My mom gave Charlotte an old hand-sewn alphabet book from my childhood. I flipped through its stitched pages with Charlotte in my lap and chuckled when I got to “T”.
I’m not sure Charlotte will ever see a phone like this.
Do you remember the phone in your kitchen as a kid? The one mounted on the wall with the spiral cord hanging down? After school I would get wrapped up in the plastic spirals while getting wrapped up in gossip with my girlfriends. Maybe I would hash out that night’s math homework with the receiver pressed to my face.
By high school we had a cordless. Oh, thank God! That way I could whisk myself off to my room with the door closed and like, totally talk to my boyfriend without family interference.
In college and later, I was so psyched to have the Nokia with the color faceplate. You could play Solitaire on it. Hello! The pink Motorola Razor I coveted seems so “dumb” now compared to my Smart Phones.
Now I am admitting to you that I cannot leave my home without two Smart Phones. I have a Blackberry for work and an iPhone for real life. Greyson and Charlotte tie for #1 in the list of things I love. My iPhone is a close #2. I’m not sure how I ever got by without it’s magical screen that allows me to Tweet, text, Pin, surf, kill green pigs with birds, and watch the
Honey Badger over and over. I sleep with it next to my head.
This weekend my daughter wouldn’t leave the house without her AlphaBerry Alphabet phone and her Elmo phone. The next generation has heard the call.
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I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets bummed out on Sunday afternoons. I tend to mope around and gripe that the weekend is coming to a close. I lay out all of Charlotte’s clothes for the week with a heavy heart knowing I won’t get to see her in each outfit until the afternoons. Greyson rolls his eyes at my dramatic sighs as I pick out something to wear on Monday. I hate leaving the weekend and all it’s relaxed good vibes behind for the grind of my early morning working hours. Plus, I’m still getting over the snots and I’m all snotty and whiny.
Sometimes when I’m feeling this way I like to think of the amazing wonderful things in my life and focus on how grateful I am. Plus, people on Facebook are doing this thing where they mention something they’re thankful for every day in November leading up to Thanksgiving. Since I constantly bow to the pressures of social media, here’s what I’m thankful for and excited about today…
- My husband: This man works so hard and is such a great husband and father. I’m very proud to be your wife Grey!
- My daughter: She’s the coolest baby ever! She Paddy Cakes better than one-year-old I know.
- Friends: We have friends who will watch the UNC basketball team play on a boat this weekend and they don’t mind if I just hand them their thank-you notes from Charlotte’s party versus mailing them. We have other friends who will sit around on a Saturday night, watch Harry Potter movies, and debate the greatest sitcom of all time. (It’s “Cheers”, in case you were wondering.)
- My cousin’s baby shower: I’m co-hosting my cousin Meagan’s baby shower the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I’m really excited! Another little girl! Emma Reese is due at the end of January. I have some fun ideas but I welcome all baby girl shower ideas. (Email me or leave a comment with some good shower tips.) We have no January birthdays in the family and we have only one in February, so Emma’s arrival will be super special. Plus, I love Meagan and her husband Daniel and I know they’ll be great parents.
- Snookie Snookerwitz hot chocolate: Don’t be fooled by Snookie in the name. This is no Jersey trash. These are amazing cocoas and coffees. I got some for Charlotte’s teachers as part of their Christmas gifts. I’ve been drinking my weight of this stuff. (Is the Snookie company paying me to write this. Aw! That’s cute. No. They’re not. It’s just awesome and I’m blogging about it because I love it that much.)
- Possibilities– I’m realizing there’s more, more things I want to do. There’s a lot out there for me, maybe not in the too distant future. I realized some of the possibilities this past week. It makes the early morning grind this coming week a little easier to stomach.
Alrighty. I feel better. What are you grateful for as you start your week? Have a good one, folks!
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Tonight we went to the home of friends with two older boys and a girl. Of all the toys in the playroom Charlotte picked the Lightsaber. I’ve never seen Greyson look so proud.
The Force is strong with this one.
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| For all you Instagramers, please note this is the 1977 effect. I figure that’s fitting, right? |
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I can’t watch the video of Rick Perry at the GOP debate this week without cringing. It is painful. And they say elephants never forget….
The first thing that came to my mind is, “Oh my God, he has ‘mom brain’!” Seriously, since I had a baby I have trouble remembering things. I think it’s the lack of sleep and little time for meals. You may recall my ‘pregnancy brain’ debacle. It amazes me that I’m able to do things intelligently at work, but I lose infant socks and sippy cups every day.
Maybe he had this stuff running through is brain in the past month too…
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Charlotte has this Fisher Price Dinosaur thing that plays music and bounces little plastic balls around. She LOVES it and I’m actually really proud of how fast she figured out how to work it. Proud enough to be able to stomach this toy’s repetitive rendition of “The Farmer in the Dell” as it burps out the balls perfectly sized to roll under the couch.
My brother-in-law and I got a kick out of the side of the box that said “It’s ball popping fun!”
My husband looks at her and says, “That better be the only ball popping fun you ever have, Young Lady!”
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