Not Me Monday! Again!

This blog is intended to be more than a collection of posts about what I have not been doing, but since MckMama's Not Me! Monday blog carnivals tend to involve two important motivators (namely, a deadline and a prize), they seem to be the only ones I've gotten done lately.

OH WELL. At least this post should give you an inkling (more to come, I promise!) of what we have and have not been doing instead of blogging!

First off, DKG and I did not take our 19-month-old Kumquat on her gazillionth trip and add state #13 - CALIFORNIA - to her list of states she's visited (or #18 if you also count places we visited while I was preggo).

On this trip, I did not sacrifice my favorite pair of comfy shoes when we took our Kumquat to the beach just after our arrival in CA. We certainly did not head straight for the beach completely unprepared in spite of the fact that we had perfectly appropriate beach clothing & footwear in our luggage. We were not so excited about taking Little K to see the ocean for the first time that we didn't really care all that much about the shoes we'd miss later.

I did not completely fall in love with these two all over again.

We also did NOT take our crazy monkey toddler to a professional golf event, where everyone knows the audience should be quiet & respectful. And certainly not a major championship, where the stakes are high. Nope, not me!

And I did not have my heart warmed to watch these dads have the greatest Father's Day weekend! (And birthday week for DKG!)

And I did not very seriously consider never returning to the land of Kumquat Stands and instead move on to Colorful Artichoke fields. I mean, come on... Look at this place! Who'd want to live here forever? Certainly not me!

I did not have an awesome Mama KG-Little Kumquat date day while everyone else was at the golf tournament...

and no Kumquat Divas were sighted on this day, either.

And, finally, we did absolutely nothing whatsoever to encourage any diva-ish-ness by taking our 19-month-old (did I mention that already??) to Las Vegas for the third time in her life. I mean, really? Who takes a baby to Vegas?! Certainly not us!

I also did not begin to wonder if maybe she's been there a few times too many... ;)

So, that's a bit of what we have not been up to lately! I promise another post with more information on what we actually DID will be coming soon!

Not Me! Monday - Summer Style

Happy Monday to you! So, once again, I'm hopping on MckMama's bandwagon and writing a Not Me! Monday post about things I most certainly did not do this week yesterday. And it has absolutely nothing to do with me making a bit of a disaster out of a fun event because that's just what I do. Because I don't.

So, first off, I did not on my own decide that the summer picnic my awesome moms' group was having would start at 6:00, in spite of the fact that 6 is really kinda late for a dinner picnic with lots of little kids. Or the fact that the calendar clearly says 5. Nope, not me!

I did not also decide all on my own that the picnic would be held at a park about 2 minutes away from my house, rather than at one about 10 miles away. Especially not when the correct name (and address) of the park was listed on the calendar and its name was really not at all similar to the one I'd imagined.

And I certainly did not discover all of this once we were in the car - 20 minutes late - because I hadn't gotten around to looking at the details until then.

I also did not decide our navigation system didn't know what it was talking about and that we should ignore its directions. Especially since we already were soooo late... and that choice didn't take us about 10 extra miles out of our way. Not at all!!

AND, once we discovered all of my mistakes, I absolutely did NOT cry a little bit about it and really, really consider not going at all.

Thank goodness we didn't do that, because then we would have missed all this...

And that would really have been a shame.