Improvement!
I was supposed to host a park play date for our moms club today, but didn’t think anyone would show up. We’ve been having tons of rain, so though today was nice I wasn’t sure people would want to risk going to a park that might have mud puddles. I find that people around here are often wimpy about the weather.
Everyone must have had cabin fever as bad as me because we had the biggest moms club crowd I’ve seen in a while. I told everyone to bring towels and a change of clothes, so we were able to quickly dry off the equipment and enjoy the sunshine. We were having so much fun enjoying each other’s company and the nice weather that I was almost late dropping Erik off at the babysitter. That’s my kind of day!
After I picked him up from the sitter, he played outside for a long time and I got to chat with a neighbor. We had to come home when he pooped his pants(!!! WHAT???), so I was surprised when the neighbor knocked on the door a few minutes later with a bag of baby girl clothes. So sweet! I need to give her some baby boy clothes. She’s due five days before me.
My house was a total pit, but they came on in and her 3 year old daughter enjoyed looking at all our boy toys. It was pretty embarrassing, especially when I noticed that I had a pile of nursing bras on the couch that needed to be taken upstairs. I went through my Erik maternity clothes yesterday and washed a bunch of stuff to take to the consignment shop, but kept the bras. On the couch. I have a classy house. Don’t you want to visit? The best? The most noticeable bra was a leopard print. Also, Erik had no pants on since he had ruined his last clean pair.
It’s really hard to be vivacious and not have major social anxiety when someone you don’t know comes to visit your pit of a house and your 4 year old has a bare ass because he pooped his pants.
In other news, I got a pretty good night’s sleep last night so life is looking a lot better. I am still having a major hip muscle problem, which I can’t explain. I found my heating pad tonight and am trying to see if that helps. I say “trying” because it’s hard to use a heating pad when your brain has no ability to function. It wouldn’t get hot, so I was getting pretty mad and was convinced that it was broken. It’s been years since I’ve used it.
Problem A: I forgot to turn it on.
Twenty minutes later I discovered Problem B: I forgot to plug it in.
Then Mike came in and was telling me about some work project that he’ll be doing with one of his former co-workers (his field is very small so he is always running into former co-workers). He was office mates with this guy for three years. We’ve been to his house several times. We talk about him sometimes. Yet his name? I couldn’t think of it. I hate being stupid!
Here’s hoping for another beautiful day tomorrow and some pain relief for my hip. I was in a panic because I didn’t think Erik has any green clothing for his leprechaun walk at school tomorrow, but I found an ugly robot shirt that my mom sent him. He loves it. I somehow lose it in the back of the closet. It will do for tomorrow, methinks. What most of this paragraph has to do with each other I do not know. I am not a literary genius.