"I wuv you mommy." Shep says it a lot. Eva Rose has not said it to me but told me the other day "I love Nina." Who is Nina? Our MAID.  She loves the maid. Not her mommy, the maid.

Ingrate.

 Today my first daughter was THE DEVIL. She is very very TWO. She does not seem to throw normal tantrums when she does not get what she wants, she uses this devil voice to scream at you. Picture REDRUM. Or the Exorcist. I am serious, it hurts my ears and my spine and it is NOT cute. And then Miss Maggie Belle, she has learned how to pull up in her crib but not how to get down. So her thing is to stand up the whole time she is supposed to be napping and alternately yell and giggle. And so I go up, lie her down, and before i am down the stairs, she is up again. She did not nap ALL day today. I was so aggravated when my mom called she threatened to call CPS on me and I actually told her to go ahead, I could use the break from them both. So, there goes my mother of the year award.

 

Today on the way to school, I told her when we got there she was getting a spanking for that ugly voice. She says No 'pankin! And I was like oooooh, yeah, 'pankin. So when we get there, she looks at me when I come to get her and goes "I got cute boots! I got a cute dress!" Like, how can you possibly spank me when I am so cute and fashionable? Didn't work.

(email to Hillary Luker)


Let me tell you about my week. On Monday, Maggie's booster chair tray just flew off. So she falls flat on her face and busts her lip and her frenulum, the skin between your 2 front teeth. Blood everywhere, she SCREAMS for an hour, and this is a child who almost never cries. Heartbreaking. Scares me to death. Later that afternoon Eva Rose breaks out head to toe in hives. ??? Still don't know why. THEN, Tues morn Shep gets sent home from Mothers Day Out because he has impetigo on his face. Haul all 3 kids back to the dr. Impetigo is truly gross, FYI. Then this morning, Maggie wakes up the snot queen, totally sick with some crud that made her drowsy all day. At least she napped like a normal infant, for once. So, I am just feeling the urge to dip all my children by their toes into a big vat of Lysol. And on top of all that, I have a UTI. And Eva Rose is possessed by the devil. 

Shepherd is talking so much now, he is in the stage where he will say something and we will ask, where did he get that from??  Tonight he looked at Maggie and said "Baby is a joy."  Awwwww.  He is a little confused on his theology tho; today he told me "Jesus lives in my tummy!"  

missys date

Subject: Re: Date with Jonathan Edwards To: rosann@pdq.net, ark@neosoft.com, LauraEds@aol.com SUCKED!!!! S U C K E D S U C K E D S U C K E D OH man my level of excitement was exactly matched by my level of disappointment. He came over and we talked here for like 30 minutes. The whole time it was all talking about him. I would wait for him to turn the conversation back to me and I waited and waited. Felt like an HR person at an interview. Smiling nodding idiot. So then he says we are going to Black Lab. I was like, ok, not really a date place, but ok. He said something like dreaming of Black Lab when he was in Prague, so I let it go. Then when we go to the car in my drive he says "its open" and didnt open it for me. First red flag. Ok...then we go to Soundwaves to buy Jeff a cd (buena vista social club). He does open the car door for me there, but not the door to soundwaves. Then we go to black lab. No door opening. We eat, and he does kinda start to ask me ?s about me, so things go ok at dinner. He does pay. Then afterward we stood on the big chessboard and he was explaing to me how to play chess, and he is standing with his head blocking the light from the restaurant, shining about him like a halo, and I marvel at his beauty and pretend to listen. He is SOOO precious. One of his teeth is kinda slanted at the bottom and it is SOOO sexy. But alas. Then - we get in the car, are driving down W Alabama, and he says "so what do you wanna talk about?" and I said "me!". Long silence !!!!!!! Ok here is the kiss of death. We get to my house - to my drive - sitting in the car - and --- YES --- he is not going to walk me up!!!!! UGH!! So by this point I was so fed up I just looked at him and said "You gonna walk me to the door Jonathan?!?" And he kinda jumps and says "oh!" so he does. So he wrote a little note to Jeff, I said thanks and I am sure I will see you after I get back from Prague cuz of Jeff, and I accidently slammed the door in his face. Didnt mean to push it that hard. UGH. I am SOOOOOOOO unhappy. He is just so great looking. Deep, well read. Christian. Getitng his MBA. Dammit, dammit dammit. At first I was like, maybe he is nervous, thats why he is talking about him self so much. Cus he did NOT do that at the party; that was a normal, great conversation. And once he got a beer he kinda loosened up. So I could have dismissed that. It was the combo of the selfcenteredness plus the lack of manners. Lack of manners I could eventually say "listen, Jonathan..." I could have dealt w/one or the other, but not both. Then I thought, maybe this is not even a date. Maybe it is just a 2 friends of Jeffs having dinner. Cuz, like, I would not expect Graham to walk me up or open my doors, even tho my guy friends ALWAYS open my doors - even my friends' husbands open my doors...my DAD opens my doors....probably MY BROTHER would ... But he met me at a party & got my #...emailed me....showered and looked cute, wore khakis & a button down....picked me up.....paid.....walks like a date, talks like a date! And I have been told by more than one guy that guys don't do that just with girls they are not interested in. So what the hell? I dunno. If he asked me out again I would probably give him one more chance, being that he is so beautiful, but I SERIOUSLY doubt that is gonna happen. I tell you what, he and Jeff are like seperated at birth. Both tall, brilliant analytical introverts. Cept Jeff has SOCIAL SKILLS.