May or May Not Monday

May or May-Not Monday: Where you can divulge the secrets of life's mishaps without feeling like a failure. So go on... own up. I may have...

I may or may not have taken a few weeks off from this blog because nothing was going on besides couch hugging and getting the bare minimum done. I do me bare and have felt zero guilt over it. The weather has been gorgeous this week which helped recovery tremendously. Lots of gardening of flowers, family walks, and basking in the sunny, perfect weather. 

Fifteen loads of laundry may or may not have awaited me this week. Mostly may. Eight of them were tended. Four of those were put away. The littles portion was put away so I didn't have to get their outfits for them. See that. Yup, bare minimum work there. 

I may or may not have Monsters Inc band aids on my incisions and think it's a terrific secret joke to have scary monsters on my owies. Not so secret anymore. When you see me, you can pass me a nod that you're in on my secret too. 

I may or may not have been barely surviving on my second full day on my own when Chess Club decided to go a half an hour long because of an hour and fifteen minute straight lecture for kids. At the 45 minute mark the chess master said we could leave without offending at any point. Twenty minutes after class should have been over the littles begged to go so we packed up. The chess master said, "Why are you leaving? You can't. I need to speak with you after class." He promised to be ten more minutes and we sat longer, barely surviving.  The master gave us a chess strategy workbook to practice at home. Here it is: I believe he loves chess so much that it isn't hard for him to teach for hours and wants to share his love and wealth of knowledge of the game. I was just incapable of being engaged for two hours straight in survival mode. 

I may or may not have a renewed hatred of dogs and their obtuse owners after being charged three times this week on family walks in our community. All separate offenses and dogs. There are leash laws that apparently are merely for only those who are courteous. There just aren't that many of those owner types in our community. And it's a contentious issue in our town meetings or Facebook rants. 

I may or may not think it's crazy to have a 45* temperature change from 8am getting the littles ready to 8pm when our day ends. Going to school it's 35* and by evening it's almost 80. You just can't dress in one outfit for that. You just can't. Deserts are uncomfortable sometimes. 

I may or may not have been loading my items on the checkout belt in Walmart this morning when I almost fainted from the strongest body odor I've ever smelled. Ungracious thoughts of hygiene passed through my mind while I concentrated on unloading the cart. When I got to the payment part, I looked at the person for the first time and realized he had no arms at all and was unloading his cart items from deep in the basket with his toes. I thought that is a masterful skill and well showering with soap is asking a lot. I've been thinking about this grown man with no help and thought isn't this where the government should provide a helper for him. Don't they have programs for this? 

On our family walk on Friday evening, my little crashed his trike (barely) and fell over six inches from the ground. On the drive home, my other little pointed out that the crashed little has blood in his mouth. I examined the mouth and saw a barely there molar and a ton of blood. My husband confirmed my thought of a shattered tooth. Then we set out trying to find a reputable emergency dentist. We called our dentist and left a message. I texted all my dentist job associated friends for recommendations. A dentist who lives in our community was willing to check out the emergency shattered tooth interrupting his Friday night plans. Turns out no tooth was shattered. The molar was growing in and the crash helped push it through! I may or may not have been relieved and slightly embarrassed. My husband baked a loaf of bread to say thank you for saving us. His bread is a good gift if you're lucky enough to receive it.