major faux pas.

So, on March 7th our awesome church held a baby shower for us, and I think we got a kazillion gifts. Seriously though, our church family is incredible, and we got so much stuff! This shower was 5 weeks before Natalie's due date, which leaves plenty of time to write thank-you notes. Theoretically. Turns out, Natalie was born 3 weeks early. Fortunately for us, we had about a week's notice that she would likely be born early; unfortunately, we were not ready. So the last week before her birth, I was running around trying to get the nursery ready, get gifts put away, etc. If you've had a baby, you know what I mean...only you probably had a little more time than a week to do this. :) Anyway...with all that, of course the thank-you notes didn't get finished before she was born. I started them while we were in South Carolina waiting to bring Natalie home.

Then...mommyhood sunk in. How is it that someone so small can demand so much of your time? I continued to work on the thank-you notes, but it sure was slow going. And this brings me to my major faux pas. At some point I pushed the "thank-you note writing setup" aside while cleaning up. And for me, something like this leads to "out of sight, out of mind". I totally forgot to finish them!! Oh my goodness, my child just turned 4 months old & I haven't finished writing my thank-you notes. If you are reading this, and you got us a gift but haven't received a thank-you note, I am SO SORRY! We truly are so grateful for all of the gifts we have received. At this point, I want to write the notes but I'm so embarrassed that they're so late. {I mean, can I just send these people messages on facebook or something? Geez.} At any rate, hopefully I'm not the only person in the world who has been THIS late to write thank-you notes. {Right? Someone humor me & just LIE and say you did the same thing...}

A word of advice for you expecting mothers: don't wait until after the baby is born to write your thank-you notes! And also...don't put them out of your sight or you'll forget about them!

P.S. Why am I blogging? I should be working on those notes RIGHT NOW. Geeeeezzzz.

pardon me whilst I flush.

We have all encountered the driver on the road who is talking on their cell phone as they weave across lanes. Or the "really loud cell phone talker guy" in the restaurant. I have heard countless complaints about these cell phone users. But I want to talk about what just happened to me.

I went to the restroom, and as I approached the door, I heard someone talking. Not unusual, since women talk in the restroom all the time. However, this time, it was a woman talking on her cell phone. I have before encountered the stall-dweller who insists on answering the cell phone while they urinate or perform other bodily functions. But this time, she was just standing in the restroom talking on the cell phone. Approximately 5 steps from where she stood was the door, which led to a perfectly good hallway for cell phone conversations. Maybe she likes the acoustics of the ceramic tile-covered latrine? I don't know. But it was very awkward for me to enter the stall, tinkle, and then proceed to flush, all while she was carrying on a conversation with someone. And I happen to know that the "someone" was a male, because he was talking so loudly on the other end of the phone that I could hear him from inside the stall. So between her sentences, he heard the sounds of my pants zipper, followed by the usual tinkle, tinkle, tinkle..., thunder of the industrial-sized toilet paper roll, and finally the very loud automatic toilet flushing. That was probably a bit awkward for him.

Anyway, please hang up or step outside to carry on your cell phone conversation, and let us urinate in peace. Thank you.

(When she got off the phone, she did tell me that my sweater looked "really pretty" on me, so of course I had to forgive her after that compliment.)