Caution: Avoid Everything

I have a certain friend who shall remain nameless that lives in California and she is starting to freak me out! Yesterday she sent me an e-mail with a link to an article talking about how consuming junk food and bad eating habits during pregnancies will cause kids to be obese and have high cholesterol and heart disease later in life. OK, it didn't say "Kirsten, you ate like shit during your pregnancies, and had way too much cheese, so your kids will be sick" but it could have. Today she sends a link about Sunscreens which I check out, only to discover that the Coppertone Bug & Sun and the No-Ad brand SPF 45 that I spread on my children are actually really bad. They could cause cancer, they test on animals . . maybe. They have a ton of questionable stuff in them. I looked at their list of the "Top 10" recommended brands and I didn't even recognize any of them. Maybe you have to go to other countries to get them? A lot of them were "California Baby" brand so maybe you have to live in CA to get them. Maybe we should move so that we will be safer. Of course, then we will have to worry about earthquakes and wildfires. A couple of weeks ago she was the one who sent me the link regarding "dry drowning" too! Although, that actually is a real thing and I am honestly glad she sent it, now I know the signs to look out for. My point is that the more information you seem to have about a subject the more confused you get. The Internet has all sorts of information, and you can find whatever you want to suit your own purpose with the click of the mouse. I'm sure if I went to the Coppertone site they would have their own study about how their sunscreen is so great. It worries me though . . . could I be making my kids sick? I guess I could worry myself sick about it, get it . . . ha ha.

Oh Ye Relaxing Weekend

Whoever said that weekends were relaxing didn't have children. Even when you don't go anywhere and have an entire weekend "free" (like we did this weekend), mommies don't get to relax. A typical laid back summer day is work! Let us go over a "normal" hot summer day at home.

First, fill up the little pool, no too cold, let the hose warm up, fill up the water table, put the kids in bathing suits, wait. . . wait, lather them with sunscreen, bug spray, hat, don't forget some sort of shoes so you don't step on a rock or a bee, out you go with Daddy.

Take a breath.

Back in to the house, need special fishy thingy and Mermaid Barbies for pool, and cars, want a drink, when is lunch, can we eat outside? Make lunch, deliver outside, clean up lunch, get more drinks.

Take a breath, open up a Smirnoff Ice, take 1 sip, put it down, forget it until 2 hours later when you stumble across it again and it is warm.

Pool now too warm, fill with cold hose water, get out ring toss game, find missing water guns, bikes come out, want sneakers, need new dry clothes, re-apply sunscreen, cheer and say things like "good job, you are so fast on that bike."

Take a breath, open another Smirnoff Ice and drink half of it quick while you can.

Swimming again, into suits (no, not wet suits. . . gross, new dry suits), scoop millions of bugs out of pool, help fill water guns, get sprayed (good because you are frickin' sweating now) get more drinks.

The day goes on like this in a loop until dinner & tub and jammies are done. Now, you drink like 3 of those Smirnoff Ice's and go to bed because you are exhausted!

I did manage to break free and go with Suzy to see "Sex and the City" last night and have a couple of drinks. It was as good as the show, which I really liked. We didn't really care what we saw, hell, we were just glad to be out of the house!