Not Me Monday

I can't believe it has been a couple weeks since I have done a Not Me! Monday. I have not been busy or anything. Hang on, here we go.

I did not spend hours cleaning out the girl's bedrooms. I am not crazy to think that those rooms are going to stay clean for more than a day. I am not delusional to think that having a clean room will make them want to keep it that way. Nope, not me.

I do not still have my Christmas tree up in the living room. I do not have boxes of my regular living room decorations still sitting in the dining room waiting to be put back where it belongs. I do not wish that the tree would just magically put itself away so I don't have to do it. Nope, not me.

I did not plot a way to get the girls out of the house saturday night so that I could spend some time with Rick. I did not figure out that if I separated the girls that it would be easier for the grandparents to agree to babysit. Nope, not me.

I did not jump up and down when I discovered that school was finally going to open. I did not joyfully get the backpacks together and set the clothes out for the first day back at school in three weeks. I did not thank God for melting the snow so that I didn't have to listen to the fighting anymore. Nope, not me.

I did not wonder if anyone still reads my blog. I am not so obsessed with looking for comments that I get disappointed when there are no comments after days. I am not so addicted to blogging that I started using Twitter. I am not pathetic at all. Nope, not me.

I did not forget to do the laundry all week and am now wondering what we are supposed to wear in the morning. I did not spend the past week fishing socks out of a laundry basket again because I didn't want to fold the socks. And I most definitely did not watch Rick carry laundry downstairs while I did a quiz on Facebook. Who would sit around while her husband, who isn't supposed to carry things, brought two loads of laundry down to the basement? Definitely not me.

Pretty please leave some not me's in the comments so that I don't feel so bad about the laundry situation. It is liberating to admit to the things I have not done the past week or so.

I hope you all have a great week.

Until next time,

Jaime

Not Me Monday

It is not that time again to post Not Me! Monday. Nope it is not already another week. Christmas is not almost here.

I did not try a big gulp of the nasty laxative drink that Rick had to drink as the prep for his colonoscopy. Why in the world would anybody voluntarily taste something so nasty? I was not trying to be overly supportive of my husband. Nope, not me. Gross.

I did not eat McDonalds chicken nuggets in front of my kids and then proceed to feed them top ramen for dinner. And I did not justify it by saying it was because they haven't been picking up their rooms. Then eat it before I fed them. What kind of mother would do something like that? Nope, not me.

I did not forget, yet again, to send back Megan's homework calendar for the week. I make sure to fill it out everyday and then make sure it is signed, in her backpack, and ready to turn in on friday. It would be irresponsible of me to forget that almost every week. I am on top of it! I never forget anything. Nope, not me.

I did not ignore a voicemail that Samantha left for me asking me to please bring her a cold lunch because she didn't like what was for lunch that day. I did not decide that it would not kill her to have to eat school lunch even though she didn't like the chicken fryz that were being served that day. Nope, not me.

I did not check my blog all the time to see if I had any new comments. I never do that. I have too many things to do to always be checking to see if someone actually left a comment. It doesn't make me feel special to read comments. Nope, not me.

I hope you enjoy my Not Me's! this week. And I hope it made you feel like a better person than me. Maybe you will feel like leaving me some of your Not Me's! in the comments. I would really love to hear what other people are not doing.

Until next time,

Jaime

Not Me Monday

I had so much fun with Not Me! Monday last week that I thought I would give it another shot. So here goes it:

I did not spend the entire week thinking about things I was doing that I could work into Not Me Monday. I mean it would be really silly to be going about ones day and thinking about Not Me Monday. I have too much to do to waste time being that silly. Nope, not me.

I did not put a dirty white shirt in the dryer with a couple dryer sheets so that I could wear it and it would smell like it was clean. It would be really gross to wear a dirty shirt just because there was nothing else clean to wear. Nope, not me.

I did not spend an entire week picking clean clothes out of a laundry basket because I was too lazy to fold it all. And I did not secretly wish that my poor aching husband would get tired of it and decide to fold some of it. And then he did not actually spend time folding all those clothes, even though he is supposed to be taking it easy. That would be so horrible and make me a terrible wife. That is why that did not happen. Nope, not in my house.

I did not spend 25 minutes straightening Samantha's beautiful curly hair. It would be silly to use a straightening iron on an 8 year olds naturally curly hair. And then I did not do it a second time because she likes it straight. That would be a huge waste of time. Nope, not me.

I did not start listening to Christmas music in the car a week before Thanksgiving. I am not that obsessed with Christmas. I did not go to the Dollar Store to buy decorations for my desk at work. And I did not immediately decorate my desk the day after Thanksgiving. Nope, not me.

I did not grab a garbage bag and fill it full of stuff from Samantha's room because she would not pick up. And I did not contemplate just throwing it all away so that I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore. I certainly do not have dozens of other stories just like this. Nope, not me.

And now hopefully some of you will add some of your "Not Me's" in the comments.

Until next time,

Jaime

Not Me Monday

On the My Charming Kids blog mckmama does this thing called "Not Me Monday". I have been reading it for a while and thinking about making one myself. I decided this would be the week I try it out. So here it goes:

I did not pick a pair of dirty socks off the floor to wear again because there wasn't any other socks to match my work clothes. Nope, not me, that would be disgusting. Who would do such a thing? I would never.

I did not spit clean Sam's face when dropping her off at school because I forgot to wash her face before we left the house. Nope, not me. Sam wasn't embarrassed, and she doesn't totally hate that. I mean who would do such a thing to a third grader?

I did not have a 55 minute conference with Megan's kindergarten teacher. My kid is not the one that can't sit still and follow directions in class. Nope, not my kid. She is always so good and attentive at home that I couldn't imagine she would be any other way. And I am certainly not being sarcastic right now. Nope, not me.

Geesh, this is harder than it seems. And more embarrassing too. So maybe you can counteract my embarrassment by adding a little bit of yours in my comments. I say that but hardly anybody does so I definitely won't keep my hope up and check my blog a few times a day to see if anyone commented. Nope, not me.

Until next time,

Jaime

P.S. Rick is still just as sore, and still going to work. He just sits around at home in pain and sleeps on a heating pad but feels the need to go to work and work his butt off. I can't convince him how important it is to take it easy. That was even doctor's orders, but whatever.