LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

Yay! First snow of the season. I’m cracking up at my kids – they are flipping out over the snow, like they’ve forgotten about the existence of snow altogether. They’re ready to go out and build a snowman, and I’m having a hard time convincing them that the light dusting we got of powdery, dry snow won’t stick together at all. Oh well. It’s Colorado, and I’m sure we have lots of snowman-worthy snow in our future. And I’m sure our biggest snowfall will occur after a 75 degree day, since that’s how it always goes around here.

I’m getting ready to meet Kayley and her dad over at her school for a parent teacher conference. (Cue scary music.) I have to take the little girls along with me, but maybe I can bring along some crayons or something to entertain them. I hate parent teacher conferences. I never realized how embarrassing it would be as a parent to have a slacker kid. I hate how WE are always judged by the teachers and given the hairy eyeball when Kayley doesn’t get her homework done or fails to turn it in, as if we’re somehow encouraging her to fail. We’ve done everything in our power to get her to step up and be a good student and she just has no interest whatsoever. I’m not sure where to go from here, but I’m picturing her having a career working at Target or something. Drag.

At least I have the little ones and their future music careers, right? They’ll take care of me in my old age – I’m sure of it!

Fingers crossed that K’s teachers have hopeful words for us!

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On Monday, I had a few minutes to kill before it was time to pick up Pablo & Mallory from preschool, so I thought I’d go fill up my van with gas and get a carwash – we had some snow here last week, and my van was a MESS – it had white shit caked all over it. Gotta love magnesium chloride!

It was a gawgeous 60 degrees oustide, so everyone had the same idea, I think. I was getting gas and I noticed a lady at the pump across from me was sort of in a race with me to get gas and get in the carwash line, since it was empty. You know how you can kind of tell when someone’s trying to get ahead of you? She was hurriedly throwing her purse back in her car and stuff, and she practically peeled out getting over to the carwash. Haha!

So anyway, I finish pumping my gas and got in the carwash line behind her and waited. And waited. And waited! Finally, I realized she was inside the carwash, TRAPPED, because the garage doors that go up and down were apparently STUCK. I could see her inside there, getting out of her car, all, “Helllloooooo? I’m stuck in here!” I thought it was hysterical. I was thinking, “Take THAT, biyatch!” but I was GLAD she beat me or it would have been ME stuck in there! Can you imagine making that call to the elementary school? “I can’t pick up the kids because I’m trapped in a carwash.” Ha! I had to back out and go inside the store and tell the clerk that she was stuck in the carwash. Hehe!

So. Yesterday, I was on my way HOME from the carwash that I didn’t get Monday, I was listening to the morning show on Mix 100 and they were asking people to call in for their “Last Caller of the Day” bit and tell them a story. So I called and told them my carwash story and I won! My story beat out four other people’s, who weren’t nearly as charming and entertaining as ME, naturally. Woohoo!

The girls and I ventured downtown today to claim my prize: a $50 gift card to the shops at Northfield, where we shop all the time, and two tickets to The Improv over there. I didn’t even know there WAS a comedy club at Northfield? I see a date night in my future! Whee!

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