You day in great detail:
Whooo doggies, I hope you’re sitting down for this. First off, my husband gets up for work at about 5:20. AM. So. I woke him up, kneed him gently but forcefully in the kidney until he was out of the way, out of bed. I luxuriously went back to sleep until the boy woke me up to let me know it was 7:00 and then again, that it was 7:30. So, I got up and had my two favorite things, toast and black coffee. It sounds so boring, but honestly, the black coffee is an attempt to suck the fat from my blood stream. The toast with butter is my warm reward for suffering through that other business.
Then at 9:30, I figured it was prime business hours for everything so I took my 6 and three quarters year old and my nine year old and we rode to the secretary of state where I attempted for a second time to get a Michigan Drivers license. It’s more difficult than you’d think. First, I can’t actually prove my residency. The bills all come to my beloved. Second, for whatever reason my Arizona license shows up in zero systems. It seemed to be inactive. In fact, when I was pulled over two days ago (yes, fo realz) the officer said he should give me a ticket for not having a valid drivers license and that my MI license is expired. This is how my life is right now. We were, however in and out of the Secretary of State (it’s how Michiganders say DMV) in a record 27 minutes flat. BOOM!!!!
Then we went to get my mom to “run errands” which is one of my actual favorite things to do. My mom rarely goes to the grocery store. She goes shopping for food. Which means we get to go to Whole Foods where they have stuff like Crème Brule French Toast and fancy cheese and wine. And then we go to Trader Joes where my husband pays for me to buy beautiful flowers and other fancy stuff like carrot spirals and cold brew in a can (YUM).
In between these two places we went to exchange my Easter dress. Yes my mom bought me an Easter dress. Bless her heart she bought me an 8. HA!!! So. If you have never taken two children into a store with $80.00 sweaters and mannequins, you haven’t really lived. While I was either “no pants just shirt like Winnie the Pooh” or topless, my mom and children were doing fartleks through Ann Taylor Loft brining me tops that matched a light Barbie pink mini skirt (yes I bought it, and today I have it on. Just kidding. I did buy it but I’m in yoga pants and a LLR Randy) or brining me skirts to match the tops they just brought me. I cut them off at 26 tops a piece and 3 bottoms each. You math that out. Then we went to PF Changs where I had their new house blend white which was delicious. The children were given cups of sprite (this grandma and my mom are two different people in the same body. To be fair, she did ask first). We also split lettuce wraps and Pad Thai.
Then we came home, I started dinner. Before I could light the grill which I do even though it’s 34 degrees and breezy my mom called and asked to take the kids to see “the Sound of Music” at the Henry Ford Museum (GO THERE NOW!!!) which started in 74 minutes so they needed magic dinner/leftovers. So, my beloved and I went to the gym and busted out a mile and a half on the treadmills (I nearly died) and then got me a QDOBA salad bowl and he had some Panda Express. Call me un-American but I don’t enjoy that place. We watched Friday Night lights. The kids came home at 11:00 (SO LATE!!! But it’s spring break, so I’ll allow it. Last year they slept on the floor for 5 nights at our friends house and rode in a car with back seat seat heaters.) and we all went to bed at the same time.
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