Monday Midnight Musings - Drawstring Woes

So last night, Steve and I were in bed about to fall asleep and he remembered something he needed to take to work the next morning. Instead of getting out of bed to write a note, he just asked me to text him a reminder and that way when he turned his phone on in the morning, the text would come through and he would remember to take it. So I sent him a text and added a few other choice words. The kind of words that a wife should only be texting to her husband. Then I hit send and it said, "sending message to Steve and Andreas". I started freaking out. I don't know how I sent it to my neighbor and my husband but I did. So I started hitting all kinds of cancel buttons and back buttons in a very frantic manner. I think the text got cancelled. I really hope the text got cancelled. Just a friendly reminder to be very careful when texting.

Last week Steve and I were driving through some construction. We were stopped at a light and right next to us was a sign that said, "DANGER: Overhead Power Lines Boom Down". I kept reading it with a quizzical expression on my face. Finally I asked Steve why it said that. He said it was for the construction workers in the little cart thingys that go up and down. He said that boom down means to make the cart go down so they don't hit the power lines. I was so glad he explained it 'cause I thought the sign was for me and it was saying to be careful because power lines could come booming down. If they are for the guys way up high, why is the sign way down on the ground?

Last Tuesday the girls were in my room and it was almost bedtime. They didn't have school the next day. So I told them if they would hurry up and brush their teeth and get ready for bed they could watch a movie and have a slumber party in the play room. I was just talking to Emily and Aubrey. Well Addy took off. I didn't really think anything about it until I went upstairs a few minutes later to get her ready for bed. She already had her PJ's on and and she was in the middle of brushing her teeth. I told her I was so proud of her for getting ready for bed. She then informed me that she wasn't getting ready for bed, she was getting ready for her slumber party with her sisters. It was so cute. So they all slept in sleeping bags on the play room floor.

Am I the only person who doesn't know what to do with the drawstrings on her PJ's and sweats? I mean really, why is it there? All the pants that I have that have a drawstring, also have elastic. It serves no purpose whatsoever except to annoy me. I really don't know what to do with it. Do you just leave it hanging and have these two strings hangin' down about your nether regions? Or do you tie it and have this bumpy bow right in the middle of your stomach? Sometimes I just tuck it in the top of the pants, but then you can see the lines it makes through some of my shirts. Sometimes, I just take the drawstring out of the pants completely, but sometimes it is sewn in and removal is impossible. I was looking at PJ's at Target the other day and there were some really cute ones and they had this big satiny ribbon tied in a bow at the waist. And the shirts that went with them clearly went past the waist. So yeah, they are really cute on the hanger by themselves, but then when you take them off the hanger, and put a shirt over them, then what? Not so cute anymore! I guess I could tuck the shirt in like this: