Dear Kitten

Yeahhhh we got a new kitten!! 
Her name is Martha Rose Petal I'm going to call her Martha. She is a tiny ball of fur!!  Super cute really excited and hopping around like a new kitten should.
This is the first time I've ever own two cats at the same time.  T.V. makes it look like cake. 

However, Sophia Lily Grace is not having it! 

(That is Sophia in the upper right hand corner peering down at Martha)

She is super pissed off.  She is hissing every time they are in eyesight of each other. 
While we were trying to introduce Sophia to Martha, Sophia got all poltergeist AND REFUSED TO LOOK AT MARTHA. (I learned from Animal Planet "My Cat From Hell" that cats communicate by looking at each other. )

Probably should have read the box before I used it to bring Martha home.  BUT SOPHIA SHOULDN'T be taking it so seriously!

5 Facebook Hints - Birthday thoughts - Paco

So it's my birthday and my friend made me a cake!!   It was awesomesauce.  Yellow cake with light chocolate frosting

See the beautiful rainbow of perfection? 

Five Facebook Hints:

1. ALWAYS TYPE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE PEOPLE ON YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS WALL. 
We look for that.  It has become something we look forward to.  Funny little wishes through out the entire day.  GREAT.  Plus thanks to internets our friends on the other side of the world get to experience our birthdays first and throw out that first Happy Birthday post.!

2.ONCE YOU UNFRIEND SOMEONE YOU CAN'T TRY TO FRIEND THEM AGAIN.
People just don't change much and unless they lose their internets, then their Facebook wall isn't changing either. 

3.KEEP THE DRAMA OFF OF FACEBOOK.
Every one has a line that people cannot cross and sometimes that line just might be your post about how horrible your life is.

4.POLITICS AND RELIGION CAUSE EMOTIONAL RESPONSES ON YOUR COMMENT SECTION.
Even the lighthearted stuff evokes a reaction.  Sometimes that reaction is to unfriend you so see number 2.

5. FACEBOOK HAS EVERY ONE ON THERE. EVERY. ONE.
Be AWARE of what you post on your wall.   It follows you forever.  Clouds are real.  So are stalkers of Facebook, Twitter, InstaGram and the internets.

For the record....Paco is not home yet. I've lit a candle.
http://www.gofundme.com/acogws

Eastern Market, Roosters and cupcakes

My BFF and I went to Eastern Market where we finally ate Supinos pizza. It was good.  We will visit again for sure.
We stopped in at Shed 1 to check out all the cool garden stuffs...it was there I saw and fell in love with Paco.  Paco is a 5 foot tall metal rooster.  He is more than art, he is a friend.  I miss him.    We both love orange.
I started a page to hopefully raise enough money to bring him home. 
http://www.gofundme.com/acogws

My Hubby has no idea because even though it is posted on the Facebook he doesnt really check out my page.

Feel free to share ...  there is a deadline

All of Me

It has been awhile since I have blogged and I have learned a ton of stuff with age comes wisdom.  Seriously it begins to just wash over you.  When you realize that everything is bigger than you you gain perspective.  Life is all about perspective. For a while there I was thinking life was all about money, who you knew, or what you know.  It isnt.  It is more about family.  It is about happy.  It is about crossing the river.

My son is going through chaos of his own creation.  I, being the supportive and overly protective mom I am, stepped into the middle of his storm.  I handled that wrong. He is an adult now and I have to let him fight his own battles.  I need to be there for him but not to be his mouth piece. This chaos has put him in battle with some inner demons that I can't fight and it has made him become reclusive even with family. I tried to make him see things from a different perspective and he just could/can not left go of the angry perspective.  So for my well being I have let him dig his own hole.

My daughter has blossomed!  She is completely coming into her own.  I am proud of the things she wants to do and of the things she is learning on her own. 

My husband and I have found for the most part our happy again....took some time but we are back to laughing together and wanting to plan things to do and all is well.

Hubby even after 15 years found the perfect "our song" and since I have been constantly sending him verses via texts and facebook.  HA

I am learning to that even though I love my sisters completely they are people in their own right and have families that do not have to incorporate me and my children.  This was difficult for me because I wanted Christmas all year long and that is just not going to be. 

My dad is also doing ok.  I wish he would stop with the pride and just move in with one of us already, but until then we all help him out.

My friends are very important to me.  The each hold something special to me and I am grateful for their perspectives, probably more than I let them know.  They have become integral in my life.   I need there support, advice, shoulder, laughter, and wine. 

So recently I learned about perspective.  My dad has a wealth of knowledge!!  I need to record him more often it is a necessity! He told my reclusive son...you fear crossing the river because you think you might miss something while crossing the river, just cross the damn river. 
He told him Do not rush to things they are going to happen when they are going to happen. 
He told him Dont work overtime that extra money doesnt compensate for the time you lose looking for a better job or time to be with your family.
My favorite Dad told my son Be around people whom you know you can be very easily be their leader.  <<<thats a gem right there.

Then my son said "Papa I think I know too much" Dad without hesitation said You dont know anything. <<<BAM

As I sat there listening to the wisdom that was being set out at my dining room table I gained a new perspective.  I have my happy.

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."

How to Get a New Dishwasher and Princess asked "Is Santa Real"

So Happy Weekend everyone and in the infamous words of CHF, per FB, " There arent enough days in the weekend" 
This weekend flew by...Some Christmas shopping..done<<ly
wants a new puter but doesn't want me to pick it out cause I'll get the wrong one.   WTF....Gift card for Hubby! CHECK
 Gift cards are brilliant by the way...I pick the store they pick what they want....so my Son also got a gift card!   I do plan to go get him a punching bag and I bought him some jeans.

I have my brother in law to buy for and the man my other sister is living in sin with.  At Turkey day we drew names for a gift exchange...sorta...there was wine involved...we drew names then some people didnt want their names in the drawing then they did then, we drew names then no one wanted to do it...We went home...BUT the name drawing was not for not, after I left baby sister called me and said the name draw gift exchange was ON!   like Donkey Kong.   I have to tell Hubby it is on  *sigh*

Hubby may not want to spend more money right now because

1.) I got a new dishwasher! On Saturday my dishwasher puked all over the kitchen..not without warning...it was trying to tell me for a week it did not feel well...plus Hubby kept calling her bad names...so she died.  The funeral was quick:  Hubby could not get it out of the house fast enough.  There were many versions of the F-Bomb being dropped  <<< that was my cue...so I texted a friend to get some strawberries and meet me at my Baby sisters house STAT...I've got wine!! Some hours later, Hubby bought the biggest and best dishwasher and installed it...by eleven p.m. I had a load of dishes in!!

2.)Mom-in-Law got a new TV.  Hubby bought his dad a new tv last year and he felt he had to get his mom one...so he did.

3.) HE STILL HAS TO GET MY GIFT!!! Trust me he tried to say the new dishwasher was my gift...then I flipped out.  He now understands that if I have no gift under the tree to open come Christmas morning....life will be really bad....Happy Wife....Happy Life.  Read this Hubby

This brings me to the question no parent wants to hear. Not really.

While Hubby is cursing up a storm in the kitchen Princess sits next to me on the couch.                             She says:
"Mom, this is real talk. I don't want you to lie to me I just want to know the truth and this is serious, Is Santa Real?" 

jawdropped....I yelled for Hubby.

I turned to Hubby and said to Princess "Go ask your daddy that question"
People there isn't enough wine in the world.   Princess is our last child and we need to extend this farce for as long as we can!  We need the Christmas magic!!   AND I just bought the damn   ELF ON THE SHELF to help me keep some magic in the house!!  Once Santa isn't real then innocence is gone...there goes the tooth fairy, the easter bunny, cupid, leprechaun. No more Magic, No more Elfs, No more traps (see the awesomeness of this trap! )

Hubby handled it nicely I think:
He said to Princess :" Of course there is a Santa!!  Do you think I wrap all those gifts and put them  under the tree??  I don't have time to do all that!  Of course there is a Santa!  Who is telling you there isn't??  There is a Santa!"
Princess jumped up into Hubby's arms and said:  "I love you Daddy!"
Maybe she will know the truth next year....JUST A MAYBE.

                            

12 Things I want for Christmas

This year I truly have no idea what I want for Christmas.  Of course there are things that I want for the house...like carpet...painting and a new table and chairs and a pan rack and a wine glass rack and a new fluffy couch...that I can sleep on...rooms built in the basement....can not wait to have a storage room in the basement.  But for me..I've no idea *shrug shoulders*
So I've been thinking.  I don't need anything.  I'm not much into "things", don't really wear make up (cause pretty girls don't need make-up), I have too many clothes and too many shoes. *sigh* It is hard to think of things you want when you have always ask for just the things you need.  I decided to get more princess about it and think what do I want.

So here goes:

1.  A Pandora Bracelet:

First of all it is way cute!  It's a grown up charm bracelet.  The beads are expensive enough....but they all hold "meaning".  I,  for one,  am all for having more meaning in life.

I could learn to about all the charms and change them all the time to make it match everything!!

2. True Religion Jeans:

Why not??  In high school I never got to have Jordash jeans, so really I've been saving up for years....

My jeans are always on sale.  I don't think I have EVER paid full price on jeans for me, so I think I would like a pair of $300 jeans. 

3. Diamonds:

Diamonds are a girls best friend. Maybe earrings or a necklace.

4. A New Car:

My vehicle is crying to be replaced.   It is pushing forward and getting me to work each day, but she is tired.  A new car would be awesome!!  Smooth driving, something that is fuel efficient, any color would do except tan.

5.Perfume:

I have no idea what kind, something expensive that I would never buy myself.  Suggestions?

6. A Watch:

I'd like a black leather band with a small round face watch, one that I could wind up and the was classic.  Not a Mickey Mouse watch but something like that.

7. A Trip To Disney World.

I loved going so much!!  They have opened a new park within the magic kingdom and I know I would just love it!!  So would Princess!!!   I miss this!!!

We all loved it.  We need this.  We miss this.

8. An Amazon Gift Card:

With lots of zeros!!! I really really really want to put some books on my Kindle.  There are a lot that I need to read.  Plus if there is anything I see on Amazon that I want at the moment I could just use my gift card and buy it, right then and there.

9. Spa Gift Certificate:

I need a massage...who doesn't?  Plus it is some alone time....wait a minute

10. Some ALONE Time!!!

enough said about that one.  pffffft

11. A New Phone:

My cell phone is ancient...I've had it for years. (that's plural cause it has been many years) I want to talk to my phone and make it call me Queen or something cool like that. I also hear that I can tell the phone to text something and for anyone who knows me, CHF, I can't really text well.  So if I could talk to the phone and have it text for me so that I really dont have to talk to the person I text HOW FREAKIN AWESOME WOULD THAT BE!?!?!

12. World Peace:

The rest of this list is but a dream....so why not some world peace.  :)  

**waving my hand like Ms. USA

The Walking Dead, Drug Abuse and Depression

I get feeling depressed....but to me it is a fleeting emotion.  Much like happy or sad...or wanting to kill the Elf on the Shelf.  I think I understand what the person feels, I just do not understand how the person cannot get past that hump to where  it gets better.  Like the song says I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I have felt down, overwhelmed (hell right now I feel overwhelmed), even felt that sometimes it could never get worse.  Then it does or doesn't get worse and I'm no worse for the wear. *insert rainbows and butterflies here*
So I do what any normal person does who does not understand something....I goggled it. :)
Yeah that was no help.   I just don't get it.  Google says it can get really bad and lead to suicide. But it is not something you can help someone with...they have to help themselves.  Thanks Google.  It did mention a few times that depression can lead to drug abuse.  Shut the front door!  Makes perfect sense.  If I thought all was lost anyways why not just abuse drugs? Live life like a zombie.  << I say this because I've known some people that abuse drugs...they all have a common look and now that I have watched the first season of The Walking Dead (I know. I'm slow. I am 40) I can say  with certainty "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa are zombies!" These Zombies are making genetically engineered salmon!!  Have you read about this??? 
Anyways back to what I was saying about not understanding how anyone would ever chose to look like a zombie? which is after all what happens when you abuse drugs... you look like The Walking Dead.  Just say NO. 

Ain't to proud to beg for some comments....

More Elf on the Shelf antics....

Elfie has moved about the house....I've forgotten to move her twice.   Which has made me get on Hubby to move the damn Elf too.  He is taller than I am so Elfie has landed on the ceiling fan twice, the second time yesterday and that is the last time she will be on the ceiling fan.  *eyesrolling**
 Princess in her infinite wisdom decided to show her little cousin some stuff.  I knew when the bedroom door closed that something was going to happen...but they were so quite...yeah my second clue.  Until I heard my nephew say "Oh NO she is going to fall!"  (insert third clue here)  So I get up to go in there, I open the bedroom door,  there is Princess standing on a step stool that she had on the top of her table spinning the ceiling fan!  Elfie is hanging on for dear life!!! 
Nephew is saying "If she falls how are we going to pick her up if we can't touch her."
Princess is saying "I'll grab two plates and scoop her up!"
I yell: "What the hell are you doing!!!!!!!!!!"

Princess: "Trying to see if we can scare her and make her fly around the room."

Well played Princess....well played.

So I tell Elfie "I hope you tell Santa all about this."

What did I do???
I closed the door and said "if you fall you're going to bust your head open, probably need stitches then."

Did I yet mention Princess is a hypochondriac??

20 days and counting

Christmas trees, Elves and Magic Oh My!

We've put up the tree, yes it is fake cause it is just easier to handle. The princess and I made two strings of popcorn garland, they are short but they are there!! I bought the best thing ever..a plug in fragrance warmer.  my house smells like sugar cookies. I hung the stockings with care, however the little sticky things obviously cannot handle our over sized stockings with the cool characters on them.  Each year we hope our stockings are stuffed :)  Prince hung up the outdoor lights. My bushes are all bright. 
Then I bought an Elf on the Shelf, what the f(&**^ was I thinking??  Let me tell you why I bought into the story.  There I was shopping at Target and I had passed the end cap full of elves.  It's always caught my eye but I never could bring myself to buy one.  I could not bring myself to buy a child's book for $25.  I mean I did not know the whole story. I DID NOT KNOW THAT I WOULD HAVE TO MOVE THE DAMN THING EACH AND EVERY NIGHT TO ADD THE MAGIC IN OUR HOME!!!!!! I admit it was an added responsibility I did not know about.  Plus now that I've crossed over into The Fortyhood my memory isn't quite all there.  So yeah, I past the end cap of elves when I heard a Target employee say to someone else, "I have four girl elves left in the back...let me go get them." Girl elves??  The Shelf Elf has a female doll??  Who knew??  Not I.  SO I found myself walking back to the end cap...there they sat....a Elf on the Shelf with a skirt on!! I could not resist.  My brain told me NO!, but the damn Christmas spirit (not Target marketing) got to me and I just had to get one for princess....still standing my ground on not spending $25 for a book I opted for the $10 dvd.  I did a little jig in the store.
We get home Princess is all over the elf...even removed the coveted skirt.  Pop the DVD in and find out we have to name the Elf and then never touch her again, for if we do she will lose her magic and it is her magic that enables her to go to Santa, the head Elf, each night to report on Princesses doings.  *sigh* Princess is in tears cause not only has she named her five different times before we knew, Princess has also disrobed her. So in my all-knowing Mommy voice I say "It's okay honey let's put her on the shelf and think of a really good name for her and then never touch her again. She will have her magic."
So we all went to bed.  I had to wake up at three a.m. because I forgot to move the elf. **rollingmyeyes***Then the movement began...from one shelf to the next.  Princess woke all excited...found "Elfie"...all excited..then went to brush her teeth.  She walked out of the bathroom and said "Mom did you move that elf?"
(jaw dropped I felt a moment of disbelief, how could she have known?) What could I do??  I lied.  I said "Absolutely not!   Why would I want her to lose her magic???? " hummmmpppphhh *sigh* *eyesrolling*

Per Sister3 and CHF: NO MORE PARTAY PLANNING FOR ME

THANKYOUBABYJESUS!!!!
Seems since last year I brought a flower cake to a Strawberry Shortcake Party or some such nonsense, and this year ordered a Miss Piggy cake I am ban from planning any further birthday partays'.  Also I was told that "thank god you cannot have anymore children because you cannot plan them a proper party."  I am okay with this assessment.  Because it is true.   My Super Sweet Sixteen on MTV proves it.

FTR I did contact the bakery manager and have Miss Piggy stopped and have just a plain cake ready for pick up on Sunday.  

Marriage is hard, so is turning 40 and I need more wine

So in about twenty days I will be the big four-ohhhhhhhhh my god.  It was difficult to say I was thirty-something and took me a good ten years to do so and now I have to try to deal with this forty something thing.  I am just not prepared.  I thought forty would look like: Nice home, stressfree, lots of wine (ok I have lots of wine), and stressfree.  However there is still stress and I cannot get my clothes organized in my bedroom.  My hallway is not painted or half painted or whatever.   It is a spiral of chaos and not enough wine. 
Work is not helping in the stress area.  Our insurance laws are changing monthly and that is making our rates increase rapidly.  The rate increase is making our clients upset.   Which in turn makes them call me angry and I am out of reasons why the rates have gone up.   The companies need more money **shaking my head***
My son has moved out on his own, actually with his best buddy.  He is very happy and I now have a young man.  and an empty bedroom.
As for Princess, she has bridged over to become a brownie.  She has passed 1st Grade and received exceptional marks in reading.  I believe her excessive, if not exceptional vocabulary had a huge part in her marks.  Either way I am a proud momma bear.
Hubby is working tons of overtime and I've yet to reap the rewards of his work.  My hallway isn't done, the bathroom window is still cracked, I have no awning on the front porch and no screen for the back porch. 
Let us pray that wine will help me cope with the forthcoming day of forty something. Thank you CHF

Not posted in many days because Kim Kardashian

has really upset me.  I watched her prepare for her wedding as if she were our royal couple. I mean I know her hubby to be was just a prop, but does she get to keep the ring???  What about all those expensive gifts???  And do we get to watch the divorce like we were able to watch everything else??? 

Teen Mom kids turn 2

Wow this season flew by....

Catelyn & Tyler are in a good place I think.  I'm impressed they graduated and have goals to go on with college.

Farrah is making a big big decision.   She is going to continue school away from home, she is moving out of state.  Although I know it si difficult I do agree that the best decision for Sophia is to leave her with her grandma.  It is way better to be with family than to go around with strangers. 

Amber and Gary goodlord swetbabyjesus.  Amber isn't going to do better not any time soon. She has too much anger to be in a relationship now.  Stand Down Gary Stand Down.

Maci Maci Maci.....Please don't rush marriage you are so bright and have a future other than Housewife. 

So its been way to long and the things I've learned

So I haven't watched Teen Mom in a while....they now bore me. 
Now I watch my HBO and Showtime shows...I have to be addicted to something.

The Princess starts first grade in like five days thankyoubabyjesus.  She is all prepared too.  We have new clothes, school supplies and new kicks!
Prince is babysitting and learning how to cook!!  Let us pray!