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Piggy Plate Hurrah!
A while back I was having a terrible no-good horrible bad day. I’ve had a few of those lately. I broke our beloved French Press and then on top of that I somehow knocked Bug’s divided melamine pink piggy plate off the dish rack and onto the floor and then a big heavy Fiestaware cup fell on top of it and cracked it.
You’d think I’d at least get a baby out of this clumsiness but no, I’m not pregnant. I just like to stack my dishes a mile high on my drying rack because I refuse to dry a dish by hand with a towel. I was so mad at myself. I wanted to whip myself with that dish towel a thousand times. But I didn’t. I vented to internet instead.
We don’t have a lot of plastic kid plates in our house. I think they clutter up my cupboards and I don’t have that much room to spare. We had the pink piggy one, a Christmas one and a super-long alligator one that pretty much stays in the back of the cupboard because I never serve Bug enough food to fill it up. I don’t know about most kids but my kid thinks every section needs to have food in it.
Anyway, I was devastated when it broke. I really liked this plate. Unlike all the other kid plates I’ve seen around, this one had really cute illustrations (to me). I’m picky about those things because I don’t know, I just can be. It also was pretty faded in a good way because we use it every single day. I sort of like that, that we use the same plate over and over. It’s like our way of not being the uber-consumer. We buy a few things and USE them. Or something or other. Maybe Bug comes by her crazy quirks naturally.
Guess what? Somebody on the internet had a piggy plate exactly like ours! And they weren’t really using it! AND they offered to mail me theirs!!! I love the internet. Thank you for making my terrible no-good horrible bad day not so very terrible after all.
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Keepin’ Busy
We’ve been keeping busy. I’m trying to stay home more. Do things locally and all that. We’ve hit the dollar theatre, all our regular parks and the local museum. Our local museum hosts a kids’ event every second Sunday of the month with crafts and interactive exhibits. It’s actually pretty cool. I don’t know why we haven’t gone before.
National Library Week has been saving us this week. I love all the free events they have scheduled. I’m going to be sad when it’s over.
Today we went to the Silly Science Show put on by the Friends of the Library. It was a hoot. Whoever is donating money to the library in my neighborhood has been seriously contributing to the happiness of my kid. This show was top notch. The wild-haired professor had the kids rolling with laughter and learning scientific principles at the same time. He covered subjects I learned in high school and those kids ate it up. Of course there were some kids who were squirrelly who needed to be kept in line but he handled them pretty well. Better than I would.
So that’s what we’ve been up to. I know it’s not the most exciting post but I thought I better at least put something up.
