And the hits just keep on coming…
Posted on May 27, 2008
My parents flew out to NJ the same day I did and we had a wonderful whirlwind visit. We flew in on Wednesday, and while Chloe was napping I got my new driver’s license. On Thursday we went to Philadelphia to continued my dad’s history tour of the US (They visited Boston a year ago and DC a month ago.) Friday we took a tour of the Crayola factory in Pennsylvania. Saturday, we went to one of Chloe’s friend’s birthday party, then my parents babysat so John and I could go out on a date. Sunday, we went to the American History Museum in Manhattan. Monday, Mom, Dad and I went to Atlantic City (leaving Chloe at home with John because she was pretty done with the tourist thing.) Then we had a BBQ over at Ellen’s for Memorial day. Today, I drove mom and dad to the airport, and started the “process” of getting my house back in order.
I would love to show you pictures of all of these adventures, but I can’t. BECAUSE I LOST MY FREAKIN’ CAMERA! I am starting to think that there is something seriously wrong with me. Ellen insists that it is normal to become absent minded when you have kids because you are trying to keep track of so many things that the details become fuzzy. I have no excuse for the insurance card or the passport, but the driver’s license is easy to justify because I was literally carrying too many things. I had Chloe’s stroller, diaper bag, toy bag, glass of milk, bowl of muffins, baby doll (which I had to wrench away from her to run it through the XRay, which left a screaming kid,) her shoes, my shoes, and the stroller bag. Then, the security guy decided he needed to look through her diaper bag and he couldn’t do that until I was standing with him and watching him go through it. So, I had to wrestle Chloe back into her stroller (which of course she didn’t want to go back into because she wanted to walk,) then gather the rest of my belongings so that nobody could say that I left them unattended. While he was going through the back pack I tried to appear like I was watching him while I put my shoes back on and then Chloe’s shoes back on. Then I had to put everything back into the stroller. I was out of hands, and I thought my license would be safe in my pocket. I was wrong, and I spent a very stressful week in Denver paying for that error.
The camera is along the same vein. I was at the birthday party on Saturday at a Party Gym. I had the camera cord wrapped around my wrist throughout the entire party, until it was time to leave and I had to set it down to put my shoes back on. That is the last time I remember seeing it. Chloe wasn’t happy about leaving (she was having fun!) and I had to carry her out kicking and screaming…so, it wouldn’t surprise me if I forgot to pick it back up. I called the Party Gym, but of course nobody turned it in. So, all of my Philly pictures are gone, the birthday pictures are gone, and a $200 camera is gone. Which also means that I didn’t have a camera at the museum or in AC.
This absentminded thing is starting to be more than just annoying, its starting to get expensive!