I think I had what some people call a "light bulb moment' this week. Allow me to share please. Last Monday night was 4-h in which I am a co-leader. This is truly no big deal. I am not doing anything that I haven't done the last 5 years for 4-h. Now I have a title, that's all. Then Tuesday, knitting. Yeah! Wait..Maybe not. We'll see...how is that? I was in Tier 2 of the knitting class. Wednesday, I spent 7 hours preparing a lunch. Now, I am not saying this to brag or act like I need some accolades. I am bringing this up to preface the following: Thursday, we get to set down for a dinner. Well, one of gets to set down for dinner because we have one chair left. My poor kids. We have one chair left and here's the clincher: 4 forks. What in the heck happened to our forks, seriously. Now, I have heard of people losing socks, a remote, their car keys, but forks???? So at dinner, I have to wait for someone to finish eating so I can use their fork..What's wrong with this family?
But here is what is cute....my kids like to eat together if it doesn't interrupt the fact they really hate each other...so there they were, trying to eat around the table despite the fact that we had one chair left. Isaac got the foot stool out of our living room and Sophie sat in the good ole' reliable folding chair. I couldn't help but think how pitiful this was because the night before I made soup and desert for 17 people from scratch. But I cannot get it together enough to make sure my kids all have silverware!
ALERT! here is an update: We have since dwindled to 5 spoons. I repeat: 4 forks and 5 spoons for a family of 6!
My goal this weekend is for Rayzor to get more chairs out of storage. My boss actually let me take all these really cool old folding chairs probably from the 60's. They are metal and have a star punched out of the seat. I absolutly love them and I would have bought them at an auction or antique store if I had seen them there. So, I think I got a super steal. I have about 25 of them so when one breaks they are easily replacable. I am also going to invest in some forks. Maybe I will get a matching set instead of the random antique forks that I pick up at auctions. When my kids complain I tell them that they are eating with fine silver. It's true. I think matchy matchy is overrated anyway. So take that Better Homes and Gardens.
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Good news for parents that are worried about Youtube. The other eve I was sitting on the couch playing with Lilly. I see Isaac walk by with a big bucket of drywall mud. I truly think nothing of it.
15-minutes later, Isaac comes back down and takes up a few peices of wood. Still not worried. The next day, he gets the bucket again. This time I asked, "Isaac, what are you doing?"
Isaac: Oh I am patching some drywall.
Mary: Mmmmm...really?
Isaac: Youtube
Mary: Cool. Carry on.
ME about 3 days later: Duh, why didnt I ask why he needs to patch a hole? Nevermind, do I really want o know? The answer is no. I hope I will never know.
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Sometimes, Rayzor makes me aware of my idiosyncrasies more than I would like him to. He told me that I repeat myself. Now I do not mean repeat myself like those people in our life that we all know....they tell the same story all the time over and over. I know I do that! I mean that I repeat myself within a minute or in the same conversation. 15 minutes later I won't even remember the conversation.
Rayzor: What time does Hells kitchen come on?
Mary: 9:00, because I watched it when you were asleep.
Rayzor: I am going to check the preview guide.
Mary: I watched it when you were asleep. I know it was on because I watched it when you were asleep last week. I watched it at 9:00 when you were sleeping.(breath) I got home from picking Jacob up at tae Kwon do and watched it when you were asleep.
Rayzor: OK jeesh. Do you know that you repeat yourself? Seriously.You dont have to. I am not in 2nd grade.
Mary: I do ...not. I do not repeat myself I do not know why you would say that I repeat myself. Jeeessh.
I told my niece, Liz, a long time ago to not let me become some old lady that smelled and I didn't realize it or become insane.I guess it is too late....for the insanity part not smelling hopefully:)
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I have mentioned before that Rayzor is quite the cook because he did work at Hardees. I can not deny my man this notch in his culinary belt. So today, I get home from school and I am excited to go to the store to get some groceries and make some munchies and chill out on Friday eve.
Mary: Come on Sophie. Lets go to the store. I am starving.
Sophie: Oh, I am full.
Mary: ( I know we have no groceries) What in the world did you eat?
Sophie: Oh, Daddy made me tuna casserole.
Mary: Really? (I know they didn't serve that at Hardees!)
Sophie: Yeah, he made it with a package of oodles of noodles,a can of tuna and a little mayonnaise.
Mary: Wow, we should make a cookbook with daddy's best recipies. That def. should go in there.
Sophie: Right after Bologna Pie
OK, Can you imagine how irritated I get when he disses my cooking??? Bologna pie is slices of thick bologna wrapped between two pie crusts and baked, I would guess, at about 350 for maybe 25 minutes if anyone has a craving.
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I will leave you with a ETDM...that is an acronym for Embarassing Teen Daughter Moment. Sophie and I were at Food LE-on in the checkout. I had $44.00 in cash and my debit card. I wanted to use my cash because well, *ahem*, I am not good at balancing my checkbook. So, the chick was ringing it up and it came to $43.76. I was like, "woo-hoo". Sophie was turning red becasue I was nudgin' her like "Look at that, I'm good!. Then the real embarrasing moment happened when I said ala Arnold Schwarzegger, "They dont call me the ESTIMATOR for nothing"
