The Fainting Couch

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‘Twere I a lady of leisure, I’d buy me a fainting couch

Have you ever wanted a fainting couch in your living room? You know, so when you’re having one of those days when things are so desperate that you’re making pancakes for dinner, and when you walk into the dining room to serve said desperation food, your toddler has gotten hold of your coupon inserts and strewn them all over the living area of your entire first floor? Not that that’s ever happened to me (last night) or anything…but sometimes, I have a day that calls for a fainting couch. But alas, I do not possess such frivolous furniture.

I found it amusing, then, that we had a fainting couch in our room at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel at the Mom 2.0 Summit. I mean, when my kids are a couple thousand miles away and someone’s cleaning up after me every day? I don’t need a fainting couch. But there was indeed, a very lovely one in our room, positioned at the end of Emily’s bed.

And it’s a darn good thing. Because Friday night, Emily had occasion to NEED it. “Why?” you ask? I’m not quite sure. How about I tell you the story, and then you tell ME why.  Here goes:

Friday night we went to a rockin’ party given by the CVS ExtraCare people. Say what? A CVS party!?!!? You know that’s like my dream come true! We had an awesome time and met some great people. And we got our picture taken, a lot.

Oh em gee! CVS red carpet!
Oh em gee! CVS red carpet!
With our lovely and tall friend Rachel, backngroovemom.com
With our lovely and tall friend Rachel, backngroovemom.com
With the hilarious Jenny from the Blog, SuburbanJungle.com
With the hilarious Jenny from the Blog, SuburbanJungle.com
Me getting interviewed about  how I big puffy heart CVS and their ExtraCare Bucks
Me getting interviewed about how I big puffy heart CVS and their ExtraCare Bucks
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Em and Glennia Campbell, who grew up in Emily’s teeny tiny hometown – yet they met in California!
I love this pic of us taken by Glennia herself!
I love this pic of us taken by Glennia herself!

See? LOTS of pictures!
The party was great. But we were hungry, and I’d been surviving on gluten-free slim pickins for a couple of days, so Em and I went out to dinner…by ourselves…because MAYBE we’re not as popular as we think we are. But us being us, we had a great time. AND steak. And Emily had a blueberry martini, which MAY have contributed to the next part of this story. The part that involves the fainting couch.

After a delicious dinner, Emily and I headed back to our room at the Ritz. I’m not really sure what time it was…probably before 10 p.m. We entered our room which was quite dark, even after turning on a light. That’s my one complaint about our otherwise wonderful room, I felt like it wasn’t very well-lit (which makes it difficult to perfectly apply your makeup, which as we all know is very important to me) and I would just like to say for the record that I had pointed that out SEVERAL times already before this incident occurred!

Anyhoo, we turned on the light and found that the nice staffers at the Ritz had left us a little present. This present, in fact. (Picture stolen from everydaymama on Instagram, please don’t sue me!)

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I took a look at this new addition to our room, leaned in really close SINCE IT WAS DARK, and said, “Is that…cookies?” Because honestly, I couldn’t tell!

And Emily Berry, well, she lost her fishing mind. She howled with laughter and immediately collapsed on the fainting couch, cracking up and repeating, “Is that…cookies?” and oh, CRYING she was laughing so hard.  Girlfriend was immobilized on the fainting couch. See?

Image at left has been auto-corrected, image at right is the original TO PROVE HOW DARK IT WAS IN THE ROOM!
Image at left has been auto-corrected, image at right is the original TO PROVE HOW DARK IT WAS IN THE ROOM!

I have no idea why Emily thought what I said was so funny, but seeing her weeping with laughter on the fainting couch cracked me up as well, and soon we were both crying so hard from laughing that our formerly immaculate eye makeup was down to our shoulders. All because of those three little words:

Is that…cookies?

It must’ve been that martini. Perhaps this re-enactment will help you be the judge.

 

Thank God that fainting couch was there! I hate to think of the damage that would have been done had Emily had to plunge all the way to the carpeted floor in her hysteria.

I have no idea what happened to the cookies. I can’t remember if Em ate one or not (I wasn’t about to due to the stupid gluten). Also, I didn’t find out til the next day that the starfish and sand dollar were white chocolate. DANGIT! I totally would’ve eaten those.

So you tell me, dear readers, what caused Emily to need the fainting couch? Any theories? I’d love to hear them!

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I always knew it would come to blows

We’re back from Mom 2.0! It was awesome, and there’s so much to tell. We can’t thank our generous, phenomenal sponsor Lands’ End ENOUGH for sending us! Our plane got in very late last night, so Em is at work and I am on Jonah-duty on about 5 hours sleep.

So. We’ll do everyone a favor and write our Mom 2.0 recap when we’re feeling more articulate and less like  mombies.

But we did want to share with you one of our favorite moments really quickly. We totally improvised this on the spot at the Vaseline Spray ‘n Go moisturizer booth and were surprised at how it turned out…although I always thought I would be the one defending myself from Emily’s wicked knuckle sandwich, not her use of a wonderful-smelling, moisturizing aerosol lotion.

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Is that fun or what? The moisturizer is pretty great, too.

Got any questions for us that you want us to answer in our Mom 2.0 recap? Leave ’em in the comments!

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Oh, the pageantry!

You guys. Season 4 of “Toddlers & Tiaras” is now on Netflix!

So, I will see you in about a week after I watch every single episode.

But I’ve already watched a few, including the one featuring three-year-old Olivia, who is so mean she gives me goosebumps! Fairly sure this one is going to off her mom in the middle of the night.  But that’s ok, because her mom knows that she’s going to go far in life because she’s pretty! As she says, the popular kids don’t get popular by being ugly.

Clearly, Olivia is thankful for her mother’s positive support.

 

So far, my favorite mom this season has been Ca’Trina, who is a devout Pentecostal and “really had to pray about the spray tan” for her 6-year-old daughter, Syraniti. Pronounced “Serenity” – which by the way, breaks SO MANY of my Jenny’s Life Klass baby naming rules. Ugh. But at least she CARES whether or not her -year-old looks like a 30-year-old.

There was actually one mom on this season who said they were about done with pageants because she wouldn’t put her daughter in anything baring her midriff and she didn’t think she would be able to win without that for much longer. Kudos to you, mama!

But anyhoo. Back to the crazies. Eight-year-old Chloe’s mom loves the way she shakes it in an entirely-too-authentic Daisy Duke outfit. And of course, so do the judges. Because you’re never too young to be sexy, OBVIOUSLY!

Which is why every weekend in hundreds of pageants all across America, two-year-olds wear false eyelashes and lipstick.

And I can’t. Stop! Watching!

On Netflix, that is.

Stay tuned next week for a compilation of my favorite T&T season 4 quotes!

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