Wednesday, March 5, 2008

So...I'm Still Not Skinny

I just don't know what the problem is. I get up and eat a small bowl of generic Special K cereal. Then I go to work and enrich the minds 19 tiny munchkins (and by enrich I mean try to make sure they don't realize they out number me). I get my 20 minutes for lunch at 10:30 in the morning in which I wolf down my food at a pace normally reserved for competitive eaters. When I get home I try to make a sensible dinner. I just don't get it.

Maybe it's the handful of M&Ms I eat when someone spills an entire bottle of glue inside their desk.

Or maybe the bag of Fritos I eat when I have to ask someone for the 100,000th time to stop cutting your hair!

Or maybe it's the bag of butter popcorn I eat when someone won't go to bed and insists on kicking the wall repeatedly for an hour-because it is completely rational that kicking a wall will get you out of bedtime.

No, I think it is because of the three 100 calorie packs of chocolate chip cookies I eat when my son decides to turn the inside door of our car into a booger farm. Last time we cleaned the inside of the car, there were at least 70 boogers being held captive by a streak of snot. We gently asked that all boogers be wiped on a tissue. Today, I realized that Booger Farm 2 was in full swing.

So, why is it that I'm not skinny?!?

5 comments:

Becky said...

If your school is like ours, then there is almost always a birthday treat circulating from a staff member or student.

During my stronger moments, I am able to imagine that the kid handing me the treat has had her fingers in her mouth for fifteen minutes before she started making the rounds, and I politely decline.

Nursemom said...

I just don't understand it either. What in the world could it be? I don't know why I gain so much weight when I"m pregnant. It couldn't be the endless supply of baked goods I make becaause I can't fight the urge to bake when i'm pregnant. Or the potatoes that I crave constantly right now. Or the fact that we're so poor all we can afford to eat are muffins and pasta. I just don't get it either. I dont' have a booger farm excuse though. That's a good one.

Mother Goose said...

I don't know what you are talking about...you are skinny!

RotorHeadDad said...

Ashlyn...you're so sweet to lie to me like that (ha ha).
Chiara

Cool Runnings said...

She's not lying!