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Getting to know me 101

Things I Likie:

chopping vegetables into different shapes

tapestries

rice.  you can make paper outta it!

old people walking with those little wire shopping carts on wheels.

asian straw hats

jerry curl

British murder mysteries

Herbal tea that tastes like earth

Incense...sandalwood, nag champa, musk...ooh and the vietmanese kind

sparkly toe nails

Louisiana style hot sauce on my pizza

grey days

coloring

window painting

mowing the lawn

Things I NO Likie:

Looking through binoculars wearing glasses

being hot

restricting bras

loud cell phone users in the checkout line

obnoxious vehicles (street hummer, huge trucks that pull nothing)

Lucky Charms cereal

Waking up cranky

small pebbles in my shoe

speeding tickets

a house with every furnishing being brand new

someone with a gourmet kitchen and all they do is microwave

parents who tell their kids they are "bad"

drinking cow milk

For Your Play Dough Pleasure...

We made home-made play dough the other day.

Once it was ready for use, I left the room to come back to these masterpieces:

(I know he's my son but I think Isaac's got mad skillz.)

"Ware-rabbit"  by the 4 year old Isaac.

"Lizard" by the 4 year old Isaac.

"Hello Kitty" by the 3 year old Peaches.

My latest yum

Rachel's Blackberry Cous-Cous Pudding

(Note:  I never follow recipes.  I measure-by-eye.  My philosiphy: Just keep at it until it tastes right.)

~~This is my take on an Indonesian-style dessert.~~

Steam: 

*cous-cous 

with a generous amount of:

* ginger

* cinnamon 

* cardamom 

Add:

* honey &or sugar (honey is yummier) until desired sweetness is reached (may need to add more later as cream will subdue sweetness)

* Lots of fresh "Washingtonian" black berries

* Fresh cream

Mix and enjoy.

Great for dessert or breakfast!

Serve warm or cold (warm is best)

I would love to hear from those of you who try this...

Sleep, where are you?

I am so tired it feels like pop rocks candy is popping behind my eye balls.

Complete and Total People

My toddlers love to play "superheros".  We have a costume box loaded with capes, wigs, spidey-suits, and vacuum attachments that serve as good makeshift bazookas in times of dragon-slaying and shark-hunting.

Spidey-suit or not...if you ask my son what his name is, 99% of the time he will reply "Peter Parker".  If you ask my daughter what her super-identity is...she will always tell you, "woman".

Woman.

She is 3...and that projection of herself could not be more accurate.

All children; are in fact, whole and complete people.  I agree, my daughter is most definitely, a "little woman".

How many of us grew up hearing responses like,  "I will tell you when you're older" or "because I said so"?

What a diss to the one inquiring.

Really. 

 

If someone asks the time.

Tell them 2:35.

Not the type of watch you have and how it gages 4 different time zones as you fly over them with a mouth full of honey roasted peanuts.

Talk to your kids like they are complete and total people.

Love and appreciate their views and ideas.

Let them have their own.

Who cares how old you are and what initials are after your name...you can learn a lot from someone so fresh to the other side. Things our minds have forgotten, can be resurfaced by the mind of a child.

Much power is entrusted to parents.  It is by and through the experience of family-life...that much power is created.

You know I speak tha Tr00F!

Lullaby of Death

My baby Aaron is 19 months.  Many of his oddities are manifesting themselves.  

Some cute, some uhhhh....

Here is an example:

He hates it when you sing to him.  He screams and arches his back to leap out of your grip and gouges out your eyes.

No I am not exaggerating.

Yes, I am serious.

Is this normal?  Is this abnormal?

Whadoya think?