Current Musings From the Oceangypsy house

Why is it that the day you start taking vitamins, you get sick?

Why is it that the day after you send the hubby to wait in urgent care with Songbird for a strep test, she feels 100% better?

Why is it that when Songbird finally, finally, Lord Hallelujah hangs up her coat on her own, her older brother, Prince Lawn Gnome, purposefully takes it out of the closet, dumps it on a chair and waits for her to get into trouble?

Why is it that after eight and a half years of living in the Oceangypsy house no one can remember where the laundry chute is? I distinctly remember them being excited about it when we moved in.

Why is it that exactly two months and $600 later, the car is making the same noise it did in the first place?

Why is it that on a nearly nightly basis Oceangypsymom hears what is surely a HUGE rodent in the kitchen, that turns out to be Prince Lawn Gnome foraging for his fifteenth snack of the day?

Why is it that Braveheart will not listen to her mother's wise advice about her leg cramps that plague her at 2:30 each morning? Why is it that such advice to drink milk, and eat a banana meet such skepticism? Are nightly lunges really all that?

Why is it that the hubby can DVR every minute of the 2010 winter Olympic games, but when Oceangypsymom adds on cotton pickin little show to the cue there's an inquisition?

and why oh why is it that this winter is dragging on FOREVER? Florida and Arizona are sounding pretty good right about now.