Ignorance is Bliss...

Who knew that a simple trip to Staples would turn out to be extremely embarrassing and somewhat inappropriate?  Well, anyone who knows me knows that just about anything can and will happen like that.  I needed an extra SD card for my camera for an upcoming vacation.  I was not able to find them in the store, so I asked one of the guys who worked there where they were.  To be accurate, I literally asked, “Can you tell me where the STD cards are?”  Yep.  That is what I said.  He had his chin down and looked up at me and said very slowly, “you mean SD cards?”  I replied, “yes”, still not understanding what I had asked for.  It was not until about 30 seconds after walking away from the guy that I realized what I had just said.  I thought that yes, that was about right for me.  Of course I would be asking some stranger for a sexually transmitted disease (STD) card and not think twice about it.  Who else would do that?  Well, if nothing else, at least I gave that guy something to talk to his coworkers about that day. 

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ No, no, Mommy. I didn't get into your lipstick. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

One Beautiful Snowy Night...

When I was growing up and my mother drove in the snow, she mostly cried and had us kids praying the whole time until we got home.  As a young adult, I had taken my mother out to dinner and while we were out it snowed.  She was to drive us back to her house from the restaurant in her car, where my car was, and then I was going to drive home from there.  The ride home from the restaurant went something like this – her crying and praying for about 90% of the ride.  Then all of a sudden, some woman I never met spoke and said, “Isn’t it just beautiful out?”  I flung my head around so quickly wondering what had happened to my real mother, then realized that she was now fine because she knew that she would make it to her house safely.  I was thinking, “What about me, Crazy Lady? I still have my entire ride home left?!”

It Only Stings A Little...

As a mother, obviously, I had previously been  a little girl and knew a lot of little girl issues and how to raise girls.  I, however, was not a little boy, so my poor son has had to deal with circumstances of me learning things along with him.  When he was 3, we were at the doctors and they needed a urine sample from him.  Well, that sounded easy enough.  I tell ya, he would have been better off on his own.  I helped him and somehow, things literally got out of hand and I squirted him in his eye.  The poor kid – I got him in his eye with his own urine!!  Who does that?!  I don’t even know how that happened.  I told him that I was soooo sorry and that I had never used one of those like that before.  He was so cute in his little voice as he rubbed his eye and said, “That’s ok, Mommy. It only stings a little.”

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Napping dog or dog ready for the gynecologist? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~