Okay, let this be said first:  I am not a fan of cartoon network, of having my technology-loving 8 -year old play video games and I REFUSE to let him have a Wii, Playstation, or any of those toys which (ironically enough) he gets to play at all of our 30-year old friends' houses ( Read more... )

Well, here I am on LJ...after how many years?  After spending my hours perusing facebook instead of lj as I once did back in the day....I have come to the conclusion...that facebook is a VERY LONELY PLACE.  Seriously, I feel more at home here with people I don't know and probably don't remember me then writing status updates to all of my "real life ( Read more... )

So I have not  logged on to livejournal in like, four months!  And have not checked my friends' page in even longer!

So to spare me from having to read over six months of journal entries, would anyone mind dropping a quick note to tell me what you've been up to?

Thanks! =)

I am so torn about this whole school issue for ds.  This whole summer I have been contemplative about school options, trying to think about what would be best for him....at six years old, I think he is an absolute genius (of course, I know all mothers think that), but perhaps not in the conventional sense (is still not really reading, writing a ( Read more... )

Where does one begin, when one has been gone so long?  
How does one sing, when the music has died? 
When does one write, when the pen has run dry?
How can one believe, when hope no longer exists?

Somewhere, somehow, within all of this
This mess, this mess, this beautiful mess
This pain, this pain, this god-awful pain
of numbness
rawness
emptiness
( Read more... )

2007...12 Things I wished for...while carring on the midnight uva tradition (albeit with palmoitas), while watching the customary Latin American viejo burn (in this case a Saddam Hussein scarecrow) outside a two-story 1970's split-level house in Suburban America.

1. Salud
2. Trabajo
3. Felicidad
4. Paz
5. A Happy Home and harmonia ...lograrla o ( Read more... )

2007....12 Things I wished for at midnight, carrying on the midnight uva tradition (albeit with palomitas), while watching the traditional Latin American customary viejo burn (in this case a Saddam Hussein scarecrow) outside a two-story split-level 1970's house in Suburban America.

1.  Salud
2.  Trabajo
3.  Felicidad
4.  Paz
5.  A Happy Home and ( Read more... )

I don't usually do forwards, but I think this is pretty important. I was talking with my Mom just a few days ago, and she said: "hmmm...gas prices are astronomical...think somebody back in DC is trying to get the American people to go for drilling in the Arctic?" And yup...looks like it's true....I just heard this morning as well that Congress is ( Read more... )

And survey says....It's a girl!!!!

Estimated arrival date: January 5th

Damn. I thought I had wrestled those demons, slayed the dragon, cast out those evil spirits that once told me five years ago that motherhood was death, annhilation, and loss of diversion, joie de vivre, and life itself.

Now I know better.  Life goes on!  And it's better!   And I have so many more goals and thoughts than I ever did before!  And my ( Read more... )