Hey, Mrs. Wilson!

Welcome!

I took a little blogging break after my episode the other day. I figured maybe I should stay away from the computer for a little while and be a better mom/wife and maybe not boil a pot dry.

Disregard the next couple paragraphs if you have no idea what I’m talking about. Sorry ’bout that. There’s pictures below.

I tried to update my version of WordPress earlier this evening. By myself. Um, not a good idea. I fooled around too much with my FileZilla. Idiot. I made my back site thing (where I enter posts) explode. The screen was all weird characters instead of my normal dashboard. I may have freaked out a bit and I might have frantically messaged Angella because OMSH was not online. Although Angella is loverly, she could not help me. She does what I should have done in the first place. Get someone else to do it.

Then I had an epiphany. (Shut up.) Fantastico! I blew up my site before, and that’s what saved me, so I went back there. Oh my word, I did a little shriek of joy when I logged in and I saw a beautiful dashboard.  I’m not updated, but at least I’m back to where I was to begin with.
Maybe I should pay a little more attention to the update tutorial next time.

On to hopefully more interesting things

Kaylie and I had a Mommy-Kaylie lunch today. She loves Mommy-Kaylie time. Having another little person take up a lot of my time has been a bit hard on her. She’s never once been resentful toward Liliana, quite the opposite actually. She’s always very loving toward her. Sometimes a bit too much to the point of smothering.

On our way home from church, Kaylie asked if we could go out for lunch. If we do go out, it’s usually on Sunday because I’m lazy on Sundays. I told her we had to ask Dad, as he’d walked home ahead of us (it’s baseball season y’know!) He did not want to go (and Liliana needed a nap), but gave the go-ahead for Kaylie and I to go out on the condition that we brought him back some food.

Deal.

I let Kaylie pick the restaurant from a list of ones I liked. It’s all about letting them think it’s their idea. When she got her coloring sheet, she wanted me to color with her. The child in me was quite excited about this. I said I’d help her color the pigs.

“Mom. They’re not pigs. They’re fat horses.”

My bad.

We’re all about the iced tea in our family. Canadian iced tea. None of that sour sugarless American stuff.

Kaylie decided it was time she taught me about the things of life, like putting the lemon in the iced tea instead of letting it sit on the rim.

“See mom? You put it in and then you smoosh it all around so that the flavor goes aaaaaaaaall through the iced tea.”

Got it.

“And then you drink it while you wink.”

Okee dokee.

“Hey mom, can I take a picture of you?”

What? And let you touch my camera? My baby? My pride and joy? Not in a million years, sister! Um, okay.

I was actually quite impressed with her composition. I kind of like this picture (besides the fact that I hate all pictures that include me).

When our food finally came, she said she was full after she whined through the whole church service that she was hungry.

“I got full on the iced tea.”

Wonderful.

Oh well, we’ll take it home to dad. He likes chicken fingers and fries.

And, just to be nice, we picked him up a six-inch pizza sub from Subway with lettuce, onions, tomatoes, pickles, mustard, BBQ sauce, southwest chipoltle sauce, and oregano on Italian herb and cheese bread. Except I forgot the pickles and southwest. At least I was close.

And now it’s advice time …

How do you get a kid to stop biting her nails?

How do you get that kid to also ride a two-wheel bike without getting really angry at her because she’s whining because she thinks she’s going to tip over even though you’re hanging on? (Not that I’d ever get angry.)

Look out tomorrow for the next episode of my Ode to my Family Series. Tomorrow I introduce you to my mom!