Don't Blame Me, His Brother Got Him Dressed

Y'know - the saddest most painful thing a parent can imagine of is the loss of a child. I'd bet mothers think about that a lot more than dads do, though. Probably a thousand times a day I say, "Be careful!" When the boys play rough, I make them stop. "No Dying," that's my big rule (so far, so good).

So, why is it that one three-day weekend with daddy throws our home into such life threatening chaos?

I had to pick my mom up from work.

When I got back, the house was strangely quiet. I sat on the couch, not fully realizing WHY the house was so quiet. Several minutes passed then the 3 year old bursts in from the cold, crying, snot running down his nose. No coat. Floppy Indiana Jones hat. Boots on the wrong feet. Pajama pants. No gloves.

HOW COULD MY HUSBAND LET MY BABY GO OUT IN THE FREEZING COLD SNOW? WOULD IT HAVE BEEN SO MUCH OF AN INCONVENIENCE TO PUT SNOW PANTS, COAT, AND GLOVES ON HIM??? HONESTLY!!!!

So I yelled and hit my husband (domestic abuse is a daily reality for my poor man) and asked him how he could let this happen.

Thus, the title of this post.

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Have you heard of the All American Rejects. Of course you have. So, I dusted of the old treadmill again (modest bikini season soon approaching, ha) and turned on VH1 (does MTV even show full music videos ever anymore???) and what do I see to inspire me as I run?

This:



Wasn't that fun. Isn't it nice when a band takes the time to actually put together an interesting video? I don't want to see you lip-syncing and booty-shaking for 3 minutes, I want a 3 minute movie to music that makes me happy.

Then, I was thinking - my parents were pretty anti-MTV as I was growing up, they didn't appreciate it at all. Typical, right? But I have had MTV and VH1 pretty much all my life, and my kids get exposed to quite a bit of techie type pop culture (you should hear Cri sing Dirty Little Secret (another AAR song) on Rock Band - I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what a dirty little secret might be ... maybe like when Canon doesn't let us know he pooped on the floor). So, in another 10 years, will Cri and I be swapping YouTube links of cool videos we like?

Also, I must say, my husband and I have spent more on music, buying 99 cent MP3 files off Amazon, then we've spent on CD's in 5 years. It's like, well, it's only a buck, then I can put it on the server, the kitchen computer, the IPod (if it wasn't suffering from severe amnesia - doctors are not hopeful for any kind of a recovery), the Zune, the laptops ... this is where the music industry needs to focus ...