Not Everyone's Mama

I’m mad.  At myself.  There’s been a note up for a few days that they were putting in a new hot water heater or boiler or something.  To take a shower before 8, do dishes, wash clothes, etc.  Guess who forgot to run the dishwasher last night?  Guess who forgot to take a shower? 

I look like a scarecrow.  I’m seriously debating taking a cold shower.  When my hair was long, I could go a day without a shower and just pull my hair up in a pony.  Not saying I liked it, but if kids weren’t cooperating, I could deal.  Now that it’s short?  No chance.  The putty that I use in my hair makes my hair feel greasy the next day.  I want to wash my hair.  How bad could a cold shower be?  I’m scared.  I wonder if I could just stick in under the faucet in the kitchen and wash it.  That can’t be as bad as immersing you’re whole body in ice water right?

Pato just told me to take a cold shower.  Let’s see him jump in it when it’s ice cold.

Plus the dishwasher is full of the kids’ sippy cups.  Will they get clean with just cold water and Cascade?  Just wondering.  When we lived in a mobile home and our pilot light would blow out all the time, my mom said I could still wash the dishes, it’s the soap that gets them clean, not the hot water.  It doesn’t feel right. (What’s that old saying about cigars? Close but no cigar. That’s what it feels like washing with cold water.); I had to wash my food processor this morning with cold water to get the birds’ breakfast ready.  It just isn’t clean if I can’t scald it.  

I could wait to take a shower at 5, but what if I want to go somewhere today?

I hate apartment living.

Maybe I should just go back to bed.  Wake up at 5 when we have hot water.

No, that won’t work.  I feel scurvy.

I just looked at my kids.  They are kind of scurvy too.  It was a long night last night and no one got showers.

Bad mommy.

Other than that, I’ve got nothing.  No one did anything cute last night.  No one was funny.  Everyone was yelling and throwing things and calling each other names.  Ok, I wasn’t, but the kids were.  I’d say they have cabin fever, but we’ve been out doing stuff.  They just have spent too much time with each other I think.

And such is life.

I’m going to go freeze my butt off and take a cold shower.

Have a great day!

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Neutrogena UltraSheer Liquid Daily Sunblock

I got to try Neutrogena’s brand new UltraSheer Liquid Daily Sunblock recently.  I’ve actually given it a good test for a couple of weeks.  If you read my blog, you know that I struggle with the mask of pregnancy that has decided to stick around after the baby was with us and a key factor in keeping it from getting worse is a good sunblock.  The sun tends to make it darken even more.  Add that to the skin cancer scare I had and I pile on the sunblock now.

I also tend to be rather vain and want whatever I use to work well with my make up, I don’t want any gummy foundation or powder clumping up. 

So, I’ve put this to the test for a couple of weeks and now?  I don’t go without it.  I put on my moisturizer, then Neutrogena UltraSheer Liquid Daily Sunblock, then my foundation, then continue on with the rest of my make up.  It has a nice scent, the smell reminds me of a light suntan lotion scent, but seeing as I LOVE the smell of suntan lotion, I’m good with that.  It is very light.  Goes on very smoothly, rubs right in, no need to keep rubbing and rubbing like you do with your regular sunblock.  My foundation goes over it wonderfully.  No gumming up or any noticeable change in the consistency of my sunblock.  The big test?  Soccer games in the mid-morning, when the sun is strongest.  No burning at all. 

One time I forgot, in my rush out the door, to put sunblock on the little ones for Jordan’s soccer game.  We were sitting there, the sun beating down on us, and I was freaking out, worrying about their sensitive skin.  Then I remembered that I had the bottle of Neutrogena UltraSheer Liquid Daily Sunblock in my purse.  I put it on them.  No burning of their precious little bodies either.  A little went a long way too. 

I wouldn’t suggest using this on 3 of your kids as a daily thing, unless you buy it in bulk, but for an emergency, it did the trick!

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