Tomatoes

Another month?!
Sheesh!?
Well, it is less than a week before Christmas (yeah, I did want to write X-mas!!!) and I am just not as full of the holiday spirit as I should be. I mean, comon. Christmas is just CRAZY-time. Go out and shop like you don't have any sense-time.
At least I'm excited for the kids. They are really getting juiced up for the holiday. Lots of trying to be good and "Santa's watching" stuff.
Star Wars is really big around our house, now too. Last night, I put the boys to bed and about an hour later, 2 sleepy boys walk in to the bedroom as ask (totally seriously), "Momma, what is your Jedi name?"
I love boys!
Happy Happy
Healthy Healthy
Fa-la-la-la-Laaaaaa!!

Shaking

Long time.
Real long time.
Since June we've been back to Maryland. Everyone is just fine. We had a fun (although if we heard, "It's not the heat....we were gonna scream!) We spent 3 weeks in the end of July and early August.
Then...
We MOVED!

Go figure.
Here's the short story-
Kathy and Larry (Garth's parents) purchased a house in Oregon. Their house in Vallejo wasn't in any shape to sell so, they asked if we would move in to the house to help them our financially while they get it ready to go on the market.
So
We're now residents of Vallejo
BIG change from San Rafael. In many ways, it is SO much better. There is a LOT more diversity, people are more friendly, and over-all it is a much more family friendly community.
The down side is that you have to answer questions like, "Momma, why does that man have a watch on his leg?"
-Well son, he is on house arrest.
sigh.
We also got a new dog.
He is a rescue from Smiley Dog Rescue and he's a pit bull. Yeah, we LOVE the underdogs.
His name is JJ and he is about a year and a half old.
Sage is still around and SO happy to have a nice young friend.

Moving

So, a few things
1. After a rather typical MaCo, but none the less disturbing interaction at a local park, we've decided that we are giving MaCo a year and then we are outta here (if not sooner) I won't go into the details of the interaction, but here is a sample of what she was like. She was carrying on about how her 2009 fully loaded Honda Odyssey Touring was a "cheap" car. A "piece of junk that she won't drive for long" She prefers "luxury" vehicles...gag....ack!
2. The other day I saw a guy driving a Prius (alone-everyone in Maco drive solo.) flick his ciggy butt out of the window to the side of the road. I was like, "did that just really happen?" Talk about unclear on the concept....
3. The boob-job and tummy tuck look awesome. Actually, I still have a Franken-belly, but it is pretty flat!!
4. My oldest "graduates" from Pre-K tomorrow. I had no idea that one "'graduated" from Pre-K. I mean, I understand the importance of acknowledging these sort of life transitions, but "graduation"....
That's it...I'm out!

Bush

Hey
So I saw this on a bumper sticker today.
"When Bush took office, gas was $1.46 a gallon"
We are paying $4.29 for it here in MaCo.

Sick

I'm just trying to get my head around this.
So, my husband has a cold. I've said it a million times...my husband turns into a superhero when he gets sick. He becomes Baby-Man. You follow?
Now, he has been sick with a cold for about 4 days and I SWEAR-he has been able to get more sleep and no kid time in the past 4 days than I did the 4 days after my surgery. And I was in the hospital overnight.
Yeah. A real superhero

Post-op W3

So I am 3 weeks out from surgery. Dr D'Amore assures me that I am healing nicely. Personally, I feel a bit itchy. Yeah, I guess the itching means that I am healing. The sisters look pretty nice. Not nearly as high and big as they were a couple of weeks ago. I am still looking a bit like Franken-belly. Things are still swollen and overall looking kinda strange. But can I just tell you--the belly is so much flatter than before.
Yeah-I'm still REALLY happy with the results!

Drop-Off

OK, so this is totally for reals MaCo stuff.
Today I'm dropping off my soon to be 5 year-old. I see one of the other Moms dropping off her twin daughters. Since my father's illness, she has been pretty friendly to me so I do a quick stop-and-chat.
Lemme give you some back story on her first. So one other morning we were chatting and she was asking me the "how do you do it?" question referring to my husband working very long hours and me carrying the bulk of the child caring load. My standard answer is that I just "keep on keeping on." Then she tells me, "Yeah, me too. I mean, having a nanny and daytime and a nighttime housekeeper helps, but really-I do pretty much everything."
--OK, so after the nanny is watching the kids (and what does a full-time nanny do while the kids are daycare? The grocery shopping?!) and the housekeepers keep the house, what IS it that she actually does?!
So then I'm thinking...maybe she was JOKING--Yes, she must have been joking.
Then today, I realize. She WASN'T joking.
Anyway, so today I ask, "How was your Mother's Day?"
Can I just tell you, she was SO HAPPY that I asked.
She tells me that she got
A new Mac Air and...
iTV and...
iTouch

Yeah. Then she starts complaining that now she is going to have to spend all this time learning how to use a Mac.
And I was thrilled with my Kirkland Signature 16 piece stainless steel cookware set.