parties part 2

.....so then she sends an email thanking everyone for letting their kids come to the party and specifically thanks the moms who stayed and helped out. AWESOME. Although based on the other information giving in the email I think part of it was to brag about her husband being in an Executive MBA program at UNC.

parties and mullets

OK, so the Halloween Party Collin went to on Saturday night:

1. Per the mom's email response to me "You are more than welcome to stay if you like, but most of the parents are dropping the children off."


2. We planned to to drop Collin off and in the mean time our friends decided to tag along with us for the day so we had them with us at drop off time.


3. We walk in and the parents that are there are in fact STAYING and when I say "so, its ok to drop him off" I get a rather puzzled look and she says "yes, I am sure there will be enough adults to look after him" (I leave my cell number for them) and I hear the dad under his breath say to the mom "well, did they at least leave a number?"


4. W.T.F. ??


5. Yes, we left him ... and I did see that at least one other mom dropped off as well. I mean not only were there plenty of adults but many family members were there and the house was not that big for all the people and we had friends in the car and she said "MOST PARENTS ARE DROPPING THE CHILDREN OFF" .... if you don't want me to drop him off than don't say that ... also, I guess if I felt weird about it I should have stayed and let Eric go off with our friends. FAIL as a responsible parent??


6. Upon pick up .. Eric goes in and finds out that the host mom had every single minute of the party planned, scheduled and printed out. He came home with a bag of crafts (with his name written on the back like at school) and she would say stuff like "ok, its time to sit criss cross applesauce." ... DUDE, its a PARTY .. let the kids PLAY and be excited to see each other OUT SIDE OF SCHOOL ... and seriously, if I stayed I would have been BEGGING the grandparents for whatever liquor was in those double rocks glasses they were drinking from ...


7. Perhaps a completely minute by minute scheduled party for 5 year olds is normal?


8. Also, I don't care how politically incorrect it is: INDIAN STYLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.


9. I did bring a "host gift" since it wasn't the kids birthday ... do I at the very least get points for that?


10. And who says "the children" like its completely normal?


11. Did I mention this is the Room Mom for the class?

*****

And now, the mullet of the year goes to:

Lady at the Lexington Barbeque Festival (where in fact there was no actual BBQ)

another moment where I am 20-30 years late on properly thanking my mother....

Collin is going to be Goofy for Halloween. I have spent the better part of the afternoon hand sewing a strip of black fleece to the chef's hat we dyed green last night. Its now time to attach the faux fur ears ... after I cut them and figure out exactly how it is I am going to do it. The remainder of the outfit is thanks to WM.... light blue sweatpants I cut the bottom of, an orange long sleeve t-shirt, a red t-shirt I cut into a vest (and have buttons to sew on it) and ugly brown work boots. I hope it looks cute and not like some thrown together-last minute- we suck at parenting costume! Normally I wouldn't care, but he has a Halloween party on Saturday night, next Friday he can go to school in it for their party and something they are going to a nursing home for and then a school HALLOWEEN carnival (none of that "fall festival" or "hallelujah night" crap ... REAL HALLOWEEN.. take that local evangelicals, TAKE THAT).

I now need to go and write a sweet letter to my mother, all those years of making dance costumes for recitals .... I mean I remember her painstakingly putting sequins on all of my outfits .... and other times of sewing my patches on my girl scout vest, making me a toga for Latin Club, making one of my homecoming dresses, etc, etc, etc. How little regard I gave her for her hard work.

Oh yeah, and the party on Saturday night = dropping him off = Eric is home = guilt for feeling like its a free babysitter = need to find a cool place to hang out and get over it!

the only thing we have in common is the spelling of my middle name

For some reason I have now a subscription to Marie Claire. If you know me at all this makes no sense .. but whatever, I heart magazines, even if they are 98% adds for stuff I will never buy (or know where to buy or be able to afford it if I did) ..... anyway, the latest issue has Hilary Swank on the cover. I keep looking at it and thinking its Mariska Hargitay. Then I read the interview and it turns out they are best friends.... "huh? and they look EXACTLY alike." And then, as what always happens with these Hollywood stories, I got to part where I thought "really, you have GOT to be kidding me" and closed it with no desire to finish reading it. Or looking at the ads. I did read my horoscope which apparently assumes I am a 20 something with a cool job in NYC and a boyfriend. Clearly I am not the demographic for this magazine. Don't get me wrong Real Simple pisses me off too. These magazines who do things on how to do things "cheaper" ... huh? I mean, because I am one to go out and by a $175 vase because its more "budget friendly." .... ok, this isn't where I wanted to go with this.

I stopped reading the article because she was talking about eating meat after being a vegetarian for 18 years and how she still cries when she has to take a bit of meat because she has looked into the eyes of cow... blah blah blah blah.

The over-dramatics .. .seriously.

I mean if it was for "health reasons" and its that emotional for her, aren't there alternatives? I mean some of you are meat avoiders and you seem to be pretty healthy to me.

Also, all this volunteerism and come have a free day at Disney and lets put in health care arguments into sit-coms and the trying to discount FoxNews and and and and and .... all I see is more CONTROL over our lives. And that scares the hell out of me.

yep....

We know so many people in the hospital right now. Stuff going on with Eric's company. This boy in the balloon over Colorado. Etc, Etc, Etc.

I hate to complain. (yeah, seriously, this time I do!) But I was looking sooooo forward to Saturday night. Ruth's Chris with Eric and our GSO BFF's. I even have a new dress.

Enter an email from the dad of our babysitter. She has the flu.

Its Eric's birthday today. He is 35.

In other news, the Snuggie arrived. In a plastic envelope, folded up. Not even shrunk wrapped in plastic.

in which I learn the definition of a word that clearly describes my attempt at blogging

So, yeah, I know you're "suppose" to put up pictures on your blog every so often to make it more interesting to the reader or whatever. But seriously, this just reminds me of the explosion of "amateur photographers" out there. I mean give someone a digital camera and they think they are the next Annie Liebovitz or Anne Geddes or who ever other famous photographers are. Look, some people really are REALLY good at it .... one person I can think of is soooo awesome I want to get remarried just so she can take the pictures. (yes, Alexis, AWG) ... but seriously, I can go in my back yard and take a picture of tree bark just like the rest of you, I just don't put it in a cheap frame and hand it out. Wow. So anyway.

I have been thinking back to a recent conversation I had the unfortunate luck to be a part of and the more I think about it the more angry I get. My mind will not let me understand the way some people think .... its like I will never understand astro physics (or basic algebra for that matter) ... and the more I TRY to understand the more mad I get and frustrated and frankly SCARED for the future. But it takes all kinds of people for the world to go round. One person's nightmare is another person's happiness.

My house is a complete and udder mess, from top to bottom. I should be fired.

And, no, the snuggie has not been delivered yet.

So, I just looked up the definition of "amateur" and it turns out that is exactly what they are: they are not professionals and they certainly lack the skills. Also, in an effort of full disclosure, I had to look up how to spell it, because I spelled it so wrong even the spell check on here had no idea what I was trying to type.

and its unnecessary posts like this that makes me wonder why I came back here !!!!

....so I have to do something I don't want to do. Well, actually, I only don't want to do half of it if I am being completely honest. But being completely honest seems to be what is getting me in trouble. Sometimes it would just be nice for things to be seen through my eyes before judgement is casted and I, again, am the one "with the problem." This has no signs of changing, so really, I need to get over it and move on. Thank god for knitting, its the perfect excuse to sit somewhere you don't want to be, ignoring things you want to ignore, because of the stitches.

Is it just me or are there many people out there who seem to dress inappropriately for weddings these days? Again, it probably is just me. So I guess I should dress more slutty or in white or camouflage to the next wedding we attend?

And yes, I am still waiting on the snuggie.