Oct

29

well, it looks like i STILL have no RSS feeds upda…

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well, it looks like i STILL have no RSS feeds updating… And the few blogs that I have actually gone to and tried to comment on I have gotton error messeges. So sorry my friends if you have not heard from me! OH well.

If you didn’t see Oprah on Friday, try to somehow. It was probably the best Oprah I have ever seen. It was her town meeting format with Bill O’reilly on it. So people were able to ask him whatever they wanted.

Some new things I learned that added to my detest of the A.C.L.U.:
- the provide pro bono lawyer representation to NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association.) If you don’t know what that is you may never want to know. Basically it’s members are men that believe sexual affairs with young boys are okay…. I won’t go further. They are truly sick.

- (more debatable among you I’m sure). They defend the criminals in GITMO. Whether or not you agree with me on the GITMO situation… they aren’t americans so why is the supposed American Civil Liberties Union putting money toward these complete criminals that are largely treated better than criminals in most countries. (that are even citizens of that country!)

Okay, I really don’t want a GITMO debate, but if you don’t like my #2 point than just discard it and at least acknowledge the sickness of #1. I don’t think any one I know, though there political views may vary widely, will disagree with me that is pretty sickening. Make no mistake, they don’t care about our children as much as they care about the rights of perverts.

I have to get going. So much on my mind lately. Most of which I will keep to myself. Election time gets heated. I get sensitive. And it can be so divisive. But I still can’t change the passion with which I hold my beliefs. Still it is my passion and my difficulty in holding back that cause me to TRY and avoid posting too much during election season.

One thing we can probably all agree on. The terrible slandering, degrading commercials are getting old. Clean it up politicians, could you?

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Oct

25

Whack RSS

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My rss feeds aren’t working! Basically it shows me that no one on the massive amount of blogs I read has published anything in the last 5 days. And when people like Dooce are on it you know that just isn’t true. So anyway, any mac/ safari browsers out there have any idea what could be wrong?

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Oct

23

Halloween Walk

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Over the weekend we went with a couple of my oldest friends (we have been friends since we were 7!) to a local town’s halloween walk. It was fun to get the kids all dressed up and take them out together. All the pics are Here, but these are a few of my favorites.







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Oct

17

First off… JJ and I celebrate 4 years on the 19t…

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First off… JJ and I celebrate 4 years on the 19th :) But we celebrated instead last Friday. His wonderful parents were in town for 5 days and during that time they agreed to stay with the boys so we could go out and stay at a hotel one night. We chose the Westin where we stayed after our wedding 4 years ago. All in all it was a very random night! We ate at Martini’s in the short north where we ran into Katie (cousin) and Joe (old friend)… Joe works for the Columbus Blue Jackets and often has extra tix to events at the arena. This night they were headed to PBR… PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDERS CONTEST- NO JOKE. They had extra tickets so we decided that was a more interesting idea than indulging in a movie. Let me tell you… if you have never been to one of these competitions you MUST go. The people watching alone is so fun (Pixie, it may be more common of a site to you down in TX, but not here! :)). Then the bull riding really did have me on the edge of my seat. The intros with the hip hop and techno (yes, you read that right) were truly unexpected. PBR written in pyro-technics was another highlight…. oh so much random fun… Check out the floating bull I took a picture of with my phone.

Anyway after this we went to the hotel to check in and found we had already been upgraded (way to go Starwood Preferred Guest Card!) To top it off, it was the exact room we were in after our wedding and we didn’t even ask for that! Very cool. Unfortunately, some of the coolness started wearing off after that.

We went to the bar and I got some LOUSEY calamari. Then when we were about to go to sleep Security started screaming through our door. Something about routine checks and our door was slightly cracked (we even had it latched!) This really freaked me out… I screamed quite loudly and the front desk had to call up to let us know they were sorry for scaring us. Apparently, new policies have the guards circling at all times and they have to check a room if it is even the slightest ajar. I never really recovered from this and entered a night of ZERO sleep. By 4am I was incredibly exhausted to the point of complete dizziness and nausea. Jeff woke up to me miserable and called down for toast and sprite. I think MAYBE I fell asleep around 6am to then wake up around 9.

You see- the thing is I went into this night with one major expectation. SLEEP! Lord knows I don’t get tons of it lately and I just could not wait to sleep AMAZINGLY without interruptions and wake up whenever my body feels like it. Those of you with little ones know what I am talking about. Instead we went home with me still feeling a bit off and both of us more exhausted then when we left. Oh well.

Aside from this, we had a great several days with “mimi” and “pawpaw”. My parents joined us a few times as well and it is so fun to see the heaven the boys are in with both their grandparents around. Here are some pics of the boys at the zoo (again with phone)

Owen was really distraught after we took JJ’s parents to the airport. It was hard to watch because he was really emotional but didn’t seem to fully understand why. Poor guy.

Okay now for a side note rant- and it won’t be politics this time.. :)

I was watching the today show (or ONE of those morning shows) and they had the women from “what not to wear” on who have apparently written some book. If I had the time I would research the facts and let you know all about the book and what not, but truthfully I just don’t care to spend my time doing that.

During the show, they took 3 women “housewives” that needed a make-over. As they introduced what they were going to do I started paying attention hoping to maybe discover a new awesome super stylish pair of jeans that are condusive to mommy- life, or a new brand of designer knit top- easy care, easy wash, but super sassy….

NOPE. Instead they took these some-what frumpy moms and paraded them in clothes that make me think there is NO WAY ON EARTH these women (the authors) have EVER been stay-at-home-mom’s. Seriously! The one women had a very cute taylored suit coat and pants… VERY CUTE, something I would maybe love to wear if I were going to some super stylish job, but not ever put on if I were staying at home running after my little boys. The 2nd was put in some ultra trendy outfit (shirt and skirt) with a wide waist sitting belt (the new ultra-trend that may or may not absorb into the mainstream of the midwest). Not really my style, but trendy yes. Mommy practical? Absolutely not. It was one of those outfits (like the first) that would have been quite difficult to bend down in…. and I really can’t count how many times a day I’m bending. The 3rd… Well in my taste it wasn’t even cute… it was flaunty and tacky all at the same time. I wish I had pictures, but again, I don’t want to go cyber surfing to dig them up… too lazy tonight. This shirt was ANYTHING but what you would put on to go out and get groceries in. It was a tacky date night outfit- or a midwest sunday best nightmere. NOT what a cute stylish mom would wear to run errends.

Don’t get me wrong. If you know me well enough, HOPEFULLY you know I am not letting my looks go to pot or anything (I hope???). I’m not one of those desparate housewives that forgets she is a person and has no desire to look good for her husband (I hope???). The thing is, that doesn’t mean not dressing appropriately for my job! I mean I wouldn’t dress one of my corporate career women friends in Hudson Jeans and an Ella Moss top for work right? That doesn’t really fit their dress code. So why are these women out of touch with the needs of a stay-at-home-mom telling us what to wear? (or what not to wear)

Okay that is my rant today :)

Now for some more random phone pix of the boys. And yes, they are rather JJ’less lately. I will get pictures of him up soon cause I miss him on our page… our family pics should be coming soon! :)



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Oct

12

Finally, Non-partisan voting links

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If you are interested in non-partisan voter information links please check out the comments on my post a few below. The one entitled “New banner and voting link”. A wonderful blurker came out in the open and gave some really good links. Thanks ‘NotMarian’! We appreciate it. Especially with my lack of research skills! :)

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Oct

11

sidenote/ disclaimer: I can’t spell edit right n…

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sidenote/ disclaimer: I can’t spell edit right now so I’m sure I’m full of errors… for some reason on blog beta with safari browser they haven’t got spell check running correctly.

I did a little update in my brief hours stay at a Type Pad blog… but since I have taken that down I figured I would post one here!

Today we are suppose to get family photos taken by Jim and Lara Hicks. I have been so excited to get some good family photos, but it looks like today may get canceled if it keeps raining. (outside shoot).

Tomorrow Jeff’s parents, MiMi and PaPa, are coming in town. We haven’t seen them since late spring so we’re super excited. The boys have changed so much since then. Speaking of the boys.

Owen. Owen seems to be growing taller every day. He is becoming quite the stand-up comedian too. He is often in performance mode entertaining us with silly faces, gestures, words, and dances. His friend that lives in the mirror, Gore, is still around on a regular basis. Every time he passes a mirror in our house (they are built into some of our walls) he says hi to Gore, or says “hi my name is Gore” and as he walks away from the mirror he declares “Where did Gore go?”

In other Owen news, he had a build-a-bear birthday party for his friend Max this weekend. He had a pretty hard time following directions and staying with the rest of the kids. But he is 2, so I guess that is understandable. Unfortunately, the part he was most opinionated about was the choosing of the bear’s t-shirt. Much to his dad’s COMPLETE dismay he promptly chose the Girliest shirt he could possibly find complete with pink, bows, sequins, and rhinestones. I tried to perused him to change it to the blue and white cookie monster tee… but no luck, I knew I was going to have to bring this bear home to show his dad. Just so you can get a visual this is Owen’s new bear (he named ‘bear’):

In Lukas news… He now has 2 very proud teeth and is working on some others. He had his 9 month shots/ appointments last week (did I write about that yet?) And has dropped down to the 25% for weight and 50 percentile for height. My petite little guy! So different than Owen. He is busy busy BUSY. Crawling everywhere, climbing everything. He definitely thinks he should be able to do whatever Owen can do. He spends a good deal of time playing on Owen’s play potty. Often going over there and grunting… then there is a horrible smell so I have to change his diaper. Is it possible that he understands the purpose of the potty? This has actually happened on MANY occasions, so I wonder.

Lu is also enjoying eating finger food. It seems to have helped him eat a lot more which may put some more weight on him.

Jeff is still busy getting his business off of the ground. I think it’s like our 3rd child… only this one he is in charge of taking care of all day.

Going out with the kids is becoming increasingly chaotic. Still Jeff and I keep trying because we LOVE to eat out. I’m wondering why God didn’t make mom’s with 8 arms!

Things I have been dealing with/ realizing: I love my friends. God has given me so many amazing people to have relationships with. But with the increasing demands on my time, schedule, structure… I find it more and more difficult to make time for everyone. It’s hard, but I know that these little guys come first, and need to. They need me more than anyone, and they really are my God given ministry in so many ways.

What is hard about that is when people don’t understand (though most friends are SO understanding.) I read all these articles on how to be a parent with out checking out on your single friends. And yes, there are good tips in there… but truthfully, sometimes though I would LOVE to do all those things to meet my friends half way in life… I can’t always. And the attempting to do so is such a hard goal at times. I just can’t do it at the sacrafice of my children, that has to be my biggest goal. I do have to say. People like Meridith are a real treasure in life. Also, when I lived in florida I had great friends like Maya, Kristy, and Tia. All of which have no children (yet) and always were understanding of my constraints. It’s just that lately with the boys my constraints are growing. I can occasionally take them of schedule or lengthen a bed-time to do something special… and I’m happy to do that, but I know that when I do that I am choosing to pay for it the next day. So it isn’t exactly something I can do often.

So my beef so much isn’t with my friends…. It is with my own expectations. It’s with wishing I could check off that list of “How to be a good friend to your single (or childless) friend”… How to say yes to more girls nights out, How to make it out there way every once and awhile, How to talk on the phone with out dealing with your children every 3 seconds. The fact is, I had a hard time when my friends had kids and I didn’t understand why I couldn’t get through a phone convo and feel like they actually heard me. But NOW I understand. And I guess that I will just have to count on that someday everyone in my life may understand too. And PLEASE media, magazine world stop making those lists to measure up to, because as hard as I try, I just can’t do it. And my kids can’t be the ones that sacrifice.

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Oct

10

North Korea and their nut-job dictator.

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Isn’t it so sweet of Kim Jong il (leader of North Korea) to tell us today that if the U.S. did not sit down and hear his “wish-list” he would nuke us. That is a really nice thank you card for the support we have sent his starving nation in the past. Is it just me, or isn’t that a rather large threat? Folks- talking has not worked with this man (monstor). What are we going to do about it?

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Oct

10

New Banner and Voting Link

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First off… I changed my mind on switching to typepad since blogger just put out a beta version of their new blog format! YAY! AND I finally used the tutorial my friend Leta sent me to learn how to put my own banner up. Thanks Leta!

ALSO, on my last post (the voting one) Karen commented asking if I had any good links that give un-biased information on people who are running. For our area in particular I was sad to find nothing. That does not mean there is nothing out there (in fact, please comment and post the site if you know of one)… but my research time pointed to nothing that was un-biased. Actually everything on the net I could find was VERY biased in Columbus. The one thing that I did do with come candidates I had seen commercials about and was curious was check them out on Wikipedia. I found that I was given a pretty good history of their previous jobs and was also told what their main causes were. It also informed me of different orginizations that endorsed them which can really show you if they may line up with your values and ideaology.

Please if you have any other ideas of how to find good un-biased info, please share!

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Oct

4

Educate Your Vote.

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I can’t tell you how many times there is some local election, I ask my friends if they have voted and I get the excuse that they don’t know what the issues are or who is running. Consider this as your friendly reminder that you have a month to look into your local candidates, watch debates, and educate yourself so that you will go to the polls informed. Please do this, it really is an important election. Don’t let the commercials be the only info. you have (especially since they tend to twist the facts.) You don’t have to be super passionate about politics to understand your responsibility to vote. It isn’t socially ir-responsible to not know everything going on in capitol hill… but it is socially ir-responsible to not vote. We are so blessed to even have this opportunitiy in this country.

There, now I’ll shut up about that till it’s almost election day, I promise.

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