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Pamela
I attempt to teach high school English to the unwilling.
I am approximately 35....ok, for sure 35 years old, with two beautiful spawn, ages 3 (drama daughter) and 5 (little tank), and a magnificant husband. I teach high school English, and have supposedly maintained my sanity in the process. I enjoy reading, lots of music, traveling and wine. That sounde...
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99 and Counting

Wednesday, July, 2, 2008

THE GARDEN REPORT (sorry brother)

We are out of the hundreds. It happened so fast! It seems like only two days ago....wait a minute...

So we didn't go on a date last night. Whaddya want!? Geez people, we have two kids 5 and under (that sounds like a buffet sign at a ..a ...um ... buffet..... I'm on a roll this morning. Thank you ADHD.) Nor did  we want to cause my mother to avoid our house like so often happens after 2 days in a row with the spawn. Phone message from Dora to my mother sounds like this following two days of on purpose grandmother sitting: "Gramma. Hey GRAMAAAAHHH! GRAMMMMMA! Why you not answering you phone? Brudder and me want you to come over and to be the whale and we will be the doll fins and we will swim together on the carpet in the upstairs water that is the ocean. Then you can give us SHUUUUGGGGAR! Call us back at the green house!" That being said, I didn't ask my mom to babysit. WHEW, I am ALL wound up today!

We put the kids to bed in a timely manner, and met up in the den of love downstairs. After several false starts that were not our fault ("MAAHHHMMMAAA! Can you come check on me!? I think I need water. I think I need pee pee. I think I did not have the breakfast. I think I did not have dinner. What's for my dessert? Can we do fireworks?), we decided to garden on the bathroom counter, as I prefer planting in various places to keep it from becoming a boring garden. It was everything but. Go Leo, baby!

I am noticing an odd happening. We are already more playful with one another, with me not being the uptight sex Nazi beeatch ("No ass for you!") that I can sometimes be every day all the time always. There is no, "Will we or won't we? Will we fight about it? Will we discuss it for too long? Can I NOT have sex and we still be lovey? Can I hold sex itself like the winning card in a game of naked poker, taunting him because I'm the dealer?" There is none of that. We KNOW we're having sex, so we're just being cool... he immediately did all of the dishes after dinner as well. And wiped the counter. AND set the coffee. I think I might be on to something. Hee Hee....I have SUCH a dirty mind. ON to something.....


hnagel
hnagel
Posted Wed, 07/02/2008 - 09:43
that inspired your garden growing and everyone in the skirt.com office felt compelled to take a look this a.m.! You can find the story here. Here are links to the books they reference:
Just Do It!
365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy

Here's the video:

psansour
psansour
Posted Sat, 07/05/2008 - 10:23
Thank you so much for putting that on there. I'm a little too computer stupid to figure out how to link video.... But see.... they didn't die and THEY did it for 101 days....They even look like they still like like each other.
MoxieBee
MoxieBee
Posted Wed, 07/02/2008 - 21:47
This gardening project has already inspired spontaneous man chores: he did the dishes AND set the coffee! I applaud you. ~MoxieBee
psansour
psansour
Posted Sat, 07/05/2008 - 10:23
He is still doing it....shhhhh....
ClaudineMJ
ClaudineMJ
Posted Wed, 07/02/2008 - 22:02
this sounds like work to me. i'm not so sure i'm into it. have i mentioned i have not slept in five years? I have 3 kids but the last two are trying to kill me with sleep deprivation. seriously.. every freakin' night, I'm up at least twice and if they really wake me up I can't get back to sleep. And someone is always jumping in our bed. We can't get them to leave. Husband wanted to buy a king bed so we wouldn't have so many knees/elbows/feet in our faces, but I think that's just INVITING them. We need to build another house behind the house that we have so we can get some privacy.
psansour
psansour
Posted Sat, 07/05/2008 - 10:26
Girl, I am finding that the sleep that comes following some great gardening is totally worth the 20-30 minutes of television that we're missing. DO NOT put kids in your bed. Even if you have to take 3 nights of repeatedly placing them back in their own cave to show them that you're not giving in, DO IT. We did, and our spawn soon stopped trying when they realized they were always ending up where they started. My threatening to put all toys in garbage can had nothing to do with it. I DO like the idea of another house for them....or you....
ClaudineMJ
ClaudineMJ
Posted Sat, 07/05/2008 - 11:30
So we're out numbered. They're good too. Just last week my daughter came in the middle and then threw up. It was 2 am. Claudine M. Jalajas
http://cjalajas.blogspot.com/
ClaudineMJ
ClaudineMJ
Posted Sat, 07/05/2008 - 11:31
Surely the 20 to 30 minutes includes post shower time, right? Claudine M. Jalajas
http://cjalajas.blogspot.com/