July 2, 2009

Tummy ache

I just ate like 12 matza balls (walnut sized, but still). Ooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww, my tummy hurts. :(

In other news, someone needs to get rid of this rain! It is making me crazy (and ruining my strawberry canning operation, I might add!) I am totally run to can, and this rain is keeping me from the pickign fields! ARGH! In other news, it will give me time to can all those cherries :)

June 29, 2009

Naps

Due to sun spots, my children are napping. At the same time. I should be folding laundry, but I think I'll watch Hulu instead. Bad Funky, bad bad.

June 26, 2009

Facebook needs an Emily Post

My MIL wants to friend me. I really don't want to friend her. I want to keep some part of my life (okay, like all of it) off limits to her. How am I supposed to complain about my in-laws in status updates if my in-laws can see them? I am goign to be reduced to boring updates like "Funky Frum is baking challah" and "Funky Frum is loving the three week visit from her in-laws". Now, she has not asked to friend me (she can't, I am super private), but she has asked my email account to join Facebook and had my SIL ask me to friend her.
Now what? Can I just ignore it? Pretend I never saw it?

June 25, 2009

Who needs the pool?

I have found my bathrub works far better then the city pool:
  1. No fee to get in. The building pays my water.
  2. No sunscreen need (the kids hate it)
  3. If they splash, no one else is effected
  4. I do not need to be in pool attire
  5. It is air conditioned, if I so desire
  6. I can go at any time
  7. No worries about my children drinking the water for fear of chemicals
  8. No need to decipher weird swim diaper rules
  9. No having to see other people in their swim attire (which can sometimes frighten me)
  10. There is always a lifeguard on duty at my bath tub
  11. No one asks me to buy them expensive snacks
  12. Or play on the rusty playground afterwards

I love my tub!

June 24, 2009

No trade backs

It's been one of those days. The kids are NUTS. Hubby is on a new 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. schedule which means 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. I am on me own with the crazy ones. Which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a 2 yr old and a 1 yr old. The only thing getting me through today is the fact that I was PROMISED Coca Cola slushie upon hubby's return tonight.
4 more hours till bedtime. Sigh.

June 21, 2009

Shame shame shame!

I am the poster girl for all thing non alcoholic. My father is an alcoholic, my grandmother was one, my uncle is a recovering one and I just would like to stay as far away from it thankyouverymuch. I am vociferous (to people close to me who ask me) about my dislike of all things alcoholic (okay, I love wine, but I try to keep that to meself). So when my hubby told me he was throwing a "man shower" for one of his frat buddies who is expecting a baby I shrugged and said, mkay. (Well, his wife is expecting a baby but they are the kind of couple who says 'we are expecting a baby' even though she is doing all the work). I cleaned the house and made them munchies and was about to leave when my hubby said "Where's the beer Funky?" Uhhhh, what? "We have to have beer! Lots of it" Which is how I found myself at the grocery at one p.m. (as soon as they allow beer sales) buying 17 cases of beer. Yea. That's right. Hubby said they would go through that much beer (and they did, plus all the liquor in my closet from my wedding and the vodka I use to make pie crusts, which uber upset me). But what shamed me was running into the mother of one of my students while I was checking out with a cart overflowing with lager. And then running into the local rebbetzin on my way to my car. And my neighbor as I unpacked my car. And then one of my clients as I was lugging everything upstairs.

June 19, 2009

Can't take him anywhere

A friend and I have a standing play date on Thursday afternoons. When the weather is nice we go to the park and when it is yuck we go to the local pizza shop for lunch. The weather today (and the last week) has been crap so I packed the kids off for the pizza shop. The pizza shop arrangement works well. My kids trade their cheese to her kids in exchange for their crusts. Everyone is happy. Except for today. When the waitress came to take our orders, everyone (except the adults) said they wanted a slice of pizza. Everyone but wee one. "Salad" he demanded. The waitress looked at me skeptically, but I shrugged "Give him what he wants, and bring a slice so Dani (my friend's kid) can have the cheese". I was convinced wee one would never eat a salad. I mean, my kids eat veggies of all varieties, but salad is always a tough sell. Well slap me silly and call me monkey because he devoured the whole salad. Radishes and all. I was gobsmacked.
Meanwhile Dani was beside himself because he didn't think the trade was fair since wee one didn't actually eat the crust. But that is another three ring circus discussion for another day.