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Nap

2010-02-22T21:53:28Z

I'm ready for a nap now. However I now go home and do homework with the rug rat, wash dishes and do some laundry. Then I will try to watch some olympics and fall asleep.

I want spring

2010-02-15T21:47:21Z

I want spring. I want lie in a field that is lovely with no bug to bother me except pretty butterflies floating around. I don't want to have sit up except to take another sip of a nice cool riesling. And I want to lie in that meadow until I'm warm!!!

What would she remember

2010-01-20T18:42:26Z

Just read about a mother who was killed by a car thief. She had a daughter about DM. Made me wonder what DM would remember about me, if I died at this age. Would she remember all the sillyness we get up to and the snuggling or just when I yell about toys on the floor.

sick of apart

2010-01-14T21:33:57Z

In case you were wondering, this whole living in different states stinks more and more as time goes by. psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssft!

facebook

2010-01-02T21:31:06Z

Started a facebook page, but not really sure how I feel about it. All sorts of people I don't know well want to be friends. Not sure I like sharing everything with the world, so it is a very wonder bread view of me. This is much more me. How do other people feel about facebook?

Hi to everyone at Harold's

2009-12-16T18:18:46Z

Haven't been able to get in for days, so waving hi to anyone who comes near here.

church directory

2009-11-20T19:58:18Z

We went this week for new photos for the church directories. The last one DM had just turned one year old. I was still terrified of doing something wrong as a mom. Now I know I will and am willing to live with that.

Also learned I must not be too vain. It never dawned on me to go in the bathroom and check my hair... I should have. Watched other women go check.

yoga

2009-11-16T21:33:29Z

Well the yoga storytime party went well. DM and her friends relaxed with yoga and then sugared up with birthday cake.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sithiworld/

I want a nap

2009-10-14T23:27:20Z

Haven't been sleeping well since I hit the deer. No bad dreams, but just not sleeping enough.

I'll tell you I don't need to hit another. That scared me to death. I thought it might years before the muscles in my back relaxed. One minute I was singing with the Standells about the dirty water. The next I was staring at Bambi's mom.

Day 1

2009-08-26T17:02:31Z

Today was the first day of kindergarten. Hopefully all is going well. Must admit I'm curious. She did okay when I left. She had a puzzle of a unicorn to do, who cared about mom. LOL

teeth

2009-07-31T19:32:10Z

We lost tooth number two last night. You can see tooth number one here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sithiworld/3743356894/

So the toothfairy is busy last night trying to make the switch without anyone waking up... and looses the tooth. Ever try to find an itty bitty tooth on beige carpet in the dark. The toothfairy suggests you don't try this.

Welcome to the doldrums

2009-07-18T17:59:53Z

Not much happening and it is hard to get motivated right now to write anyway. We go to work and preschool. We come home. Work is okay with moments of suckiness. Life with DM is good, but not exciting. Bubble baths, tree climbing, monkey bars, maybe going to the city pool.

bridge day

2009-04-25T19:22:37Z

We have been watching an interstate bridge near our house being built. She's even tried with her legos. It is a cast inplace concrete bridge, which makes a tough balancing act with legos. She's had to change the way she builds the piers with legos. Also once it reaches a certain length it takes two of us. You have to put the legos on each end at the same time or boom. Still it's been an interesting engineering challenge for a five year old.

She had a question I couldn't answer, so I sent an email to the company. He's offered to give her a little tour of the building site, which should be a lot of fun. I need to get some time off work to go.

Hop hop hippity hop

2009-04-13T15:50:29Z

Well DM and her doll, Baby, wore matching dresses to mass yesterday. Most of the day she was little miss sugar buzz. She got a rabbit that sings and wiggles from her aunt. Very cute... the first hundred times.

Not much

2009-04-04T19:25:51Z

Not much going on, so I haven't been motivated to blog. We go to pre-school and work. Then we go home. Kindergarten registration is this month. Doesn't seem possible.... I remember emailing my online friends when I got to Guatemala City to get DM. My friend Melanie spread the word and rejoicing ensued. Now kindergarten.

Hard to be enthused

2009-01-27T16:49:52Z

Hard to be enthused about work right now and I need to be. I've got a new staff person starting and someone has to like this place.

Snow on the ground today. Hope to get DM home with enough light to play a little. They don't let them go out at daycare because some kids don't have warm enough clothes and if they get wet they'd all need spares anyway.

I must be mean

2009-01-14T17:38:06Z

Well I lost out on a set of seven novels by Stevenson on eBay. However I am feeling a bit mean as I made my rival really pay quite a bit to win. Almost glad I lost at the end when the price as the price ran up. I think what annoyed me was that they used software to win. My bids were outbid before they were even completed.

Baby vs. DM

2009-01-06T22:00:45Z

As you know Baby is viewed as DM's little sister even given her plastic dolls status. Last Saturday DM was in trouble and was busy snivelling. She looks up at me and goes "You love Baby better than you love me." It was all I could do to keep from laughing, which would have of course intensified the sniveling. LOL

polygamy at my house

2008-12-30T18:07:55Z

As you know, Tigger was cast aside for a Ken doll this Christmas. The Barbies are delighted and have all married him. I'm just waiting for the feds to show up and take the Skippers into protective custody.

Check out some holiday snaps
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sithiworld/

in triplicate

2008-12-05T21:26:04Z

It is just not my day. It starts with a drunk, who we kick out. I fill out paperwork in triplicate. Then a shelter men's fight, which means more triplicate.... Don't you love working with the public

being "activating" and smellies

2008-11-24T18:12:58Z

DM said something the other day and I had to think twice. "I'm sorry, mommy, that I am activating" She meant aggrevating. I will miss these little bloopers. :)

Smellies - why do my homeless shelter people smell worse in winter? You'd think they would smell worse in the summer with the heat. hmmmm uck!

Tigger

2008-11-17T16:20:14Z

Poor Tigger. He is going to be surplanted in the hearts of Barbies in our house. Currently DM has no boy Barbie. She has been asking for Santa to bring her one for months and I guess he will.

However it isn't fair to Tigger. DM has a stuffed Tigger, who has been serving the role of Barbie's boyfriend and husband. He puts up with a lot from those Barbies. If the kids are sick and throw up on him, he is a good sport and wipes them off. (I finally had to have a talk with DM and Tigger about the number of Kleenx he was using. LOL) Tigger wears ridiculous costumes with good humour. And now he's going to be bumped out of the way by some boy Barbie.

horizontal bop

2008-11-11T18:14:18Z

Don't get me wrong. I like the horizontal bop as much as the next woman, but I'm a little perturbed by the new push for us to take drugs to increase our desire to bop. Maybe I'm just not a stripper pole in the bedroom kind of girl. And have you seen the side effects

"The trade-off for slightly better sex? Unwanted hair growth in manly places like the face and chest. And the possibility of increased breast cancer. Four cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the study, which involved 800 postmenopausal women; none of the four were on the placebo patch. While the researchers say these "may be due to chance," they add that "the possibility of a causal relationship must be considered."" US NEWS

Of course that is nothing compared to horizontal bop medicine for guys. It is true just what your mom said, you could go blind.

Bully by proxy

2008-11-07T20:24:58Z

DM got mad at someone yesterday and had a boy in the class go pinch that person. So he got in trouble and she got in trouble. She actually admitted that she asked him to do it because she didn't want to get in trouble.

We had a long talk about it. It really bothers me that she did it. I just hope she was listening to me.

sequel to trophy wall

2008-11-03T16:32:11Z

As you may remember, DM had a trophy wall of large boogers several months ago. On Sunday she bit her lip and then couldn't leave it alone. She said it tasted like bugs..... I wasn't really sure I wanted to know how she knows this.