All in all, today was a GOOD day! I took the Ashley and Kirsten Christmas shopping (even tho I'm pretty much finished with mine). Jessica, our youngest is spending the night with a friend and so today it was a little less like being a "mom" and more like shopping with "friends." It's way cool when your kids are old enough to relate on an adult ( Read more... )

Last night I watched a documentary on HBO called "Middle Sexes: Redefining He & She." The show "examines how different societies and cultures handle the blur of gender sexual identity and sexual orientation." It was a very enlightening show. Evidently, America is one of the most homophobic countries in the world. An experiement was conducted ( Read more... )

Me, the technologically challenged mom lady, created a new user icon all by my own self! I started a photobucket account and everything; now all I have to do is figure out how to get pictures from the digital camera into the computer! Yeah. Baby steps. I like this icon because it reminds me of the poem about "growing old and wearing purple." ( Read more... )

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This morning (from 6-9 a.m.) I babysat my friend's 3 small children (newborn, 14 months old and 3 years old). In three short hours they made me completely crazy. I've decided that teenagers are much nicer to raise than small chickens (Did I say "chickens?" I meant children--although they both make a lot of noise and usually smell bad). AFTER ( Read more... )

So, today I had a few free minutes before I had to pick up kids after a Hockey game and so I went and got my eyebrow pierced. I LIKE IT! The summer before my 40th birthday I got my nose pierced and at the time I vowed to get my eyebrow pierced before I turned 50. Well, I'm usually a procrastinator, but my 9 year old daughter has been pushing me ( Read more... )

Today I watched a documentary about American people adopting Russian children. There was one couple (very well off) with two boys and they couldn't have anymore children. They wanted a girl, but made it perfectly clear, all along, that they wanted "the perfect child." I'm sure they only wanted her to fit into their "perfect family" --Armani baby ( Read more... )

Thoughts spin through my head like the lights at a midnite carnival. It is almost impossible to sequester an individual reflection, but the prism of color sure is spectacular! *smile*

This is in response to a comment of my affiliation with BYU.. "I thought you were catholic?" I AM Catholic, but let me put that in a better prospective... In the movie "The Jerk," Steve Martin starts his narration with, "I was born a poor black child" -and he WAS (despite his whiteness)! Well, I was born "a catholic" just like (in The Jungle Book ( Read more... )

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you --Nobody-- too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
(-Emily Dickinson)