LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

Mallory is in Girl Scouts this year, so … if you’re in need of Girl Scout cookies, PLEASE hit me up! Everyone I know seems to have a daughter in Girl Scouts, so I don’t know a whole lot of people who haven’t already bought cookies. But that isn’t what this post is about. It’s about the POWDER PUFF DERBY.

I saw the flyer for the Powder Puff Derby a few months ago and thought, fun! Mallory and Paul can decorate a little car together and race it with her troop – it’ll be a great activity for the two of them. They even have a sibling heat, so Pablo can race a car as well. So, I ordered two car “kits.” Imagine my surprise when I opened the boxes and discovered that it consisted of a block of wood, four nails, and four plastic wheels. Um…that’s it? What the hell do we do with these?

I actually found a site full of Derby Secrets and Tips – but the topics are more in the line of, “Make Your Own Reflective Windows from Old Credit Cards” and “How to Make Sure Axles are Straight.” I don’t see any articles titled, “How to Make a Little Car Out of a Piece of Nondescript Wood.” I have a feeling our cars are going to be the hoopties of this race!

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I always think I’m on the ball and ready for whatever’s on the agenda, and then I realize I forgot to buy envelopes for our Christmas cards, I’m out of tissue paper to go in the teacher’s gift bags, and I was supposed to cut up a big square of fleece so Mallory can turn it into a tie blanket at Girl Scouts. Gah! Santa, for Christmas this year I want a special day-timer that slaps me upside the head every 46 minutes and says, “Get off your ass! You need to brown the meat for dinner and put the clothes in the dryer!” That would be very helpful. Please and thank you.

In other news, my nephew Casey spent several months in South America, bumming around with a friend of his and taking amazing pictures of the scenery (and women.) He just got back into town a couple of nights ago and the kids and I went to see him last night. Gosh, we’ve missed that kid! Not that we would have seen him more often than we did if he hadn’t left town, but he just seemed so inaccessible and FAR away when I knew he was in Argentina! I’m so glad he’s going to be home for Christmas and get to spend time with his family.

And all of a sudden, it’s noon. Guess I’d better do some of that stuff I mentioned!

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