My Family

Okay, maybe Mommy doesnt know EVERYTHING

One post in, and I have adjust my title! I screwed up a lot this week as a Mom, but as everyone tells me, I have a lot on my mind at the moment. I missed/forgot/knew nothing about my preschoolers Christmas Program at school, and I threatened him with a time out for fibbing when he told me I missed it. Bad Mom mark number 1 for the week. I missed part two of the kids TB Skin Test (required by California for school) by one hour, and had to start the test all over again. Including a second painful injection of something under their skin. Very Bad Mom mark number 2 for the week. So I let them have donuts for dinner and apologized profusely. Ill try and make it up by getting them too many Christmas gifts! Maybe then Ill be Good Mom again or at very least Overcompensating Mom.

I think I have my head screwed back on right now, and can remember basic things during the day. But seriously the last week of school before Christmas is Hell on a Mom.

I have gone through my check list of things to do before I move:
  * Rented home in Cali, check
  * Rented my home, check
  * One kid enrolled in Cali school, check
  * Both kids unenrolled in Colorado schools, check, check
  * Changed homeowners insurance to landlord insurance, check

  * Got expensive Cali auto insurance, check
  * Sold everything that is not nailed down on ebay or craigslist, check.

Well almost. I know I sell too much online when my kids say "Mom, I can't find my [Luke Skywalker/Transformer/Lego guy], did you sell it on ebay again?".  No, I didn't. It was just that one toy I sold, years and years ago, because I didn't think you liked it. They won't ever let me forget that! They are 4 and 7, and I sold the Millenium Falcon when they were like 1 and 3, so Im not sure how they even know about it. They might be way smarter than they look. But have sold loads of stuff online in the last month and Im finally done with it! And sick of it. Im having a Free Garage Sale this week, and hopefully that will be the end "all the stuff we can't take".

I also made my last trip to DIA to drop off a visitor to Colorado. Wow, that felt a little sad. However, 40 minutes later I was STILL driving and forgot all about that. Im looking forward to lots of visitors in California. Im working on my Top Ten List of Thing Ill Miss About Denver. Driving to the airport wont be one of them.

So I have a little contest for my readers! Who ever posts the best comment, I will send a genuine "Governator"  t-shirt. (Kim, hate letters to Fred dont count ;-) I think it is cool to have Maria Shriver's husband has my new governor. Although Mayor Hickenlooper is pretty awesome, as elected officials go, with all his uber cool geekness. Maybe I just have a think for geeky guys... but that is another post.

Virgin Blogger

Okay this will be my first blog! Yea! 

I wanted to find a way to communicate with family friends during my upcoming move from the suburbs of Denver to the suburbs of San Jose.  So this is where I'll chat about my life in California and what it is like with two small boys (4 and 7) and a high tech hubby (whose at fault for this move), whether or not the hot tub improves our marriage (I promise, no details on that front) and whether we go broke from the whole venture and run crying and screamming back home!

I like to write and am sure in another life I was a dedicated novelist. But not this life! So bear with me. When I say bear with me, Im always unsure if it bare or bear. Do you know which? Well actually it is bear with me, I found out the hard way. My first job out of college I was working in IT (back then it was called MIS) and we had to shutdown the mainframe. I sent out a system wide message saying "System will be back up in 10 minutes, please bare with us". Minutes later people started stopping by my desk, saying "That was cute" and I acted like I was in on the joke. Apparently Im the only idiot who didnt know it was BEAR. 

On the Blog Name, Mommy Knows Everything, that is something I tell my kids all the time and it is something that facinates me. It is a line I use when I feel like they havent been honest or forthcoming (like when I saw them swipe a Lego figure from a drs office and casually put it in their pocket) They really believe I do know everything about them and that is a great feeling. But I realize one day, not so far away, I wont know when they are lying or where they really were or what they were doing. And that is scary. But for now, Mommy Knows Everything ;-)