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    Gender: Female
    Location: MI
    Orientation: Straight
    Children: Proud Parent
    # of Kids: 2
    Body Type: Body Builder / Weight Lifter
    Religion: Buddhist
    Ethnicity: Alien
    Yahoo: toughmuttsdogtraining
    About Me: HSing all of DDs life (she's 8 now). Happily married. I'm a horrible chicken and paranoid to the point of possible insanity. I love to spend time with my kids! I enjoy debates, particularly the political and religious kind. I'm busy every day with real life, school, and trying to keep a house clean enough to not be considered a total disaster area (but it never works! Anyone with kids knows that they are scheming to mess it up the moment it's clean again...)
    Music: Anything I can sing to. I'm playing a lot of karaoke games on my Xbox360 and Gamecube. It'd be nice to sing for a living...
    Movies: Only good ones ;)
    TV: I'm trying to quit. ;P We're addicted to FoxNews, Disc, Apl, DiscH, NatGeo, with guilty pleasures of mine being Showtime's Dexter, Grey's Anatomy, House, and Housewives
    Books: All of the good ones :P
    Likes: Snuggling under a blanket with the kiddos with or without a good book! Reading good books, and helping my children learn new things.
    Dislikes: When things are grossly unfair. When good people die. Symmetry. Irony. Etc.
    Hobbies: Crocheting, walking, reading, gardening, knitting, reading, SLEEPING
    Vices: blogging and then some.
    Heroes: There are too many to mention, but especially this week, my great aunt for being a strong, feisty, sweet old lady until she just couldn't anymore.

    A new trick to get homework done

    Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 07:05 PM EST [General]

    My daughter is admittedly a vidiot.  She will watch TV all day if you let her.  Don't get me wrong, TV's got it's place in homeschool - the science channel, discovery, nat geo, animal planet,  and so on - just too much is a bad thing.

    With her watching so much TV lately, she's not getting her homework finished.  I figured out a way that works for everyone, since the TV's not getting shut off with a toddler and vidiot parent around.  She does a page of her workbook during every commercial break.  This is especially effective if we're watching something of interest (like how the earth was made, or dinosaurs decoded or the like).  For some reason, what usually has taken her five hours in the past, takes only an hour or so.

    Now if I could only unplug myself from the TV...

    :D

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    How it Went, and Other Musings

    Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 01:18 PM EST [General]

    Thank you, first off, for everyone's kind comments and encouragement about my brother's "wedding."  We attended the outdoor wedding in the chilly October rain.  Words can not begin to convey the pleasure of such an event unless one has lived in Michigan ;)

    After being expressly told by my brother that no children were standing up in the wedding, you can imagine my surprise when his wife's 6 yr old brother walked down the aisle with a bridesmaid.  The little boy was in a TUX for crying out loud!  I felt like walking out!  After looking at Diana's crestfallen face, I should have!  If I had the day to take back, I would have walked out.  That's just ridiculous and mean spirited!

    When I asked about Junior walking down the aisle, my mother tells me that, according to the story, Junior's real mom was in the hospital earlier for something (not, as it turns out, serious...) and they had no one to watch him.  And I was wrong, it wasn't a tux but a suit.  Either way I tend to think they planned to have Junior in the wedding regardless...

    Even if the story is true, why couldn't they have either offered to have all 3 kids walk down the aisle?  OR, found a sitter (as they so often requested I do with my children)?  Why didn't Diana or I get offered an explanation from my brother either before or after the wedding, either?  Why did I have to go to someone else?

    Can I disown my brother?  Please? :)

    The kids and I attended the wedding, suffering through the October rain, hung out at my mom's for what seemed like forever - me smiling all the while, Diana and Brobee being cuter than ever, and went home and watched a family movie together.

    Perhaps my hubby and I should renew our wedding vows, outside, in the rain, (no, SNOW!!!) with a kids-only reception, LOL, and require that my brothers fly in for that? Tee hee... I'm only half serious. ;)

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    Kids and water, they must get wet. I forgot to mention that it was about 40 degrees F, with upto 60 mph winds.

    Sonshine
    October 14, 2009
    12:13 AM EST

    thanks for the comment. I think we're all at a lose when it comes to what we can control for our kids health.

    hidding the vegs. in thier food has worked best for me as well, but there's only so much you can sneak into some things.

    Teresa
    February 05, 2009
    05:09 PM EST

    Nim's Island was very cute we all enjoyed it a bunch!!!! Your new sweety is too cute!!!! Hope you school year goes great we are off to a wonderful start here lets hope we can keep it up!

    Heather
    August 26, 2008
    11:13 AM EST

    they saw a snake the same day as the toad, so glad they didn't catch it!!!

    Lynette
    August 23, 2008
    06:01 PM EST