"good idea Mom"

why thanks C I was really looking for that affirmation from you...but guess what I knew it was a good idea when I said it and even if you didn't agree you were still gonna have to do it whatever it was I asked you to do

travels with a toddler

Niece #1 and her 2 yr old son are hopping a plane to Kville this week and it had me remembering travelling with C as a toddler. I should preface with he has always been a pretty good traveller thank God but he had a moment or two that gave me fits way back when. Now that I think about it it the only issues we had were a trip to CT when he was 3. David (who was staying at home and working while we went to see my folks) for some unknown at this time reason booked my flight for me it was booked such that I had one half hour to change planes in Atlanta..um yeah that would be 30 minutes..have you ever changed planes in ATL?! of course you have everything changes in ATL and I stand by my assertion that when you die you go through in ATL. Let me tell you dragging a rather large 3 year old toddler who was a little cranky through any airport is gonna be a challenge. We barely made our flight & I believe I cursed my husband the entire way to CT. The return trip involved a two hour car trip to the airport so invariably C fell asleep when we arrived a the airport he was cranky, crying, hanging off my shirt tales so to speak, I check our luggage and dude informs me that our bag is overweight. Through clenched teeth I told him to just damn charge me the difference and sensing that I might just snap he kindly put the bag through with no charge

causing road rage

yeah I did I was so not paying attention and cut someone off on the interstate got a typical response a horn honk and a gesture with his finger. ok fine I deserved as much it was a bonehead move on my part, but how do you convey sorry my bad? waving seems a bit odd & I don't know that he would have seen my shrug my shoulders so I just went about my business. In order to make his point he had to get on my right side and flash me another bird as he drove by...whatever dude yes I was wrong, I got you're mad at me take a deep breath let it go. No no as he was about to exit off he had to roll down his window and flash me the bird one last time, at that point I started laughing which was kinda nice I needed a good laugh for a change.

ways to drive me crazy

#241 not answering texts or phone calls...
seriously my dear husband you are in a hospital bed what else do you have to do but respond to the occasional text or a phone call?

I'm not exactly a good Catholic

but I do not consider mcnuggets to be real meat so I get a pas on the Ash Wednesday transgression for lunch...the roast in the crock pot for dinner is however a different story

and while we are talking vacation

I had really hoped to take the megabus to DC over spring break in fact I had almost bought tickets a few months back I mean come on what a deal 3 of us travel to DC for only under $10? how totally awesome is that? But alas the current "oh God what's wrong now?" state of affairs has us not traveling for spring break of course in all fairness we generally don't travel for spring break we are not those people I'd like to be but in the real world we can't drop everything and go on vacation several times a year but wouldn't it be nice? I am hoping we can work out the DC trip sometime within the next year there is so much to do & see there not least of all is a restaurant owned by top chef contestant that I would like to try plus several that Anthony Bourdain spotlighted on his show. And quite frankly I love museums & historical stuff so DC is right up my alley!

really in need of a vaction

or maybe just a long weekend? heck a pj day (which involves lots of pj wearing, watching bad movies on SyFy and eating Chinese food) would probably go a long way for me right now

bad luck comes in threes right?

as of yesterday David has had
-3 ambulance trips
-3 ER visits
-3 hospital stays
all in 4 months time...when does the good luck start? Should we buy a lottery ticket this week?

working my last nerve

the kiddo this morning let me tell 'ya
-asked him to take the bathroom trash out as today is trash day he manages to also throw out the lunch I had just made for him and dared to look at me crazy like it was my fault
-he managed to leave his homework including a math workbook on his dresser. Pure dumb luck that I caught it, and even more lucky for him I will drop it at school on my way to work
And as I was dropping off homework I decided to make the kid another lunch he is generally not all that fond of the school lunches served

annus horribilis continues

MIL: breast cancer-check
David: pneumonia, in hospital-check check
me: nervous breakdown-working on it