The Husband… his eyes burning with condemnation… as he stared at me through the innocent stair rails… He said, and I DO believe he seethed these words in ALL CAPS:
AND YOU KNOW THIS ALLLLLLLL HAPPENS BECAUSE YOU BLOG.
Whu? Who? Me???
Here’s what happened. It was a long weekend. A full weekend. A long a full weekend. To the tune of 3 children in 5 plays (the same one, but 5 shows), one gymnastics show, 4 or 5 meals out, one Jingle Bell Run
I made the local news for that… but they edited out my best line. You know the one…
Wait for it…
MADE OUT OF AWESOME.
Edited. Out. That was NOT made out of awesome.
I digress…
My friend Patti took pictures… Here’s me and something about spirits before the run:
Here’s a picture of me after the run… all bleary eyed, and missing one cute red ribbon from my hair…
Andalsosomuch, though the color of my skin might suggest otherwise… I do not have a case of the jaundiced. That was just bad lighting. I’m serious.
Oh yeah… with narry a 15 minutes to spare at any point on Sunday… we all made it home around 9 p.m. with my sis, bro, and mama -in-law and nephew… so we could celebrate our Christmas together. We are just way to busy for each other to make it happen ON Christmas, ya know? Aaaanywho…
9 p.m. on Sunday night…
Once the paninis were grilled and coffee drank and banana cream pie consumed… the kids opened presents and then ate their caramel apples…
And in the blink of an eye (a couple-a hours) … the in-laws drove away so as not to miss the next ferry and the children headed up to brush their teeth and the dog peed on my bedroom floor and my husband cleaned it up and I put a towel on the wet spot and I headed downstairs to curse our fool dog out of the children’s ear-range and then the 4 year old peed on the towel that covered the cleaned-up dog pee mess.
ON. THE. TOWEL.
True story.
It was at that point my husband looked at me between my fair stair railings and said,
AND YOU KNOW THIS ALLLLLLLL HAPPENS BECAUSE YOOOOOU BLOG.
Crack smoker.
The nerve. And I totally know what he means.
Mah bloggahs… I KNOW y’alls know what he means.
And then this morning I was all “You wanna know what ELSE happens because I blog? Wanna know, huh, huh??? I just won AWESOME ITSELF for doing a meme *neenerneener crack smoker*. My post Wishy, Wishy won the random draw at the Todays Mama’s Holiday Wishlist Giveaway. All kidding aside… this news made me cry great-big happy tears. That bike. Be still. My. Heart.
And also BECAUSE I BLOG…. YOU, my friends have a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card! My kids tried out the new Tom’s of Maine Silly Strawberry toothpaste…. we even made a video! But you’ll need to head over there to enter for your chance! Good luck!
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Ok. Jenny. I JUST happened upon your blog from the Today’s Mama website, because I saw you won, and I was like “Who is this Jenny on the Spot?” And I just have to say I LOVE YOUR BLOG! You are sooooo funny, and maybe that is partly because I ‘get you’. Like, things that you speak of, I thought only happened to me, and it makes me laugh because I am not the only one!!! Hooray! I shall save this blog for frequent reading! Keep up the good work! ;-)
I’m always so excited when the cat hurls on the hardwood instead of the carpet. Towel pee sounds pretty dreamy to me!
Thank you for being you:)
If only every pee accident could occur on a towel…
Soooooo happy you won the Todays Mamas giveaway! Yeahhhhhh! It’s almost like I won, but better :)!
Merry early Christmas! Soooo good that you blog, huh?
jyl
It’s just not the holidays without one pee incident:)
At least they peed on the towel and not on the dog. Cuz you know it could happen.
Oh sure, it’s ALLLLLLLL your fault!