St. Patrick's Day..

XinXin hasn't grasped the concept of getting pinched for not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day - but I will be sure that there is at least a little green in her outfit. What she has started to due was relate toys and candy with holidays. Think about it - Christmas = toys, Halloween = candy, Easter = big chocolate bunnies, Valentine's Day = candy (and hearts), St. Patrick's Day = ?? (well, green beer, but there won't be any of that in our house).

Here is our conversation on St. Patrick's Day:

XinXin (hopeful tone): "Mommy, do we get toys for St. Patrick's Day?"
Me: "No"
XinXin (questioning tone): "Why not?"
Me: "That is how it is."
XinXin (hopeful tone - again): "Do we get candy?"
Me: "No"
XinXin (disgusted tone): "What do we get?"
Me: "Pinched if you don't where green."

So, she isn't all that thrilled with St. Patrick's Day. Hmmm, we'll have to check back in about 17 years ;).

Not feeling the love for the census form...

I received my census reporting form today and decided to get it done and out of the way. Mistake - all I got out of it was ticked off at whatever idiot put together the form. One would think it would be simple - report the number of people living in your house as of April 1, 2010. What could go wrong? All I have to do is write a number or two and check some boxes

I was fine in completely the info on me - age, race (wait - decided that I didn't like 'white' so filled in my own - 'caucasian'), etc. Next came XinXin's information and where I became ticked off. The second or third question was XinXin's relationship to me. Ok, what is so hard about that - she's my daughter. But no, our government has to defferentiate between biological or adopted as if there is a legal difference between the two. Seriously, there is no legal difference - just ask the IRS (who is way scarier than the census people can ever be).

My response was not to check a box but write 'daughter' because that is her relationship to me.

You know you are getting old when...

I was catching up on Facebook the other day when a high school friend (ok, we really go back to elementary school) wrote that she was working, working, working...have a wedding to pay for. I know that this friend is already married (or at least I thought so); therefore, I read a little farther back in status up-dates. It seems her oldest son proposed recently and the young lady said yes.

Then it hit me - my high school classmates and I are old enough to have children that are getting married (albeit maybe a little young for marriage, but of legal age nonetheless). When did this happen?