benefits

As much as I know that I am supposed to be a stay-at-home mom, there are some days when you wonder if there really are benefits to staying home. But on other days, you know that it is the best job in the world because you get to be a kid with your kids.

Yesterday, we went strawberry picking, which was all kinds of fun and yielded some really great pictures as well as strawberries. It took Jadyn about 30 seconds to figure out how the system worked and start pulling berries off the plants and popping them in her mouth, leaves and all. Then we hung out for a few hours in the afternoon, at which point we decided to go to Chick-fil-A for dinner, which is Alaina's favorite place to eat. When we pulled up, we discovered that Bob and Larry were there! So we ate there (rather than going to a park or something) and Alaina got to dance around with and in general hang out with Bob and Larry.

I think I sometimes forget how simple life is when you're a child...it's nice to remember every once in a while.

somedays it's harder than others...

to be an Astros fan. I know, I know, it's only the third day of the season today, but I'm a serious fan. I love the seasonal longevity of baseball.

Anyway, so Ashlee was the beneficiary of some very good, very free (for us!) tickets for the game last night. Things started off on a good note - we got the replica national league champions rings they gave out to the fans... and that's where the goodness ended. It was nothing tragic, just a series of signs that pointed to a bad ending of that game (11-2, Marlins, and the Astros didn't score those 2 runs until the bottom of the ninth, which we didn't even see because we left in the middle of the ninth).

The real point of this post is to recount yet another terrible display of a public proposal. Yes, some poor fellow proposed to his (I assume it's still the case this morning) fiancee via the KISS CAM. That's right, probably the most inane ballpark entertainment ever devised (except when they pick on the opposing team's dugout) was utilized for a public proposal. Now, to be fair, they were both wearing Astros jerseys and are probably big fans (and if they aren't, he's really a moron), and I'm sure he went to a lot of trouble to organize it all. But let me tell you, that was not the face of a happy woman. We're not entirely sure that she actually said yes - it looked more like she just stuck her hand out for him to put the ring on. She didn't initiate a hug or anything afterwards, either, he did. As much as it sounds like it, I'm not trying to judge the guy or what he did, it was just very uncomfortable to watch. So there's one more piece of evidence to pile up on the "no public proposals" mountain.