Please forgive any missing D's in the post. The "D" key on my keyboard is touchy and unless i go back to add them with a deliberate key mash they don't go in.

This week has been both very busy and usless. ( I have brochintis and had to work anyway )

I hate legaslise and more so i hate legislation that primarily stikes passages and inserts new passages, but does not include the remainder of the section of law so as to render usless the reading of the legislation. I just read the 150 pages of health care reform. Now i have to hunt down the original laws to make sure I understand what they are ( Read more... )

It has been a weird set of mornings this very cold (for florida) week. The kids have been thrilled about it being cold and keep asking me if it is snowing or if it has snowed ( Read more... )

So we are doing quite wqeel on the christmas prep timeline this year. We had the kitchen/dinning room mostly clean for thanksgiving and it is still mostly clean. We clean the living room to a degree yeasterday. It was nice. Even got to go through some boxes and show the kids some of the crazy things I have kept and made over the years. Noel ( Read more... )

Noel hung up the christmas lights yesterday whle the kids and i were at school and work. As were were driving home the kids were pointing out th elights of the neighborhood houses. then we turned the corner onto ourstreet and they nearly jumped out of their car seats , bouncing clapping and shouting thank you Daddy and Mommy look santa, dada gave ( Read more... )

Thanksgivign was nice if a bit hectic. Weds night i roasted and peeled the chestnuts and got the turkey brining. Noel is having kidney stone issues so i was trying to not stress him out or ask him to do too much ( Read more... )

My kids have been singing Over the River and Through the Woods in the car on the way into school every morning. Although much abriviated.... We do the first verse normally and then our revised second verse:

Over the river and through the woods ( Read more... )

Noel and I went out with Freinds on Saterday night to see a Band called Riff Raff. The basist is a freind of our freind beth. Beth, Nick, Dan, Teisha and me and noel went. It was loud and smoky. I was drving so no drinking. But it was fun. Noel was in a great mood and we had a good time. I pooped out pretty early (12:15) the band was done ( Read more... )

Zachary's teach presented me with a peice of paper where zach had written his name without help and without lokign at anything! here it is. Awesome!


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Tabitha has hand foot and mouth desease. she has a rash all over her abdomen, blisters on her feet and in the back of her throat. poor baby is miserable and swings between normal cheery baby and cranky dictator baby. the doctor says that she is no longer contageous and can go back to school (knock on wood). She will have to tomarrow, since i ( Read more... )