Prom - It's Done!

A few minor glitches aside, a beautiful evening. I think the kids had a good time.

I could sleep for a week.

RH


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IF YOU GIVE A MOM A MUFFIN

I am not the author of this, but I could be - I am sure many of you out there will recognize yourselves as well! Happy Mother's day (One day late - hey it was Mother's day!)

If you give a Mom a muffin, She'll want a strong cup of coffee to go with it.

She'll make herself some.

Her three year old will spill the coffee.

She'll wipe it up.

Wiping the floor, she'll find dirty socks.

She'll remember she has to do laundry.

When she puts the laundry in the washer, she'll trip over boots and bump into the box of Goodwill items.

Bumping into the Goodwill items will remind her she has to get these boxes in the car and out of her basement.

When she puts the boxes in the car, she'll find a bag of groceries and this will remind her she has to cook dinner.

She will get out the chicken defrosting in the fridge.

She'll look for her cookbook (101 Things To Do With Chicken).

The cookbook will be sitting under a pile of mail.

She will see the Netflix movie she's meant to mail; the preschool bill, which is due tomorrow.

She will look for her checkbook.

The checkbook will be in her purse that is being dumped out by her one year old.

She'll smell something funny. She'll change the baby's diaper.

As she finishes up, she'll realize she brought the hand sanitizer down to the kitchen.

While she is throwing away the diaper and searching for the hand sanitizer, the phone will ring.

Her three year old will answer and hang up.

She'll remember she wants to phone a friend, not for coffee, but for a very strong drink.

Thinking of drinking will remind her that she was going to have a cup of coffee in order to stay awake for the rest of the day.

And chances are.. If she finds her cup of coffee (which she has to reheat by now), Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

RH

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Retro Housewife Survival Guide - Coupons

Just an FYI - In light of the wave of companies that have gone belly-up recently, I am making it my personal mission to make sure certain companies make it through. Not because I own stock in them, I don't - at least not the kind you can buy at Schwab or e-Trade. I am invested in them emotionally.

Sounds silly to some, I know.

Which companies am I talking about?

Sears, Macys, Kodak, Nordstrom, McDonalds, Coca Cola and Saks.

Sears, because they have been around since the 1800s, because who hasn't sat on a Sears Catalog as a child when a regular booster seat wasn't available, because ToughSkins were my favorite pants in the fourth grade and the knees really did hold up.

Macy's - because without Macy's, the Macy's Day Parade would be just the Day Parade, because my Grandfather always took me shopping at Macy's to buy new school clothes when we visited them.

Kodak, because my first camera was a Kodak.

Nordstrom, because they have the best return policy on the planet and always have.

McDonalds & Coca Cola - because nothing says USA like McDonalds and Coca Cola.

Saks, because how can I shop there when I am rich and famous if they aren't there?

RH

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Amherst vs. Columbia - Anybody Have An Opinion?

This week-end we are headed to the East Coast to check out Columbia University and Amherst College. I am also planning on banging on MIT's door to see how their "Wait List" is progressing - which will pretty much ensure that my daughter doesn't get accepted - so maybe I won't.

In the meantime, I thought I would ask to see whether anybody out in the blogosphere had an opinion on either Columbia or Amherst. I have never been to either, although early on in her college application process I singled out Amherst as a good place for her to go. Why? I liked the name. I also like the fact that it was out in the Massachusetts Pampas in a cocoon-like town, overrun by college students. That spells "safe" in my head.

Thinking about her going to Columbia, which is in Manhattan -on the "Upper West Side" - as I discovered during my ticket booking process- keeps me awake at night. I picture scenes from Law & Order and resolve to absolutely forbid her from setting foot in New York City. At least at 3:00 in the morning. During the day, after the sun has banished all of the Boogie Men, I think about how if it were me in her position, I would be at Columbia in a New York Minute. Hypocrite I am, but I can take care of myself, I think. What is my little girl going to do in NYC? Then I realize what they mean when they talk about cutting the apron strings and letting go. They just don't tell you the apron strings aren't made of cloth, but flesh and blood.

I still instinctively try to hold her hand when we cross the street together. Who is going to hold her hand when she crosses the street in New York City?

On second thought, never mind. Forget I asked that.

Berkeley is starting to look pretty good to me now - Although they have been the least doting of the schools she has been accepted to. Berkeley sent an email and a follow-up letter, but nothing in the way of warm fuzzies for the parents. Not that it matters - I know Berkeley pretty well; both my sisters and my father went there. We spent two summers in Berkeley when I was a kid - which is funny now that I think of it - because I was completely oblivious to the turmoil that must have been raging there at the time (c. 1970). But I digress.

What to do. What to do.

Stupid Stanford.

Any alums out there with some insight?

Sign me, Worried Mother and

RH


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