weird weekend

Saturday. . . .
i had my first real-life confrontation! i am sooo happy and so proud of myself. i've had too many missed opportunities to speak my mind when i felt i got a bad deal so i decided a few weeks ago that going forward i am old enough to stick up for myself.

while at target, my kids were running around the shopping cart and had strayed a good 3 yards away from me. toby was screaming his head off because tom wanted to pick him up. this woman on her cell phone walked by and said into her phone "oh, that's just some loud unattended children at target!" in the most snotty of tones.

i was steaming MAD. so i immediately huffed off after her. but by the time i gather my purchases and my "unattended children" and started off after her, she was across the store. so i thought shoot. . . . another miss opportunity.

well, as luck would have it, she walked into my aisle several minutes later (phone still attached to her face). i looked at her right in the eye and said. . . (wait for it. . .)

"for your information, my children are perfectly tended to. and if you have a problem with the people who shop at target, then my i suggest you shop somewhere else!" (i remember, because i practiced in my head for those several minutes.)

unfortunately, she never backed now and was TOTALLY mean to me and called me a crazy lady. but, i just hope that she'll think twice before she questions other women's mothering. it's offensive and rude.

Sunday . . . .
we had a birthday party for my niece on sunday evening. swimming and pizza at vic's house. rodney and i both were not up for swimming but one of us had to do it. toby really wanted to get into the water. i won that battle so rodney packed his swim shorts. once rodney had had enough swimming; i thought i'd help him with toby. i would put toby into the 1' baby pool and sit on the pool's edge.

well, i put toby in first. then before i could sit down, toby had fallen. i didn't really panic because it was only 1' deep and i was right there so i was just going to step in and help him stand up again. only. . . i fell too. i was able to pick toby up right away (since i was already in the water) and handed him to my brother who checked him out. toby was not even fazed. but now i was soaked. dress, chonies, hat, watch, everything soaked.

horiffic! so i think that in the end i lost the war.