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Single Parent Saturday

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Todd went to Tybee with the boys for the weekend. No comment on Mother’s Day. He’s working off the misdemeanor.

Saturday, I had quite a time with the kiddos. T-ball game at 9:30 a.m. Lunch with Lisa and Dash afterwards. Went to buy a birthday gift for Rollie’s friend Emily. Left there. Came home to check on the neighbor’s since the alarm company called and their alarm was going off. Let dog out. Went back out to Tucker Day. That’s our annual small-town festival. The kids love it. I like it. Would be better with beer. (Isn’t everything?) Left there. Went home for an hour. Dropped Tiller off at neighbors’ for dinner and a playdate (thanks, Shanks!) and then took Rollie to HELL, a.k.a. Stevie B’s Pizza. You might be thinking, how can this be worse than Chuck E. Cheese’s? It doesn’t have alcohol. The mouse? He has beer.

Rollie had a blast, and I actually enjoyed talking to parents of kids in his class and getting to know them better.

Much fun had by all and boy did we sleep well that night.

Mother’s Day Tea

Friday, May 7th, 2010

I still feel strange being the Mother in the Mother’s Day scenario. When I think of Mother’s Day, I think patent leather shoes and church and lilies. But here I am, perched in the too-small church preschool chair, being served sweet tea and cookies by a four-year-old.

Vow

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

This has been one of the most wonderful days I have ever spent with my girl and yet your betrayal has tainted even this, and as she sleeps peacefully in the backseat, I sit and wonder how you could do this, and how it could ever be fixed, how I could ever forgive you for hurting us like this, and I realize that you can’t fix it. You have rent us irreparably. You cannot take back the spirit of it. I will know what you really are no matter what happens.
I wipe away more tears and wait for my daughter to wake and vow never to make her feel the way you have made me feel.

This Kid’s Got Heart

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Lots of heart.

She just came up to me with this and said, “I made this for you, mama.”

Busy as Hell Bee

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

We have been spending a lot of time at the baseball fields this spring. Rollie has a game and two practices a week. And then there is tiller’s Tiny Tykes practice every Sunday. And Todd’s new job with BBDO. (Speaking of, have you seen Todd’s previous work? He has a site.)

So, what we have been doing:

Tiller rides her Razor at the park, with her buddy Drake, while Rollie plays t-ball.
Helmet. See?

This is Tills and Drake, playing on the bleachers. Remember playing on the bleachers? Much more fun than being a parent keeping kids OFF the bleachers.
Tills and Drake

This is Rollie, with Zachary (if you call him Zach, this kid will actually tell you that his name is not Zach, it’s Zachary.) His dad’s a lawyer, and I didn’t ask for permission to post his picture on the site, because I like to live life on the edge. Zachary got whacked in the eye with a bat last week, but he is okay. His dad, who did the accidentally whacking, is probably now in therapy. That’s Kevin in the middle. He is small, but a strong hitter and i love how his batting helmet kind of wears him. I am also looking forward to meeting his new twin sisters. We’ve been driving Kev to practice a lot while his mom was on bedrest. He’s a cook kid. (His dad is a chef.) He is also a cool kid.

Zachary, Kev, and Rolls

We’ve been working on Rollie’s follow-through. We pitch to him in the backyard with the whiffle ball and bat and his follow through is fine, but when he hits off the tee, he seems to be concentrating so hard on hitting the ball off the tee that he is not following through. This one was pretty good, though.
Followthrough

Todd dressed up as Teen Wolf.
Dicknose and MJFox

Iain was a ZZ Top guy.
ZZ

And T was Rick James, Bitch.
RJ

Candy channeled Pat B.
Candy

Even Richard Simmons was there.
Matt

Can’t remember this guy’s name, but he whips it good.
Devo

Matt did the Spicolli thing.
Matt

At Shannon and Matt’s wedding shower.
Shannon

We went to Hilton Head and frolicked in the very cold water.
beach

Had an Easter egg hunt at the Salty Dog Cafe . . .
Salty

And I dragged the family to the cemetery in Savannah to visit Pop’s grave.
Pop Marker

See how happy they look? That Tiller, one thing you can say about her, she sure does like to get dragged around to visit dead folks at cemeteries. Rollie? Oh, hissing under my breath that I will pop him if he doesn’t smile for the camera.
Me and kids

But it was a beautiful day for a visit to the Cemetery, and it seemed appropriate to visit on Easter. My grandmother, her brother and sister, and my great-grandparents are all buried there also.

Butler

Dash came to visit and we spent a ton of time in the yard. Tiller played ball.
tiller ball

Rollie ran around looking like a Cecil Jr. with no shirt and wrecking his toy in the backyard.
royce

And finally, Rollie saw a bee and freaked out.
bee1Bee2bee3bee4

The bee did not sting him. No bees were harmed in the photographing of this boring post.

Why Fathers Should Not Take Sons to the Barber Shop

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Tiller’s Latest Song

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Rollie likes to invent wind machines to scare people. Tiller likes to make up songs. I am not kidding when I say that my jaw often drops at the inventiveness of her lyrics. This latest song was performed on my patio yesterday afternoon. I missed the first few lines, but todd and I are getting better at catching her songs on the Voice Memo app on our iPhones.

To set the scene, she is standing on the brick wall beside our patio. Dash and I are sitting below, and she has her arms stretched out wide and is making eye contact with us as she belts these out, like she was some banshee Julie Andrews character. When she discusses that she is going to do something, she is referring to jumping off the wall and flying like a bird. The breathless part of it is her jumping off then climbing back up.

This all started when she told me that she had jumped off the wall earlier and she thinks she “might have flown up a little bit.”

These children, so very different, absolutely rock my world. Even Rollie, whom i overheard tell Todd as I was leaving for my run tonight, “I hope she doesn’t come home.” I mean, what an ass – I just finished cooking his dinner and then doing the dishes. And yet i love him anyway.

Yes, my feelings were hurt. Doesn’t happen often, but it happened.

My Niece, Miss Luci

Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Just had to post a picture of my sweet niece, Luci.

Just had to post a picture of my sweet niece, Luci.

I’m always posting pictures of Dash, who I get to see so much more often than my niece. This is Luci. Last time she appeared in a post on my blog, she looked like this. See how that happens? Four or five months and suddenly they look all grown up and like a little lady.

How lucky am I to have a boy and a girl, and a niece and a nephew? The luckiest.

While Watching the Muppet Movie

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

[Kermit singing “The Rainbow Connection” in the background.]

Rollie: “I’m a dreamer.”
Todd nods.
Me: “That’s a good thing, baby.”
Rollie: “Sometimes I’m a nightmare.”
Todd and I nod some more.

This almost never happens anymore

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Simultaneous sleepers.