Saturday Random 7.0, by way of Sunday
Posted By jayna on July 20, 2008
~ My mother is the nosiest person on the face of the planet. We brought our laptop AND wireless router, in hopes of being able to conduct normal internet business. Nope. Not when she’s home. Apparently, no matter where you are in the house, the computer is like a magnet, drawing her to read over your should, ask repeated what you’re looking at, and eventually want you to look up something for her. Hence why this is Saturday Random on Sunday.
~ I don’t know how I survived in this house, growing up without air conditioning. It hit 93 the other day, and by night the upstairs was so stuffy and sweltering that it was hard to breathe. All of the fans have been put to use in E’s room, and I still feel like the worst mother for making her suffer in a hot room at night.
~ Being up here makes me not love Georgia quite so much. Cool, damp air. Rolling hills. Real trees. Actual soft grass. Makes me hope the husband can find a job here so we can move back. But then I think about that whole snow and cold thing. And I stop hoping quite so much.
~Plastic fruit and veggies are possibly the cruelest thing to give a baby as a toy. Especially when they are corn, bananas and grapes, the kid’s favorites. Plastic obviously doesn’t taste so good. It does, however, fly quite far across the room.
~ There is nothing happier than a half naked baby, running through the grass, getting knocked over by happily bounding dogs, and squealing in delight at the horse by the fence.
~ There is nothing sadder than watching your childhood puppy grow older and decline. And knowing you can’t take him home with you, and may never hug him again.
~ The husband knows exactly how to push my mother’s buttons, and my mother knows exactly how to push the husband’s. Sure makes for fun evenings. Especially when they are talking politics. As they are right now. Which is why I’m being left alone long enough to blog.
Oh. I so understand the nosy mother bit. And Georgia is a bit stifling. Ish. And half-naked babies in the grass with licking dogs are the happiest people on Earth!
Are you still in Ohio? It has been the craziest two weeks around these parts, so I don't know whether we will run into you, but please call and let me know if you think you can swing a trip to/through Ashland. I don't know if I mentioned it, but someone ELSE you know is pregnant again…….. oops….
Any excuse to blog is excuse enough. I totally agree with you on the plastic fruit thing. Yikes.
And congrats on the preggo thing! I got so excited about the fact you were in Alexandria that I totally commented before I read the rest of the post! LOL
My mother does the same thing over my shoulder and I feel like smacking her! Also, I have no idea how I grew up in her house…not because of lack of air conditioning, but because of lack of AIR. She smokes and it nearly kills me every time we go home. She doesn't even smoke in the house when we're there, but it's permeated into every surface.