So as y’all know … my iPhone is kaput. While I’m holding out for the iPhone 5 release date to be announced, my way awesome sister-in-law has graciously lent me her old 3G. So I do have a smart phone to use, but since I was pretty much phoneless all week long, I don’t have any photos to post for my ‘Week in iPhone Photos’ post.
Instead … I spent the weekend wondering/thinking random thoughts and questioning whether any of them could work as a future blog post. I decided most of them would be better used as just random vents/blurbs/ramblings.
So. Top ten things I screamed/thought/wondered in my head this past weekend:
1) Why the HELL is there not a baby changing table in every.single.restaurant/store/shop in the world? Why the HELL should I have to change my kid on the FLOOR of your bathroom? Gross. I’m not coming back.
2) I’m pretty sure the more you spend on kid’s clothing, the faster they will grow out of it. True story. I swear the Mouse has fit into that favorite Circo teeshirt of his for like 18 months now … but grew out of the Converse sneakers in like 3 weeks.
3) I can’t believe we’ve been in a drought here in Texas for like 3 months now, and the one weekend I finally get my husband to commit to working in the yard, it effing rains. REALLY?
4) Why are there SO MANY Thomas the Train movies available on Netflix, but momma can’t get a single episode of The West Wing?
5) I’m pretty sure the Mouse’s collection of toy cars is multiplying asexually. They’re dividing like cells or something. But God forbid I try to sell one (or 36) … because he would instantly know they were missing.
6) Playing Shoots and Ladders with a 3 year old is like trying to get a goldfish to learn how to fetch. It just doesn’t work.
7) It’s seriously scary how much my 5 month old admires his older brother. The kid can’t even sit up yet, and yet the Froggy watches the Mouse like he is the coolest thing since sliced bread. He isn’t even half a year old and already learning all kinds of bad habits, lol.
8 ) You know it’s consignment season around here when I keep having dreams about mapping out my shopping plan of attack. No really, it’s sad. lol
9) I am SUPER excited that football is back!
10) I am SUPER sad that fantasy football is back.
When I need to change the girls, I usually go to our car – whether there is a changing table or not. P HATES them. Blanket on the front seat or in the trunk, faimiliar surroundings…yup, that is my changing method of choice. Isn’t always possible, but when it is… so much better.
so if you love football season, why do you hate fantasy football season?
I like football … in that I like watching MY team (the Cowboys). I don’t want to watch EVERY OTHER team play as well. I don’t want to have to flip back and forth between 8 games in one afternoon because the husband has to watch all these other players play. And I hate that he ends up rooting for OTHER teams just because he needs points from one of their players. Grrr.
The day that I found out my most favorite fast food restaurant did not have a changing table, it was like I lost my best friend. Seriously. Hello, you have high chairs. Do you know who sits in high chairs? Kids who WEAR DIAPERS. Catch up restaurants!
I’ve become so disenchanted with football after the lockout this past year. I used to pray for training camp. Now I pray for February and Spring Training. Isn’t it amazing how things change?
I get so angry when places don’t have changing areas, and especially when they don’t have changing areas in the men’s room. Like, hello, aren’t dads allowed to change diapers?!
I have followed your blog for a while, another nestie…my daughter was born June ’08, and you always crack me up. The last few posts I can so relate! I am doing our consignment here in Massachusetts in September and have already started getting ready for it. I don’t think our’s in Boston are near as good as the steals you report on. And I chuckled at chutes and ladders we tried playing last night and she just wanted to count all the spaces! Maybe better at 3.5.
Thanks for being such a long time reader, Kerri!
Amen to the changing table in every bathroom! I actually have changed my son on the table at restaurants (when we were done eating of course) when there wasn’t a changing table in the bathroom. I thought it might provide motivation for them to add one.
I also find that the more clothes you try to buy ahead, the faster they are outgrown. Sigh.
I am so ready for football, but I feel so out of the loop, too. I don’t know if I’m going to find Fantasy Football exciting this year. At. All.
Totally agree with #1! I’ve almost perfected the art of changing my daughter while she is standing or simply using pull ups. We’ve also changed her in the car (amidst odd looks from strangers who must not have children
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I totally agree abut the changing table thing!!!
Well, you KNOW how pissed off the changing table thing makes me… especially at STARBUCKS. Effers.
And, I’m super sad that I let the Divine Consign deadline blow right past me, and now I’m stuck with a fat box of clothes to sell for another year.
Arrrgh the no changing tables is so frustrating! Mama no likey trucking baby out to the car to change a heinous diaper in 90+ degree heat.
WORD. It’s 108* out. I should NOT have to change my baby in the trunk of a hot car.
JDaniel doesn’t get Chutes and Ladder either.
I also hate it when they only have a changing table for the women’s restroom. Not only Mommas clean poop!
THIS DROUGHT IS REDONK. We got some rain here but my grass is seroiusly dying. My hubs just changes J in the car when we’re out. I am tote terrified of e.coli infested changing tables! We have a changing pad but of course, he touches the entire damn thing when he is on there.
“I’m pretty sure the Mouse’s collection of toy cars is multiplying asexually. ” SNORT.