Well School has been out since May 26th. So far we've been keeping ourselves busy and the rest of the time I hide out in my house until the sun is down and it is safe to come out of again. I have recently discovered Amazon Prime same day delivery. And did I use it yesterday because I was too hot to venture to a store? Yes, yes I did. Also, Wal Mart on line grocery shopping? Two thumbs up. I am officially never going in a Wal Mart again. Last time I was there I had a small issue with a cashier having blood all over her hands. Yep that's what I said. Blood all over her hands. I had picked up my stuff, got in line, and had only waited 8 minutes (which for Wal Mart was record breakingly fast) when it was already my turn! This is going well I thought, too well. And right as it was my turn, my cashier sprang a bloody nose. Both me and the woman leaving in front of me, tried to see if we could get her some help, but she refused. (No really! Please let us get someone to take your spot!) She just kept saying she was fine. I did run and get her some sanitation wipes in the vain hope that she would sanitize her work space. No such luck. Her nose just got bloodier as well as her hands. Finally I told her I was going to switch lines and that she should go to the bathroom, but this was not before she touched my stuff. I wanted to just leave all my stuff there but I felt guilty, but also, really grossed out. In the end, I put all my stuff back in my cart and went and got a trillion wipes and started wiping everything off. But I put the graham crackers back. I just couldn't bring myself to buying those as they were the thing that got the bulk of the bodily fluid. And that is why I have sworn off Wal Mart for forever.
The picture above is of the kids at the father/son campout. Don was really nice and took Chloe and Oscar. Macie stayed behind with me because she had a fever.
Here are some funny things my kids have said lately:
Macie - "Mom I found a dandelion and I made a wish that I would have all the shopkins in the world. When will that wish come true?"
Chloe- "Mom you know how I clean my room really fast when you force me to, like you give me a time limit or I can't do this...? Could you do that? Something forcey?"
Recently I participated in a free yoga class in the park. Macie and Oscar were supposed to play at the park while I exercised, but Macie was interested in doing yoga because she has done yoga at Music Makers. So Macie comes and squeezes in next to me and this other woman. She attempted the poses, but as she did them, she made all these loud sound effects indicating her struggle. While all these women are trying to focus and find their happy place or whatever, you just hear Macie making embarrassing noises,
I took Macie with me to Target and she was wearing her Elsa costume, but she was really embarrassed about it and told me she didn't want to get laughed at. (Macie is VERY concerned that people will laugh at her)
Oscar has a great dance move where he just lifts one leg in the back at a 90 degree angle and holds it for a second.
Chloe and Paloma have been in competition with each other with who can run the fastest mile. Chloe so far holds the record at 7:55. She can run it faster than me, I am not even close.
Oscar snores like an old man. He is so loud, I can't sleep with him near me. Poor guy. One night Macie and Oscar both ended up in my bed, I had left my room already by the time Macie woke up, and she comes out of my room with her hands on her ears and says , "You're right, Oscar does snore loud!"
I was at the store and had Oscar in the grocery cart sleeping. Macie wanted to get in too. She had a hard time getting comfortable and she didn't like the way Oscar smelled. She said, "Mom, Oscar stinks! His sweat stinks!"
Oscar loves ranch. A LOT.
"Chloe's feet smell like hot dogs!" -Macie (After Chloe came back from the campout and had yet to shower. Macie was grossed out sitting by her)
When Don went to Las Vegas for his annual work conference, it was just the kids and me. Chloe told me before we went to bed that she wanted "to learn about Mt. Everest, then tomorrow night tsunamis, and then tornadoes and earthquakes...and then Babies." Lots of non traumatic bedtime stories I guess....
Right before school got out, there was some Mean Girl type drama happening at Chloe's school with her best friend Olivia. Chloe came home from school really upset because her friend was being bullied by several girls. She was really concerned for her friend and wanted to know what she could do for her friend. I was so sad for Olivia, but so happy that Chloe is so considerate and kind to others. She cried and told me how sad she felt for Olivia. I am so glad that Chloe has the ability to feel empathy for others. That is a skill most people don't learn until they experience the same hardship themselves, but Chloe is amazing at putting herself in other people's shoes and being kind.
We went down to St. David to visit Don's parents over Memorial Day. The girls were holding a kitten and asking me if it was a boy or a girl. I lifted up it's tail and pronounced it was a boy. Chloe asked me how I could tell. I simply said I looked at its' private parts. Flash forward later in the afternoon...we are taking a ride on the pro hauler, macie is holding the kitten, and Chloe says, "Mom, you know it is a lot easier to tell a boy person from a boy cat." (I was thinking...oh boy, I wonder if she made the connection...) I replied, "Oh ya? How's that?" She rolls her eyes and shakes her head in disbelief, "uh Moooooooom...you just look at their face."
And now I have to head out to a swim meet, hopefully one of these days I will catch up on everything else. toodles!
