Eye Roll Blog Post#2

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Posted in blurt outs, challenges, current events, family, fresh hits, home, how in the world, in this day and age, Indulgence, kids at play, Learning, Life, life's lessons, looped, Love, matter of fact, MLM, modern families, mother and child, musing, parenting, people, raising kids, relationships, SAHM, telling stories, the human mind, the writer in me, what kids want, what women want, WTFTagged absentminded kids, dafuq, expectation vs. reality, growing older, growing pains, kids say the darndest things, parenting, raising a boy, raising kids, realizations, summer break 2022Leave a comment

The car mats have got pretty dirty and I wanted to wash them out before we stepped out next. It’s a simple task actually…use a hand shower or a forceful spray to get the initial layer of dirt and dust off, sprinkle a bit of detergent on the mats, let them soak for a few minutes and use a hard scrub brush to get as much of the residual dirt off and let it dry out. Including soaking, the whole thing takes about 20 minutes unless you’re like my father who would probably want some bleaching agent to make the mats look clean and new.

Imagine me doing all of the above and asking TO for one teensy little help viz opening up the foldable drying rack so I could put the mats on it to dry out. But what is teensy in my world is unfathomable in his so our conversation went something like this: Me: “Baby please open up the clothing stand and keep the side flaps straight (they are adjustable in case we need some height).” TO: HUH?!! Me: Can you open up the clothes drying stand and keep the sides absolutely straight so I can dry the mats? TO: I don’t understand...Me: What don’t you understand (washing, scrubbing going on simultaneously)? TO: What’s the clothes drying stand? Me: (voice becoming slightly frosty) The folding stand where we dry our clothes? Everyday? It’s on the balcony? TO: Oh *THAT* thing? Why can’t you be more specific Ayu?” Me: (icicles becoming to form on the bathroom surface) How could I have been more specific while describing it?! TO: “You know, you could’ve said to me get that clothes thingie we put clothes on!” Me: “Oye ve!“

83 days till school reopens…

Switching Things Around

Posted on May 5, 2022 Posted in contentment, current events, entertainment, fresh hits, good times, happiness, home, how in the world, images, in this day and age, Indulgence, Learning, Life, life's lessons, looped, matter of fact, me-time, musing, people, photoblog, SAHM, self-awareness, self-improvement, telling stories, the human mind, the writer in me, what women want, yeah baby!Tagged creativity, doing new things, doing things differently, expectation vs. reality, fun, imagination, me time, mental engagement, moms during summer break, new ideas, newness, SAHM, summer break 2022, unboredLeave a comment

As comforting sameness is; it’s also well…same. A bit of difference in doing things or even contemplating it can give your brain a boost of sorts.

A friend who’s a horror movie afficianado and I decided to watch a movie last night; midweek movies have a fun factor that weekend ones don’t. Our fun was more because it was really comfortable in her house with the squishy couch, big screen tv and the glass of wine. The movie…eh…not so much.

Anyhoo, instead of running down the movie in my usual verbose manner, I decided to try and be a bit more tongue-in-cheek and still get my point across. I pulled out a “scary” template on Canvas and found a font I thought would go well and voila! the first movie review poster was born.

Expect more, many, many more of these Rev-Pos since the idea’s running amok in my head and I’m hiding out from my kid (it’s his holidays…)

Movie Review: Room 203 (The Poster Version)

Posted on May 5, 2022 Posted in blurt outs, current events, cynical, entertainment, fresh hits, hollywood, Indulgence, Life, matter of fact, movie reviews, movies, musing, people, telling stories, the human mind, the writer in me, what women want, WTFTagged entertainment, expectation vs. reality, horror movies, lame movies, movie night, movie review, Room 2032 Comments

The Dementia Diagnosis

Posted on April 30, 2022 Posted in blurt outs, current events, family, fresh hits, funny ha-ha, in this day and age, Indulgence, kids at play, Life, life's lessons, looped, Love, matter of fact, MLM, modern families, mother and child, parenting, people, raising kids, Red, relationships, SAHM, telling stories, the human mind, the writer in me, what kids want, what women want, WTFTagged conversations with my kid, dafuq, dementia, expectation vs. reality, kids say the darndest things, parenting, raising kids, realizations, serenity now, what the!Leave a comment

One of Red’s cousins will be visiting us soon and I was telling TO about him. He’ll be meeting a brand new set of cousins and an aunt he’s not seen before so I was trying to give him some background while we set out for errands this morning.

This uncle of his is a neurologist and the moment I told him that, TO exclaimed in an excited manner that he was a doctor of brains and probably treated people for dementia. And that’s when the Universe intervened and turned it into an ” Why-Hast-Thou-Forsaken-Me” moment” from a “Man-My-Kid-Knows-So-Much-Awesome-High-Fives-All-Around” kind of moment.

It went something like this, ” TO: So this doctor can treat you and P also right? Me: Why would he treat us, we’re fine?!!” TO: No! You guys are old and you keep forgetting things! Me:We don’t have dementia. Sometimes people forget when they are distracted or they are doing a lot of things at the same time. Dementia doesn’t happen much in our age (yes it does, but he doesn’t need to know that!);it happens to older people. TO: I can see *ALL* this white hair on both your heads and you are really old. Not as old as Avva (his great-grandmother) but OLD! So you could get dementia. Ask this uncle when he comes home.” Me: I don’t have dementia but I will become demented soon baby! TO: What’s that? Me: Nevermind, we’re here! C’mon out of the car you little quack! (muttered sotto voce)

Accurate But Politically Incorrect

Posted on April 25, 2022 Posted in blurt outs, current events, education, family, father and son, fresh hits, funny ha-ha, home, how in the world, kids at play, Learning, Life, life's lessons, looped, Love, matter of fact, MLM, modern families, mother and child, parenting, raising kids, Red, SAHM, the human mind, the writer in me, what kids want, what women wantTagged expectation vs. reality, genes, growing older, growing pains, inheritance, kids say the darndest things, out of the mouth of babes, parenting, science, teaching kids, traitsLeave a comment

TO is learning about genetics and most things associated with them. I’m ashamed to say that barring being familiar with terms, I can’t recollect the definition without looking it up and most times I look them up with a keywords “for dummies” because they have the easiest definitions to understand. Unless I understand them properly, I can’t explain it to Mr.2000 questions aka TO.

Red on the other hand, remembers pretty much perfectly and can explain it to varied audiences without having to recalibrate his verbiage much. He’s really *that* good. *Grumble grumble about smartypants husband*

Anyhoo, today TO had an off from school because of a slight bug and with exams coming up, Red and I decided to use the time to quiz him a bit on the salient points of the science paper. And as always, it had it’s funny ha-ha moments, usually aimed at the unsuspecting parents. When talking about traits, we were going through the list of traits that are easily observable and asking TO to see which ones he could spot at home.

We chanced upon the free vs attached earlobes ones and after some amount of ear pulling to see if they were attached or free, mine were pronounced the ‘pudgiest’ in the whole world. Apparently it was a compliment but TO’s not yet familiar with the dangers of using the words chubby, chunky, pudgy and other synonyms of “being healthy” to a woman.