The Busy Bee Mama

Well today is Monday.  I wonder how this week will go. 

 Yesterday we took the kids to the Children's Museum in Pittsburgh.  It was a good time for me.  The kids and J. had a great time too.  As soon as we walked in I saw Mr. Roger's house.  Immediately, I knew I was in for good times! LOL!!!

As a kid my family only received four channels on our old turn dial Zenith.  I can still picture it and remember Mom desperately trying to "tune in" the channels with rabbit ears.  God bless her.  She tried so hard to provide us a good picture.  Anyways, one station we did get semi-clear was PBS (Public Broadcasting) and my favorite show was Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.  I was fascinated by Fred Rogers with his quiet soothing voice and his systematic way of doing the same things over and over.  I think I have it memorized actually.  Is this scary?  He would come in singing, go to the closet, take off his suit jacket, put on one of Mrs. McFeely's knitted cardigans, take his dress shoes off, and put on his sneakers.  They have Mr. Roger's cardigan there at the Children's Museum.  They also have his sneakers.  I'm weird I know.  Hey, it's part of my childhood.  Even though my two younger brothers were constantly fighting or agitating I could tune into Fred Roger's daily calming ritual.  I sing my kids the song, "You are my friend, you are special".  Have you ever heard that one?  It's a winner! 

It was the Museum's 25th anniversary yesterday and they had a birthday party and gave out cupcakes.  We did all sorts of fun activities.  We made rockets and played in the indoor pond and waterworks.  They have raincoats and rain boots for the kids.  They liked that the best.  Brooke liked it so much she forgot all about her pants and got them soaked.  She was wearing sweatpants.  Now visualize for me Moms.  How long does it take to dry a load of sweats?  Long time right?  Well, they had hand dryers mounted on the wall for us to dry these pants.  J. God bless him tried to wring them out and dry them but we would have had to spend the night to achieve dry pants. So my Mom mind kicked in and I immediately thought that they must have a gift shop.  Maybe they would have sweats or something.  Fat chance.  So drastic measure had to be taken.  Molly had two shirts on, a tee-shirt and a hooded sweatshirt.  I asked her for the sweatshirt and thought, "I can make that a skirt!".  That's exactly what I did.  I shoved the sleeves back into the inside of the shirt and voila, POCKETS!  I had Brooke step into the neck of the shirt and that solved that.  Back to fun!  I noticed a few strange looks but I'm beyond caring about that.  We were there to have fun and by golly we did.  It was funny at the end of the day after a full day at the Museum and a dinner at the China Buffet Molly asked us very seriously, "Mama, what are we going to do today?"  I cracked up! 

Today we hung out and I caught up on some laundry.  I also did my meal plan for the week.  God gave me some cool things today during my devotions and I heard a sweet Grandma speak on Focus on the Family.  I got some exercise hiking the driveway and I do believe I've lost some weight!  Life is Good!  How was your day today?  Was it crazy?  Did you have some time all to yourself?  Is there anyone out there who likes Mr. Roger's?  I hope so!  I'll write some more tomorrow.  I have to switch my loads.  Have a great evening!

Here is a tribute I found for Mr. Rogers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlTjWUziZhg

Love, Jess