last night, phil was headed out to target to pick up a few things.  he asked if i needed anything.  for some random reason, the only thing that came to mind was pantiliners.  not too difficult, right?  i was thinking kotex, always, you know, the girl aisle.  phil came back home with these…       wait…    me:  uh phil?  poise are for people who pee in their pants! phil:  well, it was either those or depends!  did you want the depends instead?   at this point, phil and i dissolve into fits of laughter.  you know, the kind of laughing where once you start, you can’t stop?  and the harder you try…

  every day at 2:30 pm, i do a little happy dance as i go downstairs.  both mikey and allie are down for their afternoon naps and i go straight to the kitchen to finally eat lunch.  there just isn’t time for me to eat before now.  while my lunch is heating in the microwave, i pour some water into a big green plastic cup, add one of my little happy packets, pop in a straw, stir, and take a long sip as i breathe a sigh of relief. i call these my little happy packets because i look forward to this moment all day.  not because i don’t love being with my…

er, just the morning actually.  i have a standing date with allie every 4 hours.  yesterday, my good friend lorie and i got to enjoy some time off together while our husbands took over kid-care duties.  it was great fun and definitely a refreshing time.  we had about 3 hours and packed in as much as we could.  we started off getting coffee at starbucks, then headed over to walk around at the mall. there, we decided to get manicures.  i’m the hand on the right.   then we went to muffuletta cafe for an early lunch.  we had wanted to go out for tea, but didn’t make reservations early enough. …

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