lousy Smarch weather

 It snowed on Saturday and it was 75 degrees on Monday.   Only in New England. 

Baby Girl and I went to the park today but I wouldn't let her go on the swings because I didn't want to make small talk with the other mother who was also there last night.   DON'T TALK TO ME!  Two days in to a warm spell (which I do believes ends tomorrow) and I'm already sick of the park.  No, I don't want to push you in the swing for 25 minutes.   I do, since I'm the Best Mother In the World,  but I'm grumpy about it.  Kid needs to learn how to pump.

I don't often eat my Favorite Sandwich in the World, mainly because it requires a specific type of bread that isn't exactly healthy.   This is the nutritional info for one piece.   Clearly this is not bread that we buy often in the Casa De O'G.   We prefer to consume our calories in wine vegetables (obvi).


But Andrew went to Shaw's by himself on Wednesday... sending Andrew into a grocery store alone is never a good thing.   I didn't use worry about what the results would be when he did the food shopping,  but recently I've learned the man cannot stick to a list.  I can send him in with a specific list and he will come out with 5 additional things,  5 things that are somewhat what I wanted but never happen to be the exact or sale items and he'll just not bother to get the other items we needed.   In other words,  it's better if I do it myself,  as I've put us on a pretty strict grocery shopping list.  


BUT, as previously mentioned,  he went to Shaw's on Wednesday for a few specific things and he walked back in the door with Canadian White Bread.


Let's all take a moment to savor the wonderfulness that is Canadian White,  shall we?

 

Is there a better bread?  (the answer is no).   If you've never had it - run, don't walk, to your nearest food store and buy a loaf.   Try not to eat it all in one or two sittings, because I am not lying to you when I say it is NOT HEALTHY.   (FYI,  french toast with Canadian White is amazing.  Life altering.  To this day, I only like french toast with stale Canadian White)

Getting back to My favorite Sandwich in the World.  It's peanut butter, mayonnaise, and banana.  Don't knock it until you've tried it.  And if you've had peanut butter and banana and you're wondering what all the fuss is about - add mayo and Canadian White and you'll experience a little slice of heaven right there in your kitchen. 

I made Andrew and Baby Girl chicken and vegetables for dinner.  I made myself a sandwich (what, I'm pregnant, I can do these kinds of things).   

The preparation:

 The outcome.  (Don't I just kick ass at Instagram?  I should totally be a fauxtagrapher and start a business.  Isn't the way everything is blurry except the one bite which is in focus so artistic?  I AM SO TALENTED)

 

I may not have another sandwich for years to come.  I think the last one I had was before Baby Girl was born.  I'm not lying when I say I NEVER buy Canadian White, but gawd, those few times that a loaf makes it into the house....

Also good on Canadian White - cream cheese and jelly.  Super. Yum. 

Spring!

It was in the 60's today and will be tomorrow.  It is going back down to the 40's on Friday,  but the seeds of spring are here. SOON I WILL BE WEARING FLIP FLOPS AGAIN!!!

 

Daylight savings starts this weekend.  Life is good. 

how many flip flops can I put in one blog post?

3.  (I totes just pinned that necklace too.   My birthday is coming!)

Then again,  Baby Girl doesn't quite understand daylight savings time.  She wakes up anytime between 5:45 and 6:15 these days.... which means on Sunday we could very well be greeted at 4:45 in the morning.  And when I say "we" I do mean "Andrew" because I will totally use the pregnancy card and stay in bed longer.  I will use any tricks in my bag to not have to deal with a toddler and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse before 5am.

Can I still call her a toddler?  She moves up to the pre-school room on Monday.  Is she officially a pre-schooler now? 

We signed up for Netflix again to catch up on the first season of Downton Abbey.  I really like it,  but I was bummed to find out the entire first season is like 7 episodes.    Lame. 

Friday brain dump

I have a lot rolling around in my head right now.  I must get it all out or there will not be enough room think about what I want for dinner (I'll give you a hint: not pork chops)

* Dr. Seuss would have been 108 today.   I have to admit,  I'm not a huge Dr .Seuss fan.  I try to talk Baby Girl out of reading those books if at all possible.   And I still remember being forced to eat green eggs and ham in pre-school.   GAG.  I'm not sure how I didn't throw up. 
 
* Army Wives starts on Sunday!!  WHOO!   I can't remember how the last season ended...   a quick wikipedia search is telling me:  Claudia Joy has difficulty dealing with the way people are treating her and Michael; Joan finds it tough to bond with her adopted son, David; Roxy's truck stop nears completion; and Denise helps Tanya to cope with life without Jeremy. Michael reveals that the 23rd Airborne Division is being disbanded leaving Claudia Joy, Denise, Roxy, Pamela, and Roland nervous about what the future holds for them now.  So, more of the same.   More of the same AWESOMENESS! 

* Trapper Keepers - are they or are they not simply binders?  Why were they SO COOL?  All I remember, and all I see in the photo below is a binder with a folder.  Am I still just bitter because I wasn't allowed to have one at school? 

Hey Hey we're the Monkees!

Oh Davy,  so sad.  I know technically I am too young to remember the Monkee's,  but my brother and I watched repeats of the TV show in the early 80's and we loved it.   And who doesn't love Day Dream Believer? I actually saw him perform live at Saint A's during parents weekend.   We'll always have the Dana Center, Davy.


We haven't had any sort of accumulation since October 2011.  Today is March 1, 2012 and as you can see, Andrew had to clean off the car this morning before he left to drop off Baby Girl at school.  There may be an inch out there!  Oh, this horrible New England winter!  

I shouldn't make fun of the winter,  New England winters really are awful but we somehow lucked out this year.  Last year was brutal and next year could be too.    Baby Girl was SO excited to bring her snow suit to school today,  and I put her snow boots on to walk to the car... that wasn't quite necessary as the inch of snow had been shoveled,  but who am I to interfere with a 2.5 year old's love of the snow? 

So, it's March 1st.   Spring is almost here,  though you would never know from the weather outside.   Realistically when you live as far north as I do we don't get actual spring weather until May,  but March 1 is a little bit closer to that! 

Question for the moms of younger kids:   Shohuld I get a Rock and Play?  They didn't exist when Baby Girl was a baby so I obviously didn't have one with her.   But it just looks so convenient... and people rave about them.   I've heard one complaint:  it can be hard to transition the babies to a crib or basinett because they aren't used to sleeping on flat surfaces.  I was thinking it would be good to bring to the cape as well, to give me (hopefully) a better place to put him while I'm running around after his sister.   So what do we think?  yes?  no?  

Happy Leap Day!

or Happy almost Leap Day.  

Tomorrow I work for free.   Why is that?  Because I make a certain amount per year,  and that year is based on 365 days (or 525,600 minutes.  How do you measure a year in the life?  HA!  Just try to get the Rent theme song out of your head now!)  2012 has an extra day in it,  and my annual salary is not increasing for that extra day.  Ergo,  I'm working for free tomorrow.   Only hourly or per diem employers are adequately paid for tomorrow.

No one seems to agree with that opinion,  but that's okay.  I know I'm right.  Maybe in my free working day tomorrow I will just sit in my fancy office chair and spin around for 8 hours.   I'll refuse to work unless they hand me an additional check.  Or give me an additional vacation day.   Or I could get fired, not really sure how that would turn out...

In three days when you break out into this song while stopped at a red light,  think kindly of me. 

Do you want to learn some fun facts about Leap Years?  Aside from the fact that we're all working for free tomorrow, that is.
From timeanddate.com:
In the Gregorian calendar 3 criteria must be met to be a leap year:

• The year is evenly divisible by 4;
• If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless;
• The year is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year.

This means that 2000 and 2400 are leap years, while 1800, 1900, 2100,  2200, 2300, and 2500 are NOT leap years.

The year 2000 was somewhat special as it was the first instance when the third criterion was used in most parts of the world since the transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar. 

Now you are well versed in why I will be spinning around in my chair tomorrow trying to beat Bree in Scramble with Friends for 8 hours tomorrow instead of working and why the year 2100 is NOT a leap year.  YOUR WELCOME.

Sunday... Funday?

We have big plans today.   Home Depot, Lowes, and maybe Bed Bath and Beyond if we have time  (no, really.... we actually may not have enough time for BBB).   Winter Sundays are just so exciting. 

I re-read my Santorum post and I notice so many errors... the last sentence doesn't even make sense.   I'm not fixing it though.   That's what Santorum does to me - makes me so crazy I can't even see or type things correctly.  

Anyway.   Santorum.  Enough of him.   (for reals..... enough already.  Go home)

The Oscars are on tonight.   I'll watch for a bit,  but since all the Hollywood types seem to think that just because you live on the East Coast then you must go to bed after midnight on a Sunday night,  I won't see much of it.    I've only seen two of the movies up for Best Picture and only seen two of them (Moneyball and The Help).  To remind you,  these are the movies that are nominated.

The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Llife
War Horse

I would like to see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close..... other than that, I'm not really into any of them.  The next movie I see will be the Hunger Games which I am so excited about.   Had the Little Guy been a girl,  there's a good chance her name could have been Katniss Everdeen.   

Speaking of the Little Guy,  I was at Marshall's yesterday and I went over to the children's section to look at some summer clothes for Baby Girl.   I searched through the racks for 10 minutes, but didn't find much.  It wasn't till I have halfway out of the store until I realized I also need to look for little boy summer clothes.  Whoops.   As a second child myself I am determined to not treat this kid as your typical 2nd child,  but I am already forgetting to buy clothes for him.   That can't be a good sign of things to come.    But I have gone though the Spring 2012 Mini Boden catalog and picked out an entire wardrobe for him (that he could fit into in about... 18 months) so I'm ignoring him completely..... kind of.   Sorry Little Guy...  I feel for you,  I'm a 2nd child too.  We can commiserate together.