Today's a good day, it's my Grandmas Birthday!! Cinco De Mayo, fun memories as a child with bbq's, music, and Grandmas Birthday. It's also been a crazy day!! So Tuesday, my day to get some grocery shopping done and clean up around the house since the baby isn't here. So it's Cinco De Mayo and I decided I would make my kids a mexican meal. I go to a store where I get really good prices on fruits and vegetables (with a family of 6 a good deal is hard to find). On my way to another store "J" and I are driving along listening to the music, I have the front windows down just a little. We're singing along when I catch something in my side vision. I look to my left and there is a furry black spider coming in the window on it's web. Okay, this is when I say I am TERRIFIED of any creepy, crawly, insect or spider (do they fall in the same category I don't know because I consider them all scary!!). I am now telling myself don't panic, just pull over and get it out! Well, now I see it jump from the window to right next to me inside the SUV by the bottom of the window. I keep saying to myself pull over, pull over, I notice on the right there are red curbs so I tell myself you can't pull over here. I am freaking out!!! The first area I see I can pull over I do so. I stop the car, now if I could fly out the window I totally would've been gone!! I open the door and I notice the spider jumps towards the back. I get out and start doing the creepy dance! I'm shaking my hair, brushing off my arms, kicking my legs-moving them up and down. Meanwhile "J" is in the back saying"Mama why we stop?" "What wrong Mama?" I tell him a spider came in, he unbuckles himself and looks around because now I've opened both the front and back door just to see if it went in the back. My little (big) boy tells me "No worry Mama, me don't see spider, me kill it for you". I have to stay out of the SUV for about 5 minutes just looking to see if I can find it. Then I think where am I? Where did I just pull over? Now I start looking around to see if anyone saw me shaking all over the place. No one's outside, I convince myself to get back in and get going. I finish my shopping and on the way home "J" starts to squirm "Mama I have to pee-pee". Now I rush to get home (besides a little part of me can't wait to get out of the SUV). We get home he pops off his seatbelt, I open the door because I definately don't need an accident in the car as well as a creepy crawly. Out falls a jar of pickles I had just bought- splat! "J" looks and says "Oh Mama pickles" as he's stepping on other groceries. I pull him out and rush him in so he can make it (I already definately have enough to clean up, never mind the fact I haven't even started on the house).
Well, I clean up the pickles (I also realize it really looks like there are more pickles in the jar than there actually are). I go about my day, putting stuff away, preparing dinner, dessert, getting stuff ready for baseball practice.
Cinco De Mayo, a day I remember as a fun family day now is just another day. It's crazy how things change, it's up to us I guess to try and continue what we knew as a child and pass that on to ours so the little bits and pieces they take from it will be passed on to their children.
Night is here, time to get stuff ready for tomorrow, put kids to bed, and try to relax just a little before we doze off to sleep.
Pass on the good stuff to our children so they can have an open window into our childhood memories and we can see our smiles through theirs....

Just a busy Mom