Another List

I love lists. 

I love them so I'm going to share yet another list with you today.

It will make zero sense.  Which is exactly how much sense I've been making lately.  Hope you enjoy the insanity that takes place at "Ups and Downs, Smiles and Frowns".

1.  After a recent visit to the Cabbage Patch Factory aka Babyland I am making arrangements to live there.  I'll be listing our furniture and belongings on craigslist and contacting a real estate company.  Babyland is where I choose to spend the rest of my days. 
 Please foward all mail to the cabbage patch world. 

2.  Glory be to Jesus, Let the Hallelujahs ring.  Sweet little baby is FINALLY coming out of his "hold me all of the time or I'm going to bust your flippin eardrums out crying" stage.  I love holding him.  But it gets dangerous when it comes time to cook, clean, do laundry, give the other 2 children attention and other domestic things.  I understand the whole "let them cry it out" concept.  But "crying it out" makes me want to have a nervous breakdown and I try and avoid those at all costs.  So, this new development makes this Mamma so very happy.

3.    Potty training is in full swing for our 2 year old!  This means we spend 89% of our day in the bathroom because there might be a distant possibility pee pee might happen.  Great fun.  My baseboards, bathtub, sink, and bathroom floors have never been cleaner.  Waiting on pee pee gives me time for bathroom scrub downs.  Man alive!  That is fun!  We alternate bathrooms so that each bathroom gets scrubbed at least 7 times a day. 

4.  Ethan.  Good ole Ethan.  The same Ethan that almost got kicked out of Kindergarten is now EXCELLING in first grade.  His teacher smiles when she sees me!  Do you understand how amazing it is to be greeted by a smile when seeing your childs teacher?  I am no longer on a first name basis with the principal.  In FACT she hasn't called me once this year.  I love first grade, so does Ethan.  It's a wonderful life. 

This is the award winning pumpkin I carved last year.  I'm proud.

5.  Our annual Pumpkin Carving par-tay is coming up.  I'm really hoping I can do better than I did last year.  As it turns out pumpkin carving isn't a strong point of mine.  In fact I won the "worst pumpkin carver in the entire universe" award.   At least I won something. 

6.  I hate our attic.  For several reasons.  The ladder that goes into the attic looks like it would fall apart under the weight of a newborn.  Let alone the weight of ME.  The attic however is HUGE.  It could store a small Mongolian village.  Which is why almost all of our things are stored up there.  Which presents a problem.  The ladder.  I'm also afraid that every single time I pull down the door pulley string that a "Christmas Vacation" moment is going to happen and the ladder will hit me in the face and kill me.  Which is why our house may never have fall decorations up, or Christmas decorations, and we may have to purchase an entire new winter wardrobe since all our winter clothes are up there too.  I have no idea how all our things got up that skinny ladder but somehow they did and now they are stuck forever. 

7.  I have worn yoga pants for 10 days in a row (except for sunday when I put on a baggy dress).  I am not ashamed.  They haven't been the same pair of yoga pants which is an improvement from my last yoga pants record.  The best part of the yoga pants record is that I haven't participated in yoga since college.  I haven't participated in any excersize type activity since college.  I don't even run.  My boobs are to big is the main reason.  The other reason is I've never had a murderer chasing me (I'm very grateful for both of those reasons). 

8.  I had a real life nightmare come true this week.  While in route to a doctors appointment which I was running late for I quickly pulled into the closest and first parking garage I could find.  I didn't pay any attention to signs because I was running late and it was a very important dr visit.  I park and rush into the dr.'s office. I get done with my appointment and head back to my van.  Which I suddenly realize is in a parking garage you have to PAY to park in.  Normally this isn't a big deal.  As luck would have it I've lost my debit card, I had ZERO cash, ZERO quarters, dimes, or nickels.  What I did have was my check book.  To add insult to injury the only thing that the automated money taker (not a real person a MACHINE) would NOT accept is a check.  Panic begins to swell up inside me.  I search the van and find coca cola nasty sticky pennies.  Don't judge me you know good and well you have change in your car that a beverage has spilled on making them a nasty mess go ahead and own it.  By the time I get all my coca cola pennies into the machine 11 cars are in back of me waiting for me to exit the paid parking garage.  I was hoping they would take up an offering.  They didn't.  That my friends was the day I was almost held hostage by a parking garage.  It's now a story I will pass down to my childrens children.  It will go down in history. 

These are not my pennies.  My pennies were nasty and had coca cola all over them.  It all Google had to offer.

9.  That's all I've got for this installment of my list post.