My sister posts on her blog a series called "not me Mondays" where she confesses the things that she would "never do" by telling the truth about what happened in her week. I have never tried writing a not me Monday post but thought that after this week, I would give it a try.
Over the weekend I developed a cold, and so of course when Monday morning came I
did not wake up a super grump. I also
did not allow my daughters to watch 2 hours of television right after breakfast. Our van has been broken and we have had an infestation of carpenter bees in the backyard. After realizing that they needed it I took the girls outside to play. I
did not decide to mess with the bees by spraying them with ant bug spray, causing them to get angry and fly straight for my baby. I totally
did not scream like a little girl telling Monica to run as fast as she could back in the house, giving her an even bigger fear of "flying bugs".
Also this week while cooking I realized that I had not seen my toddler for about 2 minutes, which is very rare as she is usually more than willing to follow me around the house crying at my feet. After looking for her I happened to glance out the window, and
did not see her running across a street toward the neighbors trampoline. I ran out of the house after her and she just kept on running. The other neighborhood kids thought it was funny, and of course I
did not yell at them telling them that it was NOT funny. I also
did not yell at Daniel for not checking to make sure the screen door was shut all the way after leaving the house. I would
never yell at my kids for doing "kid things", nope not me!
On Friday I
did not lose track of time and my son
did not come home from school to a locked door and was frantically knocking while I was in the bathroom. When I came out I heard him knocking and when I opened the door he
did not say to me "mom you took too long and I just pooped my pants." Of course I
did not freak out as my son stood embarrassed and upset on the front porch. I also
did not call him a baby to his sister later. I would never demean my children in front of each other. I DID apologize to him for my bad behavior and asked him for forgiveness and we prayed together. That was a great ending to a traumatic event.
The pony ride is a short 2 minute ride around a figure eight, and Monica loved every second of it. After the ride was over she told me "Mommy, I pretended I was a princess when I was on that pony."
After the pony ride we headed over to see the baby goats. You could buy a bottle to feed the goats for $1. Monica loved playing mommy to the goats.
Olivia was less impressed with the farm life. She was not a fan of any animal, and hated if they came close to her. I was able to snap one quick picture of her as she was backing up screaming because the goat came close to her.
In the cow barn Monica got to practice her milking skills by milking this plastic cow. When you squeeze the utters water would shoot out into the pail. At first she was not so sure if she liked it, but after only a few seconds I could barely drag her away from it.
Olivia did not mind the cow barn because there was a gate between her and the animals. She was even brave and reached in and touched the cows.
After seeing some of the animals we had a picnic lunch by the playground, and then we played for awhile. There were a lot of kids there, so the girls had to share a swing. They had a lot of fun laughing together in their swing. We will definitely go back to the farmstead and see the parts we did not have time to see (due to nap time quickly approaching and meltdowns just around the corner). It was a fun place and best of all during the week, it is free!
