Author: jclawver

After weeks of nothing to do, suddenly I have everything to do this week!

• Go to the Health Dept to have the kids’ immunizations included in the Ga system and have Max get the ear/throat/nose report for school.
• Get new driver’s license (our month is up), get new plates and tags (sadly, this is at separate places).
• Register Max for school (the staff is back).
• Clean up the backyard from the mess the kiddie pool made (ugh, kiddie pools are such a bad idea).
• Have Brian tested at the Speech and Hearing clinic (free tests on ‘first come, first serve’ basis once a week. Though it might be less crowded after school starts. Hmmm).
• Get Brian on a few pre-k waiting lists. (This is my one regret about moving here, which couldn’t be helped. I only hope that this delay in school doesn’t have a long-lasting impact.)
• Buy school supplies (I haven’t been able to get the list from the internet to load, grr. The school should have a hard copy though).
• Exchange Max’s school pants for a bigger size.
• Do laundry and pack for Va trip.
• Ready the house for our first guest, wheee!

Kevin took this picture last week and I love it. It would be perfect for our office, if we had one. Note to self: make sure next house has a great spot for this.\

When I think about what I gave up to move down here (the list is long), I sometimes feel like crying. But there haven’t been any tears yet! Well, at least not until last night when we were at a BBQ place and they only had mustard-based BBQ sauce. Apparently it is a thing here, so it isn’t a simple matter of finding a different BBQ restaurant. I mean, really Mustard-based BBQ sauce! I almost high-tailed it back to Virginia right then! I was mollified when Kevin (jokingly) suggested I could bring my own sauce next time. The boys and I are going up to Virginia before school starts. While there, I am going to stock up on individual packets of BBQ sauce from my favorite BBQ place. Oh yea.

What is the appropriate punishment for one kid peeing on the other, while the latter was sitting on the toilet?

Making my husband, everywhere, proud of me: I registered to vote today!!

Max got rickrolled today for the first time. (No, Mom, this isn’t anything bad and doesn’t hve anything to do with losing your shoes.)\
Brian used the manual can opener today. He was so proud of himself that he exclaimed, “Me didn’t need any help; me did it all by myself!!” My old can opener was really hard to use even I could barely get it to work. I think this is where his excitement came from.\
Brian drew his first dirty picture today. He was drawing attics with various amenities. One had a bathroom, so of course he had to draw a penis that could use the bathroom. Then he drew the boy to go with it. They were the same size. He then “built” (really, he just drew) a penis for me so I could use a urinal too.

While out shopping for school stuff, I passed a bank thermometer that read 104. So of course my kids wanted to wear winter, footie pjs to bed. Crazy.

My first caffeine free, diet coke in almost a month tastes like ass. Back to water for me. (And sneaking Kevin’s really yummy Cherry Limeade.)

All of the applicants to rent our VA townhouse have bad credit. Like, really bad credit. Pooo.