Breakfast with my girlfriends this week was a highlight!
Lauri and Clarissa came over with the little ones and while the kids played I cooked breakfast and sat to laugh and Kvetch with my friends.
Created a bunch of new anklets for Street Angel
So happy that The Bachelorette is over. I hated myself for watching after vowing a few years ago, "never again!"
Endured a biopsy of my uterus without meds. Had post traumatic stress for over 3 days.
My niece turned 9 and I am dying to see her.
We joined Netflix and have been enjoying it ever since.
Goddess and Handsome have been together too many days. They are ready to kill each other. I play referee about 60% of the day. I have started telling them to just kill each other.
Had to explain Menstruation to my 5 year old. Poor thing is seeing wayyyy to much.
Handsome asked Goddess if she could just keep her mouth closed and stop talking, she said, "well, I could if I had a zipper on it. but look, no zipper so, no!"
Friday, August 06, 2010
Feed Me Books - Along Came You
What I Can Tell You: This is a truly beautiful book and I couldn't wait to read it to my children. Along Came You is a wonderful book for parents to read to their children. Whether you are a mother or a father with a son or a daughter. Karona captures beautifully the amazing beauty of having a child in your life and how enriched your life becomes with that child. Even in the simplest ways such as "before you, I ate my oatmeal alone. After you, there are always guests for breakfast."
I love that the book is big enough to fit on my and my child's lap. The pictures are fun, colorful and take up the whole page.
Aloha Friday
If you have never played Kailani's meme called Aloha Friday, let me explain it to you.
This week Kailani asked:
This is really hard because who doesn't love Disney movies. To pick a favorite out of that genius library is almost impossible. My favorites are probably Toy Story and Finding Nemo.What’s your favorite Disney movie?
Now for my question...
What is your least favorite part about school starting
Mine is the fact that the kids will once again be gone all day. I will only have 6-7 hours with them a day. This is very sad to me!
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Thursday Thunks: Special Talents
2. What is your favorite sound? The sounds of silence. Not really, I love the sounds of my children when they speak to each other in very polite ways, this happens as a full moon and it is great when I hear it.
3. What was your favorite TV show as a child or teen? Umm...lets see...I was a big Dukes of Hazard fan. I was sure I was going to marry Bo Duke or at least, party with him in the back seat of the General Lee. It never happened. Wahhh..
4. There are a lot of specialty TV networks now devoted to things like golf, gardening, shopping, game shows, sports, news and sci-fi. Do you have any favorite TV networks? I don't watch a lot of TV but I did have a Food network phase. I watch the Sci Fi Channel and Discovery occasionally.
6. Berleen is on the top of a mountain. How on earth did she get there and what was she doing? She is testing something useful that has the potential to make her a hundred, million dollars.
7. Have you ever dreamt that you made love to someone you haven’t yet met? Yes! All the time. Random lovers come and go. Lovers appear in your room each night And they whirl you across the floor But they always seem to fade away When your daddy taps on your door
8. Berleen decides to run away and join the circus. What could you imagine her performing under the big top? Something exciting and enticing that will have the big top a rocking and the cops a knocking. Oh I don't know.
9. What is your favorite sci-fi movie? Terminator 2 or The Fifth Element are my favorites.
10. What is your favorite reality show? I hate reality TV but in the past watched way too much Big Brother and the Bachelor.
11. Bud says he is on vacation. What do you think he is doing? Sitting pool side, drinking a bud and watching the girls walk by.
12. When shopping at the grocery store, do you always return your cart? Depends. I rid myself of a guilty conscience by saying, "if everyone returned their carts, the cart guy would be out of a job."
13. Do you take compliments well? I didn't used to. Now, I simply say thank you.
Alphabe-Thursday - Orange
Head over to Jenny Matlock's for one of her fun meme's called Alphabe Thursday where she is covering the color orange today.
Here is Goddess and sexy Teach during the carnival this summer. That must have been a beautiful orange slide back in the day! I love all the reflections on this one! There are 3 Goddess's on that slide, can you see them!?
This Way - The Little Pink Flowers
Last night I took some shots of my daughter's Mother's Day gift which is still doing very well.
I will playing with the camera and seeing how far I could blur out the background. So technical right? Some photographer I am!
Diary of A Wimpy Kid Hit Shelves Yesterday! DVD Review by Me
Diary of a Wimpy Kid on Blu-ray and DVD was released yesterday. If you don’t know much about the movie it follows the life of pre-teen Greg Heffley through his trials and tabulations of life in junior high school. We can all relate to Greg Heffeley’s character because we know what it’s like being an adolescent trying to navigate our way through the social etiquettes of junior high.
I was given the opportunity to review Diary of A Wimpy Kid based on the best selling book by Jeff Kinney.
All the 8-12 kids in my little part of the world loved the book and while I never read it, knew a little about it. My husband was working late so I popped in the DVD last night and sat down to watch what I expected would be a OK movie.
We meet Greg Heffley played by Zachary Gordon about to enter middle school. His obnoxious older brother rushes in his room to wake him telling him he is going to be late for his first day of school. Greg races around trying to get ready and then realizes that it is the middle of the night. This sets up the life of Greg.
Greg wants to enter middle school and become a class favorite only to experience "Murphy's Law" every time he turns around. His friends embarrass him, he just cannot catch a break! Trying his hand at wrestling and being beat by a girl doesn't help his popularity either.
Things get more complicated as he and his "embarrassing" best friend part ways due to him trying to push himself further up the popularity ladder, he realizes that life wasn't really that bad after all.
What I Can Tell You:
- The story is cute. I love stories based on friendship whether they are kids or adults.
- The actors are cute but not overly cheesy.
- The movie is something we can all relate to. Middle school is one of the scariest times of our lives.
- Secondary character newspaper report Angie should have more screen time.
- I just had to Facebook "cheese touch" last night while watching. So funny!
- Great movie for kids age, 6-14 and parents will love it as well. Very much like The Wonder Years and Freaks and Geeks.
- My favorite parts were the comic book drawings included in the movie. Very Cute.
- In the end, schoolyard dweebes triumph over the cool kids. What's not to like?
- And.....Zoo Wee Mama to everyone reading!
Memory Rewind - Circa 2007
Here is your chance to use some of those older photos you have on your computer that you may have forgotten about. Post a photo and write a story about it.
Join me and bring back a memory.
My two sweeties back in 2008
Here they are looking as cute as ever. The bear is wearing an outfit that Handsome used to wear when he was a baby. I love putting their infant clothes on their stuffed animals or dolls because it gives me a reason to keep them and not clutter up the house. Goddess looks like she is doing a magazine spread. What is up with the hands on her hips. I loved the outfit she had on all the way down to the shoes. Cute.
Check out the body language in this one....he is like "you can't have my bear, mine"! She is like, "Oh no you didn't".
Blurry but I love it anyway. I love the way their faces look. So sweet and innocent. It also looks like she is thrusting out her belly as if to say, enough pictures already, bored!
Ahhhh memories!
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Evernight by Claudia Gray
What I Can Tell You: As I started the book, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. Another awkward girl, another school, popular kids, blah, blah, blah...it has all been done before. It wasn't until half way through the book that I thought, you know what...I like it. I can't wait for the second book which I hope to add to my birthday wish list. No one is what they seem. Not to give too much away; Bianca bites Lucas and everything turns topsy turvey. Very interesting premise! Not like anything else out there.
The book is an easy read, the plot twist was sort of sloppy and forced me to flip back to see if I missed clues. But other than that, the ending makes me want to see what will happen next.
Get a sneak peek at the Evernight prologue!
Listen to the soundtrack!
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy Goes To School
My goodness the summer has flown and with only 4 weeks left before my babies return to school I am already elbow deep in school things and summer fun. It is the in-between place that most of my friends are in at the moment. We want the kids to enjoy the summer and we have so much to do to get ready for school.
This year is going to be hard for me because my baby girl is heading out to full day kindergarten. It breaks my heart to think of her gone all day but she is so excited.
Last week I was mailed a screener copy of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Wubbzy Goes To School and the timing couldn't be more perfect.
Just like my little one, everybody's favorite yellow, bendy-tailed buddy loves to learn, learn, learn!
What We Can Tell You: My daughter and I loved the first episode the best, with Wubbzy not realizing that school would be so much fun.
Handsome's favorite part is the "Your a Star" song! He rewinds it so he can "rock out" about 3 more times each time.
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Immortal by Gillian Shields - Gothic Romance
What I Can Tell You: The story of Evie started out feeling a little familiar. A girl whose mother has passed, father in the military, sick grandma, ends up at a prestigious all girls school. Mean girls make her first few days unbearable, she is befriended by the outcasts, yada, yada...you know the drill. But that is where the predicability ends. Evie is different from everyone else, she starts seeing faces that no one else can see. She falls in love with a boy named Sebastian who can only see her at night. She is being warned by disembodied voices about him. Eventually Evie finds herself drawn into a web of past and present that she has cannot control.
I loved how Gillian slowly formed the "friendship/sisterhood/daughters of my daughters" to fit the story. Also, the addition of the journals written in the 1800's allow the story to flow without the need for a lot of back story leaving room for all the secrets of the Abbey. There is a secret society, disappearances, possible murders, family secrets, secret stairways, and that mysterious, first love!
The story is beautifully written and perfect for readers 15+.
Maria's Space high recommends this book.
Sunday Stealing: 28 Question Meme
1. Was your dad named after anyone? Not that I know of. His name is Robert Anthony and my grandpa was John. Maybe dad was named after his dad. Who knows? Gramps was in the Army.
2. What do you think is the minimal age to get married? 33+ Anything younger is crazy. You are a different person and don't really know yourself until you are in your 30's.
3. What’s the longest time that you‘ve been involved with the same person? I am with the same guy for 18+ years. We started out as friends. Before that, the longest was 3.5 years.
4. What actor/actress do you consider hot at the moment? Hot in career? Umm....Robert Pattinson and Emma Roberts. Hot in appearance? Robert Pattinson and Jessica Biel.
Since I have thrown a million Rob photos and this IS Bud's meme, here is a picture of one of the hottest actresses out there. Ms. Jessica Biel
5. What is you favorite album by a band? Ten by Pearl Jam
6. What is your favorite album by an individual artist? The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks
8. What was the last TV show that you watched? Meteorite Men on the Science Channel
9. How many people have you met from the blogosphere? Who are they? None. Other bloggers that I know personally, I knew before the Blog world.
10. What's your philosophy on life? Live and Let Live and Always be yourself
11. Do you think prescription drugs are over prescribed? YES
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? Yes of course, I wouldn't want to ever hurt you Bud.
13. What is your favorite memory in the last year? The day I left the hospital. My family was in the car waiting, the sun was shining, the air smelled for flowers. It was a spiritual moment.
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure? Porn!
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: I am capable of loving everyone. My heart is very large and I want to mother the world.
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they? To be healthy, to be wealthy and to be remembered.
17. Who would you want to get together with and make a cake? I want to make a cake with Tori Spelling and then make sure she eats it. She needs to gain at least 15 pounds poor thing.
18. Which country is your spiritual home? AMERICA
19. What is your big weakness? My Kids. I adore them and never want to see them hurt, crying or sad.
20. Do you think Judd Corizan is a good person? I haven't a clue who this is. Do I?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school? English and Biology.
22. Describe your accent: Hillbilly with a twist of Joisey and a smidgen of Brooklynese.
23. If you could change anything about yourself, would you? Nope. I wouldn't change anything. Well, maybe I would trade the health issues in for a body without any.
24. What do you wear to sleep? PJ pants and a tank top
25. What is your favorite casual outfit to wear? Outfit? I don't do outfits. I like capri's and a tank top.
26. Do you use cigarettes or alcohol? I hate cigarettes (my mom died of secondary lung cancer. She was a smoker). I don't understand people who don't know how to handle their alcohol and drink too much. But, with my live let live attitude; I say, if this is who you are and you are comfortable with it, who I am to say it is wrong? It is just wrong for me!
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!) We would sneak into the grotto at the Playboy mansion and see who is screwing who. Maybe you or I could even get some.
28. Rate the memes that you play generally. Use any scale or just in order. All the memes I play are a 9 but my Self Portrait Sunday is a 10 obviously. Would love to see some others play along.
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