Deep Earth Shattering Important

I've decided to go organic! And to that end we are going to have a garden and a compost. To begin this lofty goal, I need to start composting now so that I can have the soil ready by spring for planting. I'm happy to say that my compost is already up and running, it is just in sort of an unusual place....the floorboard of my Honda Odyssey! I swear there are enough spilled drinks, frys, chicken nuggets etc. to generate enough breaking down bio fuel that they are going to soon be drilling for coal in my own car and I am positive I have the drilling/mineral rights on my Honda! Now in other time halting delimmas I swore I wouldn't be sucked in to watching or caring about the whole Brittney Drama but I do have one question...WHAT DOES HER REAL HAIR LOOK LIKE? I have seen pics of her with the pink hair which I am pretty confident isn't her real hair and then I've seen pictures of her with long brown hair with a hair line that defies wigdom but I don't think even celebraties can grow hair that long in that short of time....Okay all you deep thinking, celebrete knowing readers out there weigh in and tell me what's up! I've stopped cleaning my house to post this so ya know it is important!

This takes the cake

 

Today I read on Martha Stewart.com that she suggests that everyone make a New Year's Resolution to make one cake a month. Today I had some apples that were going to go bad if they weren't used, so I used them...and made an german Apple Kuchen! I didn't have sugar so I used brown sugar and I can tell you it looks better than it tasted...oh well.

Starting Out

Well it is 2008 and everyone including my friend June over at Buy Buy Pie and Meh at Biding My Time are starting the year off with goals to be healthy. I'm not even waiting a month to fall off the popular band wagon, I'm swan diving off on day one with the years worst head cold. You know the kind where you swallow and your whole head feels like it is contorting in to the bitter beer face!

New Years...So Much Fun We Needed Pampers

Christmas Family

 

Father Son Bonding

 

When it comes to Hair....

Life definitely is NOT Fair!

 

50 friends most likely to flip

Today I was listening to KERA, the local public radio station and the subject was ending homelessness in LA and something called Project50. They said that they had developed a list of questions that they went out on the streets with in search of the 50 most vunerable homeless people, the fifty most likely to die on the streets in the following year, and gave them housing. My mind being the completely wacked and warped thing that it is I began thinking of the questions they were asking and translated them to determining the fifty most ready to crack friends I have. Here are some of the questions they asked the homeless people and what I could ask those around me.
Homeless Questions Homemaker Questions:
1. How long have you been on the streets? How long have you been a stay at home mom?
2. When was the last time you injected drugs? When was the last time you took your kids ADHD medication or drank more than one pot of coffee in a day? What is your average bedtime and when do you get up in the morning?
3. Do you have any diseases? How many times have your kids puked in the past 24 hours? How many times were on you? Do your kids automatically assume the held up position when they sneeze?
4. Have you been assulted? When was the last time you were able to physically soak in your tub instead of use it to hold dirty laundry? How many loads behind are you? How many days away from sending your kids naked to school?
AND THE FINAL QUESTION When was the last time someone looked at you and said it must be so nice to be able to just stay at home and relax!?!?!?!

The one that made it on the card

 

Emma

 

JuJu Again

 

Emma Smiling Pretty

 

JuJu

 

Gabe

 

I'm not sure what the funny mark is on the picture.

Julia at Christmas

 

Gabe at Christmas

 

Emma at Christmas

 

I got paid!

I have a rule, well not really since I am totally NOT a rule follower, so let me say I have a game I play in my head (hum Counting Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers while you read this) that any money I find in the washer after doing laundry is mine! Today I found a penny. I've got two words for you ...SLAVE LABOR!!

It's been a month

It's been one month since I posted last and I still don't have anything to say. I've been getting some HUGE doses of humility as one of my precious children has been getting into trouble at school on a more regular basis than is healthy for him/her. Dealing with said humility and trips to the principal's (NOT MY PAL) office has made me not quite so chatty. So here's hoping for better behaved kids (HA, fat chance) and more frequent posts on the ol blog. But listen to Toby Mac is changin my mood and the next time I have to go see the lovely principal I think I'll go in singin...
Feelin So Fly

MEMED

I've been memed by my friend at La Vida Dulce who was memed by our friend at Bye Bye Buy so here goes.

Jobs I've Had
1. Bank Teller
2. Resident Advisor (college dorm)
3. Administrative Assistant at the Kryptonite Corporation (no I don't hate Superman)
4. Tech at an Eye Doctor's office (yes I got to administer the puff of air test)

Places I've lived
1. Fredericksburg, Virginia
2. Celle Germany
3. Boston, Massachusetts
4. Southfield, Michigan (for only 3 months)

Food I love
1. Farfalla con pollo al sugo bianco or any other great Italian food, especially from La Familia Georgios in the North End of Boston!!!
2. Sopa de chili poblano from Victorias in Neuovo Laredo Mexico
3. Enchiladas Verdes again from Victorias or from My mother-in-law
4. Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce - Papadauxes (sp?)

Websites I visit
1. www.realsimple.com - I love how they make life seem so simple (what the heck are the talking about? LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE - but theirs looks so nice, but I think I must need to go shopping because I only have 2 of the 10 things every kitchen needs, but wait I thought the key to the simple life was less stuff, humm they must mean other stuff)
2. www.abebooks.com - This is the enabler of my addiction BOOKS BOOKS CHEAP BOOKS
3. www.biblegateway.com - for my studies
4. http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/landing.jsp?go=DefaultRecipe&recipe_id=1190051818091 or www.cookinglight.com

Places I'd rather be
1. Riverbend Retreat Center with a good book.
2. Mountains in Arkansas in a cabin with a good book.
3. Rocky Mountains in a cabin with a good book.
4. Appalachian Mountains in a cabin with a good book.
5. And Italy in a villa with Farfalla con pollo al sugo bianco, a good merlot, and a good book (oh and maybe Andrea Bocolli to sing to me :))

Movies I love
1. Life is Beautiful and The Tiger in the Snow (both by Roberto Benigni
2. The whole extended edition of the Lord of the Rings Triology with ALL the extra features (especially the hidden easter egg with Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Geller which is by the way NOT kid appropriate)
3. Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma (all from Jane Austin books)
4. Oh Brother Where Art Thou (I LOVE George Clooney in this movie)

And since I don't watch TV I'll put my favorite CD's
1. Skip, Hop and Wobble with Jerry Douglas
2. Romanza with Andrea Bocelli click here to watch him on Youtube
3. Storm by Fernando Ortega
4. Shine Remix by Newsboys