With Halloween around the corner, I thought I’d share 3 things that I find truly frightening.
- The news that Costco anticipates one of the next product shortages to be baby wipes.
- Walking my absent-minded, accident-prone, frenetic children through the wine section at the grocery.
- Finding an orphaned marker cap anywhere in our house.
*Shudder.*
Dave and I occasionally travel for business and between the time differences, kids’ schedules at home, and back-to-back meetings afar, we barely have time to catch up those weeks.
I got into the habit of keeping notes of all the things I want to tell him when we reconvene. My latest list from his trip to California looks like this:
- Ashley’s #?
- Can we convince Joe & Julie to move in next door?!
- Mern’s neighbor has solar panels [nb: the “Mern” here is a friend who lives in Colorado, so this also involves a story around how I discovered that]
- J running laps
- Salami drami? Salama drama?
Does anyone else do this? Is it super weird, or only moderately weird? When I mentioned it to my sister, she didn’t miss a beat and said, “of course you do.”
A few things I’ve found and enjoyed on the web lately:
- Smithsonian Cheetah Cub Cam. The cubs are 6 days old. I’ve checked the cam 3x this morning so far. During those three times, the cheetah mom was always nursing. Two times, I was nursing. And one time I was standing at the counter, eating toast crusts my own cubs left behind. Solidarity, mama.
- This ad that depicts more of the reality of breastfeeding. Had to laugh (and wince a little) at this video.
- “Please stop hogging all the wolves.” Haha.
- Our favorite Halloween decoration — & our neighborhood goes big on seasonal decor so we’ve seen some stuff.
