Okay...so I just discovered the best new website. The Meanest Mom. I read several of her posts and I think I almost peed my pants from laughing! One of her posts definitely had me the most where she was confessing all the horrible things she has ever done as a mom and I started to relive this past week and realized that we all do horrible things.
Just to give you a glimpse of the "fun" we have been having around here guess what happened to me yesterday? I had to eat crow! For those of you who don't know one of the downfalls of my husband is a need for speed. He has gotten more tickets than I can honestly keep track of since I met him, yet he usually manages to get out of paying them in the end. So, I am always using this as the reason that I am a better driver. And then yesterday happened. I decided to be the good mom and take the boys to OMSI for Astronomy day and bring my sisters Taylor and Hayden along as well. As I was leaving their house and heading into Portland I thought "I should take the back roads to the highway and miss all the lights..." did I do that? Ummm, no. Did I take Sykes all the way to the highway? Uh, ya. La, la, la. I get distracted by all the kids talking to me at once and realize how fast I am going just as I look up and see the cop car posted with a radar just past the church. AHHHH! I totally know that I am getting pulled over. Sure enough. All the kids "oooo, how fast were you going?" "were you going like a hundred miles an hour?" "what is the speed limit here? and how fast were you going?" Me: "Everyone just be quiet and sit in your seats!" Ummm, officer friendly in the rain pulling over distracted minivan mom--not a recipe for getting out of a ticket. Yes, I was "that mom" going 41 mph in a ridiculous 25 mph zone...is it just me or is this ridiculous for a THRU street?! Anyways, I was going that fast and I can't lie about it. When the cop came back with the ticket he said "I didn't look up your driving record, but you can probably get out of this for going to traffic school." Me: "This is my first ticket." Cop: "Oh man! Now you are always going to remember me as 'that guy'" and then he told me about his first ticket for going 130 mph on a highway in New Mexico.
So, bring on the traffic school...I need to get out of this ticket so my driving record stays cleaner than Andrew's! :o)
OMSI was the same as usual, but they were having a "member appreciation" event with a free show at the planetarium and since I am a cheapskate who keeps saying "next time" to the boys I jumped on it for the beautiful price of ZERO dollars! The movie was extremely cheesy and I would have been irritated if I had paid the $5.50 per person that it normally costs, but this was worth it to see the grown man dressed up like Galileo hosting the Astronomy day event and to be able to tell the boys "No." minus guilt in the future.
Jonathan update: He celebrated his half-birthday last Thursday by taking a looong nap with daddy on the couch. I got curious so I measured him with my tape measure and got 32" long (if that was accurate then he is the size of an average 18 month old...hmmm, those 12-18 mo clothes are starting to make sense now!) and I "weighed" him on an industrial scale at OMSI and I am guessing he is 19 lbs. so he would be in the 75th. We will have to see how he measures up on Thursday at his 6 mo appointment!
Is this how big brothers watch little brothers?
2 comments:
Sorry about the ticket but thanks for taking the kids! They had a lot of fun.
Jonathan needs to slow down the growing! He is going to be one tall handsome man. Poor Megan is a year and is small for her age. I bet that if we got those two together that he would be bigger than her!
ps I would be interested in your "other" blog!
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