Weekend Review

I don’t really have anything to report but feel like I can’t go all weekend without a post.

The weather was crappy yesterday so unfortunately Mallory & I didn’t make it to the spring football game. Rick was working so Mals & I had our standard girls-day-in all day. For as easygoing as she usually is, she still shows flashes of my personality occasionally.

This seems like a perfect point to share the poem I read for the forensics contest when I was in the 2nd grade. I memorized this poem and won out of my class, and then I had to get up in front of the whole school and recite it (where I beat the other 2nd grade class winner!). I can still recite this poem to this day, complete with pouty lip in the beginning and sweet smile at the end.

Leave Me Alone
by Felice Holman

Loving care!
Too much to bear.
Leave me alone!

Don’t brush my hair
Don’t pat my head,
Don’t tuck me in
Tonight in bed,
Don’t ask me if I want a sweet
Don’t fix my favorite things to eat,
Don’t give me lots of good advice
And most of all just don’t be nice.

But when I’ve wallowed well in sorrow,
Be nice to me again tomorrow

I think of this poem EVERY-SINGLE-TIME Mallory starts in with a tantrum…seeing as how most tantrums can be cured with a big cuddle from mom. I try to not give in when she is melting down but when I know she’s melting down due to lack of sleep or being sick, it’s hard to not want to make it all better.

She has had some gross drainage from her ears this weekend; we were prepared for it and know we just have to give her the drops for a few days. But after some googling we found out that even with the ear tubes she can still get ear infections (which I was unaware of), but they shouldn’t be as severe or last as long as they did pre-tubes. Pretty disgusting to think that all this gunk draining out of her ears this weekend would have built up behind her ear with no place to go had she not had the tubes. It’s hard to believe that she wasn’t grumpier all those times she had ear infections. So with the snotty nose & cough she’s had the past 2 weeks, I guess it’s inevitable that the yucky ears would follow. Something else to be on the lookout for.

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Last night was a fancy football party at the fanciest restaurant in town – my mom watched Mallory for us and Rick & I had a fun date night. It stinks being old though – what I would have given for an open bar with a bunch of my friends five years ago! Even if we didn’t have to drive out to BFE to get home, I hate having more than a drink or two because I can’t sleep in like I could pre-pumpkin-head.

Mallory was stupendous for Gigi, which was good. Mallory has started fighting getting dressed after her bath and I was nervous for my mom having to go through that wrestling match. But apparently either Mallory hates us and that’s why she gives us such grief, or she took pity on her ole Gigi because Mallory let my mom diaper & dress her without a fight. Mallory danced along with the girls on the Dreamgirls movie with my mom and curled up for bed like a champ. I’m so glad when I get reports that she is good for other people :-) My mom was headed out of town for a vacation today and I know it was a big deal for her to be out of her pre-trip routine by having Mallory there last night – that made me doubly glad that she was good last night.

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Today was errand day – we have had a couple of home projects on our to-do list for a couple of months and I finally decided today was the day to scratch them off. We did a scavenger-hunt-looking tour of Ann Arbor running all of our errands (we had to drop Rick’s bike off but that had to happen before we went to Lowe’s…he thought the bike shop opened at 10a and we showed up at 10.30a to find that the bike shop didn’t open until noon today…so instead of doing our errands in a nice orderly order, we had to double-back and circle around to get everything done-argh).

It is way past my bedtime – I can’t believe it’s Sunday night already. Peace out.