Just Another Manic Monday

It's been a while since I've participated in MckMama's "Not Me" Monday blog carnival. As I found myself aimlessly doing laps around the kitchen island tonight, I thought it might be a good time to snuggle up in the bed with my laptop and reflect on all the other things I - ahem - certainly have not been doing this week.

On second thought, let's just hit up the things I have not been doing today.

I did not try really, really hard to take our monthly Kumquat photos with Phil the Elephant (yep - 3 days late) and fail miserably at corralling this very busy girl enough to get a remotely usable picture out of it. See?

I also did not stand aside and continue to take pictures as our little photo shoot devolved into something a bit like this...
... and finally give up once she started to try to climb the bookcase. I also did not curse the fact that DKG and I still have not anchored those darn bookcases to the wall. Nope, not me! I would never put off something that important.

This afternoon, I was not thrilled that the lovely gift I'd purchased for my niece's birthday arrived. I also did not think of how happy I was to have found a sweet baby doll who looked so much like my niece... not an easy feat with these half-Asian babies!
I also did not freak out when I opened the package and discovered that the wrong doll had been sent!
Umm, yeah. Not so Asian. I also did not spend the rest of my quality time for the day baby's naptime on the phone with the vendor trying to figure out how to rectify the situation in time for the big birthday.

Since the day was going so well, I did not decide it was the perfect time to let my baby-who-really-wants-to-be-a-big-girl feed herself a lunch of (organic, whole grain) cheese ravioli and blueberries.
I also did not proceed to spend the next 2 hours cleaning up from that decision.
Oh, and I also did not wait until 10 pm to do my "Not Me" Monday post!

Hope you all had a lovely Monday.