Wordless Wednesday-End of Summer

Fresh and fruity Friday Five--late

We had a busy weekend and I totally forgot about Friday Five...so here it is :)

1. Besides plain, what’s your favorite way to eat an apple?
Smothered in caramel and nuts

2. Besides plain, what’s your favorite way to eat berries?
Dipped in chocolate

3. Besides plain, what’s your favorite way to eat a banana?
On a peanut butter and banana sandwich

4. Besides plain, what’s your favorite way to eat a peach?
In peach cobbler

5. Besides plain, what’s your favorite way to eat a pineapple?
Grilled with chicken and green peppers, basted with teriyaki sauce

Reflecting

Today is the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia (in case you've been under a rock or something and didn't know...:P) This year the anniversary also coincided with Eric and Kathy's 36 hour radio-thon for Children's Memorial Hospital I generally refer to the radio-thon as the 36 hour sob a thon because I listen and sob...because even though Gabriel has a disability, it's nothing compared to what the families who tell their stories for the radio-thon go through.

Today was one of those days where I really sat back and surveyed our lives and thought to myself "Damn, we are one lucky family. We have happy healthy kids, we are surrounded by family and friends, we have a roof over our heads, and even though things get tight sometimes, we always make do" I mean, really, everyone has rough times, but overall, things are really pretty awesome for our family. Geo and I have a strong marriage-we not only love one another but we like one another, we have two great kids who are happy and healthy and bring joy to our lives on a regular basis, heck we even have two cats who are pretty darn fabulous too :P

Seeing photos, reading what people had to say about 9/11 and listening to the radio-thon really put these things into perspective. Just when I think we have it rough, I hear about someone who's gone through an unspeakable tragedy and it hits me that wow, our life is good.

I hope that at some point in the next day or two you will take the opportunity to really look at your life and what's going on and put it all in perspective and be HAPPY about the things that are good in your life. It's so easy to focus on the negative crap that happens continually; sometimes it feels like when it rains it pours and it's a damn thunderstorm out there...so take a moment, think about what you've got and how lucky you are to have it...

Welcome :)

So as I mentioned the other day, I am being featured as a Blogger of Note on the blog Our Words of Wisdom

Welcome to all of the new comers from WoW and hello to all my oldies but goodies :)

First off a little intro to me, for those who are new around here. I'm 30 (for the next three weeks and I'm holding on for dear life) I am a mostly stay at home mom, former Montessori teacher who has been married to my college sweetie Geo for nine years.

Gabriel is six and a half, in first grade, has a new girlfriend every day, wants to be Justin Bieber when he grows up (well, hell, who DOESN'T want that?? oh...wait) and has spina bifida, hydrocephalus and a host of other unpronounceable annoying medical issues. He's funny as all get out, reads almost as much as me, and has a stuffed dog Sam who is almost always attached to him.

SarahAnne is three and a half going on 16. More often than not I refer to her as Bitsy, those as of late, she has been called the Blonde Devil because she's awful very high spirited :P (that's what we call big blue meanie children, right? "High Spirited" sounds SO much better than complete and utter overly dramatic three and a half year old with a penchant for cutting things up with scissors and blaming it on her grandfather the crocodile, right? Plus it's way easier to type out) She's goofy, thinks she is a ballerina/mother of the world/the boss, and often takes the kitten, Jax for a ride in her stroller. She's a complete and utter weirdo, but we like her and think we'll keep her.

I enjoy writing, reading, cooking, Anthony Bourdain, Maroon 5 and John Mayer. I love my family (most of the time) and more importantly I actually really like them. Perhaps when I grow up, I'll become an official activist for the disabled community, but right now I'm having fun being an amateur. You get to swear a lot more when you aren't an "official" anything.

I am pretty big into attachment parenting, breastfeeding, co sleeping, gardening, knowing your food sources, etc etc. In other words, total bare foot-dirty-smells like patchouli-liberal hippie momma. I also really love being married to Geo and often post things about marriage-marriage musings as they are called :)

I'm an open book and will pretty much answer any question you might have and am willing to write a blog on pretty much anything and everything :)

Below you'll find some of my "favorite" blog entries--enjoy and thanks so much WoW for honoring me, Eri for the nomination and most of all, the Coca Cola company for creating diet coke, the true nectar of this goddess! :P

Scars A Gabriel entry

I choose you A marriage musing entry

An open letter to Miss Me Too A Bitsy entry

Thankful Thursday

I'm thankful for the cooler weather and for it getting darker a bit earlier now :) It's been awesome sleeping weather for the last week or so and because it's getting darker a bit earlier, it's easier to get the kiddos to bed! What are you thankful for today?

Dear God...

Bits woke up from her nap with daddy to see Boni cat on the end of the bed. She said to us, "I need to give Boni a big hug" George and I looked at one another and I asked "Why do you need to hug him?" She very nonchalantly said "Because I gave him a haircut and he didn't like it"

*drop jaw*

Sure enough, I look at poor Boni's head and yep, he's had a Bitsy imposedhack job hair cut. Good God, the poor cat, I am going to have to get him some cat nip, a new mouse, or some duct tape to use on Bits and her scissoring hands.

*shakes head* at least she didn't cut her or her cousin's hair, right??

Wordless Wednesay: Musically Inclined