I had just washed my pretty table cloth and put placemats out for everyone to hopefully contain their breakfasts on.  My sons were having chocolate chip toaster waffles.  Everything seemed to be going well. A couple of minutes into breakfast I heard some rustling and a flash of a hand in my peripheral vision.  My 5yr old then innocently asks "Is chocolate washable?"  I then ask "Did you just get chocolate on the table cloth?"  He said "I thought I licked it off but I ...

We entertained last night and our last guests left at about 3AM so we had a nice big mess to wake up to.  Our whole family slept in until about 12:30.  I fed everyone then got to work on the mess. I didn't end up getting dressed until about 2:00.  I got a "Happy New Year" call from my mom and gave one to my sister.  Next thing I knew it was dinner time.  We had sandwichs since noone really felt like having a "real" meal. So 1/1/06 has basically been spent cleaning ...

I don't know about other JUer's children but I think my children really don't take notice of the color of skin.  As an example, my 9yr old was talking about the different holidays and mentioned that one classmate celebrates kwanza and another celebrates Ramadan.  I knew the girl who celebrates Ramadan but had to ask who celebrates kwanza.  I expected he would either name a name or have a physical description.  Instead he responded "the kid who's allergic to peanuts". Our a...

Today really should have been a snow day but our school decided instead to only cancel PM kindergarten.  Oh, but they didn't let me know until about 25mins before I was supposed to drop my son at school.  I was supposed to go to a Dr appt so I then had to scramble to find someone to watch my son. After several unsuccessful calls to friends and neighbors, my husband said I could take him to his office.  I was all set to do so but was wise enough to call the Dr to see if he was r...

I think the saying that only you hold the key to your own happiness is true.  My problem is, it seems like everyone else on the planet seems to have the key to your unhappiness.  That doesn't seem fair! I am generally a happy person.  I don't know if it is ignorant bliss or I am just a simple person.  Maybe I have found inner peace that other, less happy people haven't.  It doesn't usually take much to start me off on a happy note. My problem is how others affect m...

To any of my friends that usually email me, I am not ignoring you.  My computer is hosed and totally wiped out my email again.  I am hoping my hero, a.k.a. my husband, can get it back for me eventually.  I feel lost without email.  It is usually my connection with people I wouldn't be able to contact otherwise. Luckily I can still get to the internet and post on here....for now.  I am expecting this laptop to completely die at any time though.  The hard drive has...

My "big" boy is 9 today.  I just can't believe it!  He asked me last night about the story of his birth.  He is such a little smarty!  I told him that his big brain made things difficult but he sure was a cutie!  He asked how big his head was and when I said 38cm he said "Wow!  1cm = .5 inches.  That is like 19 inches!"  I said, "Yep.  It was a big Wow! for me." I told him how excited everyone was to meet him.  What a cute, sweet baby he was.&...

For anyone who isn't familiar with Michigan, there is a saying here, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute."  It is so true!  Thanksgiving day it was 17 degrees and we had plenty of snow on the ground.  Two days later it was up to 62!  Now it is back down to 29 and falling. I am one who would prefer the snow over rainy gloom any day.  My problem is what the back and forth weather does to my sinuses.  I think any sinus sufferer will agree that they don't l...

My headline just reminded me of a comic bit where the comedian said that "sort of" doesn't mean anything except in certain phrases like: "I love you....sort of" or "You're going to live....sort of"  Anywho, I have been scarce around JU for quite some time.  I read and commented on the occasional blog but haven't written anything in ages.  I have been busy doing house stuff, holiday stuff, kid stuff, well, just stuff I guess.  I hadn't felt the inkling to write during tha...

Yesterday it took me over 20mins to drive a straight line of 5 miles!  Why, because there were to spots of road construction.  The second area I was aware of but the first had no warning.  There was no "Road work ahead" sign.  No ones anywhere.  Just a couple of doofs with signs in their hands standing in the intersection holding up north/south traffic for no apparent reason! Evreyone was very tolerant for the first two lights we were kept waiting.  By the time t...

I don't know how many of you out there have seen and or heard Dane Cook perform but you really should (unless you are disgusted by the F word).  This guy will make you wet yourself laughing!  He made me do that laugh where you feel like you can't breathe and your eyes start watering.  He is that funny! Check him out for yourself on www.danecook.com .  Let me know what you think.  One of the bits that is running on the site right now is that there is one person in eve...

Tonight I am having a scrapbooking party after I drop my son off at baseball practice.  We will probably scrapbook until late. Tomorrow morning my son has a baseball game and then I am having a "Game Widows" get together.  My husband and a bunch of friends are getting together for "Game Day" which means they all agree on a multi player game, get together where they can all have computers, and have a virtual kill fest all day. I like to have the ladies (widows) over to hang out ...

I don't know if anyone out there happened to watch the TLC special "Half Ton Man" but I caught quite a bit of it and was absolutely boggled how any human could become quite literally a big pile of fat.  This man weighed over a thousand pounds.  His wife kept feeding him even though his skin had stretched beyond what it could handle and he was leaking his bodily fluids onto the bed.  He also couldn't move or wear clothes.  He couldn't be on his back because his own weight woul...

I'm not saying there is ever a wrong time to give someone roses, but getting them just because you are loved and appreciated is the best.  My husband brought me two dozen red roses today for that very reason.  Not because of a birthday, anniversary or Hallmark holiday.  He didn't need society to say "Today is national "Good Husbands Buy Flowers Day". A lot of people who don't know my husband, and even some who do, give him a hard time because he doesn't usually do a lot on thos...

I didn't really take note of this until after having dinner out with some friends from the Netherlands, but every single time my husband and I go to a restaurant, they sing some form of a happy birthday song to someone.  Of course they can't sing the actual "Happy Birthday" song due to licensing issues so each restaurant has its own annoying version.  Every time we are in a restaurant! We have heard Spanish, Italian, Middle Eastern (La Shish) and even Korean versions.  The...