This one's for you Leese. And it gives me something to write about since it's way too hot here today to wait around for pictures to upload.
So, without further adieu....
Four Things You Should Know About Me Before You Invite Me to Your House (+ some)...
1. I'll bring the food. It's not that I don't actually like your food or that I have extreme food allergies or anything (well, I sort of do.. but that's for a different post) or that I'm doin' the Hallelujah Diet again or anything (please don't judge me by my diet plans). I just like to feed people. Ask my friends Amy and Lara. Amy has a big house and air conditioning and a way cool automatic espresso machine so we like to hang there - and since she has all that and we like to make full use of those friend benefits, I generally bring the food. Lara, our new next door neighbor, and her husband Aaron just always seem to show up right when the food is being served. Hmmmm...I'm beginning to see a pattern here. I'm joking. Joking! I had to add that in though since she's now a faithful MWAV reader. I just like to cook for people - and I'm generally pretty good at it I think. We'll see what Amy and Lara comment about that.
2. My children will call you Mr. and Mrs. (insert your last name here). I just got into a little debate with my aunt about this one. She thought it would be disrespectful for my children to call someone that if that particular person didn't want to be called that. I made the point, though, that to me it's not about the adult's comfort, it's about my children having respect for adults and not seeing them as peers. Now, it's not that I think my children won't have respect for people unless they call them Mr. and Mrs. - I just think it sets up a good foundation of respect. Sort of like calling your priest "Father so and so" or your pastor "Pastor so and so" or like Justin's job - "Lieutenant such and such." It's about having respect for the position. On the flip side of things - I wouldn't require that other peoples' children call me Mrs. Jobes. That's for their own parents to decide. I wouldn't even necessarily consider it disrespectful - it's just what we've chosen for our own family. Just trying to combat, in our own little way, this society of increasingly disrespectful children and adolescents. Ok - off my soap box for now....
3. I'll help you rearrange your furniture or pick out paint colors if you ask me to.... and it will be awesome. But don't ask me to do it for myself. When I try and do it for myself I CANNOT make up my mind. Ask my husband about the 7 or more different paint colors in our kitchen or the 4 paint chips that have been stuck to my childrens' bedroom wall for months now. But for you? It will look great! You'll love it.
4. We probably won't stay past 10 o'clock. If Justin has to work the next day we probably won't stay past 9. He has to leave for work at about 4:30 am. Otherwise, we're just sort of lightweights. Every once in a while we get to drinking (never excessively, mind you) and gabbing with Mike and Amy and we can stay up later - but for the most part we like to go to bed by 10.
And for the obligatory photo - a picture of the good 'ol days. When we were able to stay up past midnight playing darts in the garage and sing Indigo Girls at the top of our lungs.
That's Amy trying to look mean... in case you were wondering.
8 comments:
OH MY GOSH! This is a post and half. I have so much to say, I don't even know where to start.
First! I MUST have just had a baby right? Or maybe I am pregnant I look so fat in that picture. And wow. That is a blast from the past. I think I remember it though. You and Justin look like you are modeling for a magazine and Mike looks like a thug and I look like I am high. But I am not because I must have been pregnant with Luke! And who took the picture?
Second. You guys always aim to leave by 10 but those last minute "things I have to tell you" always take a bit of time! Poor Justin! One of my favorite parts is transferring sweet sweaty sleeping kids to the car. We need to do this again soon by the way.
Third. I love your food. If you make it I will like it. I am so glad that you enjoy making food for people 'cause I am people! But you forgot to mention another reason you bring food when you come over. You want to make sure there is food you are happy with there too! And that is funny that you linked to the hallelujah diet! Another blast from the past.
Thanks for the good time!
Totally ditto you on the Mr. & Mrs. thing! I like my kids to use the titles too--and prefer them to use "Aunt So-and-so" for relatives and such, too. There is an adult in our lives that insists on the first names, though...grrrrr. My decision for my kids, I think.
And since both of our sets of kids are perfect, it must be working :-)
Now I'm curious about your food allergies! My body has been freaking out about my diet lately, and I don't know what's going on. Anyway, I can't imagine many people objecting to the arrangement of you bringing food to their house!
I'm the same way with decorating. When it comes to my space, I get stuck. With someone else's space, I get this flow of energy and creativity. Maybe we should be one another's decorators!
OK, Cutzi? I need you to be my neighbor! Seriously!! Wanna move to CA.?
Thats a sweet Charlies Angels move man. You rock, and I laughed at Amy's comments!
You make me want to move back to Bellingham. =) I sure could use some decorating advice. I love bits and pieces of this and that, but I never know how to incorporate it all.
The first three years of our marriage, I didn't decorate one thing in our house. It was completely plain. Then, I found out I was pregnant. I completely freaked out because my house was no home whatsoever. I did a lot of nesting. lol. That being said, our house has come a long way on the decorating side, but I still need lots of help!
Your food sounds so yummy every. time you talk about recipes I want to try them out for myself.
I'm also with you on kids addressing adults with mr. and mrs. It would be weird for me to hear Cael say someone by their first name. Although, he did call his dad Brian the other day...just to be funny. ha.
Wow! That picture is hilarious.
Mike is so America's Most Wanted.
Re: #2... We also have our kids use Mr. and Mrs, and love that so many others do, too. It seems like that form of respect was so GONE for the previous generation (or several.) We don't require other people's kids to call us Mr. and Mrs. either (though most do), and I'd love to say it doesn't bother me when they don't... but there are so few, it really catches me off guard! Loved your list, though - fun info. Hilary :)
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