Kevin has the stomach flu. 🙁 He took a couple of vaction days and it totally blows that he is sick instead. Booooooo.
Good news!
Brian gets his cast off next week. That will be three weeks after surgery, instead of the expected six. YAY.
Cockadoodledoooooo
Brian woke up at 4:30, totally awake and ready to start the day. Which, ugh. This pretty much guarantees that 1) he will not be spending the night at Babba’s anytime soon and 2) I will crash after I drop him off at school. Kevin is home today, sick, so maybe he and I can have a nap date. Being near each other, in sleep, is just as good as being awake and actually talking to each other, yes?
Revolution, days 1 and 2
Before you can successfully have a revolution, you need to cleanse the mind-pallet. This involves copious amounts of watching cheesy college frat shows (aka Greek) and surfing the ‘net in between crying jags prompted by watching your kidlet via webcamera. It is very important that you do the pallet cleansing thing. Otherwise, the whole endeavor might fail. True story.\
Anyway, I came upon this gem yesterday and it is the funniest thing ever. You must watch and enjoy.
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In other BREAKING news, the writers strike has left my tivo devoid of anything other than Spongebob and Ninja Warrior. How can I possibly do the laundry under these hellish conditions?
AOL’s preschool
I was totally going to post a couple of weeks ago, then the dreaded broken arm happened. But anyway…\
Top 10 reasons why I love AOL’s preschool:
- Security: You have to pass through 3 levels of security to get to where the children are.
- Art: they have some sort of art or craft project every day!
- Running around: The kids have gym/playground time 4 times a day.
- Specialists: gym, Spanish, and music are taught by specialists.
- The facilities: water park, playground, karaoke machine, play stage, reading centers, toys, etc.
- The web camera: Kevin, the grandparents, and I can peek in on Brian via webcameras located throughout the center and play areas.
- Food. They feed the kids every 3 hours or so and make sure the food in nutritious and varied. (No juice, no cookies. Brian has been trying and liking new things.)
- They’re open from 6:30 to 6:30, which means they are ready for him to be dropped off and picked up whenever we get there. No rushing to be on time, worrying about traffic, fretting in line at the store, getting there early only to have to wait around.
- Convenience: Kevin usually drops him off on the way to work, yay.
- There are three teachers in B’s class of less than 15 kids.\
The center is expensive, so the kids may not be going to college after all, but at least their mother WILL BE SANE!! Or, at least, less insane. Fair trade-off, yes?\
ETA- A bonus reason! (There were actually 4 other reasons on my list that I had to cut to stay at ten, but this one is too good to not mention.) B’s teacher emails me everyday to specifically say what the kids did and how the day went. So instead of asking, “How was your day?” and Brian responding, “Good”, I can ask, “How did you like playing ants on a log in the gym and singing ‘Rainbows’ in music?”
Tv Tv Tv
How I Met Your Mother was so funny last night I almost busted a gut and a lung. Even Kevin laughed out loud! How come more people aren’t watching and loving this show? It is really smart and funny, without being Sports Night level of smart, which apparently was too smart for the general tv viewer. And it loves continuity! I always have to give a big thumbs up for that. Come on, people, get on the good-tv train and check HIMYM out! (Mondays, 8:30 pm on CBS)\
For those who have already seen the episode: Clicky.
Viva la revolution!
About a month ago when Brian started all-day school, I started a Jen-volution. I was so ready to be in my third phase of motherhood: having kids. Kids. Not babies, toddlers, or teenagers. Just kids. I had two glorious weeks of this, where I saw the future and it was AWESOME. And then Brian broke his arm (he was a super duper trooper about it all) which put my revolution on hold. Today he is going back to school and so the revolution commences once again! Wheeeeeeeeeee.
Any takers?
I have a a gently-used, slightly broken, greatly-loved toddler available.\
He gives the best kisses, has the most beautiful blue eyes, and will do “Blue Steel” on command. The downside is that he isn’t fully toilet-trained, prefers your food over his own (even when it is the exact same thing), and his manners have completely left him recently. I must also admit that he is cranky, obnoxious, demanding, and full of screaming temper tantrums that may wake the other people in the house, causing the other people to be cranky too.\
If interested, call 1-800-OMG-kidssuck.
Shallow Life rears its head once again
Ugh- tell me why pedestal sinks are constantly being pushed upon homeowners? Don’t people have bathroom supplies they need to store? A super fat FAIL to all of the designers who do this.\
Oh, and yes, Brian is healing nicely. No worries.
A Get Well Video From Across The Pond
My friend Diarmuid, who works in AOL’s Dublin office was telling his four year-old daughter about Brian’s arm the other day, and she wanted to make him a get well video. Diarmuid finally put it up on Bebo, so now I can show it to you. His daughter may be the cutest thing ever:
Watch More Videos Uploaded by www.bebo.com/DiarmuidG4\
Thanks, Juliette! Brian loved the video, and he’s going to make one for you as soon as he’s feeling better (and we can put a shirt on him over his cast)!