Not Me Monday

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I did not go to the most fun bar mitzvah ever last night!

It was not at the Field Museum (the chicago museum with the famous dinosaur fossil, Sue).
It was not in that huge main hallway.

I did not spend an hour getting ready, neither did my girls.




I was not extremely self conscious cuz my hair was extremely curly
thanks to this lovely humid weather.

I was not thrilled when a few people other than my hubby complimented me.

Our friends did not make a cute video of A Night At The Museum starring themselves.

Their daughter did not say a funny speech making fun of her brother, the bar mitzvah boy.

They did not have the Chicago Bulls Drummers doing their thing.

They did not have an awesome DJ and dancers.

I did not have the best time dancing with all my friends.

It did not remind me of my clubbing days....

Emily and Jessica did not take the cutest pics in the photo booth.

Emily did not get glow in the dark fun stuff to bring home.

I did not enjoy a night away from Alyssa, knowing my awesome SIL and BIL were being tortured by her taking care of her. Thanks guys!

I did not drink white wine, and definitely did not wake up with a headache.

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I did not make 40 chocolate covered strawberries which I then drizzled with yellow chocolate for my friend's pot luck on shabbos (saturday lunch). I did not see my husband open the fridge and accidentally sneeze on my beautiful strawberries. I did not pretend that it never happened and bring it to my friend's house and watch every single one get eaten...!

I was not sitting at the dinner table friday night with my husband and kids and a friend. Jon did not start talking about his favorite pizza place in New York, David's Famous Pizza. I did not accidentally call it David's Famous Penis. My kids and hubby did not laugh about it for 10 minutes and repeat it 7 times. And I definitely was not dying of embarrassment as they did so. hahahahaha

I did not play guitar hero with my friend's kids for 2 hours on saturday night. My friends were definitely not upstairs asleep in their bed while we played. I did not play until I could barely see straight. I did not play better than they did even though it was my first time ever playing. (YES I DID!!!) I am not totally obsessed with that game. (YES I AM!)

Yehuda, those caps were for you ;)

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So I decided to take my kids fishing yesterday. My sister and her kids came with us as well as my youngest sis. Will and I went to Dick's Sporting Goods to buy fishing rods for everyone. Who knew that it doesn't come all ready to go. The guy at the store was too busy to put all 6 together, but I watched him put the first 2 together and then did the other 4 all by myself! I was actually pretty proud of myself. Will held the bait and we went home, packed everything up, got everyone in the car and were off! Everyone was excited to catch some fish...

Here are some pictures:

I don't really have so many good pictures because I was chasing after Alyssa and it looked like she might jump in...

Just kidding. She was actually clapping her hands in this picture.
The other reason I don't have so many pictures is because I still don't have a camera and am therefore using my phone to take pics.... pretty good huh?

I took Alyssa and my nephew to see the things that pooped all over the place a family of geese.

And then just followed her as she ran everywhere... terrified that I was gonna get hooked by one of the kids... or my sisters...

Oh, and how could I forget... I touched worms! And not these kind...




Seriously, might have been the grossest thing I ever willfully did. I meant to bring plastic gloves and a plastic knife... but forgot. So I actually made the husband do it first...but then just did it myself. I am still getting the heebie jeebies just thinking about it...

Well, we didn't actually catch any fish... but, we can all cast a line and we had some fun...


And I got a story to blog about ;)

Not Me Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

O.K. Here I go... trying to do a Not Me Monday once again.

I did not turn my heat on in my house on thursday JUNE 4 ...! I definitely did not switch it to a/c the very next day... leaving it on for the weekend, which of course was freezing. And, then turn it off saturday night. This weather sucks!

I did not try to compete with a friend's blog spend as little as possible on fruits and veggies last week. I did not spread it out on the table and take a picture of the groceries to write a brag blog about it. I did not ask my husband to guess how much I spent on those things when he came home from work. He definitely did not guess 5 dollars under what I really spent therefore causing me to totally trash my brag blog....

I did not find out that there was swine flu in my kids school. My daughter was not scared of catching it and definitely did not ask me 5 times if she could stay home. I did not run out to the store, buy her a bottle of purel, and tell her "you're going!"

I did not wait an extra 20 minutes on friday (at 6 o'clock , when I wasn't even ready for shabbos) to get my hair blown by my favorite (Jackie) at Albert Memi when two other people offered to do it for me.

I did not spend my whole morning try my hardest to get out of tenth place on bejeweled blitz... And, I most definitely did not force my kids to play when I wasn't succeeding.... I did not get annoyed with Jessica for playing on Jon's facebook page and beating my score.

I did not go to my nephew's birthday party on sunday and watch my sister hold a pinata and get trampled by 25 seven year old boys when the candy started falling out. I did not almost fall on the floor laughing when it took her a couple minutes to get out from under them!

I did not let my baby (19 month old) cry in her crib for the first time ever last night... I did not go upstairs after 20 minutes of crazy screaming to find that I had literally scared the crap out of her by leaving her alone for so long. I did not feel so awful that I laid down in bed with her till she calmed down and fell asleep.

I did not just find out that my friend is having a Bar Mitzvah weekend at a hotel in September... and my kids aren't invited. I did not start to sweat at the thought of having to leave my kids for the whole weekend!!!! I did not see the tiny smile on Jon's face when I told him. (Read this if you don't understand why I'm freaking out.)

I did not almost delete this whole post because I hate talking in the negative.

How do you feel about Not Me Mondays?

Not Me Monday

I'm not really a fan of Not Me Mondays but I'm gonna give it a try...

Here are a list of things I did NOT do this week ;) ........

I did not stay up till 3 am baking challah (bread) thursday night....

I did not get a grande nonfat one splenda latte (in case anyone ever wants to buy me coffee) friday morning cuz I was too tired to do ANYTHING!

I did not wish I was getting my hair blown while at my son's special day at school (shabbos Abba).

I did not get a nasty email from my husband friday morning after he read my blog.

I did not confront my husband about the email 5 minutes before we walked into his mother's house (where we were sleeping for the weekend).

I did not let my baby eat licorice and lollipops for lunch at our friend's bat mitzvah on saturday.

I definitely did not let her play outside all afternoon and instead of giving her a bath before bed, wipe her down with some wipes...

it was late... she fell asleep in the car. I know.. still gross.

I did not spend the day with my kids while my husband went to a blackhawks game with his friend Bob (my biggest fan).

I did not freak out on Will when he waited till the last second to go to the bathroom and peed all over the floor.

I definitely did not tell him that if he does it again he's going to his room 1 minute for every paper towel I use. What? he does this a lot. I'm sick of it.

I did not see my friend's kid under the candy table eating all the candy off the floor at another friend's dessert celebration (?) for her new baby.

The kid did not reach his hand out from under the tablecloth, tap my daughter's foot, and ask her to pass him a mike and ike......hahahaha

I did not, again, let my kids have too much candy (at least they had lunch this time.........well most of them).

I did not take all my kids to home depot, let them pick out their own flowers to plant, and then only plant my own.

I did not take 120 pictures with my kids using photobooth on my new mac till 9:45 last night.

I did not fall asleep at my computer desk while trying to type this blog.....

I guess that means it's time to be done...

What things did you not do this week?