{"id":259,"date":"2008-09-19T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/09\/builders-school-and-weddings-oh-my.html"},"modified":"2008-09-19T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:54:00","slug":"builders-school-and-weddings-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/09\/builders-school-and-weddings-oh-my.html","title":{"rendered":"Builders, School, and Weddings, Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what&#8217;s going on with me? I&#8217;m not purposely neglecting you guys&#8211;I think it&#8217;s just that there&#8217;s so much going on and I&#8217;m just overwhelmed enough that I feel like I have absolutely nothing interesting to blog about. But that stops now! I&#8217;m cranking up the iTunes (so loving the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/whatsnew\/\">Genius playlist<\/a> feature), ignoring the copyedit that&#8217;s whispering to me from the side of my desk (&#8220;Jenny! I have misplaced modifiers! I&#8217;m going to secretly removed serial commas! Look, Jenny, look! I&#8217;ve got inconsistent numerals&#8230;. Jennnnnny! Come fiiiiiix me!&#8221;), and I&#8217;m now prepared to give you all my full attention. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, what was the question?<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you some of the things I&#8217;ve learned this past week:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>If you give a child 60 cents and tell him he can buy his milk at school, 5 times out of 5 times, he will choose chocolate milk. (Nostalgia: When I was in elementary school, lunch prices increased from 50 cents to 55 cents. And we didn&#8217;t have three lunch choices, including pizza pretty much every day.)\n<\/li>\n<li>A house with no walls is way more interesting than a house with walls.\n<\/li>\n<li>You can watch a cement truck pour cement for hours.\n<\/li>\n<li>If your family can&#8217;t keep a decent-sized house clean, no way can they keep a 700-square-foot apartment clean. You will be stepping on Legos for the duration. And if your husband didn&#8217;t know what clean was in your house, he really won&#8217;t know what it means in the apartment. By the way, you are not invited over. Not any of you. Because this place is a mess.\n<\/li>\n<li>No matter how little food you put into your son&#8217;s lunchbox, he will not be able to finish it. I gave that boy <i>two<\/i> falafel balls (note: not an entire falafel sandwich, just two of the little balls) and <i>two<\/i> slices of red pepper. He ate one falafel ball, one slice of red pepper, and complained that I gave him too much food because he doesn&#8217;t have time to finish it. Kindergartners get <i>a half hour<\/i> for lunch. He can&#8217;t manage to put away four small pieces of food? That boy is a Chatty Cathy is what it is. Today he said I was giving him too much lunch: a cheese sandwich and two red pepper slices. He said, &#8220;Just give me the red pepper.&#8221; Um, no? Because I&#8217;m not going to be the mom called by DSS for starving her child. At least I won&#8217;t starve him in a public setting. We compromised on half a cheese sandwich and red pepper. And this kid wonders why he doesn&#8217;t weigh enough for a &#8220;big kid booster seat&#8221; in the car.\n<\/li>\n<li>If you buy your daughter a dress so she can be a flower girl, you&#8217;ll need to get shoes to go with the dress. Otherwise, you will wake up two days before the wedding and think, &#8220;OH SHIT! I didn&#8217;t buy any shoes!&#8221; and you&#8217;ll have to run to the store and pay top dollar to Stride Rite because your wide-footed daughter doesn&#8217;t fit into normal shoes and you don&#8217;t have enough time to order them online.\n<\/li>\n<li>When your son says he&#8217;s not learning anything yet at school&#8230; he LIES! At back-to-school night, it was downright overwhelming to see how much they are learning. And sure enough, this morning, I said to Doodles, &#8220;In September, for awhile&#8230;&#8221; and he chimed immediately in, making hand motions, &#8220;I will ride a crocodile down the chicken soupy Nile. Paddle once, paddle twice, paddle chicken soup and rice,&#8221; and, oh yes, they have gone over some of the letters of the alphabet, and yeah, they do count every day, many times a day, and he has been writing his name, but no, he really isn&#8217;t learning anything. Okay, fine. As long as he keeps not learning at this pace, I&#8217;ll be happy.\n<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re size 4 son needs a suit, you will be paying hand over fist for it. In fact, he might even have to give up his brand-new room in his brand-new house, it costs so much.\n<\/li>\n<li>Running 19 miles after taking two weeks off of running may not be the smartest thing in the world.\n<\/li>\n<li>If, when you move, you think that purging your house of chocolate will prevent you from bingeing when your children are in preschool and you&#8217;re working, you are wrong. You will just find other things to binge on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, enough you people! I hear a &#8220;comprised of&#8221; (AAAACK!) beckoning me from the manuscript. (Where is my red pencil! Bad <i>of<\/i>, bad, bad, bad <i>of<\/i>.) We&#8217;ve got one wedding rehearsal, one party, one half marathon, two sets of formal photos, a mountain of logistics, and one wedding to attend this weekend. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have something to say about it all next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what&#8217;s going on with me? I&#8217;m not purposely neglecting you guys&#8211;I think it&#8217;s just that there&#8217;s so much going on and I&#8217;m just overwhelmed enough that I feel like I have absolutely nothing interesting to blog about. But that stops now! 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