99th percentile

C has been a big kid from the start. Always tallest in his class or on his team and he seems to grow like a weed so I learned very early on like when he was 6 months old not to expect him to make it through a season in one size. Basically to buy clothes a little bigger than he needed and hope for the best. Shockingly it seems like we are quickly transitioning to the men's department for clothing. The upper end of boys clothing are just fitting and as I look at clothing this Christmas some of it will be from the men's department. No really shopping the men's department for my 8 year old son.
Wonder if I could get him to start smoking? or drink coffee? will putting a heavy book on his head stunt his growth any?

snow!

oh um yeah no not here in K-town but up north they got plenty of it going on! We still have rain lots and lots of rain so it'll be not so much a white Christmas but instead a damp Christmas. As luck would have it kiddo & I are not traveling north today which was the original plan I have a feeling even if we got out of here we'd be stuck at an airport for a day. I suppose sometimes things work out for the best.
Hope my folks have enough milk & bread!

yes dear I am going to blog about it....

we got new phones yesterday. You don't even need to go to the store any longer you can order phones online and they ship them to your door and then program them with one easy phone call. You can even get them free if you promise to give them your first born or something like that could be a kidney not too clear about the details David ordered them. So new phones I got the pretty green one going to miss my pretty pink phone but I like the green one, David calls to program the phones starts with mine very easy boom done hands me my phone and then I spend the next hour transferring my contact list I think I could have done it online but that involved purchasing something and they already get enough of my money. David then moves onto to his own phone and they could not get it to load or work could not find a signal who the hell knows. Customer service tries a few things and then finally transfers him to another department maybe they could help. At that point I suggested that since he was calling from his phone perhaps that was why the new phone would not load his number properly.
I was then told not to blog about this.

file under questionable

sir you may be the nicest man on the planet and the meat you are selling from a cooler strapped into the back of your pick up truck might just be the best damn meat in town, but I am not purchasing meat from a man I don't know from a cooler strapped to the bed of a pick up truck.

what's in a name?

quite a lot actually and it makes me wonder what these parents were thinking when they signed the birth certificate.

alfredo ala mickey d's

nuggets alfredo? alfredo mcnuggets? golden arches alfredo? mcalfredo?
Many many years ago I had arthroscopic knee surgery that left me on crutches & not driving for 8 very long weeks. David was having to do everything including all of the shopping & cooking. One night after a long day of chauffeuring me around to my job & physical therapy as well as a full shift at his own job he served up a lovely alfredo dish made with yes McDonald's chicken mcnuggets. This was back before the frozen dinners included the chicken and he didn't have time to swing by the store buy chicken then cook it so he cut out the middleman and swung by Mickey D's for a couple of orders of mcnuggets. It was a source of food that evening, edible but far from incredible and thankfully never repeated.

must try of the day

eggnog yogurt from Target! it is very good and the crasin granola is a nice mix in as well. I need to pick up some more of this stuff and soon as I suspect it'll just be seasonal.

file under the thought was nice

but what was she thinking?
MIL returned a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt that C had left at her house um well ironed and on hangers. Has she met his little rumpled self?

now it's beginning to look like Christmas

while my tree was up the day after Thanksgiving it sat undecorated until yesterday afternoon-hey give me a break I am a busy woman. I bought a new tree this year a pre-lit one to save me time except at home & out of the box it is a crappy tree so crappy I thought about using our very old tree & spending an hour detangling lights but we carried on & just used the not very heavy ornaments. I will be hitting the post-Christmas sales in search of a decent fake tree. For me one of the things that makes the holiday so very special is the ornaments. Growing up each year each member of the family got a new ornament then when I married I got several boxes full of a various assortment of my ornaments as well as other family stuff. Our first Christmas I dragged the Grinch David out to pick out his very own ornament for that year and after that I just started picking something for him, once C got to the point of choosing his own I have him pick something out to give David as a gift each year. It gives me great joy to look at our tree and see the bejeweled fan that was picked out for me when I was just a toddler (maybe an infant I just know it is near ancient) next to the snowman C made in daycare when he was only 3. It makes me feel happy and closer to my family and at the the same time a little sad that I won't be able to see them for the holidays this year.