Phoebe and I are in Minneapolis right now with my parents. We are heading to Fargo for a funeral and my dad is shopping at about 10 Macy's department stores along the way for Ralph Lauren products to buy that my brothers can sell in Japan. My parents are 66 and 68 and they have about quadruple the energy I have!
It was somewhere between sitting in a vacant parking lot at 11 pm trying to figure out the GPS and trying to keep Phoebe calm at dinner before that when I realized that I am a TOTAL HOME BODY.
I always have liked to think of myself as some sort of renegade adventurer, but the truth is this: I AM SOFT.
I called Scott last night and he was sitting in his easy chair watching "Burn Notice". I was a little jealous.
I bet the house was pretty durn clean, as I was not there.
Anyway, growing up as the youngest of four kids, we always flew by the seat of our pants. My parents would decide, on a Wednesday, to go on a two week trip on a Saturday. Off we would go! We never really had schedules and our gigantic rambling house on a hill was always the place that our friends wanted to come because there was always something going on, and always delicious food cooking.
I was quite popular with my friends in high school for one reason. Well, 3 reasons, to be exact: Nathan, Daniel, and Michael, my sweet and adorable older brothers (I'm not being sarcastic - they were and still are both). It was a one-stop cute boy viewing shop for my friends!
I ate my weight in Thai food last night. Now I am feeling guilty about it. What is it with us women and our weight? Scott tells me he likes curves, but I still obsess about weight.
Why must we torture ourselves, ladies?
WHY?
I bought 10 pair of underwear for $7 at Charlotte Russe. Or was it 7 pair for $10?
Either way, that's the extent of my fashion gluttony.
Shout out to Rebecca for taking Lucy after school and being party to my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants ways. Scott went to pick Lu up and Rebecca and her family weren't there. I was arguing with Scott over whether or not Rebecca's house was white or green, and whether he was at the right house.
Rebecca, it's friends like you that allow my jet-setting ways. You take wonderful care of my daughter and take her out to eat for french fries and then come home and make macrame kitchen bowls out of nothing but hemp. I love your crafty ways.
Shame on you for enabling my behavior!
And shame on the rest of you for reading this far! Shouldn't you be doing laundry or something?
We got a call for a 3 and 4 year old sibling set the other day. I said "no".
I can't imagine going to endless shopping malls with a baby and two foster children in tow...unless...
Rebecca, are you available?
5 comments:
People actually GO to North Dakota in the winter?
I love Thai food and there is a place down the street from me where they will make everything fresh for me without any gluten ingredients! LOVE the place! Even the veggies taste good!
As you've probably guessed, I come from a family where a weekend trip would have to planned for 2 years in advance. So I'm the rebel who decides to move to another state on a 2 week warning!
I hear ya...when filling out something about "Hobbies" TRAVEL was always listed before I had children! If a friend in Dallas called for a weekend trip, 8 hours with my Lola (the black Mitsubishi Eclipse that allowed my jet setting) sounded fabulous! Music blaring, rare bathroom breaks, and a small bag with various types of clothes & shoes thrown in the hatch. It was great! It felt like freedom.
Now...I just want to get home. Even if I really enjoy a shopping trip or adventurous trip, the moment that all the bags are unpacked and I can sit on my couch is a comfy feeling. Never thought I'd be that way, but I sure am...I blame the children!!
P.S. Maybe you just consumed your portion of Thai & mine...I miss it but Kent won't eat it! So thank you!! ha! =)
I loved the "why are you still reading" part of this as out of the corner of my eye I can see the basket full of laundry that I really should be dealing with.
I have always loved to travel, and still do, but there's no chance of a spur of the moment trip anymore. I plan the dickens out of our trips and come home ready for a vacation!
You've reminded me of something funny - Mark brought a book about San Francisco for the children when he came back from his last trip. Kate liked to look at the pictures of the children playing on the beach. The other day I asked her if she wanted to come to Costco with me. She BEAMED and said "YES!" and went running upstairs for her swimsuit, and mine too. She said "We're going to Cisco!!!!". The harsh reality of a trip to a members only warehouse store was only overcome by promises of a hot dog. So I guess, she, if not I, was ready for a spur of the moment trip to the beach!
So glad you have friends and a wonderful husband that meant you could make this trip. Hurry home!
LucyLu, I had to come back to reply to your comment! It has had me giggling all night! I can remember as a child hearing about going to place and fully believing it was a "fun place" that I had in mind only to find out it was a boring adult sort of thing!
Costco definitely sounds like a more fun place than it really is!
Lets see fly by the seat of my pants trips, nope not any more! Having Two or more kids makes it not so easy.
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