Mark took a business trip this last week. He booked his flight through Continental. In doing so he got 10 free music downloads from iTunes. He sent them to me knowing that I like to listen to all sorts of random stuff and all mixed together. Mark likes to buy an entire CD. I kept a hold of the e-mail knowing I would get to it soon. I was thinking of what songs to get when I thought, "Hey, you know what? I will make a CD for the kids! They will love that!" I set up the account with iTunes and start searching. First stop, The Wiggles. Davis loves the Wiggles and we even went to their last tour in May. We had a great time and he just loves them. We took Emma years ago too. I find some of their favorites ( Toot, Toot, Chugga, Chugga Big Red Car ; Fruit Salad ; Can You Point Your Fingers). I download them and I am down three songs. Next I search LazyTown. Now I readily admit being a Wiggles fan. Having seen them twice in concert and they totally rocked. LazyTown was a different ...

I went today to see a good friends new baby boy. He was about the same size as Emma when she was born. But I do not remember her ever being that tiny. And I was retarded trying to hold him. He was all tiny and squishy and his little head was not attached. He was sleepy and making those baby noises and grinning from time to time. He had that sweet new baby smell too. When he was getting hungry and I was holding him, he tried to nurse on my arm. It was just so sweet to see a new life again. I knew it would be odd for me. I have this lasting feeling of not being done yet. I get comments all the time about how great it must be that I got a girl and a boy so I can just be done. I then feel like a freak because actually, no that is not the case. Yea, I have one boy and one girl. But it does not feel done to me. I can not explain why and I have no idea where it comes from. After I had Davis, I did not want anymore. It was not until he was about six months old that I thought it was something I...

Yes, Emma lost her first tooth. It was dramatic and exciting. Her tooth had been loose for about a month and a half. Yesterday it started bleeding some and she of course freaked out. I told her it was because it was so loose and getting ready to come out. I asked her if she wanted me to yank it, which of course sent her into a screaming fit. All day she was wiggling that tooth. Last night, I was on the computer looking for new tap shoes for her as she has out grown her other ones when I hear her shrieking, "MOM! My tooth came out. Am I bleeding???" Sure enough, Emma's first baby tooth has fallen out of her face. I wanted to take her picture but she was too upset about tasting blood. I got her a wash rag with an ice cube in it. Then we had to find something to put the tooth in. After all of that, I got a picture. Emma with a hole in her mouth. She put her tooth under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy. Luckily the Tooth Fairy remembered and had cash. Four dollars was left in h...

Yes, I have a MySpace page. You have to be a "member" to view it though. But incase you wanted to check it out, here you go. I do not blog anything there. I have added a few things there. Mostly just some things to make me look cooler. HA! I do not think I was ever cool............. So go check it out if you want!

Remember those? As I was browsing eBay (bad place to be...) for Hello Kitty items to go with this bedding set for my daughter, I got side tracked. Happens often. So I was poking around and checking things out. Mark reminded me of the United Colors of Benneton , which reminded me of this really cool watch my sister had from there. She was five years older and it was such a cool watch. Anyway, so then I remembered the Swatch watches. I go searching in eBay and lo and behold I found my first ever Swatch . My fishy watch! I asked for it for Christmas in the fifth grade (note to self: that watch now is being sold as vintage??!! Crap...). My mom wrapped it in a shoe box so I would not know which one it was. I do not know what happened to that watch. Over the years I collected some more. I had one like this . I had one with flags all around instead of numbers. I also had the guards . Both kinds . I even did the whole take two of the rubbery kind and twist them and put them on the watch. The...

I remember when I used to be able to eat Taco Bell aka Toxic Hell at midnight. Not only did it not seem to hang around my tummy and ass for long, it did not upset my stomach. Now that I am getting older (SUCK), not only does the Toxic Hell hang around FOREVER in my stomach, ass and even my thighs now, it gives me a horrific stomach upset. And not only is it Toxic Hell, which could be understandable, but it now seems it is any fast food. Yes folks, when you start to get old, you simply can not eat the fast food any longer. Somebody really should have told me this. It was one thing to not be able to handle Toxic Hell at midnight anymore. It is a whole other ball of wax when even Sonic can not be had for lunch. In the middle of the day. Did I mention that it sucks to get old(er)? In the words of Ben Folds (love him, even named our daughter Emmaline after one of his songs): Everybody knows It sucks to grow up And everybody does It's so weird to be back here. Let me tell you what The y...

Yes folks, my hairdryer bit the dust today. I have no idea how long I have had her, but it has been at least seven years. I love that hairdryer. I had one a lot like it before this one. I hope I can find another one like her. .....

I have a hot date for Friday night. And I am bloated and have nothing to wear. Great. About this hot date... Mark has a thing for Kevin Smith movies. Much like his fetish for Quentin Tarantino. So Kevin Smith's newest movie, Clerks II hits theaters Friday and that is my hot date. Going to see this movie with my husband. Reminds me of when we were dating. Only back then a movie only cost about five dollars. And I did not have mommy tummy and wrinkles around my eyes. But I have to admit, I still get a little excited, some butterflies going when I am getting ready for one of our dates. Something about going out together reminds me of all our hopes and dreams we had all those years ago. And how we have watched our lives come together and our dreams become reality over the years. So much had changed since our first date, yet some things are very much the same. I will find something to wear, spend more time than usual getting ready and spend some time alone with the one man who can stil...

Today we went out to do our errands (yes, in the 103 degree weather, YUCK). After our trip to Target, we went to Hen House. It was quite a drive because it seems all of Lee's Summit's roads are being fixed right now. We took a nice detour and along the way the kids are sitting in the van talking. Going back and forth about things. All of the sudden I hear, "Mooooom?" You know that LONG, hint of a whine, Mom that kids give you? Only this was coming from my boy, my baby??? "Yeeeeeeeeeees?" I answer back. "Where are we going?" my boy asks. Then it hit me. My boy is no longer a baby. Not only does he do most things bigger kids do (save using the toilet but that is for another day...) but now he realizes when he has been in the car too long for him to do errands. So much so that he has the whinny mom thing down and then asks where it is he is being dragged to next. Where, oh where, did my baby go???

This One's For The Girl's (Martina McBride) It all started about a year ago, at our Ten Year High School Reunion. While most of us had been in contact off and on over the year's, the Girl's Night out plan was born only a year ago. These are women I have known for a minimum of 12 years. Women who when I met them were young girl's. I have since wondered on more than one occasion what it is that ties us together. We have seen each other through more than most of our husband's have seen us through. We have been together for over half of our lives. We watched each other grow up and change. And accepted it all. These are women who have watched me cry over my first boyfriend and visited me when I had my first baby. These are women who got Taco Bell with me at midnight and who have joined me for brunch at Andre's. These are women who have drank so much with me that we held each other's hair out of the toilet and who have sipped a nice glass of wine with me in re...

Surely I am not the only one who has these. Junk drawers. Maybe I am the only one who has more than one though.... So today I decided that it would be a good day to clean out my junk. Knowing that next week we will likely be ordering new school materials for Emma. (Yes, we homeschool. Second year. That is for another post....) I had to clean out our office/school area. That is where it started. I sorted through all the books and stuff from last year. Plied it up for a big box. Next was the storage closet. Living in a hundred year old house, we have approximately four closets. Only one of which is in a bedroom. The closet in what we use as an office is where we store stuff. It is like a giant junk drawer. Lots of stuff had to go. Once that was taken care of, I moved on to the dining room. Where we have not one, not two, not three, but yes FOUR drawers for stuff. Cleaned those out and went after the one junk drawer in the kitchen. Cleaned that one out and realized maybe I should clean un...

Through the grapevine that is the interent I found Tabblo . Go check it out and make your own. Cool, huh? Here is mine that I made. Nifty. See my Tabblo>

I look at my life and honestly it is good. I get to stay at home, which more often that not I love. I have two kids, both healthy, happy, and smart. I have a husband whom would go the end of the earth and back for me, on most days. I have a great family, both mine and my husband's. I am healthy. But I am sitting on the edge of thirty and I do not like it. I downloaded songs to make a summer CD for the kids (Kelly's kids, mine, and my cousin's kids) for the family reunion. I was trying to get a good mix and since we all know my taste in music leaves a lot to be desired, it was tough. But the kids listen to the same stuff I do, so I knew they would enjoy it. Amidst songs like "I'm In Love With A Stripper" and "Dirty Little Secret", I put "My Next Thirty Years". At the time I thought it was a good country song and it IS Tim McGraw. Then I listened to it and realized I was going to be in MY next 30 years. Crap. So to all who are in my boat now,...