dreaming {biting t-rex}

{my mom came home from Kauai this morning with REAL Hawaiian slippers for me.}

thanks mom!

.........

last night i had a bad dream.

so did brennan.

he didn't want to talk about it,

but just said he didn't ever want to dream again.

so this morning after i nursed chase, 

brennan came in rubbing his eyes.

and i told him about how in my bad dream an airplane crashed on the mountain,

and it was really sad.

{what i didn't tell him was that i ran over to the crash, 

but i wasn't really running, 

it was more like gliding, 

right over a huge valley, 

effortlessly,

you know how dreams are,

and i saw the plane completely charred from the plane being on fire,

even a baby seat.

no bodies.

just empty burned seats.

i woke up feeling sick.

and scared that my mom's plane from Hawaii had crashed over night.

i'm paranoid like that.

but it didn't.

she is fine.

it was just a dream.}

so i told him that a plane crashed into a mountain,

and that it was scary.

and then he decided to tell me about his dream.

and he was excited about it in his voice.

very energetic like he says,

"there was a T-REX in my room

and it bit my hand,

and my penis,

and my OTHER hand!

and i never want to dream ever again."

and i couldn't help but laugh

really

really

hard.

b/c t-rex's and t-rex's biting you in important places 

are obviously his biggest fears at the age of 4.

poor little guy.

he also told me he never wants it to be a dark day again.

just sunny days,

so we can keep our eyes open all sunny days,

no dark days,

so we don't have to dream anymore.

twin boys that wouldn't sleep {bill clinton spits}

last night i dreamt that i had twin baby boys.
that wouldn't sleep.
i wasn't big and pregnant.
i wasn't even showing.
i just knew i was in labor.
and i floated the the hospital.
seeing as i don't really ever walk in dreams.
sometimes i try to run, and it's really hard, and i can't get anywhere.
those are the really frustrating dreams.
this dream was just really scary.
so i floated to the hospital.
and no one told me to do anything, i didn't feel any pain, even though i knew i hadn't had any drugs to help, and i had one baby.
then after a little bit longer i had another baby.
and i just kept thinking,
"how am i going to get brennan to blake's dinosaur party in park city???!!!"
sean had some work presentation he had to make so he couldn't take brennan.
i don't even remember him being at the hospital.
and my mom was there.
and they were sending me home an hour after i had the babies.
but i had to go to the bathroom so we stopped by our old church building and i went in and this girl from high school named Hilla was in there, so i left the stall open while i peed b/c i wanted to talk to her b/c i hadn't seen her in ten years.
and then all of a sudden she turned into jessie who was my sister's friend in high school that lived at our house for a few years after i graduated.
and she was yelling that bill clinton spit into a garbage can and threw up when he saw her friend and she was "so offended!!!" that he had done that b/c it was her friend.
and i was embarrassed that i didn't know who her friend was
(she had a first and a last name...i wish i could remember it...)
b/c i didn't want her to think i was uneducated,
you know, not knowing who her friend was,
so i didn't want to ask who she was,
so i was just going to ask her how she met her friend,
and then i woke up.
and was completely panicked that i was going to have two twin baby boys that wouldn't sleep.
and i was so mad at myself that i scheduled my ultra sound for 20 weeks and not 18 weeks b/c now i have to wait 2 more weeks to find out if i'm going to have twin boys that won't sleep.
and then i felt the white glow coming through the windows.
and I KNEW what it was.
i popped out of bed.
ran to the window.
took a really excited breath in.
ran to open my door.
and there was brennan in the hall whispering,
"it's snowing! it's snowing! it's wake up time! let's get max!!!"
and so we did.
and now we have to get dressed for blake's dinosaur party.
and that last part wasn't a dream:)

i still can't stop laughing about the part where bill clinton spit in the garbage can and threw up when he saw jessie's friend and jessie's all,

"i was SO offended b/c she's my friend!!!"

24

if i had 24 hours to myself.
i would:
organize the basement.
watch the food network.
go to the gym.
take a long hot shower.
sleep in.
go out to lunch.
get a new bra.
watch the today show.
go to a movie.
and not in that order.
i don't like the gym anymore, but it used to be one of my favorite things to do,
and i think it would be fun to do something in my pre-mama routine.
just for one day.
like watching the today show.
i always felt so informed.
i barely heard about the earthquake in japan.
thank goodness for texting.
and people knowing that if it's not on disney channel,
i don't hear about it.
the thing i didn't like about the gym was going every day.
where it felt like a chore.
so i think it would be fun to get to go just for one day.
as a relaxing, enjoyable activity.
and really, i'd rather just go for an 8 mile run in the middle of idaho, but we only have 24 hours folks, and we all know i'm not in running shape anymore, so there's no way i'm going to be able to do 8.
man, i used to run!!!
and since we are dreaming,
i would also like to request no sore muscles the next day.
i used to love the food network show where they showed where different kinds of food got their start.
how they were all made.
when the today show is over,
i would have the food network on.
turned up so i could hear it in the basement.
as i threw stuff out.
organized the rest.
in bins.
i like bins.
a lot.
i don't even remember the name of that food network show anymore,
but before i had kids, i used to ALWAYS watch it.
i ate a lot more then.
mainly b/c when you watch the food network you get hungry.
even if you're not hungry,
watching it makes you hungry.
and it was usually on at 10pm.
evil!
evil i say!
so after sleeping in, going to the gym, and taking a hot shower,
i would get dressed.
do a little basement organizing/throwing out.
while having the food network on in the background.
and then need a break.
so.
i'd go out to lunch.
like jen, i would have to say cheesecake factory would be my spot.
i would order:
avocado rolls with extra dip b/c there's never enough.
rasberry lemonade.
refilled at least once.
and another once for the road.
sugar retouched every time.
and a piece of the adam's peanut butter cheesecake.
i've tried others.
they do not compare.
it's all i need.
and want.
i would eat half of it.
ask for extra whipped cream to go, and save the other half for later.
back to the basement.
hopefully by now i would have cleaned out most of my teaching boxes which we all know i won't be using ever again.
god willing.
maybe have the courage to throw out the old cheerleading megaphone.
maybe not.
definitely put the pom poms and prom dress in a box.
good willed some of the toys?
maybe this basement idea isn't so hot.
but it's what i always want to do.
when no kids are around.
maybe it's just one of those things i say i want to do b/c i know the kids will never not be around so it's a safe desire to want b/c i don't really want to do it, i just want to say i want to do it, knowing it might never happen anyway?
wow,
that's too deep for a monday night.
so let's just say i'm working on that basement as planned.
then come up for a snack.
watch oprah.
during it's regularly scheduled time.
watch the evening news.
i'd better be feeling informed by this point during the day.
probably paranoid and a little depressed by all of the negative news too.
then back to the basement.
eat the last half of the cheesecake for dinner.
drop off all of the basement de-junking at the DI/goodwill.
go to a movie.
large popcorn,
layered butter 2 times, 3 if i'm being really honest.
extra salt.
large mug of diet pepsi and dr pepper mixed.
come home.
fall asleep reading a good book.
and if there really were no budget for this free 24 hours,
let's be honest.
i would have squeazed in a $1000 shopping spree.
on clothes.
and shoes.
just for me:)
the end.
who's funding this and watching my kids?!
I'M THERE!!!

like mommy do.

i guess this is how mommy does it.

i had a dream last night that someone stole both of our cars and our carseats.
except sean's car was a classic mustang, not a red chevy cavalier with no air conditioning.
i'm glad i woke up and found everything in its designated place.

except for the part about the cavalier with no air conditioning.

VIP dreams

so far, all i've noticed about my scrubbing bubbles gel toilet bowl cleaner is that it makes my bathroom smell like a clean hospital room.

and i don't like the smell of clean hospital rooms.

the pack lasts for 6 weeks.

hopefully it really will clean the toilet for me,

as advertised on the box.

(but on the box there was this little sponge creature that did the work. i see no creature in my toilet. false advertising.)

haha

last night i dreamt

that my father in law got us front row box seats (is that even possible???) to a king's basketball game.

sean and my friend beth were with me.

two of my friends from high school were players on the team.

micah cummings and gabe gammon.

gabe is shorter than me, and i don't remember micah being tall.

i haven't seen or talked to these people in 10 years.

so we were in these box seats, but we couldn't even see the game.

it didn't bother me.

we got to wear these fancy vip tags around our necks.

i felt super important with my neck tag.

beth went to talk to the players on the bench, but i just sat in the little box.

some fancy dressed men came up and brought us plates of chocolate pudding with lots of whipped cream and purple Gatorade.

beth stole my Gatorade, but i didn't mind b/c i don't like Gatorade that much.

and i thought it tasted like medicine anyway.

i also ate a cold chocolate chip cookie with homemade whipped cream (the pudding and whipped cream they brought earlier was from the can), and i remember thinking the cookie would have been much better with the whipped cream if it were warmed up.

beth and i were just about to go "powder our noses" when sean came back with his arms full of stuff from the souvenir shop.

i asked him where he got the money for it, and he said his dad gave him money and he was to "go to town" in the gift shop.

then i woke up.

weird.

dreaming of steaks, burgers, Cheetos, & so forth

i can always tell when i'm extra hungry in the morning b/c i have dreams about eating food all night long.
last night i dreamt about steaks, hamburgers, tacos, Cheetos, and lays classic potato chips.
i was extra hungry, and apparently wanted meat and fried chips.
let's just say i woke up needing a little more than oatmeal wit berries.
and fast!
i woke up needing frosted shredded wheat, raisins, honey, & brennan's whole milk.
it's a good source of fiber, so they say.
or a good source of fulfilling hunger.
whichever.
i now feel amazingly full.
which means i may be able to be a little more lovely when asked questions this morning.
i don't do well when i'm hungry.
i get snappy.
so just make sure i'm fed and watered.
we'll all be happier:-)