Totally Uncool Non-Trad!

For those of you who don't know... or don't remember a Non-Trad is one of the older people who was in your college classes and ALWAYS asked questions. You always thought, what you haven't gotten this yet??? Well its official I feel like one of those people now! I've started grad school in the last couple of weeks, and my friends and I have been making jokes about how we were gonna be the uncool non-trads. Well tonight we officially felt like that... we sooooo didn't get our concepts in our Finance class as quickly as we should have, even though it was just a review from our finance class in college. It didn't help that the only only guys in the class graduated in May of 07 and May of 08. We comprise 4 of the 9 people in the class, so the small numbers don't help either. I'm really hoping it will be better by next week or I might actually break down and cry! :) It's official I CAN NOT miss a Monday night!

My new favorite question to ask myself is why did I do this to myself???

They didn't match!

I got home from a church meeting to find Mackenzie in a RAzorback T-Shirt, Elmo panties, and Elmo socks. Her cute outfit was nowhere to be found. She had a cute 3/4 lenght blue striped shirt and jean skirt to wear. I even sent tights to wear under her skirt (the pant kind... not panty hose kind) because you never know if it really was gonna be 70 when we picked her up. I really wanted to see the tights under the skirt because I thought it would be cute! Well I asked Brian why she wasn't wearing them... he said he went into her room while he was cooking dinner and found her naked (except for the Elmo socks of course.) He told her she had to put clothes on so she got a t-shirt. Here comes the kicker...

I asked if she wore the tights under the skirt and he said no. She told Wanda they didn't match!!! I said what?? He said yeah, and she had the Elmo socks on when I got there. I said so the tights didn't match but the socks did? He said he even said Mackie the socks don't match and she said "Yes they do!" Apparently she's coming in to her own sense of goofy style! Why argue with it?

Latest Conversation

So if you're a parent, you know how it is after your kid has been home sick for a few days and its time to get back into the routine... Usually clingy when you leave, sometimes in a bad mood, and takes some time to get back in the swing of things.

I say this to explain the conversation I had with Mackenzie while she was in the bathtub a few minutes ago. Her friend Mattie was out sick on Monday or Tuesday and just came back yesterday.

Me: Did you have a good day? (I just got home)
Mackie: Yep!
Me: Were you a good girl today?
Mackie: Yes ma'am. (That's always the answer... at least the first time)
Me: Who did you play with?
Mackie: Mattie (Mary Claire is still out sick)
Me: Was she in a better mood today? (Yesterday morning was rough for Mattie)
Mackie: No, she was in a BAD mood!
Me: What was the matter with Mattie?
Mackie: She was mad at me. (Very matter of factly)
Me: Why was she mad at you?
Mackie: She hurt my feelings.
Me: Why did she hurt your feelings?
Mackie: SILENCE

END OF CONVERSATION!

Couldn't get anything out of her after that... It's so random the conversations you have with your 2 year old! (Who thinks she is 20)

The Beach in January

Over the weekend we told my parents that we were going to take them, my brother, and his girlfriend to the beach for their 3oth anniversary. (Just so happens our 7th is that week too!) Anyway after the initial freak out by them about not paying for the whole house, they were THRILLED! Well Mom was THRILLED and my Dad was just... well my Dad. We got a really big grin at first and then several comments about how the beach is "fine with him", "I don't hate the beach, just don't want to sit in the sun all day". For my Dad who is one of the most laid back people in the world this was excited! The initial smile says it all, I didn't over analyze after that. Anyway back to my story... So since Nana was thrilled Mackenzie in turn got super pumped! She kept saying We're going to the.... beach! (FOr some reason she whispers beach every time.) Anyway after we got home Brian ran an errand and when he came back he went to her room and came back to the den laughing hysterically. This is what I saw when I went in there...

Yep she had pulled out everything in her top dresser drawer to find her bathing suit! We had to put them both on! Who doesn't wear a bathing suit in January?? (I was thrilled to find that one we bought for Disney - that she never wore, is too big so it should fit next year! What an awesome $5 at Target!)

I told her we needed to take a bath and she immediately declared she needed to swim. Obviously I thought it would make such good memories that I let her go swimming for a while!

Check out the many facial expressions of Mackie! (Wonder where she got the facial expression thing from...)

How I've missed it...

Oh my gosh! It seems like forever since I've blogged!! I've missed it so much! Don't know if it was all the fun at Christmas, coming back from the Holidays to the insanity of the managers meeting, recovering from the meeting, starting school or something else totally... bottom line is I've missed it! Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it again now!