New Stuff

This post is more or less just a trial...I needed to use one of my sets in Flickr to try this slideshow - so I decided to go with the ones that made it into Flickr's Explore archives...also it gives you a chance to see what I've been doing lately!

Hip Hip Hooray!!!

I'm very excited to announce that Miss Livie has used the potty 4 times!!! I decided to completely skip the whole little potty seat and just get her used to the big potty right away. She's fallen in a couple of times, but luckily that doesn't stop her from being willing to try again. It's so funny when she does fall in...all the of sudden I hear her say "whoops!" and I look over to see nothing but feet and her crazy mop of hair sticking out of the toilet. Not that I encourage this, but I do get a good giggle out of it! She gets very excited when she makes progress, because she knows she gets candy. She asks for "Nems" otherwise known as M&M's and we go right downstairs to get some. I didn't expect her to be interested this soon after potty training Andrew (Mr. I Planned On Pooping My Pants Until The Day I Die), so this came as a nice suprise! My baby is getting so BIG!

Procrastinate

So, you know last March? Well, I was supposed to register Andrew into kindergarten and I didn't. I picked up the paperwork, filled out about 98% of it and sort of forgot about it. I needed his immunization records from the doctor, but somehow I forgot about that until about then end of June. I didn't really think this was a big deal - because HELLO, it's public school and he has a right to an education and all that crap. SO.....when I finally made got all the necessary paperwork together, and managed to get myself and two children to the school, well....it was closed for the summer. Bummer, right?

Not really, I thought - because HELLO, it's a public school and he has a right to an education and all that crap. So, I decide I'll show up the very first day that the office staff is back in the office. And I do. I was totally punctual on this one.

And you know what those ladies had the nerve to tell me? Andrew had to be put on a waiting list. A WAITING LIST???? For public school (and all that crap)? LAME.

Then they tell me that they don't even know which school he's going to get into. Which school? What is this? Harvard Elementary? Hmmmm.....

Okay, so at this point I'm feeling like The Mother of the Year. (please, please - hold your applause.)

So, I wait. And wait. And wait and finally the school called last Friday. They have a place for Andrew - in different school - but in the full day program. (YES!!)

However, it's going to cost $300 a month (NOOO!!!) I hang my head in shame as I tell them that, although we'd love very much to put him in the full day program - we simply cannot afford to do that.

"Okaaaaaaaay.........., well call us back if that changes," the lady says to me. Yeah, cause I'm magically going to be able to pull $300 a month out of my....you know what I mean.

20 minutes later. The phone rings again. It's the school again. And you know what they tell me?? They told that they will be able to place Andrew in the full time program and just have the tuition be waived for the entire year. WHA???? Yes, yes, yes!!! I'm now doing my version of cheerleading. Don't try to picture it - it's not pretty.

So the moral of my story is, proscrastination pays. Just Do It. Proscrastinate NOW.