I say allow your kids to get "bored", boredom is what gives birth to their imagination. I think too many parents are so focused on activities and "building a person" that a lot of kids spend too much structured time and are missing out on good old fashioned childhood ( Read more... )

Grandpa shot me rocks at the Easter table when I ended grace with "Praise be to Allah" . . . like he doesn't know me yet. Interesting though that my family and I meet on a level political playing field now... strange how having kids changes your entire perspective on the world... kill em all.... let the vultures eat them. Chris Christie fills me ( Read more... )

.. trying to pack a wound that won't heal. i fill myself to overflowing with worry and hope and shame and joy . . still. i'm losing blood from somewhere. i feel it. gently. slowly. rolling away from me. some days i am explosive. dirty fingers covered in paint and pain. i stay in my pajamas for days. expecting some sort of miracle. a miracle. what a ( Read more... )

Unhealthy obsession with Zune.Limewire. combined ( Read more... )

Torn ( Read more... )

aftershock ( Read more... )

something grown together ( Read more... )

Strange the last few months of entries here were little tiny fragments of the start of my new life. And I return every now and then to peer into who I used to be. I mostly just laugh at the thoughts I had. The randomness of all the life ending chaos and heart ache I thought I would never survive. A lot of what I wrote was strangely poetic. Mostly ( Read more... )

http://www.myspace.com/dianathejuicebox

ooo look!my boys.
while Evan was still in the hospital.

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so. 'research/ shows that, shrinking of the brain- is a normal occurrence during pregnancy/., what studies don't show is.;- whether or not the brain BOUncES back to its original.impressive. pre()pregnancy size...

excuse me.
miss.
it has been a lowng lowng time
since i have graced these keys...

^you see< i try to refrain from saying things >that ( Read more... )