Just arrived home from the lovely holidaze at the lake. I unpacked and DL helped me get this house in top notch condish. It will stay that way as the girls are at Camp Mimi-Papalicious. Which is happy. And sad. I have closed all doors to the play room, BLM's room, and LLM's room.
I was sooo happy to get to sit down and download my photos from the fun weekend. Well, what do you know? I took the WRONG CAMERA. For Shit's Sake, I won't get to share them until NEXT weekend. This was a very upsetting discovery. I almost thought about crying, but that wouldn't do any good except make me have puffy eyes and a stopped-up nose.
Mother (me... aka Motherlicious, which is the name I have given myself when I have panic-y stressful times) needed about 16 beers and an anxiety pill yesterday.
If I had my camera- I could post a picture of this damn baby pool that almost gave me a full blown attack. For whatever reason, the baby pool was set up at the dock. It was this cool blow up deal that had a smallish water slide and "hot tub" area. Fun stuff. But, it wasn't (in my opinion) dock-friendly. And, who wanted to be in it? LLM. The dock wasn't wide enough for it, really. It was about 4 inches from the side of the boat dock that had an empty boat slip.
My mind, it kept seeing LLM tumble into the water. I couldn't get her away from it. I had to corral her into a corner of it, which pissed her right off. I then stood in the 4 inches between the boat dock and the empty boat slip to catch any clumsy toddler from falling off. Yes, she had on her life jacket, but I still didn't want the trauma from her plunging in. It wasn't my idea to put it there. But it was there and I had to deal with it.
After that, BLM was swimming off of the dock. She was jumping in and climbing up the ladder and jumping in and climbing off the ladder. Papalish was in the water with her. She had on her life jacket (of course) and somehow she got her arms up over her head and slipped out of it. I was standing right there. THANK YOU JESUS. I saw her come out. She grabbed the arm of her vest (and was scared shitless, btw). I was calm (dunno how because my mind was in a panic). I notified Papa in the non-scariest-non-panicked voice I could find. I told her, "You're doing fine, Chandler. Kick as hard as you can. You're doing great. Just keep swimming!" Papa grabbed her and I got her out of the water and told her how proud I was of her swimming and her calm reaction. I made the decision that the vest was too big and that she was NEVER to swim without an adult in the water. (That instance is rare, but it has happened from time to time. We would sit on the dock and watch the kids jump in and out.) No more of that. And we have a new life vest. I went up to the house to have a mild panic attack (my phucking heart stopped beating, and I'm pretty sure that 5 years of my life are gone because of it).
Other than all of that- the weekend was beautiful. We watched fireworks, played in the water, went on Sea Doo rides, went out on the boat, ate terrific food, and drank beers. I also ate the best Key Lime Pie every, from Ricki Jacks.
I'm going to link her up here, because she will ship her WONDERFUL DELIGHTS wherever you might be. They are TO DIE FOR.
And, here would be some pictures- but this dumb ass picked up the wrong camera. Sorry bout it.
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OMG...that is so scary about the life vest. I am so glad that everything was just fine! I think you have a knack for appearing calm in scary times (like your recent post about the "accident"). A pat on the back for the mamalicious.
BTW, we had key lime pie too but I am pretty sure that yours was way better b/c ours was Edwards from the box.
that is my one fear for my child, drowing! I am so glad someone was right there to see her!
Glad you had a good holiday!!! Can't wait to see pics!
You gave a panic attack this morning! WOW!! Good mama, glad the LM's are fine!
XOXO
Thank you for being a diligent freak out mom like me around the water.
I just hate those mommies who sit on the lounge chair reading a magazine instead of watching the children. Makes me so mad. I am a totaly pyscho at the pool/beach/etc.
ENJOY the week, it will be GRRREAT!
Oh honey. You totally deserved that pie (and beer)!
MML so glad you had good lake times this weekend! We took xtra dayz off and I just got in today. Burned my lip, dangit!
Anywho, I had a similar panic moment this weekend. We were sitting in our pontoon boat, docked at the grand'rents, who were on their pontoon boat, waiting for the fireworks to begin, when suddenly I realized Little Kimmy was not wearing a life jacket and it was oh so dark in the water. Luckily she was en-route to passing out on someone's lap, but you can bet she won't be near the lake in the dark sans lifejacket evah again. I get shudders just thinking about it. Otherwise, she is turning into quite the lake girl this summer! We had to fashion a purple sand bucket into a potty on the front of the boat. When a girl's gotta go, well, ya know...
Holy Carp Holleh! My heart stopped a second just reading that!
Glad BLM is A-OK.
On another note, I would like some key lime pie. Especially made by someone whose name is almost the same as my DD's. Just one letter different. My dirty little BBC secret is my DD haz da Walmartz name - Rikki. Like a stripper. It was the DH's idea. He named her after his little bro, whom he loves alot.
I made key lime bars for the 4th, but it wasn't the same as key lime pie.
Jessie
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