So my husband took our daughters off to an amusement park yesterday and, part of his assignment — other than keeping our children from being stolen from him and thus ending up on the side of a milk carton — was to TAKE PHOTOS. Photos of our children having a good time. This is a job that would normally be mine, if I were to take leave of my senses and go to an amusement park.
Guess how many photos my husband took?
If you picked a number less than one, you would be absolutely correct.
Luckily, said husband and children were accompanied by friends of ours and the MOTHER in the other group managed to procure ONE photo of our children:
Yep, she bought one of those ride photos, simply because it was too good to pass up. Unfortunately, this scanned version is crappy, so I’ll describe it. Elegant (front left) has death grips on the Pete’s arm AND the side railing and she is grimacing. Meanwhile, Graceful (back right) looks like she’s going to turn green, bulk up, and wreak havoc like the Hulk. Contrary to appearances, everyone enjoyed the ride a great deal.
Anyway, they all had a terrific time. So much so that Elegant passed out on the sofa not long after dinner and had to be carried up to her bed. Alas, she had not yet had her post-amusement park decontamination shower. Blech. She’ll be showering first thing in the morning.
As for me, I worked from the time they left until they arrived and then worked another couple hours after dinner. And that was the entirety of my day. The end.
Today is another fabulous day of Spring Break and we have nothing major planned. We’ve found that the girls prefer peace and quiet on the day after an amusement park jaunt. Plus, I have — you’ll never guess this — lots of work to do. But, before I get started, I’m going to sneak outside for about an hour and start working on the new patio.
Pete, on the other hand, gets to figure out what’s going on with our dishwasher. It worked fine on Tuesday but wouldn’t start yesterday. The builder was messing around with the microwave on Tuesday, but we can’t see any sort of reasonable connection. It appears that I’ll be doing some hand washing today.
Tomorrow, we’re going to be talking about chocolate again!
No pictures? Oh well, as much as they try…you can’t give men too much to do. I found that giving Attractive Al a singular focus is the best idea. For example, he cooks or he measures ingredients but not both.
At least the girls had a great time and now get a day of rest!
Well, if you’re only going to have one picture, I’d vote for the “chock full of awesomeness and will be forever in their memories” one that you got!
Happy Spring Break!
I asked Frank to take pictures at Lake Tahoe and got…you guessed it…nothing!
I like that ride photo. I am a sucker for those.
Okay, I forgot all my commentary when I got to “Chocolate!”
hysterical! I love it! I love rides but have the exact same expression as the girls.
I have no dishwasher in the new house, you email with the official dishwasher that lives in my house!
My father once took seven rolls of film during a family-reunion Disney trip.
They were all black and white.
I don’t think my mother has EVER forgiven him for that.
Don’t give up hope. My mister returned without a single photo of Good Times and Adventures for years. He now takes as many pictures as I do. They can be convinced.
OMG! You will never get me on a ride like that but I love those RollerCoaster photos! We have a whole collection of them… so many, the kids actually are able to time their pose for the camera. Sickening, I know.
HAND WASH DISHES? Are you kidding me??? I’d say a run to the supermarket (not by you!) or Costco, to purchase bulk loads of paper/plastic plates, cups and eating utensils is in order! make sure they’re *green* though! lol.
I always keep plastic/paper goods on hand. You never know when a housewife emergency will pop up it’s nasty head. When our dishwasher (12 yrs old) decided that the upper rack dishes were NOT going to get clean, I lived with that for awhile. After a week or so of drinking out of glasses that had *unmentionable bits of gunk* dried on them, my sons said “enough!” (I HAD NO IDEA MALES COULD GET GROSSED OUT BY THIS!) so, in my superhousewife way, I got online, input my dishwasher model #, found the exploded diagram of my dishwasher inside(s), found that the part I found on the bottom of the tub was available, found a parts website, found the part NAME & number (essential) called my local parts appliance store, went down there, bought the part, came home, installed the part . . .
AND FOR THE BEST PART:
FIXED THE @#$% DISHWASHER ALL BY MYSELF!
No help from the males in the household. No output of over 1K for new dishwasher (not ready to replace all kitchen appliance, god knows they have to MATCH).
Just get it in your head: you can DO this, and what is the best way to do that?
Chocolate as the reward is always good.
forgot my plastic cup tip for children (works for adults too):
Get your Sharpie marker out and keep it on the kitchen counter.
Each day, write the person’s name on the cup, keep those cups on the counter. Tell the kids, if you throw your cup away that day, you don’t get anything to drink the rest of that day! (don’t really carry it through, but helps to keep them from casually tossing them out after they drink their drink).
Doesn’t work on paper plates, sadly.
What the frick? I have one of those husbands too, you know, who cannot work a camera but has no trouble dominating the remote.
Anywho, Elegant’s arm on her dad is endearing. I love seeing how holding on to her dad like that while in sheer terror is comforting to little girls. I guess a man who can provide his child with that level of comfort makes up for the lack of photos. But why can’t they multitask?
if you only had to get one photo, be glad it’s that one! They’ll remember that ride when they are old and crusty!
Looks like they had a great time! Oh, and I’m the man – I never take pictures.
Glad everyone had a great time, but how can you forget to take pictures? Really? Its so easy, just point and click!
That photo is priceless! Brings back memories from trips I took just like it.