Friday, August 7, 2009

Friday Foto: Over the Hump



I have big news, ladies and gentlemen...wait.

Maybe I should just keep my flippin' mouth shut. I'm afraid I'll curse myself. In fact, I know I'll curse myself.

But aww, what the Hell, I never can keep my ginormous pie-hole closed, so here goes. **Whispering so The Karma Gods can't hear** I think we're over the hump with potty training Miss M.

Yes, I'm skipping around like a lunatic. Training this child to use the toilet was a Sisyphean task, let me tell you. She's been "trained" successfully 3 times. And each time, there's been some event that de-railed her. Most recently, it was our entire month of May.

We returned from Disney with a child in Pull-Ups again. And it's taken us two full months to get her back on track, and I am so freaking excited because there are zero more babies in my future, so if #4 TTO (toilet-training-ordeal) is successful, I won't have to go through this Hell again.

Until my kids grow up and have babies, as you can see from the photo above. That's my father's mother, Helen, telling me stories as I sit on the throne. She gave me a penny for every pee; not a bad idea. So okay, maybe I'll have to help train another child, but I have a lot of free years coming.

This idea is so awesome that I do believe I deserve a drink.



**And yeah, this is a really shitty photo. I had some weird light thing going on in the house, and we don't have even a table in our backyard. Excuses, Excuses.**


Grapefruit Gimlet

from June 2009 Bon Appetit Magazine
serves 2 or 1 exhuasted veteran from Potty Training Wars

1/4 cup Ruby Red Grapefruit Vodka (Charbay or Smirinoff or Absolut or whatever)
1/4 cup vodka
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons simple syrup**
Ice cubes
Lime slices

Place first 4 ingredients in cocktail shaker; fill with ice. Cover and shake quickly and vigorously for 8 seconds. Strain into 2 Martini glasses. Garnish with lime slices.

**To prepare simple syrup: Stir 2 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons water in small saucepan over low heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil; cool.

Enjoy, but try not to gloat. Who knows what The Karma Gods have in store tomorrow.

9 comments:

  1. LMAO!!! You definitely deserve a few drinks!! Heck, I'll have one with ya...for luck ;P

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  2. Yahoo! I've heard that once you're over that hump the hard part is over until they reach 16. Congrats!

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  3. Yay! I remember that hump, but once we got there (it was a long climb up) we were there! Hope your's sticks as well.

    I like the photo (I like the excuses too) It looks good enough to drink! Cheers! Happy Friday!

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  4. hee hee - that is such a cute photo!! My fingers are crossed for you xxx

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  5. Now THAT is the way to view the backyard. Over the rim of an alcoholic beverage.

    (Loved the potty shot, too.)

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  6. we are in the midst of the beginning of potty training, but that drink has given me some solid inspiration. YUM.

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  7. I would think you would need champagne to celebrate properly, but I guess if you don't want to jinx yourself, this is a better way to go.

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  8. Well, little Miss Bright Eyes shit herself yesterday, so I did, indeed, curse myself. So I had a drink. And then another.

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  9. Love the bathroom pic, that is priceless! And don't worry about Miss M's setback...we all have them. I just had one last night. KIDDING!!!

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