September 1st, 2007 | 
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Why does my daughter insist on putting food in her hair?
And of course, spaghetti is her favorite.
1. eat meatballs first
2. pick up noodle
3. suck sauce off noodle
4. place noodle on your head
What is that about?
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guess who is walking!
this should work! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqg2HNy6I18
How does a lazy mom avoid an obnoxious birthday party? We take a a trip!
Seriously, birthday parties done at home can get terribly expensive, and have moms like me running to the medicine cabinet for a pain pill. Cake, goody bags, decorations, food, games….ugh no thanks.
So this year, I proposed a NEW idea.
“Hey Maeve, why don’t we take you and your bff to the city, and we can stay in a HOTEL?”
At first she thought that would be REALLY cool. Then she realized that would mean, not a lot of presents from friends. Hmm, big decisions. She finally agreed. I hopped onto Hotwire, and found a 4 star hotel for $79! Geesh, if we just went to the movies with 6 kids, I’d be paying WAY more than that!
So we checked into the hotel.
I took the girls to a nice restaurant, where they proceeded to get “kids meal pizzas” and we ordered a cake.
The hotel had a roof top pool so they swam for 3 hours, and then we rented a movie.
In the morning, my mom had them come to the spa she works at for mani’s and pedi’s.
It’s good to be 8.
total cost of the birthday:
hotel: $79 plus tax
dinner and cake: $50 ( I had salad and wine, because I’m smart)
Movie: $10
spa day: FREE!
Brilliant? Yes, I am.
The kids were having fun at first.
Maeve was in the parade:
and we took Brinn to watch the parade…
But the day went from fun,
and 
to
so we went home.
There are 2 things I can pretty much guarantee about this wife in Stepford:
1. I have the saddest selection of shoes
2. I have the least amount of clothing
I’m sick of wearing fucking yoga pants everywhere in my old beat up running shoes. When I go to the gym, the janitorial crew looks better than I do.
That is all.
