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I Swear, I Do Love My Children

But tonight I think I am just going to put them both to bed at 7:30 and leave the house. Hubby may or may not be home from work yet, but if he’s not they’ll be fine right????

Here is the list of their grand achievements of the day.

Joshua:
1) Stay in bed for an hour at naptime without falling asleep even though he was up til 11 last night (Super Bowl grr!)
2) Throw huge fit when he finds out my mom is sick so we won’t be going over to see her today
3) Fall asleep in the car for 10 minutes and throw a huge fit when I tried to put him down in his bed when we got home

Sophia:
1) Lose shoe somewhere between CVS and our house
2) Find a recently-(failed)-refilled printer cartridge I had set in a plastic bag next to the door and -even though she never got it out of the box -manage to spread black ink all over living room floor (thank God for hardwood floors!)
3) Kick tray off of high chair spreading her lunch all over the floor (again thank God for these floors!)
4) Turn off the power strip in our office ending my phone conversation with Emily, and turning off our computer and disconnecting the internet on my laptop

So. Anyways. I’m outta here. Don’t call Child Protective Services, k?

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Indecent Exposure

One of my general life policies is that I don’t wear pants that encroach upon my belly button. (My others are that I don’t dance and I don’t trust people who don’t eat. But I digress.) I don’t like how high-waisted pants feel and I certainly don’t like how they look – I’m seriously short-waisted and that just exaggerates the problem.

So the first time I was pregnant, I was pretty excited to see that I could get maternity pants that were “under the belly.” Not knowing any better, that’s pretty much all I bought.

I’m guessing these pants drove me nuts the first time around, but maternity clothes must be like childbirth – you forget how awful they are in order to do it all over again.

But these pants are seriously going to be the death of me. They will NOT stay up! I am forever hitching up my pants. It’s awful. The best part is when I feel a breeze on my stomach and know that my pants have fallen so low that my mid-rif is showing. And believe me, that is not a good look.

Sure, the theory of low-rise maternity pants is good. They don’t have an awful panel, and they really look pretty normal, other than the elastic waistband. But looking cute on the hanger and looking cute on a veeeery pregnant woman are two different things. Yet-to-be-pregnant women be warned.

If you think about it, it’s got to be like a basic law of physics or something – if you put a rubber band around the bottom 1/3 of an egg, it would probably slide right off.

However, I am not about to go buy new pants at this late date, so I will spend the next 10 weeks trying to keep myself from getting arrested for indecent exposure.

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And the winner is….

Patrick M. is the winner of the $25 Kroger gift card! Congrats Patrick! I have emailed you, let us know your address by Tuesday or I’ll pick another winner! Thanks to the good folks at Kroger.com for making this giveaway possible!

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