Happy Birthday Sesame Street…Almost

If you check out Google today, you’ll also be checking out the long legs of Big Bird…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/04/google-doodle-sesame-street-bigbird-40
I love this quote: “even the most brilliant of those early episodes would not pass through the Political Correctness barrier today.”
So true.  Unfortunately, and not really related to political correctness, it reminds me of the infamous, “Sesame Street Breastfeeding” [...]

Cool New Mommy Links

Ok, maybe not new, but new to me.   Thanks to my sister-in-law for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/formom
And from there I got to this one:
http://www.wiimommies.com/ 
and this one: 
http://www.momspective.com/
Reminded me of my posts on losing weight and using the Wii Fit from last year:
http://clevelandmom.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/on-losing-weight/
and
http://clevelandmom.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/wii-fit-kicked-mii-bootie/
I’d actually managed to lose about 20 pounds between the Wii Fit and riding my stationary bike [...]

First Six Months as SAHM

Everyone asks me how I like being a stay-at-home mom.  Ironically, since I stopped working I seem to have less time to blog, rather than more, as evidenced by my serious lack of blogging lately.   My typical answer to people is, “I’m finally getting around to living the life I’ve been missing out on the [...]

Two Thoughts Today

I was looking at old photos as I was moving some boxes into the new house, and in the background of one in the band room of my old high school was a sign that read as follows:
“If only the best birds sang in the forest, the forest would be a quiet place”
I don’t know [...]

13 Steps to Being Happier

I came across this article from last year and thought it was a good one.   I liked the “13 steps” this guy came up with:
13 steps to a better life
What does all this mean to you? If money won’t bring you happiness, what will? How can you stop making yourself miserable and start learning to [...]

On Our Side

This week we put in an offer on a house and it was accepted.   In a conversation with our realtor, a strong Catholic man who isn’t afraid to share his faith, he said to me as we awaited the answer from the seller, “Now all we can do is pray and hope that God is [...]

Yesterday

Yesterday, I know I had ideas of stuff to write, but today, after spending four hours hanging out at the hospital for appointments with my mom, all I want to do is go workout and watch last week’s Grey’s Anatomy.  So I am going to do just that.
But, so far, it looks like my mom [...]

Potty Training

This little story was too funny not to share.   Today I had a painted come in to give me an estimate on painting several rooms of our home, of course, now that we plan to sell it in the next year and I won’t really get to enjoy it.  Oh well.  If all goes well, [...]

Still Blessed

A few weeks ago I’d written about how ridiculously blessed I was feeling.  And also that I always had a fear at times like that where it was inevitable that something bad was going to happen.  Well, life does go on, and among other concerns that have come up since writing that post, the worst [...]

Home is Where Your Friends Are

Sometimes I contemplate not writing a blog.   I am sure at some point this will happen.   The reason being is, among the numerous reasons I had for resigning, one was that I grew tired of feeling like I was being beaten up by complete strangers as it related to my work.  This was a very minor [...]