i had a dream last night that i had to take the kids to this other kid's birthday party that was being held in a partially underground bunker that was filled with mud. i mean, mud up to my waist. there were two picnic tables, one for kids to sit at and one for grown-ups to sit at. it was terrible trying to slog through all the mud and get to the tables, made worse by the fact that laurel couldn't walk through it at all because she is so short she would have been submerged. it didn't matter, we were all completely covered in gunk by the time we made it. there was nowhere to wash our hands and i was very worried about the children having to eat food with mud all over it. i think the birthday kid was having some kind of monster truck show party, and everyone was really excited, and the other parents didn't seem bothered by the mud. but i was bothered, oh yes.