Someone has moved into our home and taken root there. It's not someone that I want there either and I can't seem to get rid of them. That someone is "wasn't me". I am constantly hearing this name spoken and "wasn't me" is causing a lot of trouble.
Who spilled this water in the living room and didn't clean it up? "Wasn't me!" Who ate the whole brand new package of cheese? "Wasn't me!" Who left this big, huge mess right here? "Wasn't me!" Who drank the last of the milk? Who left half a tube of toothpaste in the sink? Who spilled the cereal all over the floor? Who broke this picture frame? You guessed it, "Wasn't me!" Wasn't me is becoming a real pain in my behind!
I have been trying to get rid of "Wasn't me" for quite a while now. Wasn't me is relentless though, just hangin' around, stirring up trouble, wasting my food, making a big mess and taking over my house! I hate those visitors that move in and refuse to leave. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get rid of "Wasn't me", I'm all ears!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Telephone
A friend of mine forgot her cell phone at home today. All we have heard today is, "If I had my phone I could tell you." haha How true that statement is! We have come to rely on our cell phones so much! This of course started quite the discussion!
Remember a day when we didn't have cell phones? Whatever did we do?! My grandma used to run the phone office in the small town where I grew up. She was the operator for that small town and her family lived in back of that office. If you wanted to make a call, you picked up and asked the operator to connect you.
The phone I remember when I was a kid was the rotary dial phones and the handset was tethered to the base. There was the kind that hung on the wall and the kind that sat on the table. I remember how tired my finger would get dialing. It was so exciting when they came out with the push button phone! You were still tethered though, so you had to sit where the phone was. Then they came out with longer, thinner, sleeker phone that was either rotary or push button. You could get a super long cord so you could walk around with the phone instead of sit in one spot.
Then there was the cordless phone! Oh happy day! You could go pretty much anywhere as long as you were a certain number of feet within the base!
Our parents didn't have a way of keeping constant tabs on us like we do now. They didn't have gps or cell phones. We went outside in the morning and we were gone until dinner. We roamed the neighborhood and our parents didn't worry. Because I grew up in a small town, my mom always knew where we were and what we were doing because other parents would always tell her. That's how she lived without a cell phone!
Cell phones have changed a lot too. There was the bag phone and the brick phone. The brick phone was a monster of a phone, probably weighed 5 pounds! You could get a workout just by talking on the phone! Then they got smaller and smaller until they were so small, they could fit in your pocket. Now cellphones are computers. They have gotten thinner, but with bigger screens so you can use the internet, type up a document, play games, keep constant tabs on your kids, open car doors, monitor home security, I use mine for internet provider for my laptop, a calendar, phone book, and so much more! My whole world is on my phone and that is why I have taken to writing stuff in other places, just in case. They are portable so they can be taken anywhere. You can talk to someone without actually having voice contact. Most people don't have home phones anymore, just several cell phones. That is how it is in our house. I did that so my kids would have a phone when the went to the park or to a friend's house.
A while back, I forgot to take my phone to the grocery store. Ok, so it was 1 mile away from my house and I felt completely naked and vulnerable without it! My son was home alone! What if something happened! How would he reach me?! I was gone for 20 minutes and it was the longest, most stressful 20 minutes! It is amazing how much we have come to rely on those little electronic gadgets. It's going to be a sad, scary day if we ever lose cell phones!
I think I will tell my friend to check out this blog post...oh wait, she doesn't have her phone!
Remember a day when we didn't have cell phones? Whatever did we do?! My grandma used to run the phone office in the small town where I grew up. She was the operator for that small town and her family lived in back of that office. If you wanted to make a call, you picked up and asked the operator to connect you.
The phone I remember when I was a kid was the rotary dial phones and the handset was tethered to the base. There was the kind that hung on the wall and the kind that sat on the table. I remember how tired my finger would get dialing. It was so exciting when they came out with the push button phone! You were still tethered though, so you had to sit where the phone was. Then they came out with longer, thinner, sleeker phone that was either rotary or push button. You could get a super long cord so you could walk around with the phone instead of sit in one spot.
Our parents didn't have a way of keeping constant tabs on us like we do now. They didn't have gps or cell phones. We went outside in the morning and we were gone until dinner. We roamed the neighborhood and our parents didn't worry. Because I grew up in a small town, my mom always knew where we were and what we were doing because other parents would always tell her. That's how she lived without a cell phone!
A while back, I forgot to take my phone to the grocery store. Ok, so it was 1 mile away from my house and I felt completely naked and vulnerable without it! My son was home alone! What if something happened! How would he reach me?! I was gone for 20 minutes and it was the longest, most stressful 20 minutes! It is amazing how much we have come to rely on those little electronic gadgets. It's going to be a sad, scary day if we ever lose cell phones!
I think I will tell my friend to check out this blog post...oh wait, she doesn't have her phone!
Alone Time
Alone time is such a rare thing in my life that I like to take advantage when I do have it. Some people go out when they have alone time. I very rarely do. I prefer to stay home. Alone time, no matter how old you are, is so very important to a person's sanity. Even my 12 year old son has come to understand this. He likes to stay home alone when my daughter and I go to the store. I think that is so he gets a break from his sister bothering him so much!
My sister and brother-in-law and his dad and sister took 6 kids, mine included, to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days. I missed them like crazy, but like my friend said, it is good to miss our kids. It's also good for them to miss me. We needed the time apart. When they got home, none of us fought and they just told me all about how much fun they had. My daughter was exhausted though, poor girl. She fell asleep on the couch at 7:30 pm.
My kids had a great time! They went to Lee's Ferry, saw the Grand Canyon, did some hiking and walking and went to sunset crater. They are friends with the other kids so a good time was had by all!! I think the adults that went are very brave for taking all those kids! Hopefully, I will be able to post some scenic pictures of their trip soon!
I went swimming, twice, without my kids screaming, yelling and cannonballing. What a relaxing thing, although I did a workout in the pool so that doesn't count as relaxing I guess. I did some house cleaning, canned apricot jam and syrup, visited with a friend, talked to my baby sister on the phone, watched tv online, took a nap, ate dinner out with my mom, helped a friend pack because she is moving and just enjoyed the peace and quiet.
Maybe after school starts, mondays off won't be so bad!
My sister and brother-in-law and his dad and sister took 6 kids, mine included, to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days. I missed them like crazy, but like my friend said, it is good to miss our kids. It's also good for them to miss me. We needed the time apart. When they got home, none of us fought and they just told me all about how much fun they had. My daughter was exhausted though, poor girl. She fell asleep on the couch at 7:30 pm.
My kids had a great time! They went to Lee's Ferry, saw the Grand Canyon, did some hiking and walking and went to sunset crater. They are friends with the other kids so a good time was had by all!! I think the adults that went are very brave for taking all those kids! Hopefully, I will be able to post some scenic pictures of their trip soon!
I went swimming, twice, without my kids screaming, yelling and cannonballing. What a relaxing thing, although I did a workout in the pool so that doesn't count as relaxing I guess. I did some house cleaning, canned apricot jam and syrup, visited with a friend, talked to my baby sister on the phone, watched tv online, took a nap, ate dinner out with my mom, helped a friend pack because she is moving and just enjoyed the peace and quiet.
Maybe after school starts, mondays off won't be so bad!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Monsoon
Last night I had the strangest dream. I dreamt I was living in Seattle and I absolutely loved it! That is, until Mt. St. Helen's erupted and threw ash all over the place. It looked like the apocolypse. I wonder why I dreamed that? Maybe it is my love of the rain and the fact that we actually had rain yesterday? But what about the volcano thing? Maybe telling me even though rain is good, Seattle is not the place for me? Anyway, kind of weird.
I love monsoon season. I know I've talked about this before. The moisture that comes up from Mexico every afternoon in the summer and puts on quite a show for us here in the great southwest. Lightning streaks across the sky so much that it is like a strobe light. The constant roll of thunder and torrential rains. Rains that come so fast and hard that it floods everything. The wind and lightning knock down trees and takes the power out. Some of the craziest storms I have ever been in have been during the monsoon.
The storms were more frequent when I was a kid it seemed. I remember nearly everyday in the summer standing in the window watching the sky hoping the storms would hold off until after 3:00 pm so we could go swimming. We had to go at 1:00 pm because my mom would come home for lunch and then drive us to the pool on her way back to work. She worked down the block from the pool. Now we don't seem to get nearly as many storms as we used to. At least not here in the hot, hot desert.
The last few days we have had some really good storms, but they all seem to happen when I am in bed sleeping or when I'm at work. Yesterday they actually hit after I got home! I was able to enjoy the show mother nature put on for us and it was one crazy show! When it was all over we drove to my mom's for a few minutes and saw several trees that were casualties of the storm and lots of flooding. Water so deep that you couldn't drive in the street and you couldn't see the sidewalks because they were underwater. A friend of mine just posted on fb pictures of our neighborhood park that turned into a lake! Her kids were out kayaking in it! LOL! I wish I would have thought to go by the park and take some pictures of that! Next time I will remember that. Monsoon season is awesome!
I love monsoon season. I know I've talked about this before. The moisture that comes up from Mexico every afternoon in the summer and puts on quite a show for us here in the great southwest. Lightning streaks across the sky so much that it is like a strobe light. The constant roll of thunder and torrential rains. Rains that come so fast and hard that it floods everything. The wind and lightning knock down trees and takes the power out. Some of the craziest storms I have ever been in have been during the monsoon.
The storms were more frequent when I was a kid it seemed. I remember nearly everyday in the summer standing in the window watching the sky hoping the storms would hold off until after 3:00 pm so we could go swimming. We had to go at 1:00 pm because my mom would come home for lunch and then drive us to the pool on her way back to work. She worked down the block from the pool. Now we don't seem to get nearly as many storms as we used to. At least not here in the hot, hot desert.
The last few days we have had some really good storms, but they all seem to happen when I am in bed sleeping or when I'm at work. Yesterday they actually hit after I got home! I was able to enjoy the show mother nature put on for us and it was one crazy show! When it was all over we drove to my mom's for a few minutes and saw several trees that were casualties of the storm and lots of flooding. Water so deep that you couldn't drive in the street and you couldn't see the sidewalks because they were underwater. A friend of mine just posted on fb pictures of our neighborhood park that turned into a lake! Her kids were out kayaking in it! LOL! I wish I would have thought to go by the park and take some pictures of that! Next time I will remember that. Monsoon season is awesome!
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