Not Me! Monday!

It's that time again! I'm joining in on MckMama's Not Me! Monday blog carnival where folks share all of the things that they most certainly would not have been doing this week. Ahem.

First things first... I did not blog about my cyber-absence, promise to be get back on the blogging wagon and then proceed to take a 12-day hiatus. Nope, not me!

During that 12-day period, I also did not take a lovely trip to visit MY family... and I sure wouldn't have convinced my husband that the best way for us to get there was to drive 12 hours with a 6-month-old in the car. I most especially did NOT allow dear husband to turn around and make the same drive home (sans Kumquat & Mama) just 3 days after we got to Tennessee. Especially not when K & I were going to fly back after staying for 10 days. Poor hubby. I mean, he would be poor hubby had I done such a thing!

While we were there I did not COMPLETELY neglect to take an appropriate number of pictures. And I absolutely did not forget to take a. single. picture. of the baby with Grammy, Aunt Mandy OR Uncle Joe with a real camera (vs. the phone's camera). That would just be too sad.

Speaking of pictures... I ALSO did not suggest that it would be a lovely idea to have pictures done with one 20-month-old (who is experimenting with terrible-two's tantrums independence), one six-month-old (who is a rolling machine and nearly impossible to keep in place for more than a moment), and one four-month-old (who is as precious as she can be, but isn't always so fond of holding up her head). That just sounds like a headache for everyone involved.

I also did not complain about the incompetence of the photographer involved in this non-existent shoot, tell the studio there really weren't any pictures we wanted to purchase, agree to reschedule for the oh-so-unpredictable hour of 5 pm that same day, nor profess my undying love for the wonderful photographer who saved the day. Did you get all that? It would have been a heck of a day. Good thing I didn't do any of it!




Oh, and on my way home? I certainly did not completely forget to bring in the baby's car seat until I was about to check my luggage and felt like something was missing...

I also did not feel a lot of ambivalence about coming home. I did not reflect on how nice it is to be back home, but also feel my heart break a little at the thought that we might not see the family again until the Kumquat is a year old.

This picture of Auntie Jill made me remember that I totally did NOT let a newly-ridiculously-mobile K get out of my sight and knock over an almost-full cup of coffee onto the carpet! The light-colored carpet. Did I mention that the house is brand new and that this was the first spill? I didn't? Oh.

I do NOT miss my family terribly. Sniff. :(

I also did NOT engage in some retail therapy to make me happier at home (in addition to the retail therapy I did NOT engage in when we went to Nashville!). I certainly did not buy new bed linens completely on a whim even though the sheets we were using were new just last summer. I also did not inform my hubby that I just wasn't feeling very springy until we got new green bedding. I also did not fall in love with that lumbar pillow and completely change my mind about what colors we should get so I could coordinate with it!
Oh, I also did NOT write the LONGEST Not Me! Monday post ever in spite of the mountain of things to be done now that I'm finally home.

Boy, it would have been a pretty crazy couple of weeks if I'd done any of this!