My Random Thoughts for this Week

I know you didn't ask for a trip inside my head, but you're going to get one anyways. And free of charge, no less!

I'm going to start with things I don't understand:

• Tickets went on sale for the girls' June ballet show this past week. They're only allowing 5 per family. I get that there a lot of students and the venue only holds so many, but I'm paying two tuitions. When I pointed that out, the secretary agreed, but still said the policy was 5 per FAMILY. WTH? Does that mean I can start paying one tuition and send as many of my children as I want? And it would have been helpful to tell us there was a limit before yesterday! You know, before we started telling people about it. We've been put on the wait list for extra tickets, so hopefully we can get some more. Because 2 of our tickets are already spoken for by Nacho and myself and the other 3 have already been promised to my mom, stepdad & Grandma Margaret.
• Parents at the preschool not knowing how to park. It's not that hard. We have a circle to pull into. Common sense would tell you to pull up and then the next car would pull up next, leaving as little room as is still safe between cars so that we all fit. But nope, not these parents. They'll leave 3/4 of a car length between them and another car - not enough to actually fit and just enough to piss me off.
• Crumbs. How do I get so many damn crumbs under my table? I know it's inevitable with children, but it seriously looks like they ate their entire meal on the floor. And I swear they don't! I watch them eat over the plates. I know some fall off their laps when they get up, but not enough to match the amount I'm finding. I know that sweeping ranks right up there with laundry & dishes in the never ending chores list, but if you don't come over within 5 minutes of me sweeping, you'd swear I never did.
• I hate really, really, really dislike the new sunscreen we bought (we're trying to not use the word hate in our house, since the girls took up saying "I hate" to just about everything). It's one of the aresol ones, which I knew I didn't like, but my husband somebody said would be fine. Except when I used it today, it was a greasy mess that covered more of the tile than it did the kids. And then made said tile so slippery Lu almost fell. Which meant I got to wipe up the tile with a wipe. Guess who's in charge of applying sunscreen now?
• I want to know what soap opera Lu's been sneaking in that has taught her to exclaim "You're ruining my life" everytime we have her do something she doesn't want to do.

I do want to finish with the things I'm thankful for because even though the last month has been really sad for our family, there is still a lot of great stuff

• My 3 beautiful, healthy children
• Being able to spend Mothers' Day with some of the most important females in my life - my daugthers, my mother and my grandmother. It won't be the same, since it will be the first with us missing a vital member of the group - but 4 generations? Awesome!
• Our summer plans! Besides the fun day to day stuff, we've got a trip planned in June to New Mexico where we'll get to catch up with a lot of family. And then an awesome trip planned to celebrate my 30th birthday
• My husband. Who is my rock and has been an unbelievable support. And the fact that we will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in two short months.
• Baby giggles. And the fact that my son loves me most. Ok, I know that sounds bad, but the girls are completely "Daddy's girls." So it's nice to have one that looks at me like that. Let's just hope I can get him to say "mama" first.
• That my children know their great grandparents. And not only know them, but have been able to make life long memories with them.
• Watching my three children play together and love eachother. That the girls welcomed their brother with open arms and not a single look back at what once was. That he looks at them like they've hung the moon.
• That we're surpising the girls tomorrow with a fun day. They have no idea where we're going. Lu keeps guessing Mexico, which cracks me up for some reason.
• That we have a sitter! No, not a baby sitter, although I'd be thankful for that too. Jack, at just a few days past 5 months is officially sitting on his own. For little bits of time anyways.