Hair Metal, Chorography, and Umbrella Strollers

You know it's going to be a good day when on your ride to work you hear "Unskinny Bop" by Poison IMMEDIATELY followed by "If" by Janet Jackson. I choreographed the most awesome dance in my head to that song. In my own head, I am quite the dancer.

Here's an e-mail from my Mom (sent to me and Toby, Dad, Matt, and Kristen in Mexico.) As you can imagine, I nearly wet my pants laughing.

Hola Familia (did you like that, Kristen -- I'm learning so much from Dora the Explorer),

I just thought I would fill you all in on our day so far. Today, I had a "lengthy" hair appointment at noon & was a little concerned because it is our lunch time. Not only that, but nap time is immediately after lunch. I knew this appt. would take at least 1-1/2 hrs. I also had not bought a Christmas gift for my stylist, so Stella & I took off for the VCC vicinity to pick up a gift. We used the new umbrella stroller for the first time today. Everything was fine until "Neh Neh" had an armful of goodies from Bed, Bath & Beyond (didn't have a basket because I was pushing Stella in the stroller).

I looked & Stella had bent over too far & had gone head first onto the floor. She never made a peep, but I panicked & my pocketbook hit the display of mugs knocking one onto the floor. Somehow, I managed to pull Stella back up into the stroller without dropping everything in my arms. I picked up the mug, saw no breaks so I put it back on the display. We picked up a Christmas gift for Sasha while in BB&B also. It's a cute little gingerbread man for Sasha to chew on. Well, a certain little girl has taken quite a liking to it (even though it does have "Wish Bone" in big letters on the front).

After walking from BB&B back to Barnes & Noble where the car was parked, we took off for Salon Nirvana in Mechanicsville. I packed Stella a lunch of peanut butter & jelly, a Nutri-Grain bar & a few other things. She was really good during this long appt. (the food helped -- she's certainly related to me), but I couldn't really relax because I felt I had to entertain her the whole time so she wouldn't get antsy. Everyone there seems to love it when Stella comes in, but I feel so bad because we dumped cheerios all over the floor & Stella had smeared some peanut butter all over Angela's mirror.

Anyway, the appt. is over, the roots are now covered & all is well with the world....

Hope everyone's day is going well. Christmas is only 2 weeks away, and there is still so much to do, but the important thing is that we'll all be together! That's good enough for me....

Love,
Sandie/Mom
xxoo

P.S. Note to Stella's "Mama & Da-da": After today's mishap with the umbrella stroller, I may want to use your stroller with the shoulder straps until Stella is strong enough to pick herself up. She really did go right over onto the floor. I was so glad we weren't outside on concrete.....