Play Dates: is there a list 5 Play Date Do's and Don'ts

How do you do the play date thing??  I mean what happened to just playing outside.   Does that not happen any more??   How does a block that has about twenty children under the age of 12 never have a child outside playing???  I think it is sad that children that are growing up together aren't growing up together.  Especially in this day, electronics rule the day and there are ACTUALLY SEVERAL 24 HOUR CARTOON SLASH TEEN CHANNELS our children should be running outside to play. Instead my eight year old daughter goes outside alone and rides her bike alone. Up and down the street, making noise hoping the noise will entice the other children to come outside to play with her.  It's sad really. 
Maybe I don't know the play date rules.

1. Do Not Ask more than once.   It get annoying after that! It's akin to your child doing the "mom, ma, mom, mooommmm, mama." bit.  I mean we all have full plates with our daily lives then throw in another child and all the "fun" stuff you have to do leads me to number two.

2. Do Not Make your childs play date your play date! The play dates that have occurred at my house have lasted realllly long and at the end I was very exhausted! It should be kids playing, not inclusive of me.

3.  Do Not turn play date into sleep over.  See number 2.

4. Do have a few open days when you call to ask the parent.  So it should go like this...Hi So-so Mom, we are free this weekend is So-so available for a play date?

5.Do know that you will be told no more than yes.  For your childs sake you have to ask again...via text....next month. 


So until we get some more play date invites my neighborhood will have to endure my child riding her bike or scooter up and down the street, writing with chalk on the sidewalks, picking of some flowers from some well kept yard, and/or screaming with glee. 

Girl Scout Cookies: Thin Mints, Samoas ot Tagalongs

I've got what you need. 
It's an addiction.  I've got what you need.  Hit me up.

It may seem sad but it is true....It is no holds barred...we need to sell these cookies. 
I have cases...C.A.S.E.S....in my dining room  I've got them in my truck...at my office...at CHF's office...my sister has some in her car and my other sister is picking up a case to distribute amongst her co-workers.  If I've got to ....we will open shop on the corner...near the park....where all the Marines in training take their morning jog.  <We are hitting up the neighbors this weekend.
Setting up shop at the 7-eleven we have pom-poms and are not afraid to use them.  

The Samoas will not last long....they are like crack....

***Notice the boxes now have the cookie featured with the Girl Scout Sash ....fancy******
I'm tryin' to forget that
I'm addicted to you
But I want it
And I need it
I'm addicted to you

The Pope is stepping down

All kinds of questions arise....can we pick a new pope with a longer than a 10 year expiration date???   Is this new Pope going to continue tweeting???  Can the new Pope actually take old Popes Twitter account???  Is that one of those boxes that was checked in the Terms and Agreements???   Will old Pope get ticked one day and sign in as himself and start a twitter war with new Pope???  

Can the cardinals Tweet us the new Pope's info???  I mean instead of smoke.  

Beyonce Lip-Synced !! & McDonalds McFlurry

OH-MY-GOD!!
Of course she did people....there were MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WATCHING HER!  She isn't Roseanne....she is a professional and professionals know that shit can happen and that shit could make you sound awful!!  So you Lip-Synced your ass off!!  When you look and sound like Beyonce you're going to have haters...people hate...so she has some haters.  I think it was beautiful baby girl!!!


Beyonce  

It is so freaking cold in the D...we are wearing layers on our layers.
I dressed Princess in several layers and bundled her tight...think Christmas Story....then she was all like "Mom, I feel really ...uhhmmm ...hummmm... THICK."  I told her she is thick. I am guilty of allowing Princess to have way to many goodies. I want her to eat healthily but that puts me in between a rock and a hard spot because it would mean no goodies in the house for me either.  Being a mom is so difficult.

Brings me to the aged old question of how do you deal with bigots??? 
I took Princess for a McFlurry...she needed one and/or I needed a hot fudge sundae...and some teens made some bigot remarks.  They are lucky I had Princess with me cause I wanted to reach over and shake the little fuckers! 
Just because the laws state things are equal doesn't make them so.  It is 2013 and we still cannot make that happen.  Let us pray those teens have poison ivy on their backs and their arms are to short to scratch :) 

Happy New Year 2013 Calendar up

So Christmas was stressful.  The Elf is put the fuck up...I told princess a story about the Elf hitching a ride back to the North Pole with Santa...caused many tears and she wrote a good bye note for Elfie and even sent her with a care package for the long trip home. 
Gift exchanged caused Hubby to freak.

I did get a pandora bracelet but do to a series of events leading up to Christmas my bracelet has lost its meaning.

I did recieve a Mothers ring I heart it very much and it fits *happy dancing**

So happy the little ones are back in school it just makes things easier! 

Happy 2013 Merry everything.

H.R. 35 No this is too much

There is a line and some asshats in Washington have crossed it.  I DO NOT WANT GUNS IN MY SCHOOLS PERIOD. 

H.R. 35 which is called the Safe Schools Act of 2013 is called so to deceive the public.  Twisting words so that some will think this is an actual SAFE SCHOOLS ACT.  It makes my stomach turn.  I do not want schools to have guns in them.  I do not believe we as a people are able to accurately detect whether or not someone is mentally stable enough to have in their pocket a weapon that takes human life.  We are not training gun owners but feeding fuel to their fire of rage.

FEAR is a great controller.  I am tired of being controlled.  I am done with fear. 

I DO NOT want GUNS in SCHOOLS. 

One of their seven reasons to promote this bill is:
(7) that the reason that the ‘Gun Free School Zones Act’ has made American schools unsafe is that shooters now know that they can victimize American school campuses with no fear that victims will be armed.

How about SHOOTERS THAT PLAN TO VICTIMIZE SCHOOL CHILDREN NOT HAVE GUNS!!! NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO PURCHASE MILITARY TYPE WEAPONS.


I just know that had the insane Newton man had a handgun....we would not be mourning the massacre of  twenty small children. 

I ask those people around me, who think having AK' s is just fine and give the flashcard standard statements,  if your child's school was going to be the next school shooting, but you had to choose the madman's weapon would it be an Bushmaster XM or handgun??  Usually the response is some rambling about rights, freedom, Merica.  I just respond that "Well you have to choose."