My Real Life

1.  Addendum to Truthful Tuesday:

Can’t believe that I left my favorite show off of the Truthful Tuesday post from this week.

How I Met Your Mother.

I will never delete this show.  Makes me laugh like crazy.

Neil Patrick Harris is unparalleled, and the rest of the cast is equally as hilarious.

(Yes, I realize that he actually IS paralleled if the rest of the cast is EQUALLY as hilarious.  You know what I mean, though.  I know you do.)

Love. That. Show.

2.  Being awakened at 2:15 am from an 8 year old with an ear infection wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t have to get out of bed to get the Tylenol.

Because, everyone knows that once you get out of bed, you are done with sleep for the night.

3.  Have seen the Hunger Games twice, now.

Once with Real Man, once with my 8th graders.

Peeta was miscast.

There should have been much more of Gale.

MUCH more of Gale.

4.  Heading to Washington, D.C. with my 8th graders next week.

Preparing myself for the verbal beatings I will endure from my fellow chaperones over the fanny pack I wear every year.

5.  The monkeys have discovered a new app for the iPad called “Happy Snowflake.”  It lets them cut snowflake after snowflake after snowflake, and save them all to a gallery.

I love this app because it feeds their creativity, they are actually using some geometric principles while playing, and, most importantly, I don’t wind up with a bag of snowflakes or a floor full of cuttings.

6.  Real Man’s cell contract was up last week.  In getting a new phone, he decided to try to get us a new plan, as well, because I go over my 200 texting minutes every month, and he is always way under.  We have over 2,000 rollover voice minutes, though, because we rarely talk on our cell phones.

In his conversations with AT&T they tried to tell him that he had to upgrade our voice plan in order to upgrade our text plan.  He said, “So, you want me to pay $10 more for something I don’t use so I can pay $20 more for something else?”

It took over an hour and three different cases to be opened before they finally “found a plan” that would allow us to lower the voice and raise the text.

Nonsense.

7.  I love when babies learn a new word.

This week, Michael learned “yellow.”

He was holding a yellow toy and said, “Yellow.”

We clapped and cheered and made a big deal and were calling Harvard about scholarship opportunities.

And then he picked up his blue toy and said “yellow.”

Parents are silly.

8.  I love Zumba for the Wii.

I’m currently borrowing Zumba and Zumba 2 for the Wii from some colleagues.

It totally rocks my socks.

I’ve made a few custom playlists, and when I get to it, I am a Zumba-ing fool.

I love a Latin beat, and I love that there are elements of Indian dance in there, as well.

It’s a great, fun workout if you love to dance.

Which I do.

9.  Michaela has a new page on Facebook that I’d like you to check out.

It’s called “Bites of the Big Apple.”

It’s stretching her creative legs and sharing her love of all things NYC.

She’s amazing, and I’d love for you to check her out!

10.  I’m wondering if anyone else has ever had to have this conversation.

Child:  “It’s not fair.”

Me:  “What’s not fair?”

Child:  “That you get a Mother’s Day and Daddy gets a Father’s Day, but there is no Children’s Day.”

Me:  “Honey…every day is Children’s Day.”

Child:  “No, it’s not!”

Me:  “Believe me.   It is.”

I know I can’t be the only one.

11.  I wouldn’t have slept for the rest of my life.

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