I have been really hooked on plurk lately. I could never really get into Twitter. It felt very one sided to me. Yes, you can twitter @ someone, but it most of the time I didn’t get a response to my questions. But with plurk, it’s sort of like IMing with a lot of people. I love the time line. You can see an overview here. The timeline is in the blue and my info is in the orange. You respond by clicking on the line and then a text box shows up and you respond.
You need to check it out…you can get a lot of friends to start by going to this
page and adding people as friends. There are a lot of friendly people there and so far, I’ve received NO spam!!!! Don’t forget to add me too….
ScrappinMichele
Yes Michele, you are right about why we have children. We want to live on and we do live on in our children. My father was a lot like Tim Russert. He had integrity, honesty, kindness and dignity . He wanted to and did instill many of those qualities into me and I in turn into my children. I’m sure you all are instilling some of that into your children too. As an adult I have felt that I have to try to live up to those good qualities in my father in order to make his life relevant. I don’t know if that makes sense. I have to live up to his expectations. It doesn’t matter that he is not here anymore. I have had to do that more since his death. When he was alive I could do what I want to rebel against him but not since his death.
I have been watching the Today show all morning and I feel like I have lost a good friend. You are right, the election won’t be the same this time. Who is going to give us an honest reading of what is going on? I will truly miss him.
We want them because of the Kodak moments we envision and so we feel like we will go on forever.
I’ve been reflecting on life again today. Tim Russert’s death today is so sad. When I listened to him I always felt like I was getting the news, just the facts and not opinions. There is a time and place for opinions in the news, but he seemed to know exactly when to use them and most importantly.when NOT to use them. When something big happens in politics, I always looked forward to hearing his take on the subject. In some ways he reminds me of my husband.
The news will never be the same and the next election will definitely be very different.
We are so mad here ,it’s hard for anyone to imagine. Steph still hasn’t closed on her house. No one is following it along and making sure that all the i’s are dotted and t’s crossed. Sarah ,the realtor and our family are fuming. Too much to go into in a blog. Now they are saying Monday. We’ll see. Makes me wonder if she should just forget it. Maybe an omen.
It’s been busy around here. Not fun busy but just something happening all the time. Dave has spent the week trying to figure out why my dryer electric line keeps cutting out the circuit breaker. Upstairs air went out for 3 days in 100 degree weather. We had to sleep on the couch downstairs. I slept on the floor. My body still hurts.
School is out here too and now we have an eight year old boy around ALL of the time. I love him as much as my life but I am way too old to live with an 8 year old boy. Too much activity. He is on the move all the time. Not his fault but mine for being old.
They were supposed to be in their little house by this time.
Dogs are fine. Jack is here for the weekend because Sharon and Dough are going to Tidewater and play on their boat. Not sure where he is going to sleep yet. I used to keep him and Bella in the kitchen, but now I don’t want to put him in there alone. Have to think about it a bit.
I would really like to have some alone time. It’s been oh soooo long. Just a few hours would be nice. I don’t want to be alone, alone but just a few hours.
Sounds like Serena is having quite a time worrying about her kids. Remind me………….why is it we want to have children????
since we wer doing the map thing I thought I’d give it a good kick. When you look at the whole world, I’ve only lived in 3 countries.
I will sit down tomorrow and do some blogging. I’ve been bad but busy.
I saw this on Holly’s web site and thought it was kind of cool
My online friends sent us the most precious gift when my father-in-law passed away. It is called Seeds of Life and is a seed of a tree that you plant. First you plant it in the soil and pot that they provide (with the directions they provide) and then after it starts to grow, you plant it in your yard. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to grow the Oak tree that they sent us (I do not have green thumb), but we are going to enjoy trying.
Here is a video of what we planted
I hate nights that consist of cleaning up puke in my sleep. My 9 yr old is usually good about making it to the toilet, but last night she made it to the bathroom, but the toilet was closed (at least she listened to our rule about closing toilets). Why does puke seem to get into every tiny little crack? That was real fun cleaning up in my sleep at 1am. And she waited an hour or so to let us know so it was already dried up and caked to the wall, floor, tile, grout, toilet, tub, sink, closet and all the towels she used to try to clean it up herself. I can still smell it.
And then of course I was wide awake and feeling sick to my stomach. So I decided to watch Ace of Cakes because I couldn’t sleep. Usually a very upbeat light hearted (not disgusting) show. I happen to watch the one episode where they create a cake from the Exorcist movie with spinning head and puke. So my night pretty much consisted of puke.
This really wasn’t part of the plan. I had no intentions of cleaning up puke, pee, poop or any other bodily fluid when I became a mother. Not sure who I thought would be doing it, but it wasn’t me. I only thought about the moments where my husband and I would stare lovingly into our children’s eyes or watched them as they slept. We do watch them as they sleep, but it’s only cuz we are afraid they will wake up and they are in our bed and we need to be sure they are really sound asleep so we can move them to their bed so we can have a moment of peace…..
Ahhh…motherhood!!!
