Hi my name is Trish and I am not hip nor cool

It's been a while (almost a month GEESH) since I blogged. Sorry I have been slacking, I plan on putting up a few entries this week though!

First off I want to talk about my recent experience in trying to be cool. Once you become a mommy some of your "coolness" seems to slip away without you noticing it. Things like doing your hair and makeup fully before going anywhere are not that important anymore. Which honestly is okay with me but sometimes I do find myself trying to recapture being "cool and hip" and usually I just make a big ass of myself. I have no problem pointing and laughing at myself and telling others of my stupidity and if you have read this blog at all you know that by now! This story involves my best friend, eerily enough her name is also Trish...I have spoken of her in this blog in the past. She and I have been through alot, and our frienship has battled the storms of being teenagers, young women and now old (26 and 28 years old we are) married mommy's. She has stood by me through the hell that was my life when Makily was born...when I needed everyone to back away, she did without question. I know there were times that this MUST have hurt her feelings as it did other's but she has NEVER expressed this to me or expected an explanation of why I did this or that. She knew what having a baby meant to me and how incredibly crushed I felt when things were so up in the air....well not maybe exactly how I felt but she could surely empathize with me. The times when I needed someone she was always available and has always accepted Makily and loved her as she is. So here is our story of trying to recapture our lost "coolness".

**For confusion reasons my best friend will be referred to here as Trish2**Me and Trish2 used to be very hip. We were cool, really we were. Well since mommydom we have lost some of our coolness and we know it. It's okay but sometimes we try to get it back....and make fools of ourselves.

Okay so a few weeks ago The Teals (Trish2's family) and The Caldwells (my family) all go to Orlando to the mall. We all packed into the van which for normal people would be plenty of room but we have 3 babies in carseats so Justin and Allen sat in the front and Makily (2) and Cammy (2) in the middle and then Aubrey (6 months) in her carseat in the back with Trish and I smooshed together next to each other. My arm was pressed against her boob most of the trip, there were times my leg was draped over hers or vice versa.....while I am sure passerby's thought this was something strangely kinky but I assure it was not. Strangelly enough the boys had decided on riding in the front and had plenty of room....thanks guys! I can't imagine that they would have agreed to sitting in the back so close to each other.

So we get to the mall and are browsing. Trish2 had Aubrey in the stroller and I had Makily in my hip sling carrier....the boys had taken Cammy and were doing their own thing. So we see the store Sephora. I have always heard of it but have never been, I knew it was this posh store and have always wanted to go. Trish2 has been and there before to get her Bare Essentials makeup (awesome makeup I might add). I LOVE the show "Blow Out" with Jonathan Anton and I know he sells his hair products there. I was going to splurge and buy a shampoo or maybe a conditioner....I had even thought about going all out and buying both....yes I am a rebel. So we go in and I see these two girls with the palest UGLIEST pink lipstick on trying a sample....I am thinking "UGH SO GROSS".....so I tell Trish how hidious their lipstick is and she says "ugh dork that is supposed to be a lip plumper, you put it on and it plumps your lips and then you take it off". Okay so now I am feeling not so hip but we continue through the store.

I had to ask where Jonathan's hair product line was and I am so excited. I grab the "sample" shampoo bottle to sniff it and I am expecting an AMAZING scent because I mean this is JOHNATHAN'S stuff it MUST smell just heavenly right? Well as soon as I took a sniff I was appalled, my first thought was....TUNA FISH....just like orange tuna fish. So I let Trish2 smell it and she says the same thing. I get one of the "for sale" bottles and it doesnt smell the same as the "sample" bottle....smells like orange but there is no "TUNANESS" to it. So I find an associate and tell her that I think something has gone wrong with this sample bottle of shampoo, it smells well gross. She looks at me and says "It's supposed to smell like that". I gave her an odd look and say...."like tuna"? So her and I start sniffing the bottles together and she agrees the sample bottle had gone bad or someone had added "scent of a nasty whore" to it. She swaps it out with a new sample bottle.

So we continue to browse through the store and I am still contiplating buying the "non tuna version" of Jonathan's shampoo. Trish2 and I walk around the corner, I happen to look at Aubrey who is now in the baby carrier FACING Trish2. She makes the SWEETEST FACE at me as always and starts HURLING CHUNKS, poor baby was spewing all of her breakfast and lunch all over.....down the front of Trish2's shirt and her pants. Trish stood there with the most panicked look on her face and says " I don't have any idea what to do right now!!!" So I unhook the baby carrier and help get Aubrey out, wipe her face and put her in the stroller, while poor Trish2 is trying to figure out what to do. I notice that there are vomit spots on the floor, the snots that work there are looking at us like "What a couple of freaks". We examine the demage to Trish2's clothes and let's just say she was COVERED in puke. C-O-V-E-R-E-D. So she wears the baby carrier out of the store WITH NO BABY IN IT to cover her DRENCHED pukey shirt!!! Now imagine I am pushing a stroller with baby in it AND carrying another baby on my hip......while the dork next to me is walking happily with an empty baby carrier STRAPPED TO HER! We joked that people probably thought she was some crazed maniac that was pretending she had a baby in there or that she was one of those weirdo's that carry their dog's in a baby carrier....hee hee

We decided we are not cool and next time we try to be we will not take the children...it will have to be a mommy's day out!

I will leave you with this picture. It is of Myself and Trish2 back in our earlier and blonder days. We had just become mommy's so there was a smidge of coolness left. This picture was taken on the first night we had gone out since we had found out we were pregnant, which had been almost a total of 2 years. We had quite a few drinks and were feeling fine!