Being Mom means doing a little dance of joy that the laundry hamper is finally empty, only to find it brimming the very next morning with the clothes my 'too-busy-to-think-about-clean-clothes' daughters had forgotten to deposit in the laundry bin.
Showing posts with label being mom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label being mom. Show all posts
Nov 23, 2008
Nov 22, 2008
Being Mom #1
Being Mom means having to drink the goop from the bottom of almost-empty juice boxes because my daughters are too high born to drain the cartons lest the juice goop clouds fair damsels' juice.
Jun 23, 2008
Why you should always keep a "Mom" on speed dial
Couple of days ago, I got a call from a Starbucks employee who informed me Daughter#1 had forgotten her mobile phone at the coffee shop. He found "MOM" from her recent incoming calls to let me know to let her know where she had lost it. I thanked him and communicated with Daughter#1, who was unaware of her loss, via her sweetheart's phone. She went back immediately that night to retrieve it.
Daughter#1 told me that employee was so courteous that he apologized to her for looking through her phone's directory and for bothering her mother. He hadn't even charged the call from my kid's cell phone instead had used the Starbucks phone.
Gosh, Starbucks! Your coffee may suck but you have really decent kids working for you. By the off chance a Starbucks CEO is reading my blog, I'm referring to Starbucks at Pagkrati, Athens Greece, so feel free to give those a kids a raise OK?
Daughter#1 told me that employee was so courteous that he apologized to her for looking through her phone's directory and for bothering her mother. He hadn't even charged the call from my kid's cell phone instead had used the Starbucks phone.
Gosh, Starbucks! Your coffee may suck but you have really decent kids working for you. By the off chance a Starbucks CEO is reading my blog, I'm referring to Starbucks at Pagkrati, Athens Greece, so feel free to give those a kids a raise OK?
May 23, 2008
A proud TOEFL* moment in our family
Yesterday afternoon I popped a downloaded version of "Juno" in the dvd player and settled myself for an afternoon of finally finding out what all the Oscar fuss was about. Movies from the Internet usually are without subtitles, the user has to find and add them, but I figured since I was about to watch it by myself no one would mind.
Daughter#2 -a great film buff, despite her young age- heard the call of the fox searchlight opening theme in her room and came dashing to the living room. I warned her that there were no subtitles and she might have a hard time discerning the dialogue, but she just waved me off to shut up because the movie was starting.
I was iffy as to whether my kid was getting all of the movie's conversations. And then she surprised the linguistic heck out of me when she laughed aloud at the following line.
I looked suspiciously at Daughter#2 and wondered how in the world she knew what a wiener was... I mean I never remember EVER using that word and I wondered if her frontistirio (English language center) had ever focused on slang words used to replace the word "penis".
I asked if she reeeeeally understood what the father had just said. And she replied affirmatively with an eye roll, still giggling and blushing.
Quite impressed of how far advanced my kid's English was, I paused the film and filled in some linguistic gaps informing her that wiener is also known as hotdog and frankfurter. She kept giggling.
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*TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language
Daughter#2 -a great film buff, despite her young age- heard the call of the fox searchlight opening theme in her room and came dashing to the living room. I warned her that there were no subtitles and she might have a hard time discerning the dialogue, but she just waved me off to shut up because the movie was starting.
I was iffy as to whether my kid was getting all of the movie's conversations. And then she surprised the linguistic heck out of me when she laughed aloud at the following line.
Juno's father on being told by Juno that she is pregnant closes the scene with "Yeah, but if I see that Bleeker kid (aka father of baby) I'm gonna punch him the wiener".
I looked suspiciously at Daughter#2 and wondered how in the world she knew what a wiener was... I mean I never remember EVER using that word and I wondered if her frontistirio (English language center) had ever focused on slang words used to replace the word "penis".
I asked if she reeeeeally understood what the father had just said. And she replied affirmatively with an eye roll, still giggling and blushing.
Quite impressed of how far advanced my kid's English was, I paused the film and filled in some linguistic gaps informing her that wiener is also known as hotdog and frankfurter. She kept giggling.
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*TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language
