doing my part

black friday.
i have never participated before.
shied away from the thought of fighting crowds.
never had a need.
but this year, we did it. todd and i woke up on friday morning at 5:00 and left the house by 5:45.
we didn't have big items on our list, but a few things we need would be on sale.
we hit three stores before 9:00.
after returning home i started to feel some strange adrenaline rush to keep going.
so i left todd with the kids and i went back out. heading to toys r us and the mall.
and in one day i managed to get 98% of shopping done for my kids.
i did my part to help out the economy.
i might have to do it again next year!
(thank you stephanie for going out with me and it's already on my calendar for next thanksgiving.)

she says...

"all o em" - she wants all of them, whatever it is (but she usually doesn't get it)
"urs" - yours
"me funny" - am i funny?
"backayians" - backyardigans

a mom at a pre-k thanksgiving feast

on friday i got to be a mom at school.
typically i tell x & c that at school i have to be the teacher, and although i'm always their mom, at school i have to let there teachers take care of them.
well, friday was x's thanksgiving feast. ms. christine had them prepare two indian themed songs to sing, so i brought my video camera and the digital camera and i was a mom watching her baby boy.

i'll see if i can link the video (but we already are aware of me and technology!....)

in the kitchen

i'm blogging from the kitchen. i was thinking today i'd like to have a computer in the kitchen, or at least the living room, so that i could watch
the kids a little better, or dinner a little better (hate it when it burns!)so, while my sister is out i brought her laptop to the kitchen and i'm watching cassidy, and watching dinner and typing all at the same time. i'm liking this. too bad there isn't room in my kitchen for the addition of a desk or another counter just for a comptuer. the next house, right?

oh yeah, and i wanted to mention...about that technology thing...it applies to tv's, vcr's and dvd's too. i swear i push the same buttons every time, but i never get the same results - much my dismay and the disappointment of my kids waiting to watch "backyardigans movies"!

me & technology don't mix

i know todd gets frustrated with me when i say this, but it is the truth. any time i sit down at the computer to do anything other than browse the internet or type an email things get screwy. even trying to type a word document doesn't always work out for me, because inevitably something goes wrong when i hit the print button. so the other day i wanted to put some pictures on a disk so i could take them to be printed, nope drama. doesn't work. even todd has to figure a way around the usual way because the usual way, for some strange reason (that strange reason being me!), isn't working. and now, i have a few minutes, i thought i'd sit down and try to upload pictures to my blog, because i have many, many blog drafts that are just waiting for pictures to be complete, and even some blog posts that i went ahead and put on my blog with the promise of pictures later when i could access todd's computer where all the pictures are stored. but guess what...the pictures i was looking for are not there. i go to the folder where they should be, but the folder is only showing pictures taken through mid-july. and i wanted august through now!!! grrr arrrgh! you know, i could go sit at todd's desk and use his computer to find the pictures. i'm sure they will be right there....but who knows what'll happen if i start pushing buttons. i'm likely to make his computer have a melt-down right before my very eyes. me and technology - oil and water....same thing.

political or not so political ramblings

today could be a momentous day. i think every time there is a presidential election there is the possibility of things changing. the finanical crisis is upon us. the stock market could go under, houses are not selling, taxes going up....but really, how does this affect me? my little family? my little house? (pun intended)

i waited too long to post this and now i know the outcome - president obama.
i'm not too sure how i feel about all that is going on. i wish i was more politically minded, i know i should spend more time trying to understand, but that just seems like time i don't have. does that make me ignorant? a sheep, just following what my husband, in-laws and parents think and have opinions on? i try to think on my own, but i look back over my life's choices, political decisions, my opinions on various issues and ideas and wonder...how much of this is my own?