To the people who feel the need to criticize and play "holier than thou"...

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean. (Bob Marley)


Lonely is a man without love.


There are three types of women:
1. The ones that go unnoticed.
2. The ones that catch the eye but are soon forgotten.
3. The ones that you notice, but you don't know why, almost mysterious in a way, and those are the ones you never forget, never.
(Now this one may not make sense unless you know our story. And then, it's perfectly clear. I am the #3.)

For the record

My blog is used for updating family and friends who are even remotely interested in the everyday going-ons of our lives.

I have friends and family I don't get to see on a regular basis. They know they can come here to check up on us.

Some days we lead boring lives. Some days we have more excitement than I want to deal with. It is what it is.

If you don't like what I write, here's the easiest solution I know. DON'T READ IT!

I don't openly bash people. I keep this as G (or PG) rated as possible.

If you have nothing nice to say to me, email me. Don't make an idiot of yourself on here to where other people will feel the need to back me. (Or point out your ignorance.)

There shouldn't be a way to post anonymously anymore. I think I've edited that out.

And the only place my blog address has ever been posted is on my Facebook. So if you're not my friend or someone who has been specifically given this address, I have a question. Why are you wasting everyone's time by stalking me? All you're doing is drawing attention to my blog (a good thing), giving people a laugh (good thing), and making people realize that some decisions were a really good idea (a good thing).


AND...

If you have any rude comments to direct towards Jason or questions/comments about any of his decisions (which some people still don't understand years later), man up and talk to him yourself.


:takes a bow and points finger and laughs:

Posting: FAIL

Well, this one didn't work out like I was hoping it would. BOOOO!!!

Really cute thing about how the baby's about the size of a papaya and all that...

Now. If only this baby could be "officially" named...

Audrey's latests

I was sitting there the other day digging through some papers and she walks up to me with, "I know how to spell your name." I'm sure she's seen it written but we haven't focused on it. She'll need to know it eventually but I haven't seen it as an important thing to work on just yet. "Okay, how do you spell my name?" "M-E-L-I-S-S-A." Really? She just did that? "You are SO smart. How did you know that?" Half the time I don't really want to know where she gets the stuff she gets but this interested me. "I read it. It's on your paper. Your name starts with M." All my work is starting to pay off!

We set her up her own computer the other night so she can play Starfall. How exciting! Complete with pink earbuds so we don't have to hear it all the time. She has her own little "desk" set up in the living room. Now I just need to find other little programs she can use.

She's learned the first paragraph or so of the Gettysburg Address. Let's face it. Far more than most adults know. Now to work on the Constitution. I figure even if she only knows the first little bits, she'll be ahead. And if we can teach her what it all means, who wrote it, why it was written, all that good stuff, she'll be even better off in the end.

We've been coloring a good bit lately. And we're even doing much better on that. She's already realizing that she needs to try to color inside the lines. She's only 3 and it's acceptable to color outside the lines. But the fact that she makes a conscious effort to try to stay inside thrills me. And it's not even something I've talked to her about. She just seems to know.

She always asks to help do the dishes and the laundry. Absolutely! She gets to help sort the clothes and carry them to the washer. Then she'll put the in the dryer. (Of course I pull them out of the washer.) She helps to fold them and then carry them to the correct room. Yea!! The dishes are a little harder for her to do. She'll tell me where in the dishwasher something goes. Then she gets to help put the pots and pans up.

We're trying to get her into school. I don't want her in daycare. I'd so much rather put her into a preschool. But they all want to put her in with the 2 year olds due to her birthday. No. Not happening. I have a 3 year old who is smarter than some kindergarteners and can carry on an adult conversation and is fully potty trained? I'm not paying to dumb her down. Hello! That's why she's not in daycare! So, we'll continue the homeschooling until I find something suitable. (That's not $800 a month.)

My new phone...

Okay. So it's not really very new anymore.

We traded out my Sidekick for a BlackBerry 8330. Such a cool phone for me. And one of these days I'll be able sit down and figure out how it works.

I'm still having to try to track down all the info from my old phone that I lost. Phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, emails, dates, pictures... At least it wasn't hacked. It was deleted. And deleted. With no hard copy back-up.

And at least this one isn't being backed up by Microsoft/Danger. If BlackBerry crashes, I'm sure there will be far more than just a riot.

But this is still what I want to know. Who names a company Danger, and then fails to follow through with anything? You're already setting yourself up for disaster with just the name...