My Favorite Moments From the Past Week

On Monday Jack announced that he will no longer answer to Jack, Jacky or John. He must now be referred to as "Captain Amerdica". He will also answer to Buzz Lightyear and "Cap".

On Tuesday, a friend shared a quote ~ Mother - [muhth-er] - noun - One person who does the work of twenty. For free. (See also: masochist and saint)

Another quote on Tuesday made me laugh ~ "Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally."

When I got home Tuesday night from book club, Rob was still up. He greeted me with "Honey, if I ever become a zombie, will you promise to kill me? I'll do the same for you :)" followed by a detailed plan of how we could use furniture to clog the stairwell of our home (after moving all the food upstairs of course) and live upstairs, using our escape ladder (that we keep in case of fire) to get water from the neighbor's pool to flush the toilets with, if a zombie invasion ever took place. I'm thinking I should limit the number of episodes of "The Walking Dead" that Rob is allowed to watch per night ;) . . .

Tuesday was rounded off with a momentous event - foir the first time in over 14 years of marriage, I corrected ROB on a historical fact and I was right!!! While discussing the origins of Dracula, the book my book club read this month, we started talking about Vlad the Impaler (the character of Dracula is based on his grandson). Rob stated that Vlad's insane approach to dealing with his enemies was sparked by his desire to prevent the Ottomans from taking his country over. Rob said that the Ottomans and the Bulgarians had been fighting during that time. I corrected him and said the Ottomans were actually fighting the Bulgars :)

Wednesday Eva managed to find about 5 pencils. We do our best to keep all the pencils up high as they can be dangerous to her. She LOVES pencil erasers though. I swear she can sniff them out. She's like a truffle-sniffing pig; if there's a pencil less than 3 ft off the floor within about 500 yds of her, she'll find it. Once she finds it, she happily sits down and eats the eraser off of it. I think Eva's diet at this point is about 30% breastmilk, 30% table foods, and 40% pencil erasers.

Thursday I was fired from Jack's superhero game. He told me I kept "messing it up". Fortunately my bout of un-involvement was short lived. Due to a shortage of possible superheros, I was reinstated a few minutes later. I think my superpower is the ability to change diapers with one hand :)