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January 26, 2006
Shawl update ummmm not really
Ummm it looks like it did yesterday but you know bigger. Tomorrow Zoe and 4 of her closest, bestest friends will be eating chips, chex mix, pizza, cake and icecream while watching a whopping 4 movies[or choice of 4 movies] and then~ after they sleep ha ha ha~ eat donuts for breakfast before I send them off to their poor innocent parents overdosed on sugar and fat. I don't like that Zoe's idea of a real party involves a sleep ha ha ha over. If you have never hosted a sleepover trust me the ha ha has are appropriate. Last year I went to bed at 3 am and they were still up. Running wild. Like banshees. As soon as I recover from this ordeal I will be planning a nice sedate party at Build-a-Bear for Ashley. Believe it or not a Build-a-Bear party with its minimum requirements on $$$ spent still costs less than a sleep-over. In fact I spent more on junk food for one night than I spend on real food for a week. Zoe is overjoyed and informed me that I need to shop like that all the time....
OK face it I am super crabby. I hate cleaning for these parties but I always think I have to cause I know if I dropped my kids off at a dirty messy house I would worry about them eating anything or touching anything or even falling over anything. Not that my house is that bad but lets face it~ I have 3 kids and you never know about other parents standards of minimum cleanliness. I figure if the bathroom and kitchen are clean and the floor is picked up then I am doing good. Other parents might oh I don't know scrub tile grout for jollies. I don't mean to sound glib there. When I only had Zoe and I was upset over something I would get on my hands and knees with a toothbrush and scrub the kitchen floor tiles' ummm cement crap seperating them and crevices between wall and tiles. Screaming babies would have me scrubbing tons. Not while she was screaming but, you know, when she finally fell asleep I was so wound up I had to do something and why not scrub? And yes I knit at the time. I just was too wound up to knit which is a pretty sad state of affairs.
Here's hoping you never get to the point that scrubbing floors with toothbrush is more appealing than knitting! yarny days and knitterly evenings
Posted by Elka at 08:04 PM