Laughter | A Thankfully Imperfect Woman

Sep 10

My Daycare Baby Started Nursery School Today :'{

Is it just me?

Do other daycare providers get teary watching their little peanut march off to school?

Mind you, it’s just nursery school, but sheesh…how did she get this old? It seems like just yesterday that Elena, at 3 months old, came to stay with me.

{Sigh}

I love these little peanuts.

I am very excited for Elena – she is going to have such a great time! The one advantage for me is that I get to enjoy some one on one time with her little sister. I know we’ll both enjoy some quiet snuggle time!

I had to giggle this morning as we were working on Elena’s little person for school…Nicole needed one too. So here they are…Elena and Nicole working on these two cute little paper people…with button eyes, crayon clothes, and twine hair. I felt the twine hair was perfect as little Elena’s hair usually shows up at my door in the morning with a rat’s nest in the back…with Elena in tow, of course! Remember The Winner of the Worst Bed Head Competition?

We had it all set up on our coffee table and there we were…all sitting on the couch with our projects. Elena picked out blue buttons for her eyes and little red buttons for a smile. Longer twine hair on Elena’s and short little pieces for Nicole’s (since her hair is just starting to really grow). Both paper dolls came out pretty cute. I wish I would have taken a picture for you…but alas, we were running like crazy people this morning.

Now Nicole is napping and Elena is just getting off from school and will be back soon. I can’t wait to hear about her day!

{sniff, sniff}

Our baby is growing up Jen and Blake! I know, I know…your baby. But I still count you guys as extended family, and I’m pretty sure your girls think they have 3 older sisters…and trust me, Alex, Sam and Gabi love your girls! And don’t get me started on Tim…little fingers…wrapped around…sound familiar?

Happy Back to School everyone!

Patty O

ps…Gabi started 7th grade this year. {sigh} Same height as me. {sigh} Size 9.5 feet. {sigh} Our baby’s growing up too. {sniff, sniff} 🙂

pps…thanks to Pinterest and Dr. Seuss for the photo.

Sep 9

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No Glasses, Before Coffee

Here I am. Baring my soul, or rather my head.

Do you see these bangs? (Or lack thereof.)

This.

This, is what happens when one is frustrated with how long their bangs have gotten…and doesn’t wear their glasses while cutting said bangs…and hasn’t had their morning coffee yet.

Hrmph.

Notice how I took the picture with my head tilted down? Yeah, I couldn’t get myself to look straight at the camera – they look really, REALLY short then.

And in an effort of full disclosure…I waited a week to take the picture. I just couldn’t do it any earlier…I had to let them grow at least a teeny bit anyway.

{sigh}

I hope you get a good laugh out of this one.

Heed my advice: Coffee, Glasses, then Scissors.

Patty O

Sep 7

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The Adventure Called My Life

I was just sharing a comment and advice for a fellow Sjogren-ite and I remembered one of my best…or worst brain fog moments. There’s brain fog and then there’s brain damage. Sometimes I swear I can hear Bill Cosby saying…”Brain Damage!!!” In fact, I’ve used that comment for each of my girls at one moment in their teenage-dom.

As I’ve gotten a little older, I’ve experienced the normal…can’t remember names, addresses, phone numbers…or the mixing your children’s names up, spewing every other name and the dog’s name before you get to the correct one: “Sam, Alex, Motzy…GABI!”

But now there’s the moments of not being able to get the words out correctly. It’s the speaking of words like: clockwork and saying wock-clork. Hrmph. At least with a blog I can catch them before it goes into print.

– You know the saying ‘If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at’? –

I laugh…a lot.

And so does my family.

And I’m so happy I can provide such good entertainment…

The best moment of all with outright – tears running down the cheeks, side-splitting, I can’t breathe anymore, belly laughter came months ago when we were going to watch a movie. I yelled (not whispered mind you) into the kitchen – “Let’s have POPCORN”! Or at least I meant to yell that.

What came out was “Let’s have COP PORN!!!”

Huh…

{insert head thunk}

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

Yes, this is my adventure.

Welcome to it!

🙂

Patty O

ps. Have I written about this already? Hrmph…darn memory!

Aug 25

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Fire Me Now! Please!

So….I was being a good puppy Mom and Wife when I told Tim on Saturday “I’ll take Sunday morning!” Since he’d taken puppy duty on Saturday a.m. and Motzy had gotten up at 5. After all, we should take turns shouldn’t we?

Yeah, well…I hear Motzy at 3 a.m.

He’s never gotten up before 5 since we got him!

Hrmph.

Ok, fine – out we go and he does his duty. We come back in and I lie on the couch while he runs around the living room playing with his toys and by 3:30 he’s lying down to sleep.

{insert fist pump}

I scoot him into his kennel and head back to bed.

The next wakeup call was at 6:07.

Out we go again, duties done, back in, and on the couch I go…and off goes Motzy to play with his toys. At this point I’m exhausted. Needless to say I zonked out. Literally. I finally wake up all of a sudden at 7:20 as he decides to join me on the couch. I look around (after escaping puppy licks that have now wiped my face clean) and find what you see in the picture behind one of our chairs.

Instant thought…”Huh…I’m so fired from this puppy watch duty”.

Damn.

Then it occurred to me that this may not be such a bad thing!

I clean up his mess and put him in his kennel (as he was falling back to sleep) and sneak back to bed. I barely get laid back down and he starts whining and barking again.

{sigh}

All I can think is, “I must really love this dog” and head back out where I take him out of his kennel and lay back down on the couch.

What happens next?

I’m sure you can see it coming…

Motzy joined me and fell asleep on the end of the couch.

I guess he loves me too.

Smile.

{Yawn}

Have a great Sunday everyone!

Patty O

ps…I promise I will write about subjects other than my dog!