April’s shower brings cranky mother
What do you get when you have school vacation (that’s one week loooong, Monday-Friday, 14.5 hours/day until lights out) with the forecast above?
In case you missed the forecast above, let me reiterate for you (and if you’re my friend…you wouldn’t chime in and tell me how sunny your part of the country is, just sayin’):
Monday…RAIN
Tuesday…RAIN
Wednesday…uh, R-A-I-N
Thursday…take a guess
And it’s the middle of freakin’ April for crying out loud and we still have the HEAT ON!
While Mother Nature thinks it’s really funny to be pissing down on us mortals on school break, it’s not so comical for us parents, well for me anyway, to come up with creative ways to keep the little buggers entertained.
So if you take two very antsy active boys, along with their terrible-two sister (who’s very good at imitating all the mischiefs that her older brothers get into)…what does that equate to? A very cranky beach whale of a 7.5 months pregnant mama who’s trying to keep them occupied long enough to:
-take a shower and some interrupted time on the throne without an audience in the bathroom
-enjoy 30 minutes of breakfast and catching up on reading blogs emails
-give myself a pedicure. The toe nails are kind of curled up after a few months of no trimming. It gets kind of hard bending down with this beach ball of a belly in the way
-dust the furnitures and TV that some smart-@ssed have scribbled “wash me” on them
Speaking of dusting, I better get the “How to entertain your school children when it rains cats and dogs for DUMMIES” manual off of the shelf.
The saying goes “April’s shower brings May flower” is sooo overrated! You want nice flowers? Buy silk flowers…they won’t die. And you save money on watering the real ones too, the neighbors wouldn’t know if you planted silk in the ground anyway! Who cares if you’re the only one on the block with burnt grass…that brownish blond color is in this year.
But you know, at least we’ll be indoor and enjoying the heat while those die-hard runners will be participating in the 26 miles of the famous Boston Marathon in this cold, wet and windy weather, which was dubbed the Spring Nor’easter by the way. Good luck to all you crazy the runners!!
Pass the donuts kids!
What do you get when you have school vacation (that’s one week loooong, Monday-Friday, 14.5 hours/day until lights out) with the forecast above?
In case you missed the forecast above, let me reiterate for you (and if you’re my friend…you wouldn’t chime in and tell me how sunny your part of the country is, just sayin’):
Monday…RAIN
Tuesday…RAIN
Wednesday…uh, R-A-I-N
Thursday…take a guess
And it’s the middle of freakin’ April for crying out loud and we still have the HEAT ON!
While Mother Nature thinks it’s really funny to be pissing down on us mortals on school break, it’s not so comical for us parents, well for me anyway, to come up with creative ways to keep the little buggers entertained.
So if you take two very antsy active boys, along with their terrible-two sister (who’s very good at imitating all the mischiefs that her older brothers get into)…what does that equate to? A very cranky beach whale of a 7.5 months pregnant mama who’s trying to keep them occupied long enough to:
-take a shower and some interrupted time on the throne without an audience in the bathroom
-enjoy 30 minutes of breakfast and catching up on reading blogs emails
-give myself a pedicure. The toe nails are kind of curled up after a few months of no trimming. It gets kind of hard bending down with this beach ball of a belly in the way
-dust the furnitures and TV that some smart-@ssed have scribbled “wash me” on them
Speaking of dusting, I better get the “How to entertain your school children when it rains cats and dogs for DUMMIES” manual off of the shelf.
The saying goes “April’s shower brings May flower” is sooo overrated! You want nice flowers? Buy silk flowers…they won’t die. And you save money on watering the real ones too, the neighbors wouldn’t know if you planted silk in the ground anyway! Who cares if you’re the only one on the block with burnt grass…that brownish blond color is in this year.
But you know, at least we’ll be indoor and enjoying the heat while those die-hard runners will be participating in the 26 miles of the famous Boston Marathon in this cold, wet and windy weather, which was dubbed the Spring Nor’easter by the way. Good luck to all you crazy the runners!!
Pass the donuts kids!
Well, what about printing coloring books for them? You can get them off the net?
Or come up with a contest … who gets to clean the house faster? Who gets to sweep the most dust?
Guess my brain is dead as well …
Well, they do say that April showers bring May flowers but nobody mentioned the cold!
Ha - sounds like our sweet little Waya is a bit of a crabbypants! I can’t say that I blame you considering all your circumstances - but I’m still getting a giggle out of it.
We had rain and more rain and some snow last week for the kids Spring Break.
First day of school? SUNNY and 45+ degrees!
Oh, Did I mention the 40+ mph winds that have moved through the neighborhood??
Well, at least you didn’t get 6 inches of snow like we did!
Lol.
Sorry your forcast sucks. I won’t tell you it was sunny here but I will tell you we’ve had terrible winds and our heat is still on too because our temp was only low 50’s. Yuck! where is our spring weather.
As to keep the kids occupied, give them a duster & get them to dust the “wash me” off, lol.
Good luck this week!
I can’t manage to get half your list completed even with perfect weather! And you’re 7.5 pregnant trying to do all that? Wow … I feel like a lazy slob …
THE HORROR!
No, really, I’m not being sarcastic. I only have ONE antsy boy and a terrible two. The thought of it gives me chills. And I’m not PREGNANT!
A trip to the craft store may be in order. Paint by number. Puzzles. Make it a contest (why do boys always love a contest?).
I’ll be thinking about you!
We’re into a remodel and all I can think about is being stuck with my kids out of school the rest of the week with the house torn up. I don’t care what temperature it is, I’m kicking them outside!
I won’t show you my forecast, you might lodge a drumstick down my thoat.
But if you do, make sure it’s a spicy chicken drumstick, k?
it’s so beautiful here these days that we’re expecting something dreadful like a storm or something soon.
I always say that Paris’ weather is like a woman with PMS.
Jeff~my hubbie was asking who you were referring to. Sweet? Little? I’m neither one of those but crabby…you got it right!
Here in L.A. we’re just dying to see one little raindrop.
In fact, I’m about to do a little raindance that involves running outside naked and banging some pans around.