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.

MORE T-BALL INFO

Yesterday Shelley and Brandy came over to the house for lunch while the girls were in school. Shelley says that she does not know what she was thinking when she signed Zoe up for T-Ball because she also signed her up for Spring soccer and they turn out to have the same practice days and game days. Keri did the same for Blake. Shelley also signed up her older daughter Alleya for Spring soccer. She was just beside herself when she realized what she had done. Then when Zoe found out the she will be on the same team as Mimi, Erin and Blake, she said that she wanted out of soccer. Shelley still has Alleya to worry about and how she is going to be able to handle taking Alleya to soccer and Zoe to T-Ball at the same time. Meanwhile she still has 4 year old Braden to tote around. I told her that Zoe is more than welcomed to come with Mimi and I when we go to the T-Ball practices and games. I think that will be a load off of her mind. Hopefully she will be able to get a refund from the soccer. As far as Mimi goes, my thinking (as I am sure of dad's thinking) school work is first and foremost and as far as the extracurricular things such as piano and sports, well that comes second. In the meantime I am trying not to load her up with too much stuff at one time. So for now it is piano once a week, gymnastics 2x's a week, then T-Ball in Spring, swimming in Summer, soccer in Fall, skiing in Winter. It seems to be working out just great for now. Dad is especially happy with the skiing because he says that because she is doing much better at skiing now, he can actually ski with her instead of picking her up all of the time. It's also a plus because it gives them some father/daughter time together. With his work schedule as rough and tight as it is we squeeze as much family time is as much as we can. She is just growing up way too fast to let it pass by.

3 GGGGHOSTS!!!

Ater school the girls came over to the house. Whoever said that girls don't play rough like boys are LYING!!! Mimi and her friends were just running a muck around the house upstairs and downstairs and you can't send them outside because it was rainning as all get out. Katrina (friend) once told me that when the kids are in school they have to mind their P's 'n' Q's so that when they get home or if they feel comfortable in a friends home, they let all of the anxieties out. So I am real happy that these girls feel real comfortable in our house to let their guard down. Not long after Zoe left for home, Halli came downstairs sopping wet. I then went upstairs to see what was going on and apparently the girls had decided to have a water fight in Mimi's bathroom. There was water everywhere! I can't wait for summer to start, then they can have all of the water fights they want to their little hearts content in our backyard. Unfortunately the weatherman says that we are to get more snow tomorrow evening and into Thursday.

T-BALL

Our Mimi is a super duper athletic girl. Now that the official skiing lessons are over (still has one make-up class to do), T-Ball is getting ready to start in one week. Just now received a e-mail from her new coach. It seems that Mimi, Blake, Zoe, Erin and Ryan are all going to be on the same team. YIPEE! Their team name is get this--- the Lugnuts!!! I'm still rolling on the floor with laughter. That's right-the lugnuts. Apparently they are some team out of Lansing Michigan and according to the coach they have really cool jerseys.

ONE MORE FULL RICH DAY

It's back to the old grind again. This morning while Shelley had some errands to do, Zoe hung out with Mimi and myself. First we hit up Ms Celia's place for our weekly piano lessons, then it was time to head over to Costco for pizza lunch and a few groceries. The girls really loved sitting in the cart and eating their pizza while I pushed them throughout the store. Of course we had to buy a couple of dvd's while there. That is one of my weaknesses. While there they saw Hannah who is a classmate of theirs doing the same thing as we were. Then it was time to head home. We had a little time for them to play at home. Erin came to join us for a while. Soon it was 12:30 and time to head over to the school. The girls had loads of fun pushing little Liam around in his trike. As soon as I got home it was time to do a bit of house cleanning before Eileen came over to drop off the Girl Scout cookies. Everyone knows that I am a sucker for buying those cookies. Between dad and myself we bought 8 boxes! I found out that you could store them in the freezer and that they taste great in the summer months yet to come. Eileen stayed for a while to visit and next thing I knew it was time to pick Mimi up from school. By the time we got home, she went with Erin to her house for a while and I realized that I had not even eaten breakfast nor lunch! It was 4:00 in the afternoon and I was quite hungry needless to say. I had just enough time to get a quick bite to eat before it was time to take care of the animals and pick up Mimi from Erin's as I still had a few more errands to do before going over to Ling Ling's house for our monthly buddhist study meeting. As soon as I picked up Mimi, she tells me that she is starving but we still had to make a stop at the bank, send "George" to the roomba center to get fixed and pick up dad's hair supply from Maya's. When all was said and done we headed over to Red Robin's for dinner then on to Ling Ling's. I must also mention that our child the early bird woke up at 2:30 in the !@#$% morning THIS MORNING! I finally was able to get her to go back to bed but I unfortunately did not get much sleep and I am now dead on my feet.