By the way, how are your resolutions coming along? Losing weight...exercising...praying...eating healthy...listening to more rap music? I posted my list of resolutions here.
Some of my resolutions are not coming along so well. Take the one about not spilling stuff. Last year (and every year before that) I tended to make big messes doing small things. And you know what, I am still doing that. I am not sure how to fix that. I am inherently clumsy so maybe I should just move on to other things.
Things like...remembering stuff. I have to report that is not going as planned either. We remodeled at work and a cabinet that used to house a trash can is now a hidden area for purses and personal belongings. My super-cool At Work Friend commented to me one day that someone kept throwing trash and gum on top of her purse. Since I have an amazing poker face, I turned bright red, burst into fits of silent laughter, and bent over as if I had abdominal cramps. She had to post this sign
as a reminder to...well, me because no one else was throwing their gum at her Kate Spade.
Now maybe I can shift the blame of this absent-mindedness on my busy life. That sounds pretty good, right? Tonight JBB and I did his kindergarten reading and looked at his handwriting papers and then we began working on his Valentine box. Admittedly we are last minute doing the box because we have spent the last couple of nights working on handwriting (with much success, I might add).
So tonight we tackled The Valentine Box which is a shoebox designed to hold all the Valentine cards that each child receives. Of course, we have to wrap the box because JBB can't exactly put his Valentines in a box that says Black Patent Euro size 37 which led me to think...WHAT IS IT with kindergarten and all this wrapping of boxes?!?! I love his school, etc and blah, blah but this is our second box wrapping venture which is two too many for me. Now please tell me we are not the only ones.
Of course, we began wrapping and what do you know...the Scotch tape dispenser is in the drawer and it is EMPTY! I did not contribute to this foolishness. I suspect the two small humans that I feed, clothe, and adore because they have an ungodly affinity for anything with adhesive. I attempted to keep my maternal explosion to a minimum. I apologized to JBB and he said, "for what?" so I think I did ok. I eventually texted Mr. Lipstick who said he had some Scotch tape. Well, who knew. Not me. By now I'm just dying to blog and take a break from that cursed shoe box anyway.
16 comments:
Hey Sweetie,
Feel better? And don't forget to read the "sign"
Mommy Lipstick
LOL...thank goodness she also put tape over the opening too.
My parent were baffled by American public school education.
There IS an obsession with shoe-boxes -- covering them, decorating them, turning them into-- what are they called? Diaroamas?
We also cut paper to cover all our textbooks, with required much folding and taping. And when it came time to study the planets, every kid had endless syrofoam balls, string, glitter paint, to build solar systems.
Compared to education here, it's like arts and crafts! Funny it's still that way 15 years later.
I enjoyed your post! Tape disappears at a rapid rate around here, as well. My youngest gets so creative with it that I can't bring myself to stop her from using it! And get used to the shoe boxes- I have a fifth grader who still needs them for school projects. I see it as a good excuse to buy shoes ;)
Aww....I used to love wrapping shoe boxes as a kid. But when you think of it now..it does seem a little silly.
Have a great day!
Meg
i personally prefer 2K10 - saw that pop up on tv the other day! Love the sweet note from your mom! Too cute!
My goals are coming along, I've been saving money and cleaning the house once a week like I wanted.
When I was in school, we always had Valentine's bags that we decorated in school to hold all our valentines! Much easier than the dreaded box!
very funny
hey
wats plans for this valentines day
I have definitely not gotten used to calling it 2010...it's driving me nuts
I def call it 20-10. I emailed you. Hopefully, that's what you were talking about.
The Diva hi-jacked all the tape in the house and has redecorated for me.... with tape, and art work.
Drama really really need that tape last night, and my arse was not getting out at 8PM.. so we used that double stick tape made for keeping rugs in place.. on her V-day box... nice!
Oh, looking super hot in the jersey & jeans below.. but sorry about the game.
I have been just writing 2-14-10, and as for the shoebox - I hate giving them up!
LOL fun project, this wrapping thing. : )
I am so glad that I am not the only one wrapping boxes!
@MWP...I was about to use masking tape (or even resort to glue) before we found Mr. Lipstick's tape. I think the double stick tape for rugs is a pretty good idea! I'll bet it worked great. Maybe I should hide some of that around my house.
This post is too funny. I've been wrapping and assisting with wrapping shoe boxes for > 40 years, now. One would think there'd have been another another ecologically-friendly alternative by now.
When my kids were grade-school, tape and mechanical pencil eraser and lead refills went down some unknown path never to return, and the glue bottle that went from year to year or simply dried out began to disappear when the kids discovered that applying it to fingertips then peeling it off could be fascinating.
I remember having to resort to the double-stick cushion tape for affixing wall posters, on occasion.
What I find is sad is recalling that I placed an arbitrary limitation on crayon usage, and now, years later I discover quite a few full boxes all nearly unused. Why couldn't I have encouraged the kids to use them until they were all gone?
Another pharmacist
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