Friday Night In

It's Mom's Night in again. David and a couple of his friends went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. We have a new theatre in town and supposedly all their theatres are digital, so David about wet his pants when he realized this. I hope he is having a nice time :)
Next week I will be busy at night, so I really don't mind staying in tonight. Tuesday night I'll be stamping with my friend, Betsy. Wednesday night I'm having dessert with my friend Joy. Thursday night is one of my bookclub meetings.

Soapbox Time:

Today Oprah re-aired a show about children and cars. So emotional for me to watch. The show featured a woman who lost her 7 year old daughter to a drunk driver. That just reinforces my belief to never drink and drive. Now that I'm a mother, I'm even more of a stickler. If I'm driving, I'm way happy to enjoy a non alcoholic beverage. I'm even a stickler about not driving while on a cell phone. I'm reading more and more studies that show driving while distracted can be even worse than drunk driving. The show also touched on not driving while tired, as a woman lost 3 of her children to falling asleep at the wheel. Finally the show spoke of the many incidents of backing out and running over a child. David and I discuss this often. I drive a Subaru Outback and you simply cannot see as well out of the back as perhaps a small compact car. There is a spot online where you can purchase items to help see out the back of your car. I believe I will be buying one. As Oprah said, when backing up, get out of your car to make sure no small children are there and always account for the children that are around you. I plan to teach Lily the power of a car and how dangerous they really are. I call myself a Granny driver. I am very cautious and don't speed more than 5 miles over the limit. People just do not realize how dangerous their car is should something go wrong. I don't care how good of a driver you may be, you just don't know who is driving in the car next to you. I want to give myself a chance by not driving impaired, distracted or too fast. I've been known to honk at people driving erratically. I love my horn!
Speaking of, today David and I saw a truck blow his tire. That was a bit scary. David got over in time as we saw the tire extremely flat and we knew it was going to blow. We got hit by some tire bits, but was able to get out of the way.

Hanging Out

At the zoo last weekend. Lily got to feed a giraffe!

Lily likes to sit in the "big girl" chair! I told her to smile and this is what we did.