Three Daughter's Ranch Where life is always just a little crazy

This morning I found myself completely in awe of how much I can do with my cell phone. If you know me, you know that I LOVE my iPhone. So much so, that I have asked her to marry me several times to which she always replies something cute yet non committal like:

“That is nice. Can we get back to work now?”

“Let’s just be friends, OK?”

“My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.”

and my favorite…

“You should know that you are not the only one who’s asked.”

But today as I was going about my daily errands I realized how much my iPhone is like a partner in my life. We do most EVERYTHING together. Here is a sampling of what we did together just this morning….

• Deposited a check without leaving my home-way cool.
• Transferred money between accounts
• Ordered contact solution, a birthday gift, and cleaning supplies
• Took pictures
• Uploaded photos
• Used a map app to find a place I needed to go
• Sent an Evite
• Paid for my daily addiction of coffee at Starbucks
• Found sheet music for my cellist daughter
• Dictated several emails
• Had a good morning texting conversation with my oldest daughter who’s at college
• Made a reservation for a restaurant without calling
• Rearranged my schedule on my calendar
• Programmed in several reminders
• Refilled prescriptions
• Listened to a podcast
• Pulled a recipe off amy stored recipes to pick up ingredients
• Downloaded my Safeway coupons for my grocery shopping trip

All that and not a single phone call. Come to think of it…I am not sure my hubby does that much with me…I guess I will just keep asking Penelope (that is what I named her) to marry me and hope she eventually gives in. Jason won’t mind this slight bit of polygamy. 

I love my kids. I know we all do but today in particular my kids are making me smile. I was cleaning out the car, (a thankless job), getting ready to go to the grocery store for the day.  I came across this note that Rori-Kate had passed me last night when we were driving home at 10 PM from yet another late night out on a weeknight. I was driving and it was dark therefore I did not see what the note said and set it aside with a promise that I would look at it in the morning.  Of course, I completely forgot about it until I found it as I was cleaning up the car.

Now some background on why this note was written. I have a group of neighborhood ladies to get together about once every other month for a ladies night. We have been doing this for a couple years now and we decided that the guys will never plan anything like this for themselves so we decided they should have a poker night on the nights we have ladies night. This obviously leaves the kids wildly unattended, however, since there is only one small child in the group, it works. This time though since both parents would be out partying, my girls were little bitter about having to have a “babysitting party” so trying to make it worth their while I said they could have some fabulous, normally off-limits snacks for their “kid party” as long as it’s balance of some healthy with the junk food. That was days ago and the list never appeared until Rori-Kate made me a list last night. As a parent I am proud to see that fruit ranks pretty near the top of the list. As for puff balls… I have no idea what those are. The biggest smile I got was from number five which simply says “fruit” and “vegtables”. Does she not realize the cherries and carrots fall into these catagories?  Should I educate her on this matter or simply allow her to believe that they are separate groups and be able to sneak another few serving in there? And what about the “crackers that she loves”? I know she had an infatuation with saltines for quite a while but they are hardly a wild and crazy snack choice.

As a mom, I am proud of this list. It shows that I have taught my girls the right way to eat and that even when they are feeling like really eating bad….puff balls and popcorn are the worst they can come up with. When I’m at the store today I will get everything on this list as she expects but I am sure she may end up with some unexpected surprise REAL junk food. Just to balance it all out.  I think that’s fitting since I got the unexpected smile this morning from this list.