Randomness

Do you know what THIS is:

That would be our brand new mattress and boxspring. Not too exciting, I know. Except for this: We paid $575 for the combo when it retails for around $1,800. That may have been a mighty boring trade show that J-L had to work at but running into a part owner of a bed manufacturing company made it worth it in my mind.

Mother's Day

I had no intentions of doing a Mother's Day post today (or yesterday). These days I'm not very introspective and I feel my life is pretty much down to the basics: Get up, get dressed, go to work, come home, make supper, put my daughter to bed... and try not to have a meltdown during any of it. Mother's Day couldn't feel LESS significant to me. It was just another day of too much busyness for an overly tired, overly emotional me.

But then this happened and I thought I should record it:

The day is wrapping up and Abby and I are spending a few final moments outdoors before she has to head to bed. Two things Abby loves these days more than life itself: Being away from home and being outside. This day she got PLENTY of that.

Mom: Abby, wasn't today a great day? Didn't you have fun?
Abby: No.
Mom: Really? You got to see ALL of your cousins except for A and B, how could it not have been a great day? What would have made it a better day?
Abby: Hanging with my mom.

Oh honey. Oh my darling, darling girl. Thank you. I'll be back. I promise. The Mommy you've seen over the last little while isn't your Real Mommy. I'm so sorry. But she'll be back, just in time for summer.

And then sometimes...

... when I'm feeling blue, it's just best to pick up a haystack brownie on the drive home from work to share with my daughter with her tea set, toasting each other with milk.

... BEFORE supper.

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen things I'm looking forward to over the next few months:

Hey, they're not ALL about not being pregnant anymore.

1. Being able to roll over in bed.
2. Laying in a tent chatting with my husband.
3. Folk Fest.
4. Not having a sore back 24/7.
5. Going for long walks with my son and daughter.
6. Normal clothes.
7. My garden, however small it might be this year. (Jack’s timing is a bit bad. I’m either huge or recovering right when I should be planting.)
8. A trip. Our life seems so unplannable these days but there WILL be a trip. Somehow. It might not be for a long while yet and it might not be for very far from home but it will be.
9. Farmer’s markets.
10. Cool green grass beneath my bare feet.
11. Getting our new patio set. (We bought it already, we just have to pick it up.)
12. Finding some new campsites.
13. Summer skirts and dresses with sandals.

More of the cuteness.

This blog has been pretty quiet for quite some time now. Why? Well, there's one main item that's kind of overtaken my life and it's hard to think about much else let alone let my creative juices flow at all. And frankly, *I* get sick and tired of hearing myself whine about how much I dislike pregnancy so I'm hardly going to put too many others through it.

And so instead, the cuteness of a 2 year-old. Two conversations that took place in our house yesterday.

Abby, climbing out of the car at the end of the day: The snow's all gone!
Mom: Yup.
Abby, looking at me wisely: It's gone to church.

Background on story #2: Abby has a new friend at daycare. Her name is Tracey. For the past few weeks Abby has referred to her as Kracey even though any time J-L and I speak of her we refer to her as Tracey.

Dad: Who all was at daycare today?
Abby: K, A, Kracey and me.
Dad: Oh, Kracey was there all day too?
Abby, looking at her father as though he's not the sharpest tool in the shed: No, Dad, Tracey.

Reason #238 why I won't be able to homeschool* this kid

She'll be smarter than me** by the second grade.

Conversation in our house last night:

Abby: Mom, what sound does a cow make?
Mom: Moooo, mooo.
Abby: What sound does a sheep make?
Mom: Baaa, baaa.
Abby: What sound does a kitty make?
Mom: Meooow, meooow
(Hey, I grew up on a farm, I'm pretty good with these ones.)
Abby: What sound does a seahorse make?
Mom: [stunned silence.]

crickets chirping.

* Not that I was planning to anyway but whatever.
** Or should be "than I am"? - Just trying to prove my point I guess.

Thursday Thirteen

(Because I need to jot some of these down and here is as good a place as any.)

Thirteen Abby-isms
1. Zimmer = living room
2. Scarf = apron
3. Scooby = excuse me
4. My fine = her response to "do you have to go pee?"
5. Updowndairs = upstairs (downstairs is just that, downstairs)
6. Cake = snot
7. Meeker = music
8. Bernie = Bert & Ernie (hey, she's a time saver)
9. Eminano = Emiliano (her boyfriend from daycare)
10. Pay dot = play doh
11. No something in there = nothing in there
12. Cudder = colour
13. With = an unnecessary word. That is, "Mom, cudder me" or "Dad, pay dot me"