Children...

• You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
• Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children.
• Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.
• Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
• The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.
  
  I love my child to death, but she does have the moments when I wonder, why O h Why did I decide to have a kid :). It is a completly different story that mommy bear will not let anyone else growl at her baby bear .. infact she will growl them out of her house, if they as much as attmpt to look mad at her baby bear ... parents!

Glory...

yippee..
Glory Road is the right now highest box office grosser... 16.5M
( it will probably change soon…)
My two loves in the same place, Josh and basketball
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'appy New Year!

It is new year.. time for resolutions! One of those boring things that most people do. The most popular ones being 'getting in shape' and 'getting organized' which account for the lack of parking at the gym and the million storage sales in the first week of Jan. I have been trolling the headlines ( and the sales signs and gyms apparently) to glean this information and another interesting resolution seems to be ‘getting the personal life in order’, finding that ‘someone’ in earnest, as evidenced by the flood of dating tips and statistics and all those discounts by the online dating services. Someone resolving to find a mate is great but others making the resolution for them is a bit, erm, daunting to say the least. I have had my once-a-year-contact-married friends dropping not so subtle hints ... all I got to say is , wow!!!
Anyhow, my resolutions.
This year I resolved to yes, like the rest of the mere mortals get organized, so storage container sales came in handy :). My house is organized, garage not so much.. but well begun is half done… and I have tons of containers.
Reflecting on the year past, I decided that I'd do at least one thing that I would regret not doing, if I were to die today. So traveling is the thing this year. Let’s see where it takes me.

I also decided to yell at myself less-- for instance, not go shopping unless I had written out list. I am old now, I should not yell at myself if I cannot keep a 30 item list in my brain. Doing so I will be following some very good advice 'brain space is at a premium, never memorize anything that can be written down on a piece of paper'. Then again, my brain is notorious for selectively picking up things. It is like the unpredictable child that picks up pebbles off a beach as it fancies. But the larger goal is to be nice to myself... I am sure I can mange that :)

Last thing, I will floss regularly. This is one of those things that I attempt to do... and then forget. I have bought a big box of waxed floss from costco, so that I don't fall short of this because of resources.

Uma surprised me with one of her own. She told me ' I want to take better care of my things' and as I was wondering where she came up with this from, she came running and gave me a big ol' hug, 'like giving you more hugs, mommy '
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