Bullet Points - Because I Have to Sum Up

So, because I'm busy doing things like dishes and laundry and trying to stay on top of keeping the carpet clean and still maintain my sanity, this will have to be brief. But! Notable Things:

• I have started writing over at DC Metro Moms blog. The amazing and wonderful Jodi and I met during spring break after a flurry of emails when neither one of us could make it to Gunfighter's Happy Hour but realized we live pretty near each other. We met and our kids played and she hooked me up with Jill Asher who runs Silicon Valley Moms and DC Moms and Chicago Moms and New York Moms and NJ Moms and over 50 Moms, too, I think, and we talked and bam! Writing for DC Metro Moms. Check out my first post.
• Jodi also, being the amazing and wonderful woman she is, talked to Sarah and took me to a DC Metro Moms event and I had a blast! I met a bunch of amazing women who all live in my area and are super super nice. I don't think I said too many awkward things and I only embarrassed myself slightly, I think. Plus there was wine. And I got t-shirts from her. I am sure I am missing a bunch of people, some because I didn't actually get to meet them because I'm an idiot and didn't work my way around to everyone, some because I am HORRIBLE with names. Just awful, and four pregnancies didn't help at all. So I apologize if I spoke to you and don't remember your name - what I DO remember is that everyone? Was wonderful. Warm and welcoming and fun. I CANNOT WAIT to do it again sometime.
• Any ideas how I can get my husband to admit/understand that just because my way and his way of doing something are different doesn't mean that either way is better, just that they're different? And that just because I am not an engineer and don't think like one doesn't mean there is something wrong with me? Because really, I'm ready for the 2X4 upside the head method, and somehow I think that might have a few criminal consequences.
• Trout and Little Man went to my in-laws house for a couple of nights during spring break. It was nice for them to spend time with their grandparents and BigDaddyFish and I got to focus on the littles. The in-laws have a farm in Hagerstown, about 45 minutes northwest of here, and it's a great place to hang out. So what did they do? THEY LET MY CHILDREN WATCH CARTOON NETWORK FOR HOURS. Have you ever watched CN? Especially at night? Well, my kids did. Little Man thought it was the greatest thing ever, and cannot understand why I am angry with my in-laws and I won't let him watch it. I've told them many, many times before that just because something is animated DOES NOT mean it's appropriate for kids. There's animated porn, for Pete's sake. Don't ask me how I know that. They did not go out and run around outside, they stayed inside. They also dyed Easter eggs, yes, after Easter, but fine, except that they brought them home. 2 dozen eggs. There isn't a single person in this house who eats hard boiled eggs. I tried to get the in-laws to take them home, but when they came to babysit at our house they left them in my little fridge. I threw them away yesterday. Despite refrigeration, they stank.
• This knife strikes again, this time against BDF, who cut his finger on it while slicing cinnamon swirl bread. I am going to have to start up this Kluzes Anonymous club, with my family as charter, founding members. While the bigs were at the in-laws', BDF and I took the littles to Whole Foods and bought a ton of stuff. I was putting things away and Sunny was ridiculously tired, so I sent her up to change for bed. I heard the huge crash and crushing thunk, like when someone drops an egg on the floor, and I ran. Sunny was screaming, being held by BDF who got there first. Somehow, and she swears she was crawling up the stairs, but she was so tired and somehow she ran her head into the wall. We interrogated her about whether it was the molding or the corner of the wall at the top of the stairs but she insisted she hit the wall itself, on the flat spot. Left her with another bump on her head the diameter of a nickel, but about a quarter inch high. Then last Wednesday while Trout was at ballet, Little Man went down to his friend's house, and in the course of their play someone pushed someone too hard or something and Little Man fell out of a hammock and landed on his head and knee on their deck. Left him with a goose egg on both his head and his knee. It looked a lot like Sunny's head after this. As if that wasn't enough, Saturday night while BDF and I were out to dinner Nemo fell and ran his head into our coffee table, leaving a goose egg about a dime in diameter on his head. I keep wondering what Trout's going to do. BDF just reminded me that he also broke his toe by ramming it into the leg of the crib at a high rate of speed. Klutzes, all.

There was more I wanted to say, but I'm tired, and this is verbose enough. I'll update more soon.

Comments

[Agincourtdb]

(said with a straight face): How do you know there's animated porn?

[hokgardner]

Congrats on the new blogging gig. I'd love to be asked to do something like that!

[angi]

YAY for the new blog, I'll have to go check it out :)

Oh yeah, and cartoon network is BAD at night, it is off limits here too! I'd be mad as heck!

[jodifur]

I left a comment yesterday and it never showed up. Weird.

Thank you for the kind words. welcome to DCMM.

[gusgirl]

"Any ideas how I can get my husband to admit/understand that just because my way and his way of doing something are different doesn't mean that either way is better, just that they're different? And that just because I am not an engineer and don't think like one doesn't mean there is something wrong with me? Because really, I'm ready for the 2X4 upside the head method, and somehow I think that might have a few criminal consequences. "

Oh my word! I have found a kindred spirit! I am here because of you post on Carmen's blog and could have written this myself. Oh the joys of being married ot an engineer!