O is for OH MY GOSH I NEED A SHOWER!!

So I was frantically making dinner last night. Frantic because it was a new recipe and it goes really fast (cook this for 2 minutes, remove, cook this for 1 minute then add that etc). Well, so I'm frantically making dinner when Savannah tells me that the bathroom was flooded.

"Flooded? Like how flooded?"

It was big time flooded. Someone had put in a BUNCH of toilet paper (I have my suspicions who) and then flushed. And flushed again. Maybe once more for good measure. It was really really flooded.

I had a meeting scheduled at my house at 8 last night so I was trying to get dinner out of the way, get cleaned up and then ready for my meeting. So I run in there (dinner is still sizzling hotly on the stove), see all the water, grab a mop, my rubber gloves and start sopping.

I ended up with toilet water all over my pants and this icky feeling all over the rest of me. I washed my arms up to the elbow and ran back into the kitchen. Dinner nearly burned but I made it back just in time. I finished chopping and simmering and served up dinner only about 10 minutes late. Phew!

When Troy came back I greeted him, gave him his dinner and then told him I HAD to take a shower. It was so gross...the toilet water...not the dinner. ^_^

And so that's why I was in the shower when Isaac and Sydney were picked up last night.

The End. :-D

C is for Conversation

I've been listening in on the girls' conversation as they play this morning. They've played all kinds of crazy things. Here are some of my favorite lines:

Sydney: You be Satan.
Scout: OK

Scout: No, no. I'm not your most honorable mother. I'm your nice mother.

Sydney: It was on the movie, where Jesus fasted for 14 days. You remember.
Scout: Oh yeah.

Sydney: You are a parent.
Scout: And so my feet grew bigger.
Sydney:And my feet grew because I wasn't fasting anymore

Sydney: I like banana splits.
Scout: Me too. They're so delicious.
Sydney: But they're not for kids.
Scout: Yes they are.
Sydney: No they're not. They're at McDonalds.

Just like Real School!

Today we played catch up on last week's theme since we were so jostled by the arrival of "Michigan Stuff." We were able to read "Commander Toad and the Space Pirates" but since it's a longer story then we normally read (Frog and Toad style) I told the girls we would read a "chapter" each day in addition to our other story books. I thought they would complain and want to read it all at once but they were so excited. They had heard from their older brothers and sisters that in "real school" their teacher reads them chapter books out loud. So we read our "chapter book" out loud while they closed their eyes and imagined pictures. It was perfect and oh so grown up. We can't wait to find out what happens to Commander Toad and his fearless (if slightly bored) crew!

Tomorrow we will celebrate Smell Day as planned but Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we will finish our tree and earth unit and do the crafts I had prepared for last week.

Home Depot Rating: NC-17

I just got back from a trip to Home Depot and JoAnn's with the girls. I needed to return the carpet cleaner and pick up some supplies so we had an impromptu field trip. It went well and the girls are currently singing and eating a suckers we picked up as a treat.

BUT...

While we were in line at Home Depot waiting to check in the rented carpet cleaner, we stood behind two ladies who chatted loudly about the idiots in their school district. I mention what they were loudly discussing because it illustrates that they are at least aware that children exist.

So we're waiting and the girls were standing very patiently. The women get up to the counter, have some sort of mid-life crisis and start sexually harassing everything in sight! They made suggestive comments about how much fun they will have with the wall paper remover, thinly veiled innuendo regarding the perforator and followed with blatant sexual references that were making the poor clerk blush (he was a 50-something old dude...not easy to make blush).

All the while Sydney and Scout are dancing and started singing louder and louder. They approached inappropriately loud about the time the women started threatening to get undressed so I gave them a smile and let them go for it. Sing away ladies, sing away!

In lighter, not so illicit news, Scout and Sydney were discussing their names. Scout can't remember what her middle name is but it's usually only very vaguely related to her real middle name: Eleanor. So after much discussion they decided what their names would be Scout Ella Normal Gomm and Sydney Joy Fisher Ella Normal Gomm. I can't wait till they're 17 and start their band...the Ella Normals.

Catch Up Post

Well last week I didn't get much posted since I lost my mind.

We ended up making "What's In My Pocket" books, wearing jammies on Wednesday, making Pentagon Houses, and playing around. Ash Lee and Mandy visited us for Circle Time one day so we got to sing all of our songs and play Puppy Puppy Where's Your Bone with them.

The craft I thought was the cutest was our Frog "Jumpers" we made using tracings of the girls' hands. I found a book for 10 bucks that showed how to use kids' hands to make fun pictures. Of course, I'm too cheap for that so I just looked through, picked up some ideas and have been improvising since. The idea to make frog shaped tracings was in the book but I decided to combine it with another idea to make the frogs jump. We added some googly eyes because as Troy says, "googly eyes make everything better."

Basically, it was a crazy week for me personally but we still managed to have some fun moments. My favorite was when Scout asked me if Jesus was a zombie.