Hi there boy! Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your phone call. You made my whole day so happy! Not a lot going on here, but I had to tell you about the hour Connor and I spent watching PBS. We sat and watched a documentary on Giant Panda Bears and Connor loved it! He pointed out the "mommy bears" and "baby bears" and made sure I knew when they were in a "tree" or drinking " milk" vrs. "water". He was so intent and interested. It was wonderful to cuddle up with my litt...

So, I am not superwoman by any means, but I find it wonderful that I have only about 3 weeks to go and I am feeling so capable. My last pregnancy was miserable. I believed everything I heard about what pregnant women could do. I bought into the sterotypical idea that to be pregnant was to be incapable of touching your toes or lifting more than 5 lbs. I followed the Army profile and didn't lay on my back or do any ab exersizes. The result? I was fat (60+ lbs) from going from two workou...

I hope that I am not losing my mind. Yesterday I got FIVE boxes in the mail. They were all boxes that I have mailed to my husband over the last month....... Why, may you ask, did they get sent back? Simple. I put the WRONG ZIP CODE on them. I used the zip from when I was in Bonsia in 99. I didn't think I even remembered that and now it turns out that subconciously, I did. The worst part? not the $75 in shipping that went down the tubes, but the fact that birthday presents and Hal...

I have noticed that I blog in spurts. I will have periods of motivation and then spells of apathy. I'm trying to force my self to get up and get out but as all who have been pregnant know, the last few weeks just seems to drag by. So please humor my strange posts.....I should probablly just email you, but I think it will be a blog since I have very little to talk about.....maybe this will get my thoughts flowing... LadyCleve Link and I realized that our husbands were/are in the same...

In a recent article, I was blabbering on and on.....maybe even bragging a bit about how I'm doing really well this pregnancy. See link... Link Anyway, so maybe I incured some bad karma or I am just at that point, but now...sigh. Now, I feel pregnant. Big, huge, slow, tired and unweildy pregnant. Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut just a little longer and I could have avoided jinxing myself. I only have a few weeks to go, but I am soooo ready to have this kid. I have been sta...

A little background to start off..... This last weekend, I decided to go out and enjoy myself before I have another child to bring along. My friends and I are avid (read hopelessly addicted) scrapbookers. We stayed up all night on Friday, eating chocolote and scrapping. It was lots of fun, mildly productive and a good way to spend a Friday without my husband. I think I made it home by 0230... This really has nothing to do with the article....I just had fun and figured I would throw i...

I wrote an article about how every single light on my Christmas tree died one day..... Link Well, now I really feel like an idiot. I bought 10 strands of lights at Target at the after Christmas sale. Then today, when I started to take my tree down, I decided to check and see if any of the strands were still good. (I had checked several stands while the lights were on the tree with no success, but it was hard to get to all of them.) much to my chagrin, most of the lights DO work. I sh...

I mentioned "EverJoe" in my previous article and said to look for the article in which I first mentioned it. Apparently, I never wrote that article, but I thought I did. See reason for lack of sanity here. Link i'm sort on time, so here is the condensed version. My brother loves Everquest...so much that he ignores his wife and kids. Therefore....Evercrack. I love to Joe (use Joeuser) Joecrack sounds stupid. Therefore....EverJoe. The End

Farewell for the holidays! Adiós. Au revoir. Auf Wiedersehen. Arrivederci. Auspe Spumante. さようなら. 안녕. goodbye. I am off to visit the technological wasteland of *shock* *horror* NO INTERNET ACCESS FOR THREE WEEKS!!! I may die. That or overcome my Joe addiction. This blog will be fast because I *should* be getting ready to leave in 45 min, but instead of getting my kids up or making breakfast or even cleaning, I once again am scroun...

Okay, for everyone who has been waiting to find out what is up with Lady.....Thank you to all those who supported my desision to find her a new home. Thank you to those who offered to either dog sit or adopt her. Thank you LW! I know your heart was in the right place. Thank you to those who wanted to help get Lady to LW's place. HOWEVER....I know that financially I can't afford to ship her to anyone's place....and no offense, someone who would have her in a yard. I know you have do...

I have been avoiding this issue for a while now. i didn't want to blog about it because i knew that my husband would read my blog and I didn't want to make this any harder on either of us than it already was. I asked him if I could get rid of our dog. He doesn't want to have me do that. He loves Lady. (I do too.) But for various reasons, I have finally come to the point where I cannot deal with this dog anymore. yet, I know he loves the dog and this is hard for him to deal with and then I ...

This was going to be a blog about traditions in general and how as you get married, some are discarded, some are changed and some are preserved. However after writing I realized that my favorite tradition is the one that most people find strange. First a typical "American Traditional Christmas" : Kids wake parents up at crack of dawn. Kids are tired because they didn't get much sleep so they can be a trife cranky. Parents having spent the previous night puting together a bike and sendi...

I love a tree with tons of white lights on it....I have perfected the ability of cramming as many lights as possible on my tree without actually setting it on fire. This year, I managed to get 15 strands (of 150 lights each) on our 6 1/2 foot tree. That's because one strand shorted it out after I got it on....but I digress. (Besides, you can't tell that a strand is out because there are sooo many lights) Well, this morning as I plugged in my lights every single one died. Every single ...

I was inspired by a recent article....see link below. Link Is it right for gay people to be gay? That *is* their right. No one should be able to beat them, kill them, harm them, harass them, force them to accept unlawly legislation that makes them heterosexual due to someone else being intolerant of them, or in some other way target them based on their sexuality. They have their individual right to be gay, as human beings. Christianity's viewpoint on homosexuality. That is *their...

So life is always full of ups and downs. Sometimes we are given a choice....will we see the glass as half empty or half full? Are you ready? Here goes.... Last week I embarked on a quest for a new certification. (Les Mills-Body Flow) It's a high intensity training that is not for the faint of heart or body. I worried about my ability to make it through....but I came through with flying colors. Now I just need to submit a video of me teaching and I am good to go... ..but that will...