Week Two- It's Clear Why you don't have kids in your FIFTIES!

The people who wait to have their kids in later life are CRAZY!  Either that or they are so stinking wealthy that the have battalions of people around to actually raise their kids.  We seem to be working onto a pattern of our days- an hour or so of  PBS while the girls actually wake up and I tidy up around the house.  A walk to the park-grandma reads her book and the girls befriend everyone who ventures near the park.  Home for playtime while grandma fixes lunch.  Lunch.  Some story reading time then NAP TIME!  After naps they can watch a show they love called H20.  It is an Australian show about 3 teenage girls who are secretly mermaids.  It is definitely well past the girls age wise, but I have watched a few episodes and it seems benign enough and good always wins out over evil and the mean kid ALWAYS loses.  It is not like a lot of Nick or Disney shows, the kids are not rude, the parents seem pretty wise, virtues like doing well in school and doing your chores are promoted  BUT the bikini's are pretty minimal.


We do have slight day to day variations as in yesterday when at 9:45  grandpa called and announced he was leaving his office for a deposition in Fairfield and he had forgotten he had a court appearance in Hayward at 3:30 so would I rendezvous with him with a dress shirt, coat and tie IMMEDIATELY!  The one snafu was Thursday evening Tash had a friend pick up the girls and she borrowed a car booster seat and Tash did not return it Friday morning.  So after grabbing  grandpa's apparel I climbed a ladder and found an old car seat on the TOP shelf in the garage so poor Maddy had to ride around in an old toddler car seat-which she graciously did even with Bella teasing her mercilessly.  Bella was easily quieted when she heard that we were meeting grandpa on 5th and Broadway-not far from Gunther's Ice Cream where Cait was at work and Maddy deserved a special reward for riding in the car seat-maybe teasing was not going to get her an ice cream!  So we had chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cones at 10 in the morning!

Since we were out anyway-and grandma desperately needed some stockings (not the Christmas kind which Bella was sure I was talking about) I decided to run to Catherine's with the girls.  What could go wrong running in and buying a couple of pairs of pantie hose?  All went well until we were paying and Bella (quite loudly asks, "Grandma, do you think I have lice?  I itch!"  Every head in the store turned and people slowly backed away until I (loudly answered) "Bella you get lice in your hair and you are scratching your tummy!"

Only two more weeks and the girls go back on track so I can run my errands in the mornings WITHOUT them!