holiday doctor appointments

today i went to the doctors. my girls had follow-ups for their pneumonia. {you will all be happy to know they have a clean bill of health.} however, half of america was in there and i will tell you this... they do NOT have clean bills of health. in fact, i now know why the economy is failing. nobody is at work. they're all at the doctors.

there was a woman in there with her two boys. the older son was 3 and the younger son was 1. she was tall and blonde and had a butt that screamed "i do lounges for hours everyday"... {and she was proud to show it off in tight yoga pants for all of the office to see} ... i noticed her right off the bat, not for her backside that i envied {man, it would take me twice as many lounges to even come close to that} but because she was one of those "out-spoken, loud" type of waiting room patrons.

i applaud mothers that stick to their guns. i do. but in a jampacked waiting room with 40 other people, i wasn't sure if her actions were appropriate. let me explain...

the 3 year old took a chair away from his 1 year old brother. his mother then told him to give it back or face 3 minutes of time-out. he gave her a blank stare. she counted to 3. LOUDLY. she took him away SCREAMING. she sat him in the chair and walked away. he kicked. he screamed. he bit the leather chair. he licked the leather chair. and he did it all for 3 minutes. three full minutes. she didn't try to be quiet about it. she commandeered the entire waiting room. my girls could do nothing but stare along with the 40 other people in there. forget dora on the flatscreen... you couldn't even hear the t.v., let alone see past the "show" to see the tv.

i didn't know if i should be annoyed at the fact that she couldn't just let it slide for the sake of not making the hectic waiting room even MORE hectic, or if i should applaud her for sticking to her guns and not bending the rules because they weren't at home.

but then it happened again. this time, with the one year old. how can you leave a one year old in timeout at a doctor's office? it was the longest minute of my life. and after that minute i knew the answer to my question.

leave the timeouts at home.

other people have to survive that horrible wait.

don't make it worse for people than it already VISIBLY is.

end of my story.

{oh, and merry christmas!}

woot woot!

I am a winnuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

{winner winner chicken dinner}

what a great day in america.

neighborly neighbors

don't you love a good neighbor? i didn't realize how great they were until we actually had a set. that we liked.

we've lived in this house for over 6 years and this year was the first we'd actually became friends with a set of neighbors. i thought it was overrated until we met the vanns.

so this morning was my OH-so-important meeting with that VERY important man. mrs. vann kindly called me to see if i'd like her to take ethan up to the school this morning, along with her twins for the breakfast, workshop, and pictures.

{what?! you mean.... i might get the chance to stay in my jammies a little longer and actually enJOY my coffee? }

i took the deal. i took it faster than i thought i was physically able to take things. i don't think she even finished asking her question before she had her answer.

of course... i try to do the same for her sometimes. in fact, i offered to keep their 2 year old tonight while the parents and twins are in a parade. so...this, my friends, is why having neighbors is great. especially co-oping parents.

but to answer some of your questions... yes, i really was looking forward to going and enjoying this time with my kids. however, sometimes things pop up and all of the sudden you are sick to your stomach. so then you really don't look forward to going anymore. and that's ok. it's called life happens. we're very used to that around here these days.

so in lieu of all of us going up there for "the meeting" i get to blog and drink coffee and my lovely hubbie gets to go up on the roof and attach christmas lights to the house. it was kind of.... meant to be. wouldn't you think?

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beautiful.

it's frideeeeeeeeee!

it's friday. and you know what that means... another busy weekend. we've got a very important meeting tomorrow with an extremely important man. i would tell you who he is but i don't want you getting all jealous on me, and such. well. ok. fine. we're having breakfast with santa. shhhhh. i don't need the entire world to know he's in town. because, you see, if we're not part of the first 200 people there, we don't get fed. i mean we still get to see santa, but, well, you know... some would say i'm driven by food.

{i think they're right, but that's not the point.}

after that we get to go to a parade out in the county. there's another one in the city that night, but... it's a little too chaotic for me. not to mention, i get free hot chocolate at the county parade.

we still need to put up our christmas lights on the house, so cross your fingers we get that done folks! it makes coming home all the better each night. i love it. and beyond doing all things christmas, i really want to take the opportunity to relax. if you can recall, my thanksgiving weekend {all four days of it} were very busy. i would love to be able to finish my 2nd twilight novel. "novel." maybe during sunday afternoon football while the girls are a-nappin'.

happy friday to all, and to all a happy friday.