10 Things I Learned This Week, Vol 97

I don’t know about you, but we didn’t catch any leprechauns last night — try as we might. If you did, let me know your secret. I’ll even give you a pot of gold for your troubles. (Pink shoved one up her nose spit one out when she was tasting the Lucky Charms the little buggers left the kids.)

Lesson #1: Clocks aren’t the only thing you should set the Sunday after day light savings. Alarms and navigation systems are musts as well. Otherwise your family may break a record sleeping later than ever (on a school day), and you may drive miles and miles past your destination only to arrive at the office you haven’t worked at for two years.

Lesson #2: You know it’s time to wash the lovey when your baby hands it to you saying,”Tinky. Tinky.”

Lesson #3: Then again, that same baby may just be setting that lovey up to take the fall for her. Post wash, I asked Pink if she had a stinky diaper, and she answered, “No, das Lamby.”

Lesson #4: Stick a Cheerio up your nose once, shame on you. Stick a Cheerio up your nose twice, shame on me.

Lesson #5: While I’m typically not a trend setter, I’m pretty sure the black mascara I mistakenly put on my eyebrows the other day is a look worth repeating. (On Halloween, maybe.)

Lesson #6: Some Biblical stories are best saved for after preschool. You can imagine Little’s concern about heading to class when what he somehow heard me say was, “Jonah got aten by a shark at my school?!”

Lesson #7: The best compliment I’ve gotten in a long time came from Little. When I answered one of his 5,367 questions this week, he quite seriously said, “How do you know everything?”

Lesson #8: Big told me a paleontologist came to his school to teach them how to take care of their skin. I’m guessing that’s because if you don’t, you’ll end up looking like a dinosaur?

Lesson #9: The term “terrible twos” is almost as ridiculous as the term “morning sickness“. Luckily my days are only filled with one of these at the moment.

Lesson #10: When Lesson #9 forces me to watch Big’s double overtime basketball game from behind glass doors, I lose my voice. (And I’m afraid that wasn’t the only loss.)

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! As the old Irish proverb goes, “Don’t get pinched, get drunk.” Or something like that.

 

Photo credit: morgueFile.com