.
a few observations
in no particular order. and totally random.
1) the lilac bush has two blooms on it. it didn’t really bloom last year, so i am very excited. lilacs are my favorites, along with tulips.
2) people try to make money on EBAY by inflating their shipping costs. this is obnoxious. i think i weirded out someone because i combined shipping and didn’t charge any extra. she was expecting i add handling charges or some sort of bullshit like that.
3) i bought a diaper genie today. (and no, not a used one off Ebay but a fresh, spanking new one.) omg, i am going to have to actually change diapers again. eek.
4) tuesday was our wedding anniversary. lucky #13. we started out the day poorly, but i think things are much better now. maybe we will get to celebrate it next week.
5) hungry pregnant women should not go to Target when easter candy is 75% off. i don’t even want to begin to tell you how much candy i bought. let’s just say that i am a little insane over cadbury easter eggs and leave it at that.
6) my daughter is just the cutest child on the planet. the other night, she asked me why she can’t have “bits” like daddy has. (“bits” = “naughty bits,” to be said with a pythonesque flair.) i told her that she has lady body parts like i have, and that is cool because she can grow up and have babies, just like me, if she wants to have them. but she better wait to have them until she is married, like me. (gotta get that moral message in there, huh 😉 she seemed satisfied by that.
we nearly ended up in the “where do babies come from” conversation, but i managed to table that one… for now…