scariest Halloween costume

Pat and i have found our costumes. The two most terrifying things we could think of. Luckily they will be an after thought soon. a "what if?" eeeewww scary.
Palin
McCain

Mac

Mac is the funniest kid, he does the cutest stuff, i just want to hold him and squeeze him sometimes. Today i went looking for him, he's always off playing with this and that. Mostly anything that belongs to Sophie. So i find him on the floor with 3 stuffed care bears, his FAVORITE toys right now. He has always loved stuffed animals. Anything he can call a baby. He will wrap them in blankets and carry them around the house for days. And if he's tired, he gets all freaked out if the blanket comes undone. Anyways, he has put the container we put the stuffed animals in on his head. So he thinks know one can see him. He starts chuckling when i come in calling his name. Laughing uncontrollable. So cute. His smile is ear to ear.

happy halloween

OK OK i know i said i was not gonna post for a while. It's Halloween. what a great holiday for a freak like me. Get dressed up and have fun and know one cares. I do love this time of year, October has always been one of my favorites. Here's the only pictures i could find of us all dressed up. Which we do all the time anyways. Macs not as into it as Sophie. She loves to wear make up and let her freak flag wave. She's so much like her Mama sometimes. Have a fun Halloween. Eat lots of candy and drink lots of alcohol. (at home)Preferable when your handing out candy. You'll scare the little ones more.

on hold

i am just too busy to post for a while so i will have to put this on hold. all i have to say is i hope Obama becomes prez and our move goes smoothly. see you all in December. in our new house!

2 1/2 magical age

My kids are so special, even through their ups and Downs, lately it's been down more then up. And i miss Sophie being a little girl, she was a lot of fun before she got so sassy. I enjoy our "adult" conversations. she is interested in all sorts of stuff from death to construction. Today she talked about glass installation for a long time. I really couldn't answer her questions. But she didn't care, she just wanted to talk about it. She is growing up now. she thinks she's 10 some days 13! 2 1/2 is so far the best. This to me is the age when they turn into little people. Not just babies any more. Mac talks to me about all kinds of fun stuff and he is so quizzical. Here's my side by side comparison of my kids both taken age 2 1/2. I think Sophie looks a lot like Pat and Mac looks more like me. I love this age, it is my favorite. Of course Mac is there right now and i am loving every minute of it. And Sophie is just having growing pains. I think she'll figure it out soon... i hope.


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poor obama

trying to seem humble, he succumbs to Ellen and dances. why do Americans want someone who will dance on Ellen for their president i ask you??? he is fine just the way he is. Brilliant, courageous, nation-healing world-citizen-coscious leadership, educated and ready to clean up Bush's mess. He looks so awkward. it's funny that you want him to be just like you, do you think you could run the country? By the way his wife is absolutely gorgeous! she's like 6" tall!!!

Mc racist

John Mc Cain and Sarah Palin have no idea the hatred they have wrought and how they have damaged this country with their fear tactics which are not racist outright but which instill hatred that manifests as racism.

hot pursuit

Pat and i decided to go out for once and do a little celebrating. So we go to the pub and burger place downtown block 15 great place with Painted hills beef burgers and a huge selection of beer. It's also children friendly. Some of the tables have been painted with chalk board paint. Also the menu's are in the beginning of books, that you could read after you've ordered. The kids didn't come with us this time and thank goodness they didn't because the most exciting thing in our town for us at least happened!
First we were side swiped by a 30" camper. Who hit us and ran. Or didn't realize this. But the best part was there were witnesses. There's a gym down town that saw everything and got the license plate number, Washington plates. And the full description of the boat on wheels. So we called the cops, now Pat and i had a couple beers at Block 15 and were feeling a little nervous. We both had the mint they give you with your check in our cheeks. It was so gross root beer flavored too. The cop was nice and we did all we could and were about to leave when over his radio he gets a call and says "don't go" couldn't make out what was being said but the next thing i know is the officer quickly saying "get in your car there at Burger king!" Which is maybe 5 blocks away. Cop gets in and takes off i have a little further distance to catch up, so I'm running yellow lights trailing behind this cop on our 25 MPH downtown street, slightly tipsy. The cops lights are flashing. In a hot pursuit to of all places Burger king. So surreal. Oh, and I'm totally stresses out the front bumper is gonna fall off at any moment. Get there and the rest was pretty boring. The folks were so sorry bla bla bla. They weren't that old 50's. i was picturing an older 80's couple. Nice folks. They just bought the thing. And have no idea how to drive it. I was so hoping when we got there they would be lined up on the ground hand cuffed. Drug dogs would be barking, small children being rescued from there corrupt phony adoption ring. But they weren't. They we're as normal as you get. For the northwest at least. It's gonna be hard to beat this date, which sucks because our 6Th anniversary and my birthday are coming up.

relax, sit back and sip some soup

It's fall again and that means the start of germ-fighting season. Kids catch an average of one to two colds per month during the school year; parents catch fewer but suffer just as much. What are the best strategies for staying healthy doctors agree that you need to scrub and rinse your hands for at least 20 seconds in order to kill germs most effectively. Like kids do this! I do, do they? Not really. We give our kids chewable vitamin C and it taste like candy too. Mac love them. But few experts recommend taking vitamin C supplements. Most Americans eat more than the U.S. recommended daily allowance of vitamin C—75mg per day for women (the equivalent of an orange) and 90mg per day for men. Also There is no proof that zinc or the herbal supplement echinacea work against viruses.

Here are more so called cures, we use them all. But i've never ehard of going out and getting exercise.

• Eat chicken soup. Maybe. “There’s been no scientific evidence that distinctly proves chicken soup helps you recover from colds,” says Epperly. “[But] the sense of mental comfort can’t be downplayed.”

Chicken soup does help with hydration, which is important for getting and staying well. “Good hydration maximizes the body’s function, almost like oil in the car,” says Epperly. “Your body is functioning better; you’re washing out toxins better.”

• Feed a cold, starve a fever. False. “We never starve you when you’re fighting an infection,” says Dr. Christopher Tolcher, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Don’t feel the need for feast—or famine. “Follow your own body’s cues,” says Epperly.

• Curl up by the fire. False. Relaxation is nice, but getting outside and exercising is a better way of preventing colds. “Keeping your body at its optimal health is what keeps your wall of immunity up,” says Tolcher, who recommends kids get 60 minutes of exercise each day.

If you’re sick, though, you should not waste your body’s infection-fighting energy on the treadmill. And, whether you’re sick or well, it’s important to get plenty of sleep. Tolcher advises that kids younger than 8 should get about 11 hours per night; kids 9 to 12 need 10 to 11 hours; and kids 13 and up need eight to nine hours. Adults need about eight hours. “Your body’s ability to fight off any infection will be enhanced if you exercise, eat a good diet and get good sleep,” says Epperly.

• The flu shot may help prevent other illnesses. True. “It so beefs up your immune system that there is a cross-coverage for other types of viruses,” says Epperly. The AAP recommends annual influenza immunization for caregivers of kids under 5. Then relax, sit back and sip some soup.

Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President

Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President

We thought this election would be a serious fight over the future of this country, but only one candidate showed up.

how can one claim to be pro-life AND pro-gun?

Their positions are clear: under a McCain/Palin adminsitration, abortion would be banned. The consequences are inevitable: good doctors would stop providing safe and regulated care, abortion procedures would be driven back underground, and women would be forced into dangerous, criminal situations.This kind of extremism is a threat to women and families across America.

dirty Holiday

took my kids to the Halloween superstore. "ghost busters" blaring, Sophie liked that. "who you gonna call..." she loves that movie. the funny thing about it is it is so dirty. the scene where Dan Akroyd's pants are getting un-zipped by a ghost. and he's not at all frightened. like he'd do just about anything for a blow job. Sophie asked about it and i said he was being tickled. also they say fuck and shit a lot. i guess it does have bill Murray doesn't it.

So at this Halloween store there were the dirtiest costumes. giant penis's. all for men really. no giant vagina's.(scary to imagine) all they had for the ladies were sexy______. fill in the blank. i guess if your not a kid Halloween is all about sex. who knew. just an excuse to get drunk. what ever happened to celebrating the dead? death should be celebrated more.

Mac is going to be a bumble bee, like the one from the Simpson's. I'm gonna paint a mustache on him, Sophie is a dead princess. i will be stressed out mom on Prozac and Pat is always Indian princess, Pocahontas. "Patahontas"

She looked like she trying to get people to take her seriously. He looked like he was running for vice president.

John McCain isn't dead in the water

But he sure is dying
Palin never really got beyond her talking points in 90 minutes, mostly repeating clichés and tired attack lines and energetically refusing to answer far too many questions. I hate the word Maverick now. Merriam-Webster Dictonary defines a "maverick" as "an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party." How does this apply when you've voted with your party 90% of the time? I have to admit I was disappointed that Ifill did not follow up on any of her questions that went unanswered by Sarah Palin. Maybe that was part of the debate negotiation, but Palin clearly avoided probably about half of the debate's questions and I thought that deserved some attention.
"She wasn’t present. She wasn’t real. She was Sally Sound-byte.
This debate was more revealing than the Presidential one last week because it became very clear that she simply doesn’t have the substance to be VP much less President which reflects badly on John McCain's judgment. Obama will crush McCain. Said that months ago. Truer than ever."
Diane Francis, National Post
"You can say this about Sarah Palin: She did better debating Joe Biden than she did being interviewed by Katie Couric. But that sets the bar very low indeed. So let's pay Palin the respect of treating her exactly as a male candidate would be treated. And that means saying this:
She was simply nowhere near as good as Joe Biden."
-Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe
"To the contrary, it is hard to count any objective measures by which Biden did not clearly win the encounter. She looked like she trying to get people to take her seriously. He looked like he was running for vice president. His answers were more responsive to the questions, far more detailed and less rhetorical. On at least ten occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific, completely generic, pivoted away from the question at hand, or simply ignored it: on global warming, an Iraq exit strategy, Iran and Pakistan, Iranian diplomacy, Israel-Palestine (and a follow-up), the nuclear trigger, interventionism, Cheney's vice presidency and her own greatest weakness."
-John F. Harris and Mike Allen, Politico

Here is where the phrase "planned parenthood" really comes into play

The biggest shock to public officials came last week, when a single father walked into an Omaha hospital and surrendered nine of his 10 children, ages 1 to 17, saying that his wife had died and he could no longer cope with the burden of raising them.
In total last month, 15 older children in Nebraska were dropped off by a beleaguered parent or custodial aunt or grandmother who said the children were unmanageable.
Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies — the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers — but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair.
The spate of abandonments has prompted an outcry about parental irresponsibility and pledges to change the state law, which allows care givers to drop off children without fear of prosecution.
The obessesion with babies in this country needs to be examined very seriously! Having children is not a privilege, or a blessing, or a right...it is a job, a full time job, the most important job a person can undertake. People need to be taught from day one that unless you have the time, resources, money, help, and energy to do the job, then DON'T have children. There is nothing wrong with leading a child free life, and children today should be taught that having children does not have to be your goal in life!
Republicans fight to prevent people from aborting kids they probably shouldn't have. But they fight equally hard to deny financial or social service resources to these families when the predictable happens.