On the lighter side . . .

Okay, I love traveling with Joshua. He is a great travel buddy and gets a fan club every where we go. There have only been a few sticky situations and here is one I lived through today.

First, I had to stop on our road trip to use the lou. I stopped at a gas station and hoped there would be a changing table. I hoped also that there would be one of those fold down baby chairs that you put the baby in while you use the lou. My hopes were dashed as I sauntered into the sour smelling toilet that looked as if the last person to clean it was Methusala himself. So held Joshua with one arm, he was dangling in the air! We were both dangling forward and I peeed with the precision of a Marine Sniper hoping against hope that the toilet paper would be the easy part.

Gas Station owners pay attention!!!! If in the course of using your lou you turn the toilet paper, grab a hold of it and pull just for it to break immediately let's assume that that toilet paper is not right for your establishment! Think about all those poor mothers traveling on their own, we know if we put our baby down on your nasty bathroom floor we are going to have to scour our child! Here are some suggestions:
1)Clean hourly.
2)Install changing table and little kid chairs.
3)Buy TP that can withstand at least the weight of itself.

Evil Swinging Car Doors and other mishaps

I was having a good day, really, I was, until I tried to get gas. It was one of those stations that say some great gas price and then when you look at the tiny print(that print that looked like a dollar sign), it says cash only. So I was raped on the gas price! I went from there to Wal-Mart to buy teething medicine for the wee one. He was in his stroller sitting beside my car when my door swung open and pinched Joshua's fingers between the stroller bar. I sobbed on my knees facing him in his stoller, my face buried, knowing that I had broken him. I explained that I needed to get myself together to get him to the hospital for his broken finger. While trying to get myself together, Joshua was gripping my finger with all of his fingers which had taken the impact. I started laughing through my sobbing. He was fine. After getting the thermometer at Walmart I headed home and checked the reciept, what??? They charged four dollars more than it was marked. Sigh, some days just keep going down down down, thank God for bedtime!!!