Yesterday morning I reported for jury duty for the first time in my life. I had been summoned several times while in college, but was able to get out of it every time.

I always thought it’d be interesting to sit on a jury and figured I’d probably get my turn sometime. Sure enough I received my summons last month. I don’t know if I neglected to follow the proper procedures to postpone it indefinitely or what, but there I was heading across the 118 to the Chatsworth court house yesterday morn. I was under the impression that if one is a full-time caregiver that they could {get off the hook}.

It’s not that I don’t want to do my duty as a citizen, but I was chosen as a possible juror for a 30-day trial ~ 6 weeks! The case seemed very intriguing and I may have been a perfect juror, but at this time I cannot upturn my life with 2 young children for that long. Yes, I have dear friends that would take my kids to make it possible, but the most I would ask of them is a few days.

I was there all day until about 4:00….I finally had to ask to speak to the judge after he dismissed everyone to report back tomorrow. There was no way that I could ask Jay to work from home again today! The bailiff called me back into the courtroom and I had to plead my case to the judge and the rest of the counsel. His Honor granted me to be excused from this case, but said that I had to report back another day to fulfill my service. I am still not entirely sure how the system works, but I will be sitting in that jury room again on January 4, 2012.

With that out of the way, here are some snippets from our {out of court} days this past week…

{Holden may be double Ryan’s age, but these two are perfect pals ~ Friday morning at the park}

{entertaining themselves while mama orders her new iPhone ~ alert the press! turning in my antique LG Env in about a week…I’m scared}

{waiting for me to drop him a piece of crust from Holden’s [crust-free] ham sandwich}

{stickers for chain letters…what are the chances that we’d get two in a week?}

{6-inch sweet onion chicken teriyaki loaded with veggies and extra jalapeños ~ the whole time I was eating it I couldn’t get Jared or the [5…5 dollar…5 dollar foot long] song out of my head!}

{I fought the gum and the gum won! I swore I was not going to buy this [dessert delights] gum, but I caved and forked over 99¢ to give it the benefit of the doubt…not too bad. not too bad, at all}

Linking up again over at InstaFriday ~ Life Rearranged…