Fires, iPhone photos, bubble baths- oh my (I still can't come up with titles)!

Not too much to report on here, just the same old daily grind, so we're going bullet-style again.

• I am so beyond desperate to get my kids into a preschool that I called a Korean friend from Ft Campbell (on FaceTime), hijacked my way into a building in my apartment complex (there are codes you have to punch in order to get in the main door of each building), rang the doorbell to the Korean preschool, and then handed the phone to the worker who answered the door. After lots of chatter between the two of them, (and me standing behind the double stroller of doom) the Korean worker handed the phone back to me and my friend said, "They're full." Wah. Walk of shame back to my building.
• The post office burned down last week. All mail was saved and no one was injured. In the meantime, there is no mail stuff happening in our town.

From the wives' page on FB. Panties were definitely in a twist over the memes created.

• Steve made me a bubble bath and gave me champagne and then not even ten minutes later I had to shower off and fall in bed lest I puke my guts out and/or pass out from the heat that was radiating from that tiny tub. Our water heater is.... (I hate to use this word but nothing else really seems fitting)... AMAZEBALLS. You press a button and whammo! Instantly hot water comes streaming out of the faucet. It will literally burn your hand right off if you're not paying attention. Anyways, I might have gotten a little too cocky with the water temperature, and my desire for a super hot bath really did me in. While I did not puke or pass out, I did waste a glass of champagne, and that makes me pretty sad.
• After a few days of really crappy weather, the sunshine finally came back and I wasted no time in loading the kids up in the stroller and walking to post. We don't live far from post, but it sometimes doesn't feel like we live all that close either (only 2.5 miles). An hour later (errr, yes, I walk slowly sometimes), we arrived at the playground and I let the kids out to play. I spent the first five minutes congratulating myself on what an awesome idea this was as the kids happily ran and played. Then minute six provided me with the reality check that I so needed and I had two kids whining in my face because they both wanted to swing on the ONE baby swing. First, let me take a moment to kick the playground designer in the shins because how dare you only put one baby swing on the entire playground?! You may as well not even put swings out if you're going to cause meltdowns of this magnitude! The whining! The screaming! The shrieking! The JUDGEY EYES. I tried to let them take turns, but while one was pouty-swinging, the other was standing there indignantly, screaming for the entire post to hear. And then swap, lather, rinse, repeat. Overall, I feel that if I am going to have people screaming at my face and fighting over pointless things, I could be sitting in my sweatpants drinking a second cup of coffee, not sweating on a playground in Real Pants while other mothers side-eye my lack of control over my offspring.
• Well that got ranty real quick, huh?
• Sometimes Sam grabs my phone and starts taking pictures and the results are usually funny. Also worthy of note, these are the only photos I'm in, so thank God he takes them, otherwise he might not remember one day that I was present for his childhood.

clockwise- crazy face while sitting in a carseat // Steve wearing boots in the house (big no no) // I clearly haven't had coffee yet // lamenting the fact that I cannot wear these Army sweatpants out in public // washing hands // being tackled // chopping veggies in a sweater that makes me look much puffier than I actually am (hopefully)

• I took the kids to a Korean market the other day and that's not stroller-friendly. Alas, I do not feel I have the upper body strength (yet) to stick Molly in the Ergo on my front, while I have Sam in the structured carrier on my back. It would be an epic squat if I ever made it off the ground, that's for sure. So anyways, I had Molly on my back and Sam in the umbrella stroller. We witnessed a lady almost get hit by a car (the stereotypes are true), soooo many dead fish (and their accompanying dead fish smells), and lots of crazy leggings. (I am thinking about snagging a pair.)
• Steve and I are going on a date tomorrow and I could just DIE from excitement. Not that I'm desperate to have a break from these kids or anything, but only 14 hours 10 minutes and 23 seconds to go! Eeeeeeeeeee!!!
• Fall seems to be winding down over here. This makes me so sad because it has been such a beautiful season! I love seeing the yellow leaves blanketing the sidewalk and in the same second, I hate it too because that means they're not on the trees where they belong. I have a winter coat for everyone except myself so I fully expect this to be a fantastic winter.
• I still haven't gotten my Korean driver's license. Or updated my phone.
• The Halloween Reeses are gone and the yoga pants are out. That is all.