My two oldest boys return to school (finally!) tomorrow. Linus is beginning kindergarten. Full day kindergarten. He did full day preschool, two days a week. I am not worried about the transition, because his sadness was palpable when he asked “do I have school tomorrow?” and I had to tell him “no.”
Current Mood:
In charge & 
Uh…hello!?!
I always laugh when I think about baby-proofing. Mostly because of that saying “I child-proofed the house, but they keep getting back in!” but also because it is impossible.
Making your home a sanctuary in which no child will ever get hurt/ingest a chemical/swallow a Lego is not going to happen. New mothers, take notes. It will save your sanity!
Current Mood:
Perplexed…???
There’s something to be said about owning a house. For many years, due to my husband’s job, we lived in furnished apartments on college campuses. Some were nice and some were…er..not so nice. Drop-ceilings, walk-in showers (reminiscent of an 80′s gym locker room) and lack of closet and cabinets were like an HGTV reality show challenge. Every time we moved (which was about every two years), I thought Vern Yip was going to appear, cock his head to the side and say, “So, how are you going to make this space yours?”
We had a rough morning today. The baby, JD, was in to everything. This does not make it easy to cook breakfast, and I was doing it up right. Ok, no pancakes, but if there is fruit, meat, toast and eggs, there better not be any complaining.
Current Mood:
Drowning & 
Juggling the world
I like to joke about the way I talk. I tend to describe it as like Ray Romano and Fran Drescher had a love child. It’s a unique blend of Midwestern nasal twang combined with a Texas accent on occasion.
Current Mood:
Embarrased & 
Hysterically laughing
My grandma warned me about men’s work. “You keep lifting/shoveling/digging like you do, and you will feel it when you are my age. That’s men’s work!” She’s probably right, but I am stubborn and impatient, so I end up getting myself into all sorts of mischief I really shouldn’t (there was incident with replacing the toilet seal, and then installing laminate flooring while in my first trimester).
Current Mood:
Sassy
I am a 30-something Facebook junkie. Next year I’ll be a 40-year-old Facebook junkie. Better than a 40-year-old virgin. You’d think…but that might be an entire other blog post in itself. Just sayin’. The fact is, Mark Zuckerberg was on to something when he one-upped Myspace Tom -you know Myspace Tom, he’s everybody’s friend friend hoarder…
A couple of years ago, like many others, I flew from the “kooky coop” for a bit of friendly banter with “real” people. Don’t throw rotten tomatoes if I once called you my Myspace friend and now you are my IRL friend. Just ask yourself, “How long did that take? Was it really worth it?” Oh, and then don’t delete me.
Summer calls for salad and “getting healthy”. After all, it’s not pretty after you chow down on pasta and pass out from a carb coma…
Just sayin’.
The only negative to salad and a new health kick is that apparently our neighborhood flies are on the band wagon too. Every time I open the back door to fire up our Weber, one of them takes it as an open invitation to come in and fondle our leaf lettuce. Last week I even saw one land on the remote. I think he was trying to press “rewind” for the P90X toll-free number. Don’t feel sorry for him. He wouldn’t have made it past week 3. Yup, my “Mr. Miyagi” karate chop, not only ended any chance of him bulking up, but pretty much did him in.
I am a pretty big fan of trivia. Back in the day (before we were parents) my husband and I used to love the NTN games at various watering holes around town. I must say we were pretty good at it, though that was ten years ago. He knew the history, geography, and sports. I could handle the random television questions and literature (before reality tv became so popular, and I refuse to watch Survivor).
Current Mood:
Domestic & Hysterically laughing
Oh my, it has been HOT here. I was raised in Central Texas, so I tend to scoff at our summers here. When we had the new furnace installed and they asked if we wanted central air conditioning, I said “no way!” Truly, we don’t need it except for the rare weeks like this one. We have a nearly constant breeze out here on the “prairie” and a nice shade tree in the back yard. We also have two window units to make life tolerable when a heat wave such as this hits. I keep thinking the kids are going to find a puddle in front of the garage, with nothing left but the tank top and shorts I was wearing.
Current Mood:
Bright & Glowing