Out of Tune with Domesticity
Archive for April, 2009
Snapshot
Apr 28th
I was tagged by Piper at Blithe Revival for this.
You have to take a photo of yourself as soon as you see you’ve been tagged: no time for primping. No photoshop-ing. No concealer! (unless by some miracle you already had it on).
I tag:
I don’t have a huge tag list like Piper did…so deal with it. And Missy: I better see a great pic! Make my greasey bangs happy. Jessica: Have fun with your new camera!
What is Your Child’s Safety Worth?
Apr 27th
On Thursday, I received a curious thing in the mail: a letter from the manufacturer of the car seat Adrien was sitting in at the time of the wreck (Dorel Juvenile Group). I was expecting one envelope from them — containing shipping labels with which to return said defective seat — but I received two. I also received a box from them that day, but more on that later.
I thought that maybe it would be a letter apologizing for my child’s injury…or maybe even telling me that pursuant my complaint regarding Adrien’s injury, they were going to be doing more research and possibly recalling the model. My mind even raced with the possibility that they’d gone so far as to resign to change the entire design of the seat, since, had the seat been designed differently in the first place, my poor baby wouldn’t have gotten a bump on the head and two black eyes. But no. It was none of that; nothing grand nor glorious. It was, instead, instructions on how to actually file my claim with them. Wait. Did I not just spend hours on the phone doing just that? Apparently not.
First off, the letter starts off, “Dear Name”. More >
Fountain Fun
Apr 24th
Yesterday we spent the day out and about. First we had MOPs (Mothers of Preschoolers) until noon, then we went and had lunch with Andi and finally, later, we went to the park. It’s been so incredibly hot out, even by Texas standards, for April. Yesterday it got up in the mid 90s! It’s ridiculous. I honestly don’t know how I survived the heat while pregnant last year. I really don’t. I’m already about to die and here it is, only Spring.
So anyway, there’s a big water fountain at the park that we always go to. I’m not sure if the people who built it intended it to be a quasi-spray park, but that’s what the fountain has turned out to be. On hot days all the kids go play in the water. It’s loads of fun, as we found out.
While Adrien ran around with the other kids in the water, Jude and I chilled out on the side lines. The great thing about Jude is that, due to his sensory issues, he hates the grass. That sort of makes it like there’s an imaginary electric fence surrounding our picnic blanket. It just makes things easier for me. I realize More >
Everybody Poops
Apr 22nd
Just when you think you’re playing it cool, your kid poops. Everywhere.
So I got invited over to Miss Popularity’s house today…she’s fabulous, really. (And I think everyone needs one of those fabulous friends!) So I managed to get myself bathed before the playdate. I stuck Jude in his crib and told Adrien to entertain him while I showered for dear life. Even though I was running late, I made myself and my kids look decent, stopped for coffee, and arrived — fashionably late — for Adrien and Miss Popularity Jr’s play date.
Nicole, AKA Miss Popularity, has a beautiful house. There’s a pool. She even has a veggie garden! I told you she was fabulous. Anyway, so Nicole and I were relaxing by the pool while the kids played in the sand box, when Adrien casually strolls over. Nicole says something about somebody having an accident and we both scurry off to check our kids’ respective pants. It was Adrien. Of course. I knew it was coming, he didn’t poop before we left. Oh well, another routine diaper change. Right?
No.
About the time I start to pull his shorts off, I realize there’s poop juice soaked through his shorts and crusted on his leg. Yay me. I More >