Mostly-Mommy

Oy vey, my day.

We started with our power going out for a couple of hours. Do you have ANY IDEA what it is like in the early morning with NO COFFEE and two small children and NO TV?

During the outage Roscoe decided he was pissed off (ha!) and peed all over the floor. And why did he have to pee so bad you ask? Because he refused to go out yesterday of course. It was sprinkling a little. How did my rez dog get to be so prissy?

Later on we had an errand to run so we braved leaving the house, even though every cell in my body screamed that I was not prepared to expose myself to the masses when my children were behaving that way. I should have listened to the screaming. As I got Zoey out her seat there was… wait for it… A FLAT TIRE.

I cannot tell you how happy it made me that my husband was able to hitch a ride with our wonderful friend that he works with and come help me. The two guys crawled around in their nice work clothes on the filthy Wal-Mart parking lot and got the job done. Thanks guys! You rock!

Thankfully I got the tire patched up, got the kids to the park, got dinner made (reheated, whatever), and gave the kids their bathes without murdering anyone. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

Lately something has been getting under my skin. A thing like so many of the other things children do, but this one just annoys me to no end.

Nick talks about “Bad Guys” ALL THE FRIGGING TIME. And most of it involves bizarre, nonsensical questions. For example:

“Does the Bad Guy like to put lightbulbs in his mouth?”

“Is that the Bad Guy sandwich?”

“I love you Mommy, you’re a Bad Guy.”

Is this a boy thing or what? Mom and Dad, did I do this when I was little? If so I am SO SORRY and seriously I need to take you out to lunch and apologize. Also maybe for the spitting. Oh god, don’t even get me started on the spitting.

(Also, alas and alack, we did not win the costume contest. Meh. The grand prize winner was some kid dressed up as a piece of salmon sushi so that was actually pretty good. But the runners up had like a LADYBUG and a FLOWER and a PIRATE and crap? Come on. Their voting process seems a little fishy to me, though maybe it’s the salmon roll I’m smelling.)

If you are ever curious about what an acorn might taste like don’t eat one. Even though squirrels eat them all the time you should not. Trust me on this one. Ahem.

(Also new pictures are up at Karrmedia. There’s a whole lotta Halloween cuteness over there!)

Well what I mean is please vote now, and then vote tomorrow and Friday before 5pm CST.

I entered Zoey’s picture into our local paper’s costume contest and I would be much obliged if you would help her win it! You have to register for the contest… but if we win we will get $1000! Here’s the link:

http://kansascity.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?contestid=11018&pagetype=VOTING&SubmissionID=1947136

She’s pretty wicked cute if I do say so myself. My friend Stephanie made the costume — she’s Max from “Where the Wild Things Are.” Or you know, a bunny. Whatever. Too bad I couldn’t enter this picture also. We’d be a shoe-in.