when life throws you lemons...

...go to dairy queen? it's the gerbickian way.

wes got home late b/c he had to stay late b/c today he had to give out really frustrating, annoying, a plain pisser-offer of info to his team (& himself). the week surrounding christmas the company he works for, redbuilt, is shutting down (except sales people...& they better be working their tales off, my friends) & no one gets paid. it's like a forced non-paid vacation. what's really bad is that they're giving this info out so close to the time. but then again, they're also telling everyone this will happen again in february. freakin' great! just when we think our financial situation is looking bleak, it becomes just a bit more bleak (bleaker? that's a funny word to say). gah.

then i had a day filled with ear-infection-millie & just-plain-tired-addy. but they both took naps, so that is stupendous (except that addy fell asleep on the couch, so i couldn't do any thing much except watch tv...oh darn, right? i caught up on some shows, so all is good). but what made a sorta frustrating day just plain pissy for me was when i was on the phone with wes who was explaining to me how he wanted to get home so badly that he drove across the railroad tracks when the lights were flashing & a train was coming--GULP--yes, after he had just told me that, i open the door to our bedroom to find addy & amelia in there (the upstairs had been eerily quiet as i was making dinner downstairs. i prayed to sweet heavenly lord jesus almighty that nothing funny was going on upstairs. jesus did not perform any miracles, folks, not in a way of keeping my kids out of trouble tonight, *sigh*). amelia was in the now *empty* but previously totally overflowing full dirty clothes hamper. adeline is sitting amongst a very large pile of clothes on the floor that was not previously there. & 5 out of 6 of our dresser drawers were open & emptied of the contents. apparently we forgot to mention to adeline that not only is she NOT to empty her dresser of its contents, but she should also NOT empty the contents of anyone else's dresser. GAH!

then while i was putting the clothes away the stuff on the burner (it was on super duper low!) burnt. so i no longer had that wonderful feeling of being betty freakin' crocker (as my sister would say) b/c i was trying to determine which clothes were clean & which were dirty. a very unpleasant task for the nose, mind you. i left all of wes' underwear for him to decide...i am so not going to sniff his undies. you know what i mean.

so we finally had dinner. after i read for a bit & wes cooked for a bit--both of which calmed us down. the girls gobbled down the spaghetti. then i asked addy: guess where we're going to go after dinner? where? where? WHERE?! *DAIRY QUEEN!* wes & i answered in unisom, totally unplanned. our marriage was just meant to be, plain & simple. when going through a shitty, shitty day...we just think of the dessert we now deserve for surviving it.

amelia playing around with me while waiting for wes & addy to come home with *ICE CREAM!*


i forget why addy had this look on her face, i think it was prior to ice cream eating.

& *apparently* amelia now loves to eat ice cream.

so we all ate our ice cream, adeline was so happy that she told us a few times 'i wuv my mommy an daddy, i wuv you' & amelia was clapping her feet together & squealing with delight & was the quietest she had been all day while devouring the yummy stuff. wes & i would just look at each other with the look of 'i think things are a-okay now'. now that we've had plenty of dessert. & now we just have to figure out which child we'll have to sell to stay in the black this year. (*kidding*).