12.07.2007 at 10:38 pm
Christmas parade 2007
pop and i took janie to the Christmas parade. aside from the extremely loud fire truck, janie had a very good time.
after the parade, i took janie to sonic (which she calls snogit) because she has been begging to go since they started building it over 3 months ago. and i promised her that i would take her. luckily for me, the line wasn't too long (because it has been for the past few days, since it opened on monday).
i didn't know if sonic had toys in their kids' meals like mcdonalds, so i made sure that janie knew that there might not be a toy with her food. but, to my surprise, sonic does carry toys. and lately, mcdonald's has had some cheap-o toys. (which, we are talking the toy that comes with a happy meal... you know?)
anyway, we left sonic with 2 kids' meals (which meant 2 toys) and a strawberry-lime slush and an apple juice slush.
janie fell in-love with her apple juice slush.
i mean, IN-LOVE.
"apple jooce slushy GOOD, momma. it reawy, REAWY GOOD!"
she said that over and over again on the way to nancy's house.
nancy's house is always decorated to the hilt at Christmas time. every year she seems to accumulate more and more decorations for her house. and when it's all decorated and lit up at night, it reminds me of a gingerbread house. :)
i wish i had gotten a better picture of the house... but janie did get one of me that shows more of it, even though it's blurry... maybe tomorrow night i can get a better one.
and wouldn't you know it. here's one that i took of janie with the snowman. but i still want a better one. one from way out in the front yard. because i swear... her house looks just like a sparkly gingerbread house at night.
i'm feeling better now than i was earlier today about chris not being here. maybe it's because what i'm mostly afraid of is what i don't know. like how it was going to be, to actually be in this house without him at night.
scary?
no.
quiet?
no... not with janie....
we're going to be okay. i am going to be okay. janie's started asking about him.... and i told her that he's at work. but i think she expects to see him tomorrow.
and tomorrow, i'll have to explain it to her again.
but. that'll be okay. because it's only 2 weeks. and maybe this will ease her into (and me as well) him having to be gone for longer periods of time.
but maybe....
just maybe... it won't matter.
you know?
(hopefully, this new-found optimism won't bite me in the booty later on...)
xoxo
tell me i'm beautiful...
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