I hope you've all completed the quiz; you and your spouse before checking back to see the scoring and a few of my thoughts.
Questions 1-3
The favorite color, movie and song should be basic things you know about your spouse. Give yourself 3 points for each one of these you got right.
As I mentioned last week, I am planning to find out what I�m having (my appointment is on Thursday, as a matter of fact!). I also found out with Alex. To me, it was never really a question. It wasn�t that I needed to know so I could set up the nursery -- I was living in an NYC apartment at the time so his �nursery� consisted of a corner in my bedroom. And it�s not that I have an aversion to the color yellow or that I wanted to name the kid before he came out (Alex became Alex six hours after he was born�he was going to be Christopher or Timothy up to that point). I just wanted to know. Not in an obsessive way, just in the way I wanted to know that he had 10 fingers and 10 toes and was growing properly.
Dear Summer,
Well THAT was fast.
You blew in here three months ago in the bright eyes of my kids. You brought many high expectations with you -- some of them we exceeded, others we missed by a mile. We had some togetherness that ended in rollicking good laughs, and we had some togetherness that ended in imaginary lines being drawn the backseat. We saw an ocean, a canyon and a wizard. Your humid, healthy air fertilized both my hydrangea and my twelve year old -- both of them seemed to grow a foot.
From the August issue of Parenting
1. You can dip your child in a vat of SPF 70 several times a day, yet she winds up with a Day-Glo pink triangle on her back.
2. They spend eight hours in the water, but your suggestion of a bath at night is an abomination.
3. There exists a flavor of Popsicle known only as "blue."
There was a flyer on the bulletin board at work this morning about the HAPPY Act: Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years. This is a bill that seeks to allow pet owners a tax exemption for pet care expenses.
H.R.
Stockpiling means getting your groceries at the very lowest prices, and then purchasing enough to last you until you can get to the next great sale. This way, you never pay full price for any groceries at all.
This week, it seems that my head is just filled with all sorts of thoughts competing for attention. Those long walks/runs in the morning give me a little time with my thoughts as well as my body, and I think somewhere in there, some of my brain got turned on along with my metabolism.
Last week, I blogged about industrial hemp and how it was legal to import, but illegal for American farmers to grow because it is in the cannabis family, which also includes marijuana.
The word "scared" doesn't even come close to describing my preschool daughter's fear of spiders. "Petrified," "terror-stricken," and "alarmed" don't do her anxiety justice either.
At least that's what my daughter maintains.
Long before we started counting down the days until her first day of kindergarten my young daughter insisted that she needed to have a lunchbox.
Mind you she was not enrolled in school at the time.