Song of the Day

Sung to the tune of What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor-
What do you do with a naked baby
What do you do with a naked baby
What do you do with a naked baby
When they’re sleeping soundly
Isn’t he sweet?! He had just had a bath and thankfully was put into a diaper before he nursed to sleep. My solution was to slip his arms into a blanket sleeper and leave the legs out. DO NOT write me and tell me that he’s going to thrash around in the night and end up strangling! He’ll be just fine!
So......I spent today in and out of the house (as usual). We made it out the door for Holy Angels this morning. It was nice to be back at Liturgy after weeks of evening Masses elsewhere. People said good bye to JJ and wished him well. He decided to serve today (it’s been a LONG time) and I really wish I would have had the camera. It was just so nice to see him up on the alter again. After Liturgy, I dropped most of the mob off and took JJ shopping for the clothing he needs to go to school with. Boy, they are very specific about each item;”Khaki pants, pleated, no cuff, 100% cotton or cotton blend, classic cut, not too loose, Khaki (not sand, stone or white).” I was so nervous that I was sweating just thinking that what I thought was khaki may in fact be “stone”. So my solution was to head to a men’s department with a nice, helpful man who knew what was what. However, JJ is not “man” sized just yet and we were only able to buy his sport-coat there (“Classic navy, not bright navy, or new navy, silver or gold buttons, two-button, not three). We will still have to make a last minute dash to find his dress pants (I’ll spare you the details) and his over-coat. The nice, helpful man kept saying, “Trad, very trad”. I am assuming it was short for traditional? Anyone?
After outfitting JJ, I dropped him off and picked up Mariah, Max, Gabi and Luke-Xavier to find Mariah’s final items to be ready for her first day of High School, tomorrow! By the time I got home, the ribs and baked potatoes I had planned to cook had to be shelved for tomorrow’s dinner (we can hope) and we had taco salad instead (thanks to borrowed tomatoes from the neighbor). It was pretty good! However, I found Tristan making a quesadilla with cheese and turkey a little bit ago, because I apparently forgot to ever bring his food out to him. He says that I told him his was coming next and just never brought it. In true “middle-child” fashion, he didn’t bother to say anything and took matters into his own hands. Poor kid! So............
Tomorrow we are having a few kids over to help celebrate his bday. Maddi offered to start cupcakes tonight and got started in true “Maddi baking” fashion (she does very well!). After a little while, I heard a shout and then crying........she had dumped the filled tin over into the oven. ~Deep Breath!~”It’s okay, Honey! I’ll clean it up. Thanks for trying so hard.” So, I put the half-naked baby to bed and prepared to clean out the stove.......for the first time since we’ve lived here! STOP CRINGING! (Carole, it’s finally happened). Did you know that if you don’t use the broiler pan, dust and cob webs build up? I figured that every time I used the oven that the sheer heat would somehow sanitize and clean the whole thing. It could happen! Well, parents of Tristan’s friends (hopefully none are reading this), do not worry! Your child’s cupcake will be baked, tomorrow, in a freshly cleaned and sanitized oven.
Good night~
P.S. “Jen, I thought you weren’t going to be on here for a few days because of all the FABULOUS things you have to sell on ebay”. Yeah, well, as you can see from the above, I’ll be lucky to list them in the next few days! But on the bright side, I have a bidder on the Bratz. Yes!