Imagine if it was Craigs.list!!!!
I don’t know if you guys are familiar with Freecyc.le. It’s like Cr.aig’slist but for neighborhoods and instead of selling items, you give them away. Last week I gave away a headboard. The woman was supposed to come pick it up at 6:30pm. I rushed home at 6 to straighten up and bring the headboard downstairs.
When I arrived, my 6 year-old told me that the lady had already come by. I was p-o’d b/c the house was a wreck….but at least my hubby just handed the board to her at the door right? Right? WRONG.
How about my husband was asleep when she came over, my son let her in the house! The story I got from my son and hubby is that when she first knocked on the door, my son tried to wake up hubby (who’d decided to take a power nap!!!!). Hubby said he thought he was dreaming…mmmk.
Hubby said by the time he realized what son had been saying, he jumped up out of the bed just as the lady was WALKING UP THE STAIRS ONTO THE LANDING IN FRONT OF THE BEDROOM!!!!
There are soooooo many things wrong with how this went down. First off, I reminded my son that he was not supposed to answer the door…let alone OPEN it!. He says he didn’t think it was nice to make her wait outside until I came home from work! My hubby should not be power napping with a 6 year-old roaming the house! AND FINALLY, what in sugar and spice is the lady coming in a house at the urging of a 6 year-old for? If it was me, I would be scared to just walk into some stranger’s house!
You are all invited to my house this week if you’d like to attend the following workshops hosted by your’s truly:
1. Stranger Danger 101
2. Power-naps…over-rated
3. Divorce for the Power-napper 101
4. Trespassers can be shot on site
I mean geesh, can you imagine if this was a Craigsl.ist transaction? I woulda been all over the news!
Now, looking at the picture, one might assume that it is a nice sized tote. NOT! When it arrived I was disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, I love the bag and am wearing it today but I swear, when I first tried it on it looked like a had shoved Barbi.e’s purse under my arm!!!
I had planned to write this long, sweeping manifesto of sorts related to my visit this weekend to the home/plantation of George Wa.shington. However, my thoughts can be relayed briefly.
My son and I were driving and came upon an overturned SUV. He was initially very excited to see the firetrucks and ambulances. He thought this was so “cool”. He talked my head off about how cool it was that the firemen were on the scene and again reminded me of how my husband had JUST taken him on an impromptu tour of the neighborhood firehouse after school. Finally, we settled into a nice quiet drive.
from continually running around on this hamster wheel but expecting a different outcome. My son will is 21 months old so I think I should let him off the hook for my excess weight. What’s so frustrating is that I could probably write a book on weight loss! I know basically to eat less and move more. However, I am NOT doing it.
For those of you who don’t know - and if you don’t have young children or relatives, you may not, Diego is the cousin of Dora the Ex.plorer. My son loves Diego. Last Sunday I took him to see Diego Live. There were a few things that I wanted to mention about that excursion. These live shows for children are very relaxed and audience participation is encouraged. Children are encouraged to sing along, jump up and down and also do a call-refrain with the cast when warranted. My son can be somewhat reserved. If we had been sitting in the front rows, he probably would have been very active. We had great seats in the lower balcony level. We were right center, front and a little raised from the stage. Anyway, he would always look around at the other kids before he would get up and dance or whatever. Here’s what disturbed me as I sat there watching other families: if your child does not want to participate, this is not a reason to chastise! I saw mothers getting angry at their little ones because they didn’t want to jump up and down hootin’ and hollerin’. Dude, you purchased the ticket for them to see the show. Chill out. I felt so bad for those kids. On the other hand, it was pretty annoying watching parents more into the show than their children. For real, when Diego asks “you” to jump up and say “Rescue Pack” or “roar like baby jaguar”…they are really speaking to YOUR CHILDREN! It was so embarrasing. The other thing…
