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I could write a book

After last week’s near miss with a school van, I almost collided with a car that was turning out of a gas station when I went to pick up my son from college Friday.

The lady driver never even so much as turned her head in my direction as I was turning the corner on the same road she was trying to get on.

Gosh, I tell you, I’ve really almost had enough of these drivers with bad attitudes. I’m careful to a T as a driver since I always have kids in my car with me. Safety is a big thing for me.

From young, my kids have been in Britax car seats and later in booster seats. So they’ve been trained from birth that the first thing they do is put on their seat belts even though the law here does not require back passengers to be strapped in.

That’s Mom’s law they have to obey!

Through the years, driving has gotten more stressful for me because of the increasingly bad attitude of drivers. People turn without looking out for oncoming traffic. They run red lights.

They cut into your lanes without signaling. Gosh, I could write a book half a foot thick about the lousy drivers I encounter on the roads every day!!

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racing school van

I picked up my daughter from school and we were driving down a straight road when, from out of nowhere, a school van comes speeding out a side street heading directly for us.

I was blasting my horn but the bus driver just kept coming at us. We both screeched to a stop and he would’ve smashed into my car dead center if he’d come one foot closer!

The stupid driver just raised his hand as some sort of apology and sped off again at the same speed that he’d been coming at us. His van was packed full of school kids and I’m sure none of them seatbelts on! I saw him again yesterday racing past the same spot at breakneck speed.

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a nutritional supplement drink maybe

I pretty much grew up popping vitamins. So I guess that’s why I always worry about my kids not getting all the nutrition they need, what with the busy life we lead.

Sometimes we just don’t eat right in all that hurry to get some place all the time. I’ve got bottles of vitamins in the fridge but getting the kids to remember to pop them on their way out is harder than you think.

I’m actually thinking of getting a nutritional supplement in liquid form like duocal which they can easily gulp down after breakfast. It’d be great but I need to check first if they’re suitable for kids.

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a little girl made my day

A little girl made my day today. As I dropped my daughter off at her tutor’s house, the neighbor’s toddler saw me and waved at me, a little shyly at first but when she saw me wave back, she toddled in my direction and continued waving even as I drove away.

I brought back memories of when my girls were that age and how they used to wave to me as I pulled out of my driveway for the commute to work every morning. I hated leaving them at home and I couldn’t wait to go home after work each day to be greeted with excitement at the door.

I miss those waves and hugs and kisses. Now that they are teens, there are few too few of these any more. Sigh!

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three kids and completely clueless

My neighbor is a mother of three. So am I. Well, her kids are younger than mine and her third’s only about a year old. Still there’s no reason to be so clueless about childcare.

She lets her kids climb in the driver’s seat and play around with stuff there. Her kids ride in her completey unrestrained, without car seats or seat belts, and she’s a really lousy driver with a bad attitude and a car full of scars to show for it.

I’d be really surprised that she even knows that there’s a baby product called a car seat that’ll keep her kids safe when subjected to her reckless driving. Maybe I should recommend her to Lilaguide where she can learn a thing or two from other parents online.

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early mornings and late nights

Finally we’re getting a piddly bit of rain. About time too! It’s been so blazing hot for weeks now and the humidity was getting too much to bear.

I’m feeling really sleepy right now and I’m not even an afternoon napper. It must be because I slept late last night and was up at 5 this morning to send a friend off to the airport.

By 6:30 am, I found myself at the McDonald’s drive-through ordering breakfast. How odd! One of the ladies who works there knows me by sight, and I could tell she was shocked to see me at that hour!

I’m trying to stave off the lethargy as I still have taxi runs to make later on this evening. What I need now is a cup of kava root coffee to keep me awake. It’s a natural herb supplement that’s supposed to revitalize you, no matter how tired you are. Sounds like the thing for me.

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Happy Father’s Day

No, we didn’t do anything about Father’s Day this year except for having a nice little American breakfast at home. The kids wished DH a Happy Father’s Day and that’s it. I think they’re a little biased. He doesn’t get any presents on Father’s Day while I get presents on Mother’s Day.

Like I said, it’s all getting too commercialized as is evident from the long lines we saw at restaurants today at the mall. It’s like a fish market and it definitely didn’t look or feel like anyone was feeling the pinch of recent gas hikes. Or maybe they’re spending Mom’s money to buy Dad lunch, eh :lol: ?

Well, I guess like my kids, I’ll wish all fathers a Happy Father’s Day.

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switching to movies at home

I can’t believe I watched like 3 movies in the past week, one of them being Iron Man which I really enjoyed. I’m online so much that I don’t have time for movies any more, it seems, hehe! In fact, it’s my kids who keep me updated about movies these days.

Well, we probably won’t be going to movies at the cinemas too often from now on. It’s getting too expensive - tickets for the four of us, popcorn and lunch or dinner out afterwards. It’s all starting to make a dent in my pocket.

So we’re going to start watching movies at home instead. It won’t be the same, of course. We love going to the movies and we’ll definitely miss this whole excitement of booking tickets, getting dressed and driving out.

But we could definitely save quite a bit by watching movies at home. I’ll just have to start popping popcorn in my microwave and draw the drapes to create that movie theater effect :lol: . Let’s see how we go with that!

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great being a kid

The kids were up late last night pitting their computer game prowess against each other. I would usually insist they get to bed but this being the weekend, I let them stay up till after midnight.

Well, I hope they did get to bed by 2am as promised because I was sleeping like a log by then and didn’t even hear them sneaking down to the kitchen for some milk.

It’s fun to be a kid, isn’t it? Life is just giggles and games. No worries about anything.

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when kids swear

We went to a buffet dinner last night. Buffets are great when you have kids along. They can have their own table and get their own food, and the adults can engage in adult conversation… finally!

We were laughing about how swear words escape us when we’re driving because of all the lousy drivers out there these days! Some of us are so well-restrained though that we’d never swear in front of the kids and yet, strangely enough, have kids that swear!

It’s a bit of a puzzle, that one. But it looks like kids start swearing younger all the time. My friend was shocked when her 8-year-old burst forth with a string of swear words right in front of her during an argument with his classmate.

Maybe we need to send them to swearing rehab, you know, something like a drug rehab for people who swear :lol: !!

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