Friday, April 12, 2013

Red Faced

With two straight days of traffic and minivan travel behind us, we arrived at our Daytona condo in desperate need of rest and a good night's sleep.  After a few minutes spent unpacking essentials, I crawled into bed.  That was when my husband reminded me that Easter was the next day.

Oh Sweet Jesus NO. 

Thankfully, I had pre-stuffed my vast Easter Egg collection:


I am so on the ball.

The next morning, I put Joe in charge of administering sunblock and we enjoyed some serious beach time:




A few hours later, I realized that my husband is not quite as on the ball as I am.  Please have a look at the end result of some questionable and slightly uneven application of Sunblock 75:




As an aside, within an hour of returning home to Chicago, one of my friends who had naturally spent her weekend in charge of a Melanoma 5K Fundraising Event called and asked if she could collect my kids for baseball and some play-time afterwards.

I eyed the boys' peeling and still-burnt skin.  Meredith was going to kill me. 

I should have just made up an excuse, right?  I knew I was destined for an appalled look and a few brochures on the evils of not protecting children's tender skin.  Why reinforce my well-known status as one of the "bad moms?"

Meh.  I totally needed a nap.

22 comments:

  1. It's that global warming :) haha
    We went to the beach (other coast) when our kids were young and, having grown up on that very beach, I knew they needed sunblock. No. My husband led the charge into the water, and an hour later they all were burned and that night they all had sun poisoning. talk about a bad mother!

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    1. I'm not going to say that Danny throwing up was actually sun poisoning (in case the Dept. of Child Services is listening), but I FEEL for you. Like a LOT. And who always takes the blame??? MOMS. So unfair.

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  2. Well I guess Joe's plan worked, in that he will never be in charge of sunscreen again...yeouch!

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  3. If you had just thought to bring me along those kids would be white as ghosts.

    Like me.

    Lucy

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    1. We could have used you in the car. The kids wanted to read at night. You would've been like a Lucy-Lamp. (;

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  4. Wow Marianne, Those are some great pictures. Your kids are cute!!!

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  5. That is one truly impressive egg collection.

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    1. I keep getting them on clearance every year for a nickel. But where the kids used to get an entire egg filled with jelly beans, they know get like ONE piece of candy per egg. They totally haven't figured out that part, but the hunt keeps 'em busy for HOURS. Weeeeee!

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  6. Well you have some nerve. Come over to my blog, making me feel all guilty, and then what do I read here? You are not even making sure your kids have adequate protection from the sun? You want to know why I rarely comment?? Because I am in SHOCK at how you treat those poor innocent babies. Saying they are stinky, talking about alcohol in front of them. FOR SHAME MARIANNE. And writing for that subversive rag Chicago Parent to boot? You, madame, are walking around one foot in hell. Oh but I liked your pictures of the beach. They were nice.

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    1. You visited AND commented, Gweenie! I don't even care that you're being all mean & sarcastic. I can die happy now. And I totally should've bet Lilly that you'd comment. Another missed opportunity...

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    1. I know. It's my schtick. What else do I have? It's not like I cook.

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  8. I like your choice of candy.
    Varied.
    Well played.

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    1. Thank you - I got some of my & Joe's favorites. It's not like they can eat ALL of that candy!

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  9. Naps trump everything, except sometimes eating. But I totally would have blamed the sunburns on my husband.

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    1. Ah, but the universe always blames the moms, no? And eating DOES trump everything!

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  10. I think the sunburn looks really pretty! I'm a big proponent of sunburn, though. On another note, how many Easter eggs do you actually own?!?!?

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    1. Thanks, Jeanette! I've collected them over 8 years at various events & clearance racks. I know, I know. I have a disease. Thanks for popping in!

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  11. Ha ha, we have a picture of my brother as a kid with a red back with one white hand print where some fool adult had 'applied' sunblock. It's hysterical! No one cared about skin cancer back then, though :)

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  12. The sunblock application for some reason reminds me of when a friend of mine discovered that her husband had, for MONTHS, been using the Clorox disinfectant wipes to wash their eighteen-month-old son's face after every meal. You don't want to just accept all these random stereotypes about men being semi-incompetent at certain parenting tasks, but men sometimes make it hard not to. ;)

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