The Playground is a dangerous place!

So it was around 3:00 p.m. today and my cell phone rings. I'm thinking to myself, who is calling??? It was the Director from my daughters daycare....o no this can't be good. First thing she says is, Ella is ok, don't worry...but I do want to make you aware of an incident that happened today on the playground. I'm thinking, o no, what could have happened? All of a sudden all these thoughts started going through my head like maybe she split her head open and they rushed her to the hospital, or maybe she fell and is bleeding? She tells me that another child decided to BITE my little girl. Ok, so it wasn't as bad as I thought, but Ms. Director called to make sure that I'm aware of it and that she has a big bite on her arm. The interesting thing about all this is that they won't tell me who did it so now I'm left to guess who the little culprit is who is jealous of my little girl. I'm not worried, she is tough and I'm sure she will remember it when this little bitter needs a friend!

Phat man in a smokin ride!

Have you ever saw something so funny that you caught yourself laughing out loud? This usually happens to me when I'm in the car and I see someone or something funny. Like tonight on my way home from work when I pulled up to the light and since it was a warm night I had the windows down, and I hear some crazy ass rap coming out of the car next to me. Now, I was kind of nervous to look over, thinking to myself, what if it's some huge fat black guy who has some bling bling going on and I really shouldn't even look at him??? Yet, anyone who knows me, knows that I'm just to curious of a person to not look......so I pulled up a little bit to look back so it wasn't so noticeable that I was staring....and to my surprise, it wasn't a big fat black guy in a Navigator with fat rims and lots of bling....it was a skinny white guy in a ford freestyle with a baby seat in the back....o yes, you heard me right a baby seat in the back, yet no bling bling baby! If his o so cool rap hadn't been so loud than I think he would have heard a loud laughter shoot out of my o so big black bling bling Mountaineer.

Note to Ford: Way to go on the booming system in the freestyle, I will keep that in mind when I go to test drive one in the spring.

Humans & Relationships

Have you ever wondered how we relate to each other? Whether it be family, friends, co-workers or maybe the person at the check out counter? If you think about it, we actually have some sort of relationship with people we encounter every day, or often. And they certainly aren't all the same kind of "relationship", yet they are relationships. Relationships are hard to maintain, kind of like your lawn. You want it to be nice and lush, but you have to maintain and keep it up, yet you still get those nasty weeds....hmmm sounds like some relationships in my life!

Week Three.....ahhh

Finally.....I feel like we are out of the woods (please, would someone knock on wood)! We are into week three (ALREADY) at the new day care and well, it's been a great week. Why? You ask? When I can go to leave and not hear my daughter screaming, then it's a great morning! So far this week it seems as we have stepped up into the new category of not being so new! I will tell her now when she is 18 month old and when she is 18 years old...yes change sucks, but somethings it can be a good thing and we try to make the best of it and grow! She has definitly grown! Bring it on week four!

I can hear crickets......ouch

Where has this summer gone? I feel like Rip Van Winkle....in the sense of falling asleep for a long time (not the whole other part of that story) and well seeing that the summer has come and gone and the whole while, I forgot to savor it! Yet, there was some savoring had, but I feel there is plenty more to do. Do we really have to wait another 8 1/2 months for all this again? Why do I live here?

Uggggg...

I have been waiting for this day!

I feel like my list of "TO DO" stuff around the house has grown over the summer and well....it's summer so who wants to be inside doing "STUFF?" So I have been telling myself, the first rainy day I will actually get some of this stuff done. Well, as I sit here typing looking out the big window into the back yard, the rain drops fall and well, I'm doing a fine job of "not" tackling that TO DO list. The mind knows that there is plenty to do, yet the body is saying....I'm just feeling really lazy today....where can I find the motivation from? O well, why would I want to start a big project when, well....the sun MAY just come out!

You know you were one of them....

Have you ever gotten stuck behind one of those cars with the big yellow cone on top of the roof and bumper sticker on the back that says "STUDENT DRIVER?" I always get stuck behind one in rush hour and think to myself....."how cruel." I actually got stuck behind this girl the other day and was laughing out load at her driving...."how cruel." I'm such a perfect driver!

See I grew up in a small town where I got to drive our family car on the back roads (trust me when I say "back roads") so when I showed up to the summer class I felt VERY EXPERIENCED! Well, I did just fine when we were out on the road, got parallel parking down to a tee, but the written part.....ahhh well let's just say....it's more important that you know what you are doing while actually being behind the wheel! What does a measly piece of paper mean anyway! But we all know how frustrating it can be to get behind a student driver and how easily we can lose our patients, but folks, remember this one thing......we were all student drivers at one time or another, so give'm a break! (I'm also speaking for myself!)

Didn't make it to the stage.....

Well folks, my civil duty has come to an end. After spending eleven days of freting over whether or not my name would be picked, I now can sleep with ease to know that it won't be.....at least this month! It was an experience that I will add to my list of "TKS'S LIFE".....an experience of that to say the least.