Daddy's Gonna Kill Ralphie!

Derrick's birthday was the 23rd and to celebrate we went to A Christmas Story House! I love this movie and it just so happens that a portion of it was filled in Cleveland not too far from our house. The house it was filmed at has been turned into a museum. We had a total blast at the museum and we even met the mean woman elf from the movie. We met the guy who delivers the leg lamp too. The gift shop was really entertaining. A mom and her daughter were arguing because the daughter really wanted her mom to buy her one of the hats from the movie. The one the kid in the mall wears with the goggles and says, "I really like Santa." Super creepy (the kid in the movie, not the daughter). Their conversation went like this:

Daughter: "Mom, will you buy me this hat?"

Mom: "Why? So you can wear it once and never wear it again?"

Daughter: "I'll wear it more than once!"

Mom: "You're not going to wear it to school."

Daughter: "Yes I will! I'll wear it every day!"

I'm not sure how it ended since we finally made it to the front of the line to buy our tickets for the museum, but I'm thinking the daughter didn't get her hat. Either that or she was really embarrassed on Monday when she went back to school.

It's Cold!

I know you are all going to laugh at me for this one but, it's cold! The people who live here may laugh at me but they're more bundled up than I am. So what if they know what's coming and think I'm in for a rude surprise. Let me give you some numbers to help explain the weather. The past few days the high was around 58 or so. Yesterday morning around 8:00am when I took Mya outside to go to the bathroom, it was 38 degrees! How do I know it was 38? Because as soon as I went back inside I checked the weather on my phone specifically so I could whine about it. A new JcPennys just opened down the street from me so after pay day I'm totally going to buy some warmer clothes. Everyone has been telling me that this winter is supposed to be a cold one. Aren't all of the winters here cold? I asked Derrick's Mom and Step Dad what do they mean by cold? They said colder than normal. I asked them to give me a temperature and they said they're expecting it to get in the single digets plus wind chill. Expect lots of whining and funny pictures in the months to come!

You know that kid in A Christmas Story? Yeah, that's gonna be me.