WHY'S,WHY'S AND MORE WHY'S

At home this morning:

Mimi: Mom, why didn't dad kiss me good-bye this morning?
Mom: He did, you were sleeping.
Mimi: Why does dad have to go to work?
Mom: Maybe it's because we like to eat and have a roof over our heads and keep warm ya think?
Mimi:Why does dad have to come home late sometimes?
Mom: He takes the train to work and sometimes he has a lot of work to do.

At Costco (now mind you, the girl had just finished a huge breakfast about one and a half hours earlier):

Mimi: Mom, in about 5 minutes I'm going to be starving. Can I have some pizza?

I bought the girl her usual slice of Costco cheese pizza, her favorite. Another male customer asked her if she could eat that whole slice. If anyone has ever had a Costco slice pizza, they are huge so therefore I cut the guy some slack since he does not know our child very well.

After Costco we went to Fred Meyer's:

Mimi: Mom, can I go to Freddies Playland?
Mom: No.
Mimi: WHY?
Mom: They're closed.
Mimi: WHY can't I go to Freddies Playland?
Mom: They're closed.
Mimi: BUT WHY CAN'T I GO TO FREDDIES PLAYLAND???
Mom:THEY ARE CLOSED!!!
Mimi: Why?
Mom: Pat (attendent) is taking a break.
Mimi:Why does she need a break?
Mom: You know Mimi, you can drive a person to drinking in a heartbeat.
Mimi: Am I making you crazy now???

That's the understament of the year. Then I found out from Mimi tonight that the reason why Halli came downstairs sopping wet the other day was because she and Mimi were having a water spitting contest in Mimi's bathroom. Each of the the girls would fill their mouths up with water and spit on each other. EGADS! I think I need a drink right about now. All is finally quiet and peaceful in the Putney household at this moment.

ERIN AND MEEMER'S

Although the majority of the snow has melted by now, it is still considered a snow day by the school district. I really did not want to stay at home. Starting to get cabin fever ya know. So I packed everyone up in the car and off we went. First I thought that we would head over to Costco. I saw Shelley's industrial strength mixer yesterday and really want one. I'm finding that alot of the moms do baking up here in the Winter months and I am getting darn tired of mixing everything by hand. So off we went. While in the car ole' Butch started to get real ansy so I thought that first we would stop down by the lake so that he and Mimi could get the sillies out of them. When we reached the lake it was very picturesque something out of Mayberry on the old Andy Griffth show way back in the day. Kinda wished I had my camera with me darn it! There was no one there so I let Mimi and Butch run loose. They both had a grand old time together. Then on Costco we went to look for my mixer. Unfortunately they did not have it but we did see Erin and Patrick and their mom Janet. They were killing time while Liam was in school. We then went over to Fred Meyer's to check out their mixers and they did have them but they cost a whopping $249.00 therefore that killed that idea right then and there. However we did get some grocery shopping done while we were out and about. Now that we are home Mimi and Erin are playing quietly in her room and Butch is passed out cold. I may take a nap myself as I have not been getting much sleep lately.

THE WEATHERMAN WAS RIGHT

Every now and then the weatherman can be right and sure enough he was right today. It started to snow last night and continued into the wee hours of this mornig. The stinky part about living in an area where it snows is that the school board will call with the latest conditions. For the past two days Mimi has been waking up earlier than usual. This morning the school called 3 times starting at 4:30 this morning. The first call was to let us know that there will be school even though it is snowing, a little while later they called back to say that the school will start 2 hours later than usual, finally the 3rd and last call came about one hour ago to say that due to the bad road conditions there will be no school at all. I live for the day when I can sleep until 9:00 am without any interuptions. I don't think that is asking too much, do you??? Mimi is quite thrilled about snow days but she does not realize yet that it cuts into their summer vacation. The kids have to make up these snow days by going to school in the summer. Also since there is no school due to the snow, her gymanstic class is cancelled and we will have to make that up at a later day. Usually our make - up days are Monday afternoon but now that she is on the Lugnut T-Ball team, they have their practice on Mondays afterschool. So I am not quite sure what we will do at this point but I quess that I will cross that bridge when I get to it. At first living here where it snows was quite exciting but now it is starting be a drag. The novelty of it all is starting to wear off. It can really put a cramp in your daily routine.