Keep Your Lips

It's Monday already. That was fast. How did your weekend go? Here's a summary of mine--

* Fri.--Hubbs, My Dad and His Dad (it takes a village) finished putting a new floor in the bathroom.
--Hubbs went to Reserve Duty for the weekend.
*Sat.--My Dad (aka. MacGyver) finished up the bathroom.
--Spent too much money at Walmart on CLEANING supplies. Hate that.
--Dinner at my Mom and Dad's. Yum.
*Sun.--Church
--Drop kiddos off at Gma and Papa's
--Go to lunch/movie w/my sister-in-law and Baby Girl's Mom

No wonder it's Monday already. But I can't complain, I have a new bathroom floor. My kiddos joyfully exclaimed, "WE HAVE A NEW HOUSE!" Yes, they get just as excited about tile as I do.

We got the tile a year ago. Yes, a year. Last November we replaced the--ugh--carpet in our bedroom bathroom and it only took us another year to get to the "main" bathroom. Next up, laundry room. Hopefully, I won't be telling you about it a year from now. It's just how it is because you gots to have the time, money and energy to do it. And sometimes it takes a while to get those three things all at once.

It would help if the hubbs was home for more than two days in a row. Or should I say, 8 hours in a row? That's my (little) vent for the day. Hubbs got home from Reserve duty last night at around 8 p.m. He left for the airport at about 3:30 a.m. this morn. This is my life. His life. Poor guy. I don't know *how* he does this. And how does he look so darn good doing it? I get seven hours of sleep instead of eight and I look like a werewolf! I think work (projects/deadlines/travel) chaos is COMPLETELY different from home (kiddos/wife/dog/cat/bathroom floor) chaos for him. He thrives under the work chaos. Loves the challenge, I think. He sleeps under the home chaos. And what I mean by "sleeps", I mean, "goes in the garage". He sleeps at church.

Speaking of church. Yesterday we found out church is starting up a children's choir. Awesome. The only problem is, that it's for 1st grade-6th grade. Good for O, bad for A-girl. This has become a new issue for us. We'll call it, "Things That O Can Do That A-girl Is Not Big Enough To Do". Yeah, my little one is having a hard time with this. Besides the fact that she thinks she is a 15-yr-old girl hopelessly trapped in a 5-yr-old's body, she just adores her big sis and hates to be without her.

Recently, O got invited to her first birthday sleepover. We've managed to avoid the sleepovers for a while now. She actually got invited to her first one in Kindergarten. Even though we knew the people really well, we felt like this was something O could wait for. She was too young. So (what felt like way back then), we told her we'd talk about it again when she was seven. It seemed so far away. Well, now she's seven and we are there again. And since we know the family very well, and their kids basically live here and vise versa and they live very close (in case we have to make a 2 a.m. trip to pick her up), we've decided she can go. This is not going over very well with A-girl. It breaks my heart, but this stuff just isn't going away. It's the first of many, many times we will have to deal with this. So we vowed to make it a special time for her at home with boring old mom and dad. We'll try to keep her good and happy (distracted) with a cousin, bowling, ice cream and possibly a clown. We finally talked her down from that, and now the church choir. Poor thing.

I know that the sleepover thing is controversial. Because I think I am THE ONLY one that is freaking out about it. I feel like a major strict mom, cuz I have waited FOR SO LONG to let my kid go to a sleepover. But looking back, I didn't go to my first sleepover until I was in like 5th grade. Of course, it could be that I didn't have friends before then, but I'm sticking w/the "not until your old enough" bit. AND when I think back, I probably should not have been allowed to stay at the house I stayed at. I. would. never.

But anyway...I know what a big dealie the sleepovers are. They were my favorite growing up. I think they are a right of passage growing up. I literally gasped when my hubbs told me his mom never allowed him to stay the night (we won't say "sleepover,"--it just sounds too weird when you're referring to boys) at anyones house. Ever. I feel bad for him (he's seems to be okay with it though). But maybe it wasn't such a big deal with boys. I have no idea. It WAS a huge deal for girls though. Can you say "Request and Dedication", make up, manicures/pedicures/facials (yes, it's just like "Grease"), BOY TALK, movies, eating pizza, popcorn, ice cream, cookie dough, BOY TALK, MTV, staying up all night, lots of giggling and drama and more BOY TALK? It.was.the.best. That was in Jr. High and High School though. What the heck do they do in 2nd grade? I'm scared.

This is bringing back some memories, y'all. I think I'm gonna have to blog about the sleepovers more at a later time. When I'm just talking about ME and not my *gulp* daughters.

On a completely other note...I saw The Women yesterday. It was aaaaaaall riiiiight...you can guess it's a chick flick. Lots of women. Everyone is in it. There is a lot of plastic surgery going on. Not so much the theme of the movie, but HIGHLY noticeable. Let me just say....I cannot get past Meg Ryan's new lips. What the heck? WHY did she do that?! WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHHHHY?! Bette Midler was FREAKING ME OUT too. It was no Mama Mia (See--I'm In Looooove...And Other Things). Well, because nothing is Mama Mia, except well, Mama Mia. Not even close for me. It wasn't a bad movie (everyone did a good job in it--you go Annette Bening!), but I will say there was a bit of relief when it was over. It might be cuz it was ALL women (go figure). Not a man in sight. I think I missed the men. REALLY missed the men. I don't even know who. Just mens.

I did leave the movie wondering who I wanted to be more like...Meg Ryan's character or Debra Messing's (I tend to do this--that and wanting to live in the house that was in the movie). There is one part where she is in labor that is flipping HILARIOUS. I'm laughing out loud right now as I type this out. You might have to see this movie just to see that part. HILARIOUS. She did good. I like that Debra Messing girl. She is adorable. A big reason could also be that she still has her own lips.