- One of my besties turned 30, so I made her a giant moustache. I think if you look that up in the etiquette books, a giant moustache is exactly what Emily Post would recommend giving. Julian modeling:
- Both of my kids are downstairs right now watching Wonder Pets or the Backyardigans or something, because I need a freaking minute to myself where I'm not being required to touch anyone. And I don't really feel that guilty about letting the tv babysit for right now.
- My self-imposed coffee limit can suck it. Let it flow freely like the mighty Nile.
- Audrey only wants to hear the Taylor Swift song "Mine" at bedtime, and I am getting so. very. tired. of singing the same song to her every night. I've tried to switch it up, but she looks at me with her super intense stare, eyebrows included, and goes, "No. No, no, no. We-uhd." The girl flat out tells me that my songs are weird. She does like Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" a lot though, and requests that once in a while. Like when I start to leave the room and she feels really desperate to prolong the bedtime routine. She calls it, "Bop bop bop!" Really strange, but Julian used to call it the exact same thing when he was that age.
- I said in a really thick hillbilly accent to Wade a few nights ago, "Ah think yew need ta git the neuterin'." Because I grew and pushed out two entire people from my body, I don't have a huge ton of sympathy for a little snippity pain that men go through with a vasectomy. I mean, I'll give you a bag of peas and some Advil, but don't expect a lot more.
- My parents came to visit this last week, and I am exhausted from it. It was probably the best visit with them yet, but it's still so much work having people stay with you for a week. All the extra cooking and cleaning when I'm already feeling really tugged on really wore me out.
- I really want to say a lot more about their visit, but don't want to open that floodgate. My relationship with my parents is difficult. Of course I love them because they're my parents, but the similarities end there. We have different views on everything, and I have learned that if I want to have a decent-ish relationship with them, I have to keep my mouth shut because the clash just isn't worth it. Not ideal, but better that than estranged. I got only a few pictures while they were in town, and they ended up being of Audrey:
- Julian is turning 8 on Friday and I am still unable to grasp how he got so old. It's freaking me out.
- His birthday party is going to be Harry Potter themed, so I've been creating little Lego Harry Potter characters out of marshmallow fondant at night after the kids go to bed. It's turning out to be a lot more work than I thought, because those little Lego dudes have such detail. Wade and I have been watching "Louie" on Netflix streaming to pass the time while I make them, and it's been really great.
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