What We Did Over Thanksgiving Break...
It's taken a while to post for a few reasons: After leaving work for a few days when you return you have multiplied the work you need to do, Tired, Sick, and most importantly - that question over meals with family where they start to tell you something and then don't in fears "You might write about this on the web". No I won't. Promise. For now.
So here's a brief run-down of our trip to "the arctic" as Chris says.
- You cannot leave 50 pound puppy unattended, even if it was in a "secure" room for three hours while you go to church. She will take apart the door frame.
- The same woman who would march you off to the bathroom for sighing loudly in church will smile peacefully while she lets your 3 year old crawl around under the pews during service.
- There is one "decent" Mexican food restaurant in the whole city - they don't have enchiladas on the menu, and Wilson does in fact know the difference between a burrito with cheese and an enchilada. He won't eat a "fake enchilada". Yes, it's aggravating.
- If a stranger grabs and starts talking to your pregnant belly and your brother is standing there, your brother will not defend you or his unborn niece/nephew. He will, however, find this incredibly funny. He will laugh. Heartily laugh.
- Chris gets really uncomfortable when his Marine Corps Vietnam Vet father-in-law tells him to sign up to go with him on a mission trip to the jungles of Guatemala and then starts telling him they may need to airlift into the jungle while encountering live fire. Real uncomfortable. But he signed up to go with Dad and Nate anyway. Trooper.
- We babysat our 10 month old niece, Adison, one day. I realized I need to have another boy, not because of Adison, but because boy clothes are pretty idiot proof - and no one really pays attention to a boy's clothes, if they are wearing any at all. Girls come with tights, frilly diaper covers that match the embroidered smock and shirt. Girls have shoes with buckles. Girls have bows you need to keep track of. This is added to the fact that babies wear diapers, so after you get the onesie, dress, tights, frilly diaper cover, and shoes on the baby, there's a good chance you will spend 3/4ths of your day taking all this off, cleaning baby, and putting it back on again. I will say the child is beautiful and beautifully dressed. I just don't think I can do it. I may be able to pull off the hair bow if the only other thing she's wearing is a diaper. Assuming we never go anywhere, this may work.
- My mom's house is the place to be to become healthy, loose weight, and detox yourself. Mom's diabetic. Mom makes diabetic friendly meals, has diabetic snacks, diabetic beverages. I will be staying at Mom's until I lose my baby weight - from Reagan and Wilson...
- Deer Meat does not bother me. I do not protest hunting. I did not vote for the Green Party. I say this because my dad cooked his deer in the kitchen - he's done this since before I was born and I am accustomed to this practice. However, I was never pregnant when he did this before. The smell of cooking deer meat will induce vomiting. It has nothing to do with PETA, the Green Party, or anything "hippy" as my dad said. I was unaware that during all three of her pregnancies, Mom had to evacuate the house while Dad cooked his deer meat and sit in the car, in the cold, to keep from throwing up. This isn't something Mom told me about before hand. I think Dad thought we had concocted this to protest deer meat. I'm not a hippy, Dad. I'm just pregnant.
- Wilson will talk a big game about the dinosaur exhibit at the Science Center until he actually gets there and sees the large, animated T-Rex. You will spend the next few hours trying to navigate the Science Center without passing the dinosaurs. If he sees the dinosaurs he becomes terrified and will scream "DON'T LET HIM EAT ME!".
- My sister-in-law and brother are very, very clean people. They will never invite us over for dinner with tomato sauce and their brand new, white table linens.
- My brother has received the same gift in several different formats the past three years from a certain family member who will go unnamed. It was a tape of music from a performer he would never have listened to. Last year it was a CD of the same thing. This year it was the actual record the other two gifts were pirated from. He doesn't own a record player. However, Nate could win an Oscar for the performance he has played the last three years opening the same gift.
- Wilson cannot win the same Oscar award. His performance of crying baby while I held Adison was less than Oscar worthy. It was pretty sad.
- In Wilson's mind if you wake up in the middle of the night, your aunt works just as well as your mom when you need to snuggle. Your aunt won't return you to your own room, lets you watch as many cartoons as you want, and lets you get away with murder. Your mom will spend the next month reprogramming your aunt's work.
- If it has cranberry sauce on it, it is contaminated as far as Wilson is concerned.
- Feeding 40 people Thanksgiving dinner takes a lot of work.
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