The 4-year old mind

The 4-year old mind really cracks me up sometimes. Over the weekend, we had Grandma come over and watch the kids so we could go out to dinner. Now, we haven't been out much without the kids for quite a while, so Matthew was sad we were leaving. Or so we thought.
We had hashed out the details, why parents need to go on dates, why kids can't ALWAYS come, etc. I thought it was a resolved issue.

After we left, apparently Matthew was grilling Grandma about where we went, why we went, and why kids couldn't go, and Grandma explained that's why it's called a date. Then she asked "are you disappointed you didn't get to go too?," and Matthew says "no, I'm disappointed I didn't get a donut." The background? We had gone to the apple orchard and bought donuts which were sitting out on the counter. Matthew had been eating dinner and decided he was too full to finish. So I struck a deal to get him to eat half his spaghetti, which he did, and proceeded to ask for a donut. This was right before we were going to leave for our date, and I turned into total Mom and said "if you're too full to finish your spaghetti you don't get a donut."

I can't believe we thought he was sad we were leaving him, and it turns out that he's just sad he didn't get a donut. And that's the way of the 4-year old. He sure gave the adults the giggles!

Inside a giant corn maze at the apple orchard

Let's take a journey

Has anyone else noticed a resurgence of Journey lately? Or is that just me? Is there something I'm missing which would indicate a reason for the resurgence? Don't get me wrong. I love, love, LOVE Journey. Somebody help me out on this!!!

Express Lane

Am I supposed to be excited that I now have the opportunity to use the newly opened express lane, in which I can pay a ridiculous amount of money to drive to work in a lane that, if it was a normal lane, would make traffic flow normally? Am I the only one seeing a flaw here? And what do I make of the fluctuating rate, which seems to depend on traffic? If traffic is worse, I can spend double. Yippee. Then, if someone screws up or thinks they can beat the system, the cops are hiding out nearby to nab them. So not only is there this express lane with no one in it while the rest of us putter through in the other TWO lanes, but now there are cops to pull offenders over, causing even more traffic for the rest of us in our measily TWO lanes. What sense does an express lane make if there are only three lanes?

I'm feeling I needed to rant about this. I'm feeling we've all been wronged since Jesse "the Gov" Ventura brought us our multi-billion dollar light rail system that is useful to 2% of the metro area. (I hope I'm exaggerating).

So for now, I'll be the one enjoying watching the handful of people that have been suckered into paying for their commute fly by me at irregular intervals, from my traffic infested TWO lanes.

To all I say, have a good Friday. Don't be put off. I'm really not this negative, only towards governmental agendas like punishing me for driving my car.