Katie is watching a show she taped last night while eating her lunch. It’s called A Walk in Your Shoes or something like that. Two teens from very different backgrounds switch places. This one has Miss Teen Illinois switching places…
Missed Fun Trip, Watched Movies
I’m supposed to be up in the mountains with the family and the Girl Scout troop today, rock-hounding. Instead, I’m at home with a migraine. Ick. And this is the very last event with the old troop. I did finally…
Should You WHAT?
Okay, I finished the book. One of the last chapters is entitled “Should you ever become involved with a sexual offender?” There’s a case study of a mother who has started dating someone and then he tells her that he’s…
Boundaries
Surprisingly, I’m almost finished with a book I started reading last night, Protecting Your Children from Sexual Predators by Dr. Leigh Baker. I picked it up on a whim because it was on the new releases shelf at the library.…
Movies, Mommying, Miscellany
We watched Galaxy Quest last night. That’s always fun. It’s one of the movies I want to own on DVD, but we sorta need to get a DVD player. Katie is doing her math, then she’s going to finish reading…
Earworm Help
Need help identifying a song. It’s stuck in Katie’s head and she wants to find it so she can hear the whole thing and then get it unstuck. She heard it at Six Flags on Wednesday in the “Crystal Pistol”…
Difficult Mothers
deza, I thought of you yesterday at the library. I mean, even more than usual. There was a book on the shelves that did it this time, though. How to manage your mother: understanding the most difficult, complicated, and fascinating…
Onion Girl
I’m still up, hoping sambear will get home sometime while it’s still today. Yes, he’s still at the office. This is the price for taking two “vacation days” to celebrate his birthday tomorrow and Friday. I finished Onion Girl by…
Songs That Make You…
I got it from dslartoo who got it from birdofparadox: What song…
Who Owns the Music?
Okay, sambear‘s post got me to thinking… I really like what Elise Witt says in her workshops about this business of how music is supposed to be, what’s good, who can make music, etc. As recently as the 1920s and…