“Sea of Love”

So I finally got to watch Juno during vacation, but this isn’t a movie review. I have a point, I promise.  There are numerous reasons why I like this flick.  The first time I watched it, I happily munched on my microwave kettle-corn as I soaked in the deliciously smart mouthed, intelligent protagonist. The script [...]

Happy to live under my rock thankyouverymuch.

It just occured to me about 43 seconds ago that I have not watched one bit of news, local or national, including the weather, in a week and I am just fine and dandy. If I’ve missed anything, I don’t wanna know.
Yesterday’s events, which I have dubbed “Happy Hoopla,” went off with pretty much no [...]

A note to myself about Christmas.

So, I fully admit that when it comes to this Christmas, I have not had my eye on the ball. At all. My mind has been in about 16 different places, and Christmas had barely registered in my daily routine, let alone in my heart. This is all of my own doing, and I am [...]

Fa la LA la LA… la LA…la LA!!!

Christmas tally is as follows:
Times we’ve watched A Christmas Story this past week: 2 (LMG is a chip off the old block in the way she can quote movie lines)
Times we’ve listened to the “Mr. Heatmiser” remake by Big Bad VooDoo Daddy: 15 (love that song!)
Number of gifts I’ve wrapped so far: 7
Number of gifts [...]

Trebuchet: December

I borrowed this idea from another blog… Mamalogues I believe. Today is a much needed trebuchet day. A day to list all those things that I would like to flig, to cast-off, to send into orbit, or at least far, far away from here.
1. icy/crummy road conditions
2. pointless meetings
3. condescending reminders of a dress code [...]

Scathed, but undaunted.

Little Miss G doesn’t get sick very often. So when she woke up early Friday morning complaining that her throat hurt, I decided she was staying home and going to the doctor. I’m not going to toy around with wht might be strep throat less than two weeks before Christmas. So, to the doctor we [...]

All Over You

Okay, not exactly sure what a meme stands for, but I got this from my friend Dana over at Looseyfur. I thought it was fun, so here I go:
1. Put your iPod or whatever music player you have on shuffle. (We own iPods… go figure).
2. For each question, press the next button to get your [...]

Here fishy, fishy, fishy…

John and I have agreed, upon the recommendation of Grandpa, to increase the number of living creatures in our happy home.
We have agreed to allow Grandpa to give the girls a fish tank for Christmas. We even agreed to let him buy fish, too! He’s going to wrap up the tank and the paraphenalia, and [...]

Something tells me we’ll have to find out the hard way.

Super L is a “night person.” Like I was before kids, so she gets it honestly. She has spent the last 45 minutes running back and forth between the living room where Uncle Matt is hanging out, the kitchen where I am playing on Facebook working, and our bedroom where John is folding laundry. Then [...]

Memories, Vol. 1: The Oxydol Box.

It was a hot summer day that is typical of the Midwest, but my grandparents’ yard had huge trees that afforded a lot of shade. Besides, when you’re seven years old, heat is not really a factor. It’s incidental. It’s just there, and you keep doing whatever it was you planned to do anyway. It [...]