We took the kids to the Beach Waterpark for Ellen Family Fun Day. We all had a great time and it was very educational. Here is a list of all the things that I learned today. (A few things I already knew but they were reinforced.)
**Disclaimer: The following is to be taken lightly. This is a humorous and honest blog with no offense intended. Any resemblance to yourself, your friends or family is most likely coincidental.**
1. A white tank top over a very tiny bathing suit does not hide anything. We can see everything you didn't want us to.
2. If you tell your granddaughter that you will not buy her Dippin Dots (the "ice cream of the future") because it's $4 and that is ridiculous and then you proceed to buy a $3 beer in your $9.50 refillable mug, you will be judged.
3. Getting paw prints tattooed on your breasts does NOT make you look like Eve.
4. If your bottom is less than rockin, you should not wear a bikini with the words "Apple Bottoms" written on the backside in gold glitter. (This was especially disturbing as it was the same girl that mistook herself for Eve.) FYI - even if you have a hot body, you should think twice about wearing anything with gold glitter on your ass. It doesn't say classy like you think it does.
5. Although functional, under no circumstances are water shoes attractive.
6. There seems to be a rumor spreading like wildfire that neck tattoos are hot.
7. Wearing heels to the waterpark is not a good idea. And it makes you look like a fool.
8. If you sit in a chair for 4 hours instead of spending time with your wife, she will get mad and you will have to leave. (And then the Ellen's will take your primo spot in the sand.)
9. Just because it is August and the last 2 months have been unbearably hot, do not think that it won't be freezing cold (well, too cold to swim anyway) and rainy on the one day you decide to take the whole fam to the waterpark.
10. There is nothing more attractive to a mother than watching a father brave the ice cold water to play with his children for 6 hours and enjoy every minute of it. (This is a direct reference to my wonderful husband.)
Who knew one could learn so much just by sitting, relaxing, and people watching? I feel very wise today. Thank you, Beach Waterpark, Mason, OH!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
7/19/10
Today is my anniversary. My seven year anniversary to be exact. I am sitting at Dewey's Pizza waiting for Travis (I am early and he is late.) We have gone to Dewey's for 5 of our 7 anniversaries. It is "our place." As I patiently await the arrival of my man, I reflect on the last 7 years (8 if you count the year we dated) of my life - I mean, what else have I got to do?
Throughout our lives together, we have had the following - 1 house, 5 cars, 2 dogs, 3 pregnancies, 2 children, 1 room mate, 5 TV's, 3 computers, 9 DVD players (they keep breaking), 11 jobs and multitudes of fights. There have been bouts of unemployment (both of us but thankfully not at the same time), we have both been back to school (he is the only one that finished,) have been broke and at other times went through money like water (this, no doubt, had a direct effect on being broke the other times.) Right now, we are in a really good place. We don't get to see each other enough and I now have to use a day planner to keep up with every one's schedule, but we are really happy together.
I met Travis when I was only 21, was engaged 3 months later on my 22nd birthday and got married a month before I turned 23. It was a whirlwind romance and looking back, I realize how young I was. I knew that I loved him and that he loved me but I could not back then fathom the strength, patience and understanding that it takes to be married. I have grown up a lot since I got married and I think one of the things that make Trav and I work is that he has allowed (and I don't use that word in the "given permission" sense but the encouraged sense) me to find out who I am. He has never been jealous of my need for time to myself (something that I still struggle with) and has been supportive through out my career changes and art projects and numerous classes that take time and money so that I can learn how to be me.
There have been times when I wasn't sure if we were going to make it and a few when we almost gave up. I am sure there will be more times like that in the future. Travis and I have different political, religious, parental and environmental views. We have virtually nothing in common except one thing. We are committed to each other and our relationship. We are a team and we always will be.
When we first fell in love, we used to say "I love you, forever and always, even though and even if." That means that I love him "even though" he is a republican and "even if" he goes fishing for 10 days in Canada with no cell reception when we have a 4 month old baby and I almost have a nervous breakdown because I (irrationally) think he is abandoning me. It also means that he loves me "even though" I am a horrible pack rat that keeps every scrap of paper that the children ever scribbled on and "even if" I am physically incapable of walking out of Target without buying 10 additional items that I don't need and spending less than $100. We don't say that phrase much anymore. It has gotten lost in the chaos that is our lives, but we should. No matter what happens in the future (never say never and always expect the unexpected) I will always love Travis because I wouldn't be who I am today without him and more importantly, I wouldn't want to.
Throughout our lives together, we have had the following - 1 house, 5 cars, 2 dogs, 3 pregnancies, 2 children, 1 room mate, 5 TV's, 3 computers, 9 DVD players (they keep breaking), 11 jobs and multitudes of fights. There have been bouts of unemployment (both of us but thankfully not at the same time), we have both been back to school (he is the only one that finished,) have been broke and at other times went through money like water (this, no doubt, had a direct effect on being broke the other times.) Right now, we are in a really good place. We don't get to see each other enough and I now have to use a day planner to keep up with every one's schedule, but we are really happy together.
I met Travis when I was only 21, was engaged 3 months later on my 22nd birthday and got married a month before I turned 23. It was a whirlwind romance and looking back, I realize how young I was. I knew that I loved him and that he loved me but I could not back then fathom the strength, patience and understanding that it takes to be married. I have grown up a lot since I got married and I think one of the things that make Trav and I work is that he has allowed (and I don't use that word in the "given permission" sense but the encouraged sense) me to find out who I am. He has never been jealous of my need for time to myself (something that I still struggle with) and has been supportive through out my career changes and art projects and numerous classes that take time and money so that I can learn how to be me.
There have been times when I wasn't sure if we were going to make it and a few when we almost gave up. I am sure there will be more times like that in the future. Travis and I have different political, religious, parental and environmental views. We have virtually nothing in common except one thing. We are committed to each other and our relationship. We are a team and we always will be.
When we first fell in love, we used to say "I love you, forever and always, even though and even if." That means that I love him "even though" he is a republican and "even if" he goes fishing for 10 days in Canada with no cell reception when we have a 4 month old baby and I almost have a nervous breakdown because I (irrationally) think he is abandoning me. It also means that he loves me "even though" I am a horrible pack rat that keeps every scrap of paper that the children ever scribbled on and "even if" I am physically incapable of walking out of Target without buying 10 additional items that I don't need and spending less than $100. We don't say that phrase much anymore. It has gotten lost in the chaos that is our lives, but we should. No matter what happens in the future (never say never and always expect the unexpected) I will always love Travis because I wouldn't be who I am today without him and more importantly, I wouldn't want to.
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