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Looking at the Bright Side
2008-10-08 14:55:00
Today, as I continue to try to convince myself that, if Sweetie's biggest school-related issues revolve around recess likes and dislikes, than we're/she's doing okay - I will focus my writing on something really GREAT about Sweetie.Sweetie loves words. Reading, being read to, learning about (and using) puns and expressions, word games and puzzles, you name it. Sweetie is a little wordsmith.The other night she woke up sobbing at 10:30 p.m. from a nightmare. Hubby and I tried to console her and finally got her back in bed, only for her to come running to us shortly thereafter because she still couldn't stop thinking about the bad thing.Then I got an idea.I know, Sweetie. Why don't you come up with me to my bed. I'll do a crossword puzzle in my book and you can watch. Would that make you feel better?Her face lit up! Yes! That's a great idea, Mama. Good thinking.I know Sweetie has loved cuddling in bed with me on the occasional morning she catches me awake before either of us is ...
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Mama Monday #43.1
2008-10-06 14:13:00
Theme: HarvestHappy October! This week will see Hubby and my 9th wedding anniversary. We married during the most beautiful part of the year in New Hampshire - the trees red, orange and golden, blowing in the crisp autumn air.We honeymooned in California, some of the time in the Napa Valley, during harvest time. Wineries bringing in their grapes to begin their major wine production for the year. As novices, at the time, in our ever increasing appreciation for wine, it really was the perfect time of year to visit the region and learn about the labor and love intensive wine making process.This past weekend several of our friends attended Fall Harvest at some of our own NH wineries. Had we realized the timing, we would have loved to have gone as well.Instead, we stayed home (mostly) and did some of our own harvesting...Yummy carrots, scallions and tomatoes. From our own yard. Really - you can't get any better than that.Happy harvest time, everyone. Appreciate all that you have sown.
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Sunday Sundries
2008-10-05 14:44:00
As I've recently mentioned, I've been fortunate enough to have visited the beautiful country of France. April in Paris was magical, and the week before, spent on the northern coast of Brittany (just west of Mt. St. Michel - a place I'd previously only dreamed of visiting) was amazing... like stepping back in time. Ever since, Hubby and I have promised each other that we will return, now along with Sweetie. But this time, I want to make it a longer trip combined with some time spent in Britain. As a true lover of all things literary - especially Victorian English literature - I would so love to do a Literary Tour of Great Britain. That, for me, is my current dream vacation.But until the time comes when we can afford such a world wind trip (IF we could ever afford it, that is), I'll have to settle for surfing the 'net for all sorts of British fair. Hey, maybe I could trick myself into believing I'm a real Londoner if I "shop" around their stores and (at least in my mind) fill my...
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Sweetie Saturday #126 - Adaptable Edition
2008-10-04 15:09:00
So - Sweetie's been doing pretty well with this whole "adapting" thing we've explained to her. I've heard myself tell her "That's not a toy - stop playing with it" (in regards to small pieces of furniture, blankets, kids scissors, etc...) much more often this week than I have brought up the whole "adapt" thing. Still - there have been a number of instances over the last several days where "adaptation" was a big deal...Last weekend we had 2 kids birthday parties to attend - one for Sweetie's friend on Saturday , then the other for our young niece on Sunday. First the friend's glow bowling party - It was really cool! A ton of fun and Sweetie completely loved it. She can't wait to go back!However, after the bowling and during the pizza-and-cake-eating party time, Sweetie was the only kid there (and it was a large gathering) who complained about her attached-to-the-table-seat not being able to scoot in closer, about not having a fork to eat her pizza with, about not seeing where t...
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Finding Me, No?
2008-10-01 15:47:00
Uhhh.... have you noticed lately?..... This blog has become one huge "Amy Becomes One With Herself" monologue? Yeah... It's cool, though. I'm discovering more and more about myself everyday.(I guess that's what happens when your kid goes off to school, your husband off to work, and you're left to ponder your belly button all by yourself - just you, your cats, and the insurmountable job postings/house cleaning/Praxis studying/Christmas gift making responsibilities staring you in the face that you figure can be put off for just a little while longer while you figure out just exactly what you are destined to be doing in this exact moment in this exact location in the universe.)I used to be a very wishy washy person, and I do mean that in a very wishy washy way. I couldn't make up my mind about anything. I couldn't choose which side of any argument to come down on - whether important or not. I never felt like I had anything to add to most conversations because I didn't feel well ...

Mama Monday #42.1
2008-09-29 14:47:00
Theme: FortuneIn the midst of all the despair that we're seeing nation-wide on the economic front, I thought I'd dwell on the subject of fortune in my own life...Years ago, before we were married, Hubby and I took a trip to France - Saint Malo for one week, then on to Paris for the weekend. We took literally hundreds of pictures (actual film/have-to-get-them-developed pictures!). More than 300, if I recall correctly. We couldn't wait to get home and share them all with our family and friends.Then we got home. We took all the rolls to be developed. And we went to pick them up. And we were told that none of them came out. N.O.N.E. None. Our camera was broken the whole time and we had no clue. It functioned as if it was working the whole time. But... no. Nothing. After our initial shock and sadness began to wear off, Hubby and I came up with an alternative plan. Hubby had previously lived in France - in the exact same place we visited - for some months during college. He had tons of...
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Sweetie Saturday #125 - Not So Funny Edition
2008-09-27 14:50:00
Another week, another span of time without very much Sweetie hilarity.No - this week we've really been working on Sweetie's attitude. She's got a big one. And we're beginning to see how it's liable to get her in trouble at school if she's not careful.Her attitude about recess, for instance. Apparently, recess for the Kindergarteners is either longer or shorter, depending on what other activities are going on that day. But when Sweetie started alternating between beams of joy when recess was a long time today, and Miss Grumpy Face when recess was too short today, I took it to be a thing of perspective - recess is always the same length of time, it just seems longer or shorter to Sweetie depending on what activities she's able to fit in during the allotted time.But at Parent Orientation night we did find out that the length of recess does change from day to day. Okay - whatever.Anyway - I'm sick of picking up Miss Grumpy Face and hearing her tell me that school was not that gr...
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Lazy Parenting....Smart Parenting???
2008-09-24 22:23:00
Sweetie really loves to play games on the computer. At pbskids.org, nickjr.com, and peepandthebigwideworld.com, to name just a few. She knows how to get to these sites, how to navigate around the pages and games, how to read directions, and she is altogether quite self sufficient in her quest for on-line games and educational activities. Even deftly mastering the right-handed mouse when she's a tried and true lefty. Pretty impressive, huh?(Now, now... don't get all uppity on me. Either myself or Hubby is always in the room with her whenever she's on the computer, she only knows how to get to her sites, she knows to click on only the sites meant for her, and she is very good about asking to go on the computer in the first place, then getting off-line when told to do so).But, as self sufficient as she is, there are time (many of them, actually) when Sweetie will come upon a game that she doesn't quite understand how to play. Or that requires school-aged knowledge she's not yet ha...
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Mama Monday #41.1
2008-09-22 14:45:00
Theme: Principle This slate slab hangs in our kitchen. It's often filled with the week's shopping list/dinner menu. Or To Do lists. And the bags per month of book and clothing donations we make each year. Those bits of information change from time to time, as you'd expect. But other things about the board always remain. Our family principles.A thank you to the universe for conspiring in our favor. A reminder to make art every day. And an affirmation in the upper left corner that acknowledges the wonderful things we have - or expect to have - within our family and individual lives: a wealth of health, happiness and love, to name a few.Yesterday we went to church - something Hubby and I have never really done much of together, and certainly haven't done any of since shortly after Sweetie's birth. Not that we don't have any spiritual beliefs. More like we don't feel that we necessarily have to attend formal gatherings and abide by a set standard of principles and beliefs in orde...
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Sweetie Saturday #124 - Facebook Edition
2008-09-20 14:26:00
Yeah... so... Hi!... How are you? I'm good. We're all good. I just don't know what to offer here in terms of Sweetie's weekly Sweetie-isms. Because I don't feel like I've seen too much of her this week.Oh! I can tell you that Sweetie is, more or less, over her "love phase". Not that she's turned the other way, that is. She's just - Sweetie. Which is great! But there was one lingering instance late last week, while driving in the car, that Sweetie piped up from the back seat, completely out of the blue:You're very handsome, Daddy.Thank you, Sweetie.I really like your hairstyle, Mama.Thank you.Ummm.... okay.... that was random.... what Eddie Haskell-type kid is in your class? Where are all these compliments and fits of love coming from!Anyway. Back to this week. Sweetie did show me how to make the Bowling Buddies game on Facebook go faster, by clicking away your dancing avatar between rounds so you can get right back to the bowling. And when it finally became a habit for me t...
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Whiney
2008-09-19 03:22:00
No, not Sweetie. Me.My second shift mail processing job is.... fine. Easy enough. Repetitive. Fast paced. Pressure to reach certain (insanely high) nightly quotas. The people there seem nice enough. And I do mean "seem", as there's no occasion during working time to have any sort of conversation or idle chatter with them at all. Work, work, work. Process, process, process. Quota, quota, quota. No radio playing in the background. Just the steady hum of the computers and envelop-cutting machines. That's it.As I said in my post last week, I don't mind consistent, reliable job duties. I like knowing what my time will be spent doing. I'm not big on changes or surprises.But this worker-bee, always "on" function as a mail processor? Yeah - I'm not so much lovin' it. At all.Especially considering that I'm not making any more money by performing these tasks than what I'm receiving in my unemployment checks anyway.Especially because I know that, as the work load increases the closer w...

Not Tonight, I've Got a Headache
2008-09-18 04:21:00
So I had this whole post in mind - a great tie-in between a book I just finished and Hubby's take on his new found duties as the one-and-only-evening-time-parent. I'll probably still write it very soon. But just not tonight.It's late, I've had one heck of a busy week, and tomorrow is no exception. I'm home from my 3rd night of the mail processing job (1st night: this isn't so bad, nice people, interesting enough work. 2nd night: still okay, getting a better hang of things, new co-worker is a fellow mom of an afternoon kindergartener at Sweetie's school. 3rd night: this is going much slower than before, my machine keeps jamming, I'm not doing anywhere near the numbers I should be, I want to be home!) and I'm wondering what tomorrow's meeting/orientation/interview at the MDA will be like. All things being equal, I'm really thinking I'd prefer a day job than a night job. So we'll see.Anyway - it's late. I've got dishes to do, a bath to take, some Advil to take, and an at...
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Mama Monday #40.1
2008-09-15 13:44:00
Theme: OptionsIt's so funny to me when Sweetie uses big words. For instance, if I tell her to pick out a game and I'll play it with her, she could whine about how she doesn't know which game to pick. But instead she says she doesn't know what option to chose.It's just cute.Well, today I may be faced with my own options from which I must make the best decision possible.Today, I'm starting a new job. Please, please - don't get all excited now. I got it through an employment agency and the full extent of the duties (as has been explained to me thus far) is that I'll be opening mail and doing some data entry. It's a long term assignment (that is, no end date has been pre-determined) and it's only about 2 miles from my home. Wonderful!Oh, and it's second shift. Yippee.Actually, that's good. I'll still be completely free in the morning to get Sweetie to and from school, then have a few hours with her before I have to go to work. But that leaves she and Hubby to deal with each...
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Sweetie Saturday #123 - Sweet Lovin' Edition
2008-09-13 14:00:00
So, um... I have mentioned how much Sweet ie loves school, right? Because she, uh... REALLY looovvvvees school. Oh, and just about everyone - and everything - else these days too.I'm calling it XTreme Lovin'. And I'm also calling it somewhat disturbing.I love three things, Daddy. I love you, I love 7:00 and I love Mama.(Yes, I too noticed that I got third billing. C'est la vie. I'm used to it by now).(Oh, and 7:00 is the time she must get up every school morning in order to get to school on time).Some examples of Sweetie's XTreme Lovin':* She is super hyper these days: twirling herself around and around and AROUND on the floor for a very long time, just for the fun of it. (Okay, that one isn't so much love-filled, just high energy filled).* She climbs up on furniture - sofas, low coffee tables, chairs, etc - and then jumps at you (apparently hoping to land in your arms, which never works, especially if I'm the jumpee), exclaiming, "I love you Mama (Daddy, Nana, Grammy... who...
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Obsessive/Compulsive Personality
2008-09-11 04:03:00
I can get completely obsessive.I've been trying to fight a particular bad habit for a very. long. time. I have had bouts of successful "time outs" from this habit, but ultimately I have not yet had a totally successful complete break.I have one glass of wine each evening. Just enough to make me happily buzzed - wanting a second glass - but still keeping me "with it" enough to know I really should not have any more.I've always been one to get stuck on particular ideas - the way I "know" things "must" be - and then, when they don't work out that way, I feel totally crushed.While I do like a challenge, I don't take too terribly well to change. My favorite day of the week back at my old job was Fridays - always completely insane, work-wise, but also really predictable in how the basic layout of the day and my duties would present themselves.I know myself to be so totally capable of setting myself in front of the computer screen for hours on end, seeking and searching and hunting and...
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Mama Monday #39.1
2008-09-08 15:05:00
Theme: ScheduleYep - right on schedule.... not even 2 full weeks into the school year and Sweetie has already caught her first big cold. Poor thing - she hasn't been sick since last winter. Last night she was lying on our couch, all decked out on our couch with her bed pillow, sleeping friends and blanket, completely pitiful. Not even laughing at the funny AFV videos. I seriously wondered if I'd send her to school or not today.I gave her nighttime cold medicine, took her to bed, and fully expected at least one visit from her in the middle of the night.Then - nothing. I didn't see her again until 7:00 a.m. on the dot.How are you, Sweetie?Great!Really? You feel okay?Yep.Great!She was no longer warm to the touch, and she was in a subdued-yet-chipper mood. Okay! Here's your daytime cold medicine, some travel tissues, and away you go! Have a great day at school!This will be Sweetie's first full week of school. What with an end of the week school year start, then a Monday holiday, to...
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Sweetie Saturday #122
2008-09-06 14:03:00
How was school today, Sweetie?Great! We got to play outside for a long, long time!(the next day)How was school today, Sweetie?Not so great because we only had a very short time outside.You know - school is not all about recess. You're there to learn things, not play all the time.I know.------------------------------------ --------(2nd day of school)What did you do at school today, Sweetie?Oh! We went to the gym for a show!Oh... that's called an assembly.Yeah... and yesterday the special thing was that we went on a tour of the whole school.Wow! That must have been fun. Did you see where your music and art rooms are?Yep.And did you see where the school nurse is?Yep.Cool!Yeah... I wonder if EVERY day is going to have a special part to it. First the tour, then the show in the gym... I can't wait to see what's next!------------------------------------ ------I love hearing all the cute songs Sweetie is learning at school. My favorite is the Hallway Song (sung to the tune of The Farmer i...
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Taking Stock
2008-09-03 22:23:00
I've been wondering lately whether or not this blog is of any "use" anymore in the blogosphere.I mean, I haven't written here about spina bifida related topics in a very long time. Concerning that, I now write such posts at Disaboom, and am very happy to do so. While here I write about regular life, funny (or irritating) Sweetie stuff, and other complete randomness. Does this really need to continue? Should it continue? I just haven't been able to make up my mind on that.Then I get a new email from a new reader. A reader who has spina bifida, is expecting her first child, and is thrilled to have found my site. Sure, she may be mostly reading my older posts at this point. But she's reading, she's gaining insight, and hopefully some comfort. And she's glad to know she's "not the only one."Then I chat with one of the regular readers of this blog over at Facebook. She's an old friend of Hubby's and has often left comments here. She's also been kind enough to send Sweetie some ...
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Mama Monday #38.1
2008-09-01 04:19:00
Theme: Relax(Yes, for all you Sunday night readers - I am publishing this Mama Monday a bit early. But it's my blog, I can do what I want to.)Anyway - I'll let you in on a little secret - I don't always sleep so well.Oh, most of the time I read or do crossword puzzles until I get sleepy, turn out the light and fall quickly to sleep. Most of the time this sleep "sticks" all the way through to morning.But sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night for one reason or another. Last night, for instance, I woke up when Hubby returned from a 3 a.m. bathroom trip. That was all it took. And I could not fall back asleep.I used to be able to fall back to sleep. Easily! But when happens these days (as in - pretty much since my lay off) - then I'm awake from then on.I've even had occasions where I've completely given up on the possibility of falling asleep again and have come downstairs to surf around on the computer.The thing is - in the dark and quiet of the night, I just can't relax...

Sweetie Saturday #121 - School Girl Edition!
2008-08-30 15:08:00
Folks, we have a change of plans for today's Sweetie Saturday . Today we will not be laughing at Sweetie's silly words. No, today we will be admiring Sweetie's transition to School Girl .Kindergarten started a couple days ago. And you, dear readers, must see some photos documenting this momentous occasion.First, we have the Day Before School Starts "vacation" pictures - a trip to the beach.Here we go! Off to the beach!Ah, but first - a ride on the merry-go-round.Sweetie and Daddy - heading off to find seaside treasures.Now - on to the next day - First Day of Kindergarten!No, Sweetie isn't normally so "faceless". Unfortunately, in terms of this here blog, this is the only "official" First Day of School shot you're going to see of a posing Sweetie. At least I think you can see from her obvious posing - You have to take a picture of me like this so it looks like I'm walking away to school! - what a true ham Sweetie is.Bye bye, Sweetie! I'll pick you up later! Oh, never mind... she...
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I'm Just A Mom
2008-08-27 14:08:00
So what. So I haven't been feeling good - or made to feel good - about my writing lately. So I'm feeling a bit (okay, a lot) unsure about what I truly want to be, career-wise, when I "grow up". So I no longer feel particularly confident in my abilities to successfully pull off most jobs. So I'm having trouble finding employment after all these months. Something must be at least somewhat subpar about my resume, experience or cover letters - or me - for almost all of the hundreds of applications I've submitted to be overlooked. (Geesh! Talk about over-sensitive! I'm tellin' you. I've had a bad few weeks of it here.)So what.Because I've made a realization. I may not know what I want to be when I "grow up". But I know what I'm meant to be for at least the next year.A mom.Sweetie starts Kindergarten tomorrow. She'll be in class every school day morning until next June. And I will be here to both drop her off and pick her up. I will be here to help her with any homework (yes, ho...

Mama Monday #37.1
2008-08-25 14:08:00
Theme: WordsAs I was saying....I've been feeling mopey, over-sensitive and unsure. Something just wasn't right, but I couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was.Then, late last week after yet another day of high emotions and super sensitivity - it hit me. Words. They're not working for me lately. Not at all.Not to get into all sorts of specifics, but suffice it to say that I've not been able to effectively express myself very well with the written word over the last few months. I could point to several specific examples for you. But I won't. I don't wish to revisit these awkward, embarrassing and downright painful places in my recent history. Sorry.But after this most recent situation late last week, something clicked...Yes, I was feeling embarrassed and over-sensitive - even angry! - about how others were both misinterpreting my words and insisting that their words were more correct. But at the same time, I made the connection of how my carefully chosen words, in different situat...
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Sweetie Saturday #120 - As Seen On TV Edition
2008-08-23 13:38:00
It is no secret that Sweetie watches her fair share of television. I generally have no problem with it and, given that we only have a very small number of channels available to us, she's mostly exposed to good ol' PBS childrens' programming. For the most part this means educational and fun kids shows which help teach her everything from reading to math to critical thinking. S'all good.However, after some recent comments from my dear Sweetie, I'm certainly having my doubts about some of the other, non-PBS programs that flash in front of her eyes.Exhibit A: (this one not so "bad" - just funny).(Oh, and for this one you have to remember that Sweetie refers to both her reflection and her shadow as "Rubberband". No one knows exactly why - she just does. Sweetie's reason? Because Rubberband likes to make rubberbands! Duh!).Like a lot of people, we've been watching Olympic coverage over the last couple weeks. Last week's nighttime coverage happened to feature synchronized diving. I...
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Just A Chance That Maybe I'll Find Better Days
2008-08-13 15:39:00
I'm feeling mopey. And over-sensitive. And unsure. I'm feeling just plain "not right".I just started posting here again, after about a 6 week break. I knowingly skipped one week where I was supposed to write, and then I just never turned back.I post very regularly over here, but after looking at the majority of those posts, it seems I use that forum as my main place to complain about my aches and pains.And right here... I don't know. I feel like all my posts can be categorized in 1 of 4 groupings: boasts, phonily inspirational, complaints, or pure fluff. I feel like I'm constantly talking about how amazing (or irritating) Sweetie is. If I'm not doing that, I feel like I'm trying to boost my own spirits - not very successfully - as I continue my job search, telling myself I'm doing all I can to find something, that we're okay, that something great will come around in time when, in reality, who the heck knows? This is very stressful and difficult and agonizing, no matter what ...
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Mama Monday #36.1
2008-08-11 16:46:00
Theme: BrainI think Sweetie's brain is going to be both an asset and a hinderance to her when she starts Kindergarten in a few weeks. As my regular readers know, she's a very eager learner, constantly curious about so many different things. She loves playing both Detective and Super (Sweetie). Her imagination and creative skills are top notch. I do not believe she'll dislike school in the least, as all these wonderful qualities of hers will only urge her on toward better understanding of the world around her.However! She already reads so very well - I wonder if she'll be bored with the presumably very basic Kindergarten letter identification curriculum. She's also learning about math and many other subjects. Plus - as I've illustrated here so much lately - she can certainly be much more of a talker than a listener. She thrills at making up her own random "rules" for everyone in the house to follow. I hope Sweetie can listen well to her teachers and learn to follow the school'...
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Sweetie Saturday #119 - The Answer Edition
2008-08-09 13:50:00
Thanks to her Daddy, Sweetie is ill-informed about a couple (okay - several) things...She thinks Fear Toxin is when someone unexpectedly pushes all her hair onto her face/into her eyes. And she honestly thinks the green husks covering ears of corn are called "green (Sweetie) crazy". Makes sense, after all... there are a few different types of food that include her real name in their names. So why not corn husks too? ------------------------------------ --------------So the other day Sweetie and I were watching one thing or another on T.V. when a commercial came on talking about something that was going to happen in October of this year. This made me think of Halloween.Pretty much ever since last Halloween, Sweetie has claimed she wants to be a plate for this next Halloween (she's strange - what can I say?) But I hadn't checked in with her on that for some time, so I took the opportunity to ask her then...What do you want to be for Halloween, again, Sweetie?(thinks for a few seconds...
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Sweetie Wednesday Intervention
2008-08-06 20:46:00
I'm not having a good day. Actually, yesterday afternoon/evening was worse. But still - it's not been the best of times for me.So, in an attempt to lighten my mood and move on with life, I'm staging my very own Sweetie Wednesday Intervention! A little Sweetie can go a long way toward making a person all happy and giggly, after all. The other day Sweetie came up with her idea of what she wants to be for Halloween this year.I'll fill you in on the whole exchange she and I had in my next Sweetie Saturday. But for now, all you get is this clue - a drawing Sweetie did of herself in her costume.Couldn't you just eat her up?! Delish!

Mama Monday #35.1
2008-08-04 14:57:00
Theme: OppositeNice picture, huh? Sweetie reaching out to pet a 13 foot long albino Burmese python. No fear at all. That's my girl!But... how can she be? Because you'd never catch me voluntarily closer to that thing than need be. Hubby took that picture. I stayed in my seat in the corner of the room, thank you very much.Not that I saw Hubby jumping at the chance to offer assistance when the animal trainer asked for an adult to help hold up the snake while the kids admired it. Behind his cell phone camera was a comfortable place for him to be.And what about all those questions she asked! Geesh! The girl's hand was in the air - asking questions or offering up random information - more times than I could count. The poor trainer graciously paused to listen to Sweetie on many, many occasions.Me? I'm a quiet listener. I always have been. I may have questions, but I figure if I listen long and close enough, I'll learn the answers anyway.Sweetie would do wise to realize this for hersel...
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Sweetie Saturday #118 - Coupon Offer Edition
2008-08-02 14:00:00
Coloradians are good folk. At least that's my impression of them. The good people at Disaboom are set up out there in Denver. And remember that book I was reading - Just Do It? (Finished it - good read - pick it up!) The book's author lives in CO with his wife and daughters. And of course we can't forget about Trista and Ryan nor good ol' Jesse from The Bachelorette. All cool, down to earth people, from what I can tell.Now I'm adding another group of good people who live in Colorado: those at the Tees for Change company.Started by a mom who, along with her husband, has always been "committed to living an eco-friendly lifestyle with a deep belief in positive thinking", Tees for Change design and sell organic shirts for men, women and infants that both inspire and motivate.Simply put, their company's mission is 3-fold:Not only do these shirts display bold, powerful messages - but they are truly stunning to look at. Here are just a few examples:See what I mean? Who wouldn't feel...
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No Fine Girls Just Ugly Faces
2008-07-30 14:53:00
Sweetie has a problem. In turn, Hubby and I have a problem.Sweetie's attitude problem, that is.Sweetie's attitude is like a whole separate creature. A creature that takes over she who is possessed and turns her into a drama queen extraordinaire. And with the attitude? The Face.The Ugly Face. Bottom lip turned outward. Cruel eyebrows. Angry eyes.Oh, how many times we and other family members have told Sweetie to stop with the Ugly Faces . And the arms. The crossed armed/tilted-hips thing. That's got to go as well. And she's been told as much. Several times.If something is not going Sweetie's way - and let me tell you, things very rarely seem to be going her way, at least in her eyes - out comes The Face and The Arms and The Stance. And with all that, there is no doubt - Sweetie IS NOT AMUSED.Luckily, I am beginning to see the bare minimum inching away from Evil Attitude/Body Altering Girl. She's beginning - ever so slowly - to voice her displeasure.What? You think this would onl...
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