Urgh. I always forget how hot summer is when I'm wishing for it in the dead of winter. Ironically, I do not wish for the dead of winter in the sweltering summer- though I do long for spring or fall. This summer is going to be more tolerable I think, for a few reasons...
Yosi can walk, so I don't have to carry her around all day, increasing my body temperature by, like, 10 degrees.
David has caved and permitted an air conditioner upstairs. Now that it seems to be working properly, I've had 2 good night's sleep in a row; they could only be better if they were longer.
Yosi LOVES swimming. We went to the city pool yesterday, for the first time this year, and she was in her element. I think I was only successful in seperating her from the water because she was exhausted (tho she would loathe to admit it). Alas, I'm afraid all the water she swallowed carried one too many germs. She has had a runny nose and felt a little extra warm today. This will be added to the list of WHY we need a kiddy pool in our backyard- no matter how "white trash" David thinks we'll look. (Because, the set up below doesn't look trashy- it's just desperate! *lol*)
Yosi can walk, so I don't have to carry her around all day, increasing my body temperature by, like, 10 degrees.
David has caved and permitted an air conditioner upstairs. Now that it seems to be working properly, I've had 2 good night's sleep in a row; they could only be better if they were longer.
Yosi LOVES swimming. We went to the city pool yesterday, for the first time this year, and she was in her element. I think I was only successful in seperating her from the water because she was exhausted (tho she would loathe to admit it). Alas, I'm afraid all the water she swallowed carried one too many germs. She has had a runny nose and felt a little extra warm today. This will be added to the list of WHY we need a kiddy pool in our backyard- no matter how "white trash" David thinks we'll look. (Because, the set up below doesn't look trashy- it's just desperate! *lol*)
Last, but not least, seeing Yosi in her sunglasses. Adorably hilarious. They sit a bit crooked on her nose b/c her ears are uneven, but this only makes it more adorable. Oh, AND she looks adorable in summer clothes that expose her ever perfect tan and sweet chubby limbs.
A couple of weekends ago, we took a mini-vaca (just D'n'I) to Chicago. We stayed with a couple of bachelor friends. Saturday night on our way to a concert, we stopped to eat at a bar/restaurant. At one point I went to the restroom, which was crammed with women, most of whom seemed 10-15 years older than me (tho this is probably inaccurate, since I still feel like anyone 30 or above is 10 years older than me, even tho I'll be the big 3-0 in, uh, 3 years...) dressed for a "girls night out". While I was waiting for a stall, one gal "shouted" to another gal: "How are you're kids?". The mom questioned was standing next to me- stick thin, perfect hair and nails, fixing some invisible flaw in her immaculate make up. "Oh, they are perfect and F*******awesome!" she said with a flourish. I looked down so as to hopefully hide my sneer. The mom in the stall replied "Whenever I read Fancy [or something like that- the name of some uppity children's book] to my daughter I think of you!" Mom at the mirror: " Did I tell you? 'Benny' vomitted at the whole foods market the other day, and I had to clean it up!" I presume the nanny had the day off, and am bemused to note that this must've made Benny seem a little less "perfect and awesome". I chuckle inwardly. Soon I was rushing back to the table to dish to the guys about the hilarity of the Snobby Ritzy Mom's Group. The fellows were kind and didn't look at me too cross-eyed. Just thinking about it still makes me snicker. It was like watching a clip from "The Nanny" in real life. Since I've become a mom, I've felt a lot of comraderie and mutual sympathy with women I thought I had very little in common with. But THAT kind of mom, well, I confess, I just don't get it- or at least, I hope I never do. But I can't help but wonder (with dread)- do I have more in common with them than I know?
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I wonder if David thought pools in the backyard were 'white trash' when we had them when he was little? *lol*
Of course, Diane, our neighbor in Florida, did say she liked having us next door. Something about she didn't feel she had to compete with us to keep up. This was said just after papa got out of our 18" deep pool where his feet touched the opposite side when he sat down.
Now that we have tans, maybe we would be considered brown trash, since we just bought an outside pool, LOL!
BTW~ Funny bathroom story. ;]
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