The Connolly Family

It turns out that running two video monitors at the same time may be interfering with our cordless phones.  I say “may be” because the phones no longer ring or let me pick them up.  I keep getting a message that I’m too far away from the base and have lost the signal.  Even when I’m standing over the base.  Also, suspiciously our printer has stopped working…

When given a choice between the video monitor that’s currently watching over the infant who’s actually napping in her crib instead of on top of me (!) I choose the monitor.  If the printer never works again?  I still choose the monitor.  I draw the line at the microwave (since reheating is the only method of “cooking” I’m engaging in right now), but in pretty much any match up, the monitor wins.  Especially if it means Matt and I can both sleep in our bed at the same time instead of splitting time on the couch.

On a related note: if you need me before Paige is three try calling my cell.  I might answer…

Last night I made up a small grocery list in the hopes that I’d be able to go by the grocery store after dropping Liam off, before Paige needed to eat again, and before I needed to be back at the preschool to help set up Liam’s class Halloween Party.

I went to the Publix and purchased organic baby oatmeal and a new paci for Liam.  Publix didn’t have the type of nipples or cereal I’d wanted and Paige was holding steady so I decided that I’d take advantage of already being out and about (since that’s the part that’s the hardest about getting errands run these days) and that I still had a few dollars left on a Target gift card and run into the Target to see if they had the right kind of nipples and/or the rice cereal I was supposed to get in the first place.

I still didn’t find the exact kind of nipples I was looking for, but I found some that may work so I bought those.  I completely forgot that I was supposed to be looking for rice cereal without fillers.  Oops.

After finishing at Liam’s school (and in part because they had pizza and cupcakes for their Halloween party, so Liam wasn’t starving) I decided to run into the Walgreens on our way home just to see if they had the rice cereal I’d since remembered and to check on their nipple selection.  They didn’t have either one.

After finishing at the Walgreens I determined that my children could probably make it through the Kroger I dashed back out to the van, packed everyone in and headed over to the Kroger with my fingers crossed.  They had the rice cereal, thank goodness (although no luck on the specific nipple I’ve been looking for).

And this is where the story gets good.  After I finally made it home, fed Paige, and got Liam down for a nap I went into the fridge to get out the carrot sticks I’d purchased at the grocery store.  The only problem was that there were no carrots.  In fact, nothing on the grocery list I’d made the night before was in the fridge as I expected it to be.

This is because although I went to four separate stores this morning, three of which carry groceries, I did not actually purchase any groceries.  I started mentally retracing my steps and realized that when I was in the Publix on the day’s first leg of errand running and I was trying to remember if there was anything else I needed, instead of remembering that I’d made a grocery list but not purchased the groceries, I somehow translated the making of the grocery list into the actual purchase of the items on the grocery list.

Unfortunately, visualizing food does not make it appear in my fridge.  I want a do-over.

Scene:  Liam is sitting at the table while Matt fixes him some lunch.  Matt begins twirling a roll of paper towels on his finger.  Liam then comes out with the following, without any verbal prompt:

Liam:  “Hey Dad…you’re a funny guy.”

Matt:  [Celebrating]  “Hey Liam…I can die a happy man.”

Let me give you some tips.

Tip one is that if you can’t pronounce my name I’m not going to be particularly polite to you.  For example, if you ask for me and I can’t tell if you’re trying to talk to me or order a Sicilian pastry then I don’t have time to deal with you and you will get a response such as “If you can’t pronounce my name then I don’t have time to talk to you.”  I know that this is rude, but if I just ran to the phone holding a bottle feeding baby only to have someone I don’t want to talk to on the other end of the line then you have to understand that you get what you get.

Tip two is that if I have to say “Hello” two times (or more) because you’re too lazy to hold the phone up to your ear instead of having me on speakerphone until I answer and therefore you do not hear me then you will not get the desired result.  I will hang up on you.  It’s that simple.

Tip three is that if someone is on the Do Not Call list then they probably don’t want to be contacted by telephone and won’t respond very politely if you try.  That’s why it’s called a DO NOT CALL list.  See how that works?

This isn’t rocket science, people.

No Love,

Shannon