Moments in My Life

After our swimming class, we come home, I will give Brandon a bath and then I will take my shower while he watching DVD by himself.  When I am done with shower, I will feed him lunch and eat lunch my self.  It will be around 1pm when he finishes his lunch.  I will then give MIL a call to come over for about 30 minutes because Brandon has to nap at 1:30pm.  She usually leaves around 1:25pm as we are heading inside the bedroom for nap. 

Today what got me really angry was MIL came and rang the bell at 1:40pm.  I was in the bedroom putting Brandon to sleep when she rang the bell which startled the napping Brandon and he wanted to see who’s at the door. 

She actually called me earlier at 12:30pm and told me she would be heading out to her sister’s house to visit her.  She didn’t say anything about coming by afterwards.  So I wasn’t expecting it was her, I thought it might be the delivery guy but then I have no pending orders shipping to me.   Then at 1:40pm, the door bell chimed twice. 

When I opened the front door she was half way out the front yard and she asked, “Brandon asleep?“  I told her, “He is sleeping!“  I wanted to yell to her (because she was so far away), that she should know his nap time is at 1:30pm because this is a daily routine that she witness everyday when she is at our home after his lunch time. 

Sometimes, I really don’t know what to say to her … is things like this will pull the hair off my head.  Brandon didn’t nap until 2:15pm after lots of nagging and scolding because our normal routine was cut off.

We are not moving this summer but my ex-landlord and his wife did. They sold their homes and moved to Santa Monica for now. This year, they will be on sabbatical and financially they have to budget their plans very well and as he said it, “We are living frugally now.”

Right before they placed their home on the market, I advised them to find cheap movers like the one at ABF U-Pack Moving. ABF U-Pack has the alternative to cheaper moving because you will have to do the loading and unloading part. They will drop off an ABF Trailer or ReloCube® at the location, you load, then they drive to your next location and you unload from there. They can help you move anywhere within the US between 5-7 days. For my landlord, he didn’t have a good back so he hired a few high students to help him load and unload at his new location. It was much cheaper than paying for a full service mover to help.

So what else did we do during swimming classes?

Mommy and Me Swimming Day 1-3

Day 4
Warm up song (Wheel on the Bus tune)

The children in the pool go up and down,
up and down, up and down
The children in the pool go up and down
All day long

Repeat the red phrase with “side to side“, “back and forth” and “round and round“.

Floating on the back (skill of the day)

We did this song while floating on the back and kicking.

Motorboat motorboat goes so slow
Motorboat motorboat goes so fast
Motorboat motorboat step on the gas

Day 5
Warm up song (see above)

Repeat the skills we learn the last 4 days.

Blow bubble underwater (skill of the day)

Day 6
Warm up song (see Day 4)

Paddling with both arms backward (skill of the day)

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream

My mother-in-law comes to my house daily to visit my son.  She lives two doors away.  Basically she can get to my place within 2 minutes walk.  Well, she is not the ‘unwelcome neighbor’ in my post title today … wait … read on.

She comes to my and we chit chat about almost everything.  It is summer now and she has been growing a few vegetable plants at her backyard. She has quite a few fruit trees too including a persimmon tree, a Jujube (red dates) tree and a low-quat tree. She always complains to me about the ‘unwelcome neighbors‘. She said that they live high up in the pine/fir tree along our nearest cross street by the high school. But I suspect they live up in the pine tree next to our house. You may be thinking, are they birds? Nope. They are squirrels.

I see them very often too, running along above the high wall in my backyard. But since I don’t have any fruit trees in my backyard, they don’t bother me much. But two (or more) of them always visit my MIL’s backyard without being invited. They openly serve themselves with the different types of ripe vegetables and fruits from the garden. Of course, my MIL is steaming everytime she sees her plants and fruits are being attacked by them. She asked me if I can help her to find squirrel trap and when she catches them, she will call the animal control to pick them up. This way is much better than poisoning them, I think.