Thelma & Louise

It's been a busy last few weeks. My husband and I went to a house in the "mountains" in Oklahoma with some friends one weekend. There was supposed to be an "Artic Blast" with ice/snow. No frozen stuff really, just some pretty cold weather. My husband did manage to back into a tree and mess up his bumper. No he wasn't drunk. Then later he was bringing me a water to the hot tub and slipped on some black ice. We are pretty sure he cracked a rib and he had a really nasty bruise. No he wasn't drunk. Let me see what else.... I learned to play Texas Hold 'Em, which I won twice. We wasted 2 hours watching Elizabethtown. It wasn't horrible, but wasn't great either. Defininately not what I expected from Cameron Crow.

This past weekend I went to Shreveport with some friends. I have to say it was a lot of fun. I won right when we got there. Whoo Hooo! When we went to check in that was a different story. Some how they only had 2 rooms left, luckily we had "reservations for 2 rooms". I say that because they had the rooms, but the exact reservation with the number of beds didn't really hold up. All they had left were 2 rooms with A king size bed. There were 7 of us. We were told that they could bring in a roll away. That takes care of 6. They also told us why not just sleep 3 to a bed. Let me see the room was $200 a night. That is insane! Luckily there was a love seat someone slept on (sarcasm in my voice). As I was standing there trying to negotiate with the very unhelpful and unapologetic person on the other side of the counter, I couldn't help but feel like I was in a Seinfield episode. "I made a reservation. The point of making a reservation is to have the thing you reserved when you reserve it. That is why you make the reservation...."

The 2nd part of this trip was... someone got a wild hair and decided we should stay another night. Definately not in that hotel. It was the Eldorado by the way. So a friend put us up that lived and hour away. We all have children and responsiblities, but somehow we all decided our husbands could handle it. Whoa, what were we drinking? Needless to say we got home at 5pm SUNDAY afternoon. I don't know when I felt so "unihibited" since my children have been born. A little like Thelma & Louise without all the drama.

Dosmetic "goddess"

Everything was going as scheduled today until...my battery died. My son was messing with the buttons in my car and left the lights on. Which I didn't know until now. Now careful planning in errand running and dance schedules has been thrown for a loop. You never realize how much you depend on your car until you don't have it.

Besides that, I had a great Valentines day with family.

It is amazing how "domestic" I have become. I had to bake cupcakes for Will's class party. I also made decorated sugar cookies for the kids valentine gifts. One of the mom's was like, "how did you find the time?". I didn't let her in on my secret. It seems as though someone finally got smart and invented cookie dough that is ready to be cut, and icing in a can with tips provided. I hope she doesn't figure it out. I might be made out as a fraudulent mommmy that takes short cuts, not the domestic goddess she seemed to think I was. I think it is just funny to look at myself and go WOW. Never really pictured myself here.....

Treasured Moments

I can't believe this! This just tops my day! I just spent an hour, writing about my day. It felt so good to get it out and now!!!!! I pushed the wrong button and deleted it AAAAHHHHH!!!!!

I guess I am going to try this again...

Telemarketers. I finally got the number of a friend I haven't talked to in like 4 years and had time to call her (after the following blog you will see why it took so long.) Her voice mail picked up while my other line was ringing. Thinking it was her calling me back I hung up and answered it without leaving a message. It wasn't her. Now I have to call back and she's is going to be like, "Who keeps calling me from this wierd #." I'll try back later, in the mean time let me run down the "unbelievable" day I had with my two lovely children.

7:30 Zoe was dry! Wooo Hooo!!!

9:15 I take Zoe to school. It was raining so I parked by the curb to run her in real quick. I told William to stay buckled in I would be right back. Well, 60 seconds later guess who's in the driver's seat? No, the car wasn't running and the keys were with me. Yes, the car was locked so no one would steal him....

9:45 We went to run some errands. William gets out of his seat belt again. This time I had to revert to the harness which he is old enough to be out of. Maybe agewise, but not mentally. I never had this much trouble with Zoe. She got out like one time, and all I had to say was, "If you don't stay in your seatbelt the police will take mommy to jail." I guess William doesn't care.

The rest of the day was pretty downhill from there.

11am-6:30pm

We got William this new "toy box". It holds toys but it isn't a box, instead it is shaped like stairs with pull out storage bins underneath. (IKEA) But to a 3 year old it's like a stairway to heaven. Literally! I thought he was going to kill himself. We have had this about 2 months and today was the 1st time I caught him climbing on it. He got in trouble of course and the day goes on. Later in the afternoon I went to check on the kids in Will's room. I heard Zoe say, "William you climbed as high as the sky." I walked in and she was right behind him and he was holding onto the blind cord like he was fixing to swing across the room. I guess we will be finding a better and safer place for that very creative but not to kid friendly piece of equipment.

I was on to cooking dinner. I thought maybe the mayhem had ceased. Well that was very short lived. The door was shut in Zoe's room, which I usually don't allow, but they were being so good. I just let them be. I conducted the periodic check to make sure everything was on the up and up. During one interval crying broke out and evidently they had been jumping on the bed. Well you know the old saying, "It's always fun until someone gets hurt." Well guess what monkey fell off the bead and hit his head. Good guess, William.

Fastforward a mere 20 minutes for the next exciting episode....The phone rang, which is like a kid MAGNET! As soon as you answer they stick to you like glue and can only argue then and there as loud as possible. It was a business call and I managed to break away to take this quick call in "quiet". A few minutes later I walk back in to check on them while I wrap up the phone call (5 minutes tops) and it went something like this. William was in my desk chair, Zoe was spinning him, they saw me, she let go, he tried to get out in mid spin and the chair fell with him in it. Guess who hit their head again? I was like, "I got go my kid just fell!" Whoever said working from home is great didn't do it with a 3 and 4 year old.

Needless to say they were sent to there rooms for a very long time. I went to check on them about 10 minutes later and Will was laying in the floor motionless. I thought oh my God. What if he had a concusion and fell asleep!!! Okay freaked out over nothing. I forgot I had given him some Benedryl for allergies earlier and it just caught up with him. I woke him up though because it was too late for a nap and brought him in the kitchen with me so I could finally finish dinner.

From there it was dinner, bath, bed by 7pm.

Oh by the way, I do have a husband. On his way home he recomended whiskey, which I have to say I indulged on. He of course left again at 8:30 and I am alone again. But this time it is quiet. I think I deserve a little me time.

Cut Up

We had a little incident at school on Monday. I picked up Zoe from school and as I was collecting her things I looked on top of her cubby and saw a baggie with a lot of hair in it with a note attached. My 1st reaction was they had done some kind of craft. Then the words "I am so sorry but Zoe cut her hair.... caught my eye. The thing a mother knows might happen but hopes won't. She cut about 5 inches off. AHHH!!!! After surveying the damage thank goodness she cut it in an inconspicous spot so.....Needless to say we had a talk about scissors and being hairdresser.

We have been working on both of the kids staying dry during the night. William seems to have it down, but Zoe has had a little more trouble. She's been dry 3 or 4 times out of a week and a half. Last night though, she woke up and went to the bathro0m by herself. In her words, "I woke up, turned my lamp on, went potty, then cozied up in bed and turned my light and went back to sleep." "It was sort of scary, but not really."