Ok ok ok. I keep missing my "Friday" deadline! I can't help it! I'm doing the best I can, but situations like yesterday slow me down. "Situations?" you ask? Well, let's just recap some of the highlights from yesterday that helped to sabotage my efforts.
1. 20 mo. old son has screaming crying meltdown for 30+ minutes.
2. While son is busy having meltdown, daughter unusually quiet in her room. Daughter finds make up kit and has layers upon layers of bright red lipstick on and around her lips. Permanent Sharpie marker would probably come of easier than this lipstick! Not only is it on her face, it is also on my white bathroom hand towels. Her face was so stained from the lipstick. This does not make for a pretty picture.
3. After the lipstick mess, I am trying to put my son down for a nap when I hear my daughter frantically repeat "no no no no NOOOO! OH NO!". Not a good sign. Once again, off to her room to see what she has done
this time. A helium balloon of hers went up into her ceiling fan and got SO amazingly tangled into the blades and revolving mechanism. I thought for sure the motor would burn up. This was a fun chore to get a ladder and scissors to cut down this tangled mess.
4. Now with my son asleep and my daughter engrossed in a Disney movie, I start to get my camera to prepare to do our weekly photo. While setting up my gear, my daughter comes and asks if she can have some gum. She's a well behaved responsible gum chewer so no problem right? WRONG! Oh so very very WRONG!! For whatever reason, my daughter decides to take the gum out of her mouth and stick it on her nose and eye lid. Why? I have no such explanation other than she's "5". One would think this is no big deal, just simply remove the gum. Ok, this gum has GOT to be the stickiest gum I have EVER come across. The more I touched it to remove it, the more it webbed out and grew into an even BIGGER mess. It was EVERYWHERE! My daughter had tried to remove the gum herself by using soap and water, but the warmth of the water just made the gum more gooey. I swear the gum was multiplying. It's in her hair, her hands, her arms, her clothes......it's even on some plastic cereal bowls that were sitting in the kitchen sink where she attempted to wash it off herself. Are you serious with this??? Meanwhile my daughter is in hysterics because I'm trying to pluck this gooey substance from her hair and eyebrows. I have had my eyebrows waxed before and I'm pretty sure that waxing was less painful than this! A day later and she STILL has remnants of it on her face and arm hair!!!!! This gum will NOT go away. Only Macgyver himself could find a good use for this lousy product!
After all of these shenanigans, needless to say I was NOT motivated to take a picture. I thought I would regroup and try to take our picture later but, I had a "date night" scheduled with my hubby!!!! A MUCH needed night out. I honestly made many efforts to attempt a picture, but giving myself a fresh pedi and mani seemed less challenging. Was my head slightly in the clouds dreaming of my night out with my hubby? YOU BET!!!
I apologize that I did not meet my deadline.... again... but how about this... If I do NOT manage to post on a Friday, just know that I will post something BEFORE the weekend ends. Fair? I might even mix things up a bit with this challenge. The goal of "Project 52" is for YOU the photographer/mom/dad to GET IN YOUR PIX! Document YOU.. your life, your memories. SO, from here out, you might just get an image of me and my kid(s), just me, or maybe me and my hubby... or all of the above.
Anyways.
I'll post again before the weekend ends. Thanks for tuning in!
I love date night with my hubby
