Sunday, August 9, 2009

Don't Bug Me

Little man came down the stairs the other day announcing. "I eat animal"


"You ate an animal?"


"I eat bug"


Incredulous, I seek more info ... "You ate a bug?!"


"It died in my throat"


I had to look away for a minute so he couldn't see that I was cracking up.


I know that is gross and something we don't want to do, and I told him so, but sometimes ya just gotta laugh.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Up where we belong



Since my boy is out of pre-school this week I decided to make today a "staycation" day. We went to the pool and then my fave four-year-old and I had a movie date. We saw the movie Up and wow, it was really good. There were sad parts that I think fortunately go over little ones heads. (Minor spoiler coming up) They even dealt for a brief, yet possibly too close for comfort for one who has been through it, moment on the subject of miscarriage/infertility! Too bad the woman in the story's generation did not have modern science on it's side. Maybe they could have given her a leg up.


Pixar did not disappoint.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Give it away, give it away, give it away now

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Master plan

Happy to say that I have just finished mastering my CD that goes with my soon-to-be-released book, A Journey To The Son. The four years my producer/co-writer Don Henry and I have been working on this is coming to fruition! Now it is on to getting it reproduced and sending out advance listener copies.

I am also very excited to have heard from another AFE survivor who is starting an amniotic fluid embolism foundation (www.afesupport.org, launching in September). She and some doctors are discussing some exciting, ground-breaking studies and I hope to be able to support the foundation as much as I can! Wouldn't it be wonderful if more were known about prevention and or cures for this devestating complication?!

Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Wannabeebles

I am a Beatle-fanatic. Though I was a mere babe when they broke up, their music was a backdrop for my childhood and my musician Daddy turned me on to them. When John Lennon died in 1980 I became obsessed with their music.

Our family friend and fellow Beatle-maniac, Sharon Cobb, told us about a Nashville Beatle band called the Wannabeatles. They played in our local park and we took little man. He hears the Beatles at home all of the time and said "They don't look like the Beebles!" But as soon as he heard them play he rushed the stage. Hmm, wonder where in the world he could have gotten that kind of behavior from?! And the beat goes on . . .

The day she lobster credibility

Sometimes ya just feel like a big fat hypocrite. As a "mud mama" I am a semi-vegetarian. Have been since I was 12. At 23, living in LA and receiving PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals) literature, I had a dream that I was eating what I thought was chicken and it was roast cat. At that point I worked my way down the food chain to fish and dairy and have been stuck there ever since. A "beady eyed" vegetarian (who only eat things with beady eyes, as opposed to doe-eyed bovines).

Sweet Pea, who doesn't miss much, caught wind that mommy doesn't eat animals. I don't think I ever actually said this to him, but he knows I don't eat chicken, etc. One night, Jim and I decided to go to Red Lobster, and being there, yes, I got ... lobster. He looked at my plate, pointed to the creature and it's beady eyes and said, "That an animal, mommy?" Or, as my friend Don remarked, in essence he was saying "You full of crap, mommy?" Sigh!

(PS) I think I mentioned that I come by punning naturally. For this title I am borrowing my dad and former step-moms pun from the 1980's released Pinkard and Bowden song, I Lobster And Never Flounder. If you are hungry for more fish puns, visit hereYouTube - Pinkard & Bowden - I Lobster And Never Flounder or here The Fish Song

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Prince and The New Revolution (or, Standing Up For Potty Power)

A gentle warning: I am rating this post PG13. My Nana, God bless her, would not have liked it at all, for it's lack of ladylikeness. But, alas, I feel compelled to share my new discovery.

The other night I had a much needed mommy's night out. I went and danced my heart out to a Nashville band of awesome musician friends, the Long Players, who do kickin' versions of classic albums front-to-back. The album on deck was Prince's "Purple Rain," whisking me and my girlfriends back to our high school glory days in the 80's. This was the album that prompted Tipper Gore to start The Parents Music Resource Center, or PMRC, a committee that sought to have ratings put on recorded music. But, the more risque the lyrics, the more we teen girls loved the songs. Surprisingly, me posting the words to "Darling Nikki" is not the reason for the self-imposed rating.

The reason for the rating is this. The club was packed. As I stood in line for the bathroom with a bunch of women who all really needed to go, an interesting subject came up. A new invention called the "shenis". Yup, rhymes with the clinical name for the male anatomy. The idea is to use this funnel type device to enable a woman to stand up and go to the bathroom almost anywhere, just like a man. Everyone was laughing about it. The idea is intriguing and of course, I had to go look up the website. It turns out that it is an obscene looking 12 inch gold number, and there is video of women actually using it to pee off of boats, etc., just like one of the guys. I apologize to anyone who may be mortified. However, the ridiculousness of this concept appeals to the adolecent side to my sense of humor and I just had to share. I don't plan to actually use one, but I do think it is a real pisser!