Rants, Raves, and Redundancies

This ain’t the movies, folks! | July 2, 2007

So it’s been a little hectic here lately.

The kids have been whining about being **boooorrrreeeddddd** and I guess when I wasn’t looking, they collectively decided to appoint me “Entertainment Director” for the summer.  Nice, eh?  As if the pressures of being productive while on “vacation” away from my regular job wasn’t bad enough, and starting my own business wasn’t stressful enough…. now I have to worry about entertaining my kids every day?!

 Oh sure.  Every day when I wake up, normally about a half hour after prying my eyelids apart I’m bombarded with, “Hey Mom…. what are we gonna do today?  Where are we goin’?!” 

So last week my younger sister had a day off work (she has a normal working 12 months a year job) and she decided it’d be cool for her and my niece to come up and we’d all go to the Museum of Natural History on the KU campus.

I enjoyed it – my sister enjoyed it.  Well, except for the part of feeling like relics ourselves while wandering the KU campus.  Ugh.  Nothing quite like having the age-fairy beat you senseless with her wand when you least expect it.  For anyone reading this under the age of 25 — you get older every year but mentally you don’t *feel* old or think of yourself as *aging* until you are in a situation like dragging your offspring to a museum on a college campus…. then along comes that damn “don’t look now but you’re getting OLD” fairy. 

Did the kids enjoy the museum?  Not so much.  We were told it was *BORING* and a waste of time.  *smacks forehead*  Well pardon the hell out of me.  I thought looking at dinosaur bones and whatnot would be very interesting and awe inspiring.  Especially given that the kids had seen the movie “Night at the Museum” and were totally captivated by it.  Apparently, they were unimpressed by an ACTUAL museum.

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