a 3 yr old and a pair of scissors

Tonight I went into Lolly’s room and found this.



Naughty! But she still looked fine. For all that hair on the floor you couldn’t tell she’d done anything. She’d just given herself some layers.



So we painted her nails. She is so excited to show her preschool teachers her pink nails tomorrow.



Tonight she said “Mommy, I gonna tell you a question. A heart is made with love and happies!” What a darlin question of her to ‘tell'! She held up her red teddy bear and said “My red bear stops.” I said “He stops what?” She said “He stops at red lights.”

Carrie emailed me this yesterday about Judah – “On Saturday when you were in the other room, Judah was telling me his favorite bands. He goes "There are some bands that are my favorite music. One of them is, Tennis Pro.." and here he did this move where he kind of fanned his hand around the house behind him, gesturing to David in the other room. "My dad plays in that band. Another of my favorite music is...Jack White." He said Tennis Pro and Jack White in kind of an exclusive, new band you've never heard of way. It was adorbs!”

are you riding a rocket that's headed for hell?

My sister-in-law April put this at her blog, it's just too funny!

"are you riding a rocket that’s headed for hell? "

This is the beginning of a series on the same topic ultimately entitled "Only a Christian would..."

Only a Christian would...
-start a band (in large part to meet chicks) and call it ministry
-save the wedding day for the first kiss (or at least tell everyone you did)
-use the biblical reference "your body is a temple of the holy spirit" to justify the damning of tattoos, piercings, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, cussing, joke-telling, finger-flipping, speeding, dyeing hair, etc. as temple-destroying sins (oh wait. I forgot sex!)
-use "dagnabbit" as a valid cuss word...and one reserved for the more extreme situations of anger
-define "outreach" as working the church coffee counter with your 3 best friends
-abandon the nuclear family to go save China!
-try to "change San Francisco for Jesus!"
-tell Satan to get behind them (publicly and privately)
-say that life is a blessing even when you know it's shit creek paddleless
-save their sluttiest outfit for Sunday morning because they're "waiting for God's perfect husband"
-claim horrible and random tragedies on innocent people were "God's will"
-think that church attendance is a requirement for eternal salvation
-inquire casually about another person's spiritual condition as if it were the same as saying "how are you today?"
-replace the term 'dating' with "yoked (equal?.....or not.)

Now that you've reached the end I'll tell you something. This blog will be far more read for its comments than it's content....

the island of lesbos

Times are hard for the Island of Lesbos.

Yesterday I saw two women in the Target parking lot, one holding a baby girl and a little boy was walking with them. The baby was only wearing a shirt and a diaper even though it was cold, and when they got in their car the woman in the front passenger seat didn't put the baby in a car seat, they drove away holding her on her lap! I called 911 and gave them the license plate number. I'm still thinking about those kids. I'm upset too about the 400+ kids from the LDS sect who are in state custody. That's so incredibly traumatic for them! Why weren't they allowed to stay where they live with their mothers while the men in the sect were taken into custody, when the men were the ones who were allegedly doing all the bad stuff? When I am queen I won't let that stuff happen.

got a good reason for taking the easy way out

Chocobacon exists!!



Yesterday Carrie said

"I'd like Sam Elliott to follow me around and narrate my day: 'Carrie did a google image search for 'skidmark.' "

I thought that was brilliant. Then this morning I got an email from Shari that said "Do a Google image search for 'suprapubic catheter.' " If you are feeling adventurous, or like you need a violent measure to snap you out of being bored, I suggest you try it too.

And yesterday got an email from a baby. I sort of have a problem with letters written from the baby's perspective and then signed with the baby's name, and I went looking for a post I wrote about it like 4 years ago and I finally found it. Is anyone with me on this?

drop down

Crazy lawsuit here. Go America! And the guy is from my native Arkansas. Even better.

I love me some Richard Simmons! Here he is making over Jimmy Kimmel.

davy, davy crockett, king of the wild frontier

This blog is brought to you in part by this rad necklace from Carrie. She gave it to me and THEN that same day Jason back in Austin said I remind him of his friend Jennifer who, come to find out, owns that store! She made my necklace that I got that day, so weird.



Ballet and the Pixies, they're dancing to Where Is My Mind?

happy birthday rob

Happy birthday to Rob, the nicest bestest keyboardist of my favoritest bestest band.


[pic by Keira]