#minisaff

[saffreelove]

Tfw

You asked your kid what they wanted for breakfast, offered up some known favorites: toasted bagel, bacon, and eggs. MiniSaff: Eww, that's gross! Yuck! I'd never eat that. Me: Dude, you ate it yesterday. MiniSaff: That's disgusting! I just want fruit and yogurt. Me: Sounds good. [I dish it up cause I'm a) super uninterested in her dumping the entire container of dairy-free yogurt in her bowl, getting full, and tossing it all in the trash, and b) also super uninterested in cleaning up a frozen blueberry disaster] Me: [makes said bagel, bacon, and eggs beause it's fucking delicious] MiniSaff: mommommom, what's that? Can I have some? Me: No, this is my breakfast, comprised of items you earlier declared "disgusting". MiniSaff: I did not! My life, ladies and germs.

[saffreelove]

I have to share

Of course I have to share, are you kidding me?

So, Mr. Saff took our girls hiking yesterday. They were all gone for four hours. It was glorious and at the same time I felt like I wasted it since I spent a large portion of the time thinking “Oh my god, they’re gonna be home soon! What should I do? What should I do? Something great, something self-care.” I finally opened up my fic only to stare at it for ~2 hours while my brain did the above freak-out on a loop, only to actually get some writing done 5 minutes before they got home. Yup. (Then I stayed up till midnight writing what I wanted to write earlier in the day) Anyway. This share is not really about that. Ah ha, fooled you, didn’t I?

When they got home from the hike, they were all three talking about how the youngest had chosen the wrong skirt to wear for the hike(our kids pick out their own clothes on most days). How it didn’t have enough range of motion and was so restrictive that she couldn’t even ride on Mr. Saff’s shoulders. I thought it odd, but really didn’t dwell on it. Cut to an hour later, we are in the kitchen getting ready to plate up some dinner, when the skirt issue comes back into conversation. So, I ask MiniSaff (she’s 3) to show me how wide she could make her legs while standing. It really was very restrictive. But the thing was, from the outside the skirt didn’t look THAT restrictive. In fact, it wasn’t even pulled taut. So, I kneel down, lift up her skirt, discover that it has shorts underneath (most do) and that the is only utilizing one of the holes. She had both legs in one of the shorts holes. So, I fix the skirt/short situation and then proceed to look at Mr. Saff and LittleSaff a touch incredulously. They had gone on and on about how much of a problem this was during the two-hour hike. Mr. Saff had even picked up the MiniSaff and carried her since she was cranky (she refuses weekend naps). How did they not check this? Y’all, Mr. Saff is a professional engineer who manages and designs multi-million dollar projects every day, he’s a smart guy. I’m still baffled. Please tell me I’m not the only one who has the experiences.

tl;dr MiniSaff went on a 2 hour hike with both legs in one shorts hole and no one noticed until they came home and complained to me about it.