During Gerald Ford’s funeral this morning:

“Who is that?!” I asked, because I could place the face and not the name. Knew she was a first lady, but .. my mind was drawing a blank.

“Nancy Reagan!” Mom replies. “In her Mary-Kate and Ashley glasses!” Haha! So funny! I am still laughing over that one. I wish I had a picture of that, but she had this big trendy glasses on. They were cute, don’t get me wrong, but goodness gracious they did look like something you’d buy in the Mary-Kate and Ashley section at Wal-Mart.

And while I was fixing breakfast I heard George H.W. Bush’s eulogy and the following part made me REALLY laugh. Like, hysterically, because it was so unexpected. It definitely gets my vote for funniest thing ever said at a state funeral.

I remember that lesson well, since being able to laugh at yourself is essential in public life. I’d tell you more about that, but as Dana Carvey would say: “Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent.”

And so, yes, I had fun with Ford’s funeral today. We were discussing what we thought other people were thinking – like George W and Bill Clinton. My mom wondered if they were wondering how their own funerals would be. I think W was sounding out Ford’s last name, trying to figure out how to spell it.

People always say such nice things in eulogies. When I die, just forget that. Tell it like it is, for real. I’m not perfect, I’m not a saint. Just be honest and talk about my faults because, holy cow, do I have a lot of them.

Anyway!

Today was Jaylen’s three-year checkup. He’s now 39 inches tall and weighs 30 pounds. Finally. My nephew weighs nearly the same and he is almost 14 months old! He got ‘the big boy checkup’, meaning he had to turn his head and cough. Only he wouldn’t cough, so the PA was sitting there holding my son’s manhood and we were all staring at Jaylen, waiting for the cough. If you know Jaylen, you would find this a little scary/funny because he is SO shy, so very protective of his private parts, that he refuses to let anyone except for me take his pants off. And I can’t do it anywhere where there are other people besides his sisters and I. That’s a good thing, but it’s so weird to me that he is like this so early. I was like this up until I had children, but I don’t remember starting it until puberty. Okay, so he also has some weird eye thing going on where his tear ducts seems to be on overdrive and he has some eye boogies coming out in big globs (sorry, I know). The PA thinks it’s the beginning of some form of conjunctivitis, so he is on antibiotic eye drops. I think my girls are getting it too, and Jaiden also complained about her ears hurting intermittently today. I’ve kept an eye on her and gave both of them Similason eye drops tonight, plus some Tylenol for Jaiden.

I asked for a finger prick to test his iron and glucose levels and he did so well with that, as always. He just holds those long, skinny fingers up for the nurses to prick, then he watches the blood drip into the little tube. Never cries. Never struggles. So very good at that.

I left the girls at home with Grampy & Grammy today and took Jaylen with me while I ran errands before his appointment. It is really nice spending time with them individually (read: if you split them up they don’t fight!). While I live with my parents it’s fairly easy to spend time with the kids alone – take one and leave the others – and I am trying to figure out just how I will manage to spend quality individual time with my kids if I move out of state like I want to. For now that is just a wish of mine, but I do worry about how I will really manage to give all three children the things they need from me when we do move out. (If I could give anyone advice, it would be that you shouldn’t have more children than you can support on your own. Financially, emotionally, mentally, etc. Just don’t do it if you can help it. And you can.) Anyway, Jaylen and I had lunch at Subway and went to the career center, the pet store (stupid algae in the fishbowl is driving me NUTS – won’t stay away!), and just had fun.

Tomorrow we are headed to Jackson to the railroad museum. My mom’s been talking about going to Jackson because she’s never been there, and so I have tried to drag both of my parents along, but I don’t believe they will be joining us. The Old Country Store does not sound all that appealing to them, I guess. lol. I told my dad about the things at the Casey Jones Village that he would be interested in – the wood carver and the Native American shop – but I suppose he would like a child-free day, too. I don’t blame him. lol. I am excited to go and so are the kids.

See, a little more positive, right? lol.

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