This is great! I'll make you out-of-state Michiganders miss MI for sure!!
And I'm sure you transplants will get a kick out of it too!!
Enjoy!
http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Friday, May 19, 2006
Technology
I love seeing how technology effects my children growing up. I love that Carter looks to see what the picture looks like right after it's taken. No film processing in his life time! VHS Tapes will be what 8 tracks are to my generation. BTW, he calls all dics CDDVD's, I figure he's covering all the bases that way!
The cutest was yesterday when him and I made 'email' cookies (he's misunderstood Oatmeal). How adorable!!
And oh yeah, I posted 3 month comparison pictures in my slide show, check back every month to see how the kids have grown and changed!!
The cutest was yesterday when him and I made 'email' cookies (he's misunderstood Oatmeal). How adorable!!
And oh yeah, I posted 3 month comparison pictures in my slide show, check back every month to see how the kids have grown and changed!!
Monday, May 1, 2006
Vampire
When I became pregnant with Carter I quickly realized that I have issues with the sun. Even minimum exposure will result in a night filled with burning, itchy skin and red bumps. So, summer after summer I deal with it the best I can, sunblock, finding shadows to stand in, hats, avoid the daylight. My latest batch of internet self diagnosis brought up a vampire website! So, that's it, I'm officially declaring myself a vampire, never to leave the house during daylight hours again!!
http://www.drinkdeeplyanddream.com/realvampire/sunallergy.html
http://www.drinkdeeplyanddream.com/realvampire/sunallergy.html
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Message from a 2 year old
Message from a Two Year Old
-- Author Unknown
Please be glad that I'm growing up, even though I am doing my separating by acting contrary and stubborn and by saying no thirty-seven hundred times a day.
Please let me continue to be dependent on you even though I act very independent and say, "I don't want you." I still need to be held some and protected.
Please let me feel that independence is safe by watching me and protecting me even when I am insisting on doing things myself.
Please have a few sensible rules and enforce them. This will provide a nice, firm wall against which I can say, "No" and "You can't make me!" Please enforce them anyway. That will help me feel secure and not be scared that when I say, "I won't!" or start to think for myself, you might go away and leave me.
Please, when you request that I pick up my toys, insist that I do that. If you manipulate me into doing things, I won't need to learn to think. And if you force me, I won't have the chance to learn to think.
Please don't be afraid of my anger. I have to experiment with my anger and try out different ways of expressing it. Then I find out how you respond. I especially don't want to end up afraid of my own anger. You help me a lot when you watch and listen to my anger in a very matter of fact, accepting way, and don't let me hurt myself or others.
Please demand that I think about what I am feeling. I will be crippled if I grow up believing that I can't think and feel at the same time. It won't help me if I believe that when I am mad or scared I can't think. Those are the times that I will need to think most clearly.
Please expect me to start taking other people's feelings and wants into account. Do this even though I say, "I don't care!" when you tell me Susie feels bad because I broke her truck. And please don't ask me to take care of YOU. If you want me not to run in the street, tell me to do it for my safety - for ME. Don't tell me that I make YOU worry. I don't even know what worry means. If I am making you do that, I might get so scared that I won't have time to practice resisting and separating.
Sometimes I'm not very sure about what I need or think or want, so please encourage me to know those things. I'm sure that I can figure it out if you push me a little and have faith in me.
Please help me to learn how to think and to say, "No" and to handle my anger now, while I am still little enough for you to protect me.
And please love me and hold me when I want to be held. I love you.
-- Author Unknown
Please be glad that I'm growing up, even though I am doing my separating by acting contrary and stubborn and by saying no thirty-seven hundred times a day.
Please let me continue to be dependent on you even though I act very independent and say, "I don't want you." I still need to be held some and protected.
Please let me feel that independence is safe by watching me and protecting me even when I am insisting on doing things myself.
Please have a few sensible rules and enforce them. This will provide a nice, firm wall against which I can say, "No" and "You can't make me!" Please enforce them anyway. That will help me feel secure and not be scared that when I say, "I won't!" or start to think for myself, you might go away and leave me.
Please, when you request that I pick up my toys, insist that I do that. If you manipulate me into doing things, I won't need to learn to think. And if you force me, I won't have the chance to learn to think.
Please don't be afraid of my anger. I have to experiment with my anger and try out different ways of expressing it. Then I find out how you respond. I especially don't want to end up afraid of my own anger. You help me a lot when you watch and listen to my anger in a very matter of fact, accepting way, and don't let me hurt myself or others.
Please demand that I think about what I am feeling. I will be crippled if I grow up believing that I can't think and feel at the same time. It won't help me if I believe that when I am mad or scared I can't think. Those are the times that I will need to think most clearly.
Please expect me to start taking other people's feelings and wants into account. Do this even though I say, "I don't care!" when you tell me Susie feels bad because I broke her truck. And please don't ask me to take care of YOU. If you want me not to run in the street, tell me to do it for my safety - for ME. Don't tell me that I make YOU worry. I don't even know what worry means. If I am making you do that, I might get so scared that I won't have time to practice resisting and separating.
Sometimes I'm not very sure about what I need or think or want, so please encourage me to know those things. I'm sure that I can figure it out if you push me a little and have faith in me.
Please help me to learn how to think and to say, "No" and to handle my anger now, while I am still little enough for you to protect me.
And please love me and hold me when I want to be held. I love you.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
100 Things about me
1. I love to make lists
2. I was born in 1977
3. in Royal Oak, MI
4. And lived in Huntington Woods till I was 12
5. I taught myself how to knit
6. I love people
7. I like reality TV
8. My mom died when I was 4
9. I love Canada
10. I drive a Chevy Impala
11. I've walked on the Appalachain trail
12. I don't like watching kids TV shows
13. I love cats and dog, just not in my house
14. I love doing laundry
15. I have freckles
16. I love being pregnant, but never again!
17. I hate cheaply made stuff
18. I say hi to strangers
19. My favorite color is purple
20. I really don't like talking on the phone
21. I'm always bored, looking for the next thing to do!
22. I was the last person I know to get a cell phone
23. My Grandpa taught me how to tie my shoes
24. I attempted to birth at home, but…
25. I sadly had two c-sections
26. I was baptized at the Shrine of the Little Flower
27. It seems my hair is always in a ponytail
28. I live in Livonia
29. I chew on pens
30. I like using coupons, although I never buy the Sunday paper
31. I love yahoo groups, I belong to too many
32. I help run a local AP mom's group
33. I am a moderator on mothering.com
34. I love to cook
35. but I'm a terrible baker
36. I kill houseplants
37. I got married when I was 23
38. I had chicken pox when I was 17
39. I've bought and sold things on Ebay
40. I was a telemarketer, inbound and outbound calls
41. I still can't mulitply
42. I don't like action movies for the most part
43. I love to sing, although I'm terrible
44. I want to go back to college one day, just not sure for what
45. I was once a bartender
46. I've seen the Grand Canyon
47. I wish we could move back to the country
48. I love salt
49. I have been to three countries other than the US
50. I lived in Tennessee for two years (and hated it)
51. I hate drama
52. I love to laugh
53. I live in Kalamazoo after high school
54. I have not painted my nails in years
55. or dyed my hair
56. I love reading everything and anything!
57. I've used the same brand shampoo for years and years
58. I have green eyes
59. and blonde hair
60. I love my Grandma
61. I love artichokes
62. I've been to Vegas, but I was just 12 at the time
63. I have a paypal account
64. I bite my nails
65. I hate _____showers (baby, bridal)
66. I love going downtown Detroit
67. I like diet coke
68. I love to drive
69. I love my In-Laws and the whole Kalamazoo family!
70. I would love to raise chickens and cows
71. My middle name is Aimee
72. I have one brother, one sister
73. I have one daughter, one son
74. I like my coffee with cream
75. I count on my fingers
76. I love living in Michigan
77. I'm sort of a homebody
78. I am a true Virgo
79. I am scared of spiders
80. I love talk radio
81. I love the cold, and hate the heat
82. I go geocaching
83. I love olives
84. I taught myself and my son sign language
85. and I've already started showing my daughter signs
86. I used to play the French horn
87. But I was really, really bad
88. My husband says I snore, but I don't believe it
89. I'm a homeowner
90. and I own my own business (although not off the ground yet)
91. I have on tattoo
92. I have many ear piercing
93. I still want to pierce my nose, one day
94. I love shopping in Farmers Markets
95. I need glasses, but I don't ever wear then
96. I love knowing about the next newest thing around
97. I graduated in 1995
98. I tap my fingers when I'm thinking
99. I hate picking up toys
100. This took me about an hour to complete
2. I was born in 1977
3. in Royal Oak, MI
4. And lived in Huntington Woods till I was 12
5. I taught myself how to knit
6. I love people
7. I like reality TV
8. My mom died when I was 4
9. I love Canada
10. I drive a Chevy Impala
11. I've walked on the Appalachain trail
12. I don't like watching kids TV shows
13. I love cats and dog, just not in my house
14. I love doing laundry
15. I have freckles
16. I love being pregnant, but never again!
17. I hate cheaply made stuff
18. I say hi to strangers
19. My favorite color is purple
20. I really don't like talking on the phone
21. I'm always bored, looking for the next thing to do!
22. I was the last person I know to get a cell phone
23. My Grandpa taught me how to tie my shoes
24. I attempted to birth at home, but…
25. I sadly had two c-sections
26. I was baptized at the Shrine of the Little Flower
27. It seems my hair is always in a ponytail
28. I live in Livonia
29. I chew on pens
30. I like using coupons, although I never buy the Sunday paper
31. I love yahoo groups, I belong to too many
32. I help run a local AP mom's group
33. I am a moderator on mothering.com
34. I love to cook
35. but I'm a terrible baker
36. I kill houseplants
37. I got married when I was 23
38. I had chicken pox when I was 17
39. I've bought and sold things on Ebay
40. I was a telemarketer, inbound and outbound calls
41. I still can't mulitply
42. I don't like action movies for the most part
43. I love to sing, although I'm terrible
44. I want to go back to college one day, just not sure for what
45. I was once a bartender
46. I've seen the Grand Canyon
47. I wish we could move back to the country
48. I love salt
49. I have been to three countries other than the US
50. I lived in Tennessee for two years (and hated it)
51. I hate drama
52. I love to laugh
53. I live in Kalamazoo after high school
54. I have not painted my nails in years
55. or dyed my hair
56. I love reading everything and anything!
57. I've used the same brand shampoo for years and years
58. I have green eyes
59. and blonde hair
60. I love my Grandma
61. I love artichokes
62. I've been to Vegas, but I was just 12 at the time
63. I have a paypal account
64. I bite my nails
65. I hate _____showers (baby, bridal)
66. I love going downtown Detroit
67. I like diet coke
68. I love to drive
69. I love my In-Laws and the whole Kalamazoo family!
70. I would love to raise chickens and cows
71. My middle name is Aimee
72. I have one brother, one sister
73. I have one daughter, one son
74. I like my coffee with cream
75. I count on my fingers
76. I love living in Michigan
77. I'm sort of a homebody
78. I am a true Virgo
79. I am scared of spiders
80. I love talk radio
81. I love the cold, and hate the heat
82. I go geocaching
83. I love olives
84. I taught myself and my son sign language
85. and I've already started showing my daughter signs
86. I used to play the French horn
87. But I was really, really bad
88. My husband says I snore, but I don't believe it
89. I'm a homeowner
90. and I own my own business (although not off the ground yet)
91. I have on tattoo
92. I have many ear piercing
93. I still want to pierce my nose, one day
94. I love shopping in Farmers Markets
95. I need glasses, but I don't ever wear then
96. I love knowing about the next newest thing around
97. I graduated in 1995
98. I tap my fingers when I'm thinking
99. I hate picking up toys
100. This took me about an hour to complete
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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