Category: Family Matters

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Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah

For starters, thank you for the Babe’s get well wishes. We’re home again today. The fever seems to be holding off, but she still hasn’t eaten anything, and prefers to be cuddled up with Blanket and Pillow in front of the TV for hours on end……JUST NOT RIGHT.

Anyway.

I remember, very clearly, becoming obsessed with music in junior high. I think getting my own pink radio/tape player is what sealed the deal, along with a GE personal cassette player (ala the Walkman). That pink radio spent the next 6 years next to my bed, on the floor, tuned into mostly Z95 and then later, when I became slightly cooler, 93WXRT. It was on the floor so I could reach it while doing homework or reading or talking on the phone, at a moment’s notice. Because always, in said radio was a blank tape.

A blank what? A blank tape. You know, a memorex or sony cassette. I taped all my favorite songs off the radio for future listening. Because the quality was so clear. Not. Because it was so FREE. Later, once my brother got a dual cassette deck, we started dubbing our friends’ cassettes and keeping copies for ourselves. We started making “mix tapes”. Those were the days.

Awhile ago, I posted about my discovery of YouTube, and today I discovered another purpose. Basically, it’s a databank for everyone in the world who has an affection for taping things off the radio (or at a concert).

Since the death of tape, I haven’t been as “into” music. Sure I have CD’s. BgK has converted most of our stuff on to MP3, though I don’t know much about that format. I haven’t taped a song off the radio in forever.

But I still, every now and then find I song that I really like to listen to, and will turn on the radio in hopes of hearing it. When I do, part of me still wished to press the green record button and the peach play button at the same time and save to memorex forever. You know, in case I want to hear it again and it’s not on the radio.

That’s where YouTube comes in. I can just log on there, do a search and listen away to my heart’s content. No buying the CD or learning about MP3’s for me……this is music on demand with pictures!

So if you haven’t yet….hit play already. My guess is you’ll be going to YouTube and checking these guys out too.

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How did THAT happen?

I’ve said that a few times in my almost 21 months as a mom. Today, though, is one for the record books.

The Babe and I were chilling before dinner with a little Baby E. She was sitting on my lap when all of a sudden I felt a rather warm, wet sensation. I thought, “well, maybe she just peed, and my leg feels warm because she’s sitting on it.” Obviously, it had been a long, hard day or I would have realized that if the diaper had contained the urine, my leg wouldn’t feel wet. She stayed put, and I wasn’t about to wreck the good Baby E mojo with an intermission diaper change.

So we continue to space out, and as the credits roll, the Babe climbs off and I realized that I am, in fact, wet. Really wet. Wet all around the crotch area of my own pants. Wet through to my underwear. And then I think to myself, “self, did you wet YOUR pants?” Because the Babe’s shorts? Totally dry.

But the Babe’s diaper weighed about as much as she does. So somehow, the she leaked out of the diaper, missed her own shorts and just literally peed on me (and the sofa). And I didn’t realize it til the Baby E dvd was over. That’s how good those damn DVD’s really are. Or that’s how tired I really am.

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Bloggy botox and BFF

It’s ok….you can tell me you’ve noticed….this blog has had some Botox. (blog-tox?) Anyway, I’ve had header envy for a long time, and when Susie of Bluebird blogs was offerring a portion of her proceeds to help a fellow blogger Kelli out, I thought it was divine intervention telling me to indulge–it wasn’t about me, it was about helping Kelli! (how’s that for logic?)

So here I am, with a spiffy new look.

That said, I am going to bed. We are still sort of recovering from yesterday’s birthday marathon. The Babe ended up sleeping through the night from when we put her down at around 4:30. No, I’m not exaggerating. She slept from 4:30pm until almost 6am this morning!! She awoke a new girl. Then after Mass, she took another 3 hour nap.

Since she was so full of energy, we took her to my friend’s dad’s house (where they are staying) and we had another play date–this time “only” 6 of the 7 kids who were with us yesterday. Four of whom are between 20-24 months old!!! BIG FUN. (we have 1, Angie has 2, her bro has 3)

BFF
You know those friends you just want to be in the same room with? It doesn’t matter how much you see them or how often you email or call…when you are together all is right with the world? Well, Angie is definitely one of those people for me. So after making a kick-ass dinner, we sat on the screen porch and watched our kids play together. They got along beautifully and had so.much.fun. Her girlie and my girlie took turns playing with the baby’s pumpkin seat–each one sitting for a spell while the other one rocked. They sat on the steps together after we told them they couldn’t scale the stairway gate. So stinking cute, I could have gobbled them both up!

And of course, in my mind, I’m imagining that they too will room together in college, and be the kind of friends who can just be in a room together and just be.