Cowboy Tattoos Are Funny
October 11, 2008
Albert Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That would sum up this little football team and its coaches perfectly. They lost 35ish - 0. I lost count after a while, because does it really matter?
Did my mother just tell me to kick some one’s ass?
Yes, son, I did. I don’t know what has come over me. I have turned into one of those parents. Also, I apologize for handing you your winter weight underarmour and long socks this morning and telling you it was cold. At 6am when I got up, it was cold. I forgot about that bright shiny thing that would rise in the sky a few hours later.
Random things from today:
1) I had to drop my 13 yr old off early this morning at the football field for practice. When I left the house, my daughter was in the shower and the other kids were getting ready to go to my 9 yr old son’s away game. I came home to discover my 9 yr old had brushed his sister’s hair and put it in a ponytail. Why that makes my heart sing so much I am not sure. He also made her scrambled eggs for breakfast. Yes, I will be taking applications to have your daughter marry him.
2) After the game the kids got food at the concession stand and were sitting at tables eating. A cheerleader from the opposing team went up to one of my son’s friends and asked him if he wanted to go sit under the bleachers with her. He was appropriately horrified by the question. But seriously, what the hell? These are nine year old little boys and girls. It also made me sad for the little girl because where is she getting that from and what if she asks that of the wrong kid?
3) A cold virus has been going through our house. My house is a cacophony of coughing. And you want to know something? Coughing drives me bat shit crazy. I wish I had more patience when my kids are hacking up their lungs, but I do not. I put out carrot sticks and hummus for a snack when we got home this afternoon and the amount of coughing over the food caused me to go and eat my own NON COMMUNAL FOOD standing at the counter completely on the other side of the kitchen. And still I was annoyed.
4) This is photographic evidence of how much my daughter loves going to football games:
Every week I assure her that there will not be any dancing unicorns or candy falling from the sky, and yet she still wants to go. Just so she can ask me every five minutes if the game is almost over. And I can promise to never bring her again.
6) The opposing team had a girl on it. And as enlightened as I like to think that I am, it really bothered me to hear the coaches shouting things like, “Hit her!” “Get her!” “Knock her down!”
7) Someone today told me that they were getting cowboy tattoos. Thankfully, I misheard. Because I burst out laughing.
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I have a ten year old daughter, do you believe in the older woman/younger man thing? Send me an application!
October 11th, 2008 at 7:45 pmAlso, Miss 10 does the same thing at swim meets, “when is it dddoooonnnneeeee?” Even though she has been going to them for 6 years now; she knows how long they last.
1. That is the sweetest thing ever…My daughter will be sixin November. I would like an application please.
2. That makes me sad too…NINE??
3. I love carrots and hummus, but the cold? nothankyou.
4. My guess is she just wants to be with you even though it is no fun for either of you. She is a doll!
5. There is no five
6. The thing is, the coaches do that to psych her out…I wouldn’t like it either!
7. I have seen a lot of tattoos but I too would have laughed! What were they really getting?
PS the little guys in their uniforms are so cute! I can’t wait for that stuff with my little man!
October 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pmCan your son come over here and make me scrambled eggs?? I want one of those! Seriously though, what did that little girl intend on doing under the bleachers? Really?
October 11th, 2008 at 8:40 pmHeck, I have an 8 and an 11 year old boy — send me an application and yours can choose!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:50 pmI would also like to submit an application!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:23 pmYour 9yr old is a prize!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:54 pmWe will be needing one of those applications please. That is too cute. And the bleacher girl keep your sone far away from her. Very sad.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:30 pmi know why. because your son recognised that something had to get done, that someone had to do them and he cared enough to get them done without a fuss. i look after my cousin’s kids (9 yr old boy and 6yr old girl) and it is such a joy when these little things happen because you feel like you are doing right by them, and that in spite of everything they are going to turn out as decent people.
October 12th, 2008 at 6:01 amI would like to say that I am surprised by that 9 yr old cheerleader, but sadly I am trying to fight off the other 6 yrs old telling my daughter that she should be sexy, have a designer handbag and a cellphone. Can she please just be 6 yrs old for right now?
October 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pmIt is amazing how we live the same lives. Creepy even. Yet we are totally different women..totally.
I get you and I enjoy you. I laugh at the same things and I too CAN NOT STAND my children coughing. Oh I wish I had more patience too. LOL!
October 12th, 2008 at 6:31 pmThe cheerleader makes me sad. And like I want to smack her upside the head and say, Quit trying so hard. Boys don’t notice girls yet.
I’m also sad that your darling nine year old falls between my girls with a five year gap on either side. Are you hiring him out to do hair by any chance?
October 12th, 2008 at 10:04 pmWow! You 9 year old is soooooo sweet.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:40 pmI wish my infant son will have a younger sister. or a sister and a brother. or many more siblings. **SIGH** If only ‘living’ were as easy as ‘dreaming’.
Don’t let the cheerleader girl find out how sweet your nine your old is, or she will be after him..I think I would have found her parents and told them.
I have a 13 year old girl and a 9 year old girl that are still available. I am also 41 and married, but am entertaining applying for myself just for the help:), not the msrriage…ewwwww
October 12th, 2008 at 11:10 pmSorry to tell you, but I have heard more “grown-up” statements and suggestions coming out of the mouths of little girl cheerleaders than any other groups of little girls. They have come to believe that they are cute and sexy just like the professional cheerleaders, and they ct upon it. Sadly, their parents think it is so cute to see their little girls acting so grown-up, it’s enough to make you puke. The healthy wholesome cheerleader has been replaced by the sexy nymph image. Being the Mom of two boys, I don’t have to worry about my child turning into aCheerleader Bratz doll, but only have to keep the fingers crossed the boys don’t drag one home as a girlfriend.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:28 amct should be “act”, sorry it’s late and the coffee pot is cold as ice.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:29 amCoughing drives me insane too!
October 13th, 2008 at 6:58 amI don’t have girls - but I wonder if that little girl had ’stuff like that on her mind’ or if she really just wanted to sit with someone - alone. Sometimes our adult brains project stuff that isn’t even in their minds - (sometimes it is and I wasn’t there but…)
But if she meant what you are suggesting - this is where pants with words across the ass will get you!
You aren’t necessarily ‘that parent’ - you just want them to SCORE so they don’t go home sad!
October 13th, 2008 at 9:23 amMy kids’ coughing reveals what a terrible person I am. I just want to shout, “Stop it!” as if they could.
October 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm