Serious Mom Moment

I dashed to Target all by myself this morning (woohoo!!) to grab a couple things, one of which was a CD player... I'm not totally sold on the ipod dock, which we've had since we got married. There's something I still like about having the actual CD. Anyway, I digress. We've wanted to get a CD player for the boys' room for a long time, so today was the day. I got back in the car after finding having great success in Target and started driving home. The only approved radio stations in the car are NPR (90.7 for all you locals) and occasionally ESPN (101.1) if something interesting is happening in sports or of course if it's football season. I feel like I'm constantly reminding Josh that NPR is really the only approved station, lest he radio surf and settle on some elevator music or something. But when I left Target it was 10:44, the last part of the 2nd half of the Diane Rehm show. I love Diane Rehm, but I usually only love her from 9:00-10:00. (This is an aside... I tell time by what show is on NPR. Neil Conan? Oh, it must be between 1 and 3. The last part of Morning Edition? Oh, it's almost 9. Gotta love having that adult voice talking to me throughout the day.) Anyway, as I was saying, Diane usually talks about some book in the second hour that I'm not interested in, usually fiction. All that by way of setup for this story. Yeesh. So I was driving and since there was nothing that I wanted to hear on the only truly approved radio station, I let whatever was in the CD player play. Turns out it was Cookie Monster singing "C Is For Cookie." Somewhere in my subconscious I just sang along with Cookie Monster. Only after the song finished did I realize there were definitely no kids in the car and I guess I just listened to that song for me. But not only did I listen... I liked it. Sigh.

It Was An Easy Decision... Team Jacob (p.s.- if you are a hardcore Twilight fan you won't like this post)

Josh and I decided to have a movie night during our long stay in Peoria and found ourselves at a Redbox station. After weeding out some truly terrible looking movies, we were down to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and New Moon. (Some of you may say that New Moon also belongs in the terrible-looking movie category, but bear with me.) I know that Benjamin Button is good, but it wasn't the mood we were going for... we needed something lighter, and fluffier. So for some reason we went for New Moon, although we hadn't seen the first Twilight movie. Somehow I knew it was about a love triangle between a girl, a vampire, and a werewolf... come on, seriously? I guess we were in the mood for some teenage sap, so we brought it home. Now I have to say, (again, please tune out, Twilight lovers... this is only my opinion) this movie was worse than I thought possible. Granted, Josh and I didn't totally know what was going on since we hadn't seen the first one, but the screenplay seemed like it was written by a third grader- I honestly laughed at so many lines!! Bella was the most insipid, hesitating, annoying character EVER.

Nonetheless, Josh and I decided it was only fitting to take a side, so we are firmly members of Team Jacob. He was way nicer, way more shredded, way funnier... this one is a no-brainer, Bella. Don't waste your time on someone who wants desperately to suck your blood.

So, you may think that since I thought New Moon was so silly that was the end of Twilight for us, right? Wrong. You may freely call me a hypocrite now, but we had to know what had happened in the first Twilight. So the next day Josh charged me to go to Blockbuster and rent Twilight. I scoured the shelves for it and triumphantly brought it home. This movie was maybe a shred better, but this one also had so many silly lines that prompted many unintended laughs. I won't get started on the many plausibility holes (granted, the target audience is like 14 year old girls who aren't thinking about it quite so hard), but I just have to bring up this point: remember at the end when Bella gets bitten on the wrist by that bad vampire? She gets a huge bite mark on her wrist? WHY DO HER PARENTS NOT SEE THAT??? She has a big scar that Jacob comments on in New Moon, so how is that not visible to her parents, who would then realize that Edward is a vampire and would put a stop to this silly relationship??

Any Twilight fans out there who have read this post and would like to weigh in and tell me what I'm missing, please do. That's my 2 cents.

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day celebration, thanks to my fabulous husband!! Started out with some Chinese takeout Saturday night since I was seriously delaying cooking dinner... I think there was something somewhat funky on the menu that I wasn't sure would turn out good and I guess I didn't want to put in the time and have it turn out to be disgusting. So anyway he saved me the effort by going out to get Chinese food, which was phenomenal. I am so into Chinese. Then Sunday Josh and Howie cooked me some breakfast, we went to church for a wonderful service, and then after church made the hike to Ted Drewe's for concretes!!! YUM!!! Call me a bad mom, but even Justice ate some ice cream. He already eats like he's 12 anyway, so I said what the heck. It was soooooo yummy. Any of you St Louis-ans who haven't gone yet, please do yourself the favor of going asap. After that we came home so the boys could rest and Josh and I just relaxed and enjoyed the sunshine. Topped it all off with a wonderful evening service and the Celebrity Apprentice!! I can't think of a much better way to spend Mother's Day.

My Products of Craft Night [With LOTS of help!]

Here are my first two sewing projects, photographed on the ugly background of my kitchen counter!! We've been having Craft Night every Monday night and I'm really enjoying learning how to sew from some of the other ladies who actually know how. My first project was the bib with the bird on it the front and pear on the back. My seams are pretty crappy so don't zoom in. But the girls reminded me that soon they would be covered in who knows what falling out of Baby J's mouth, which was an excellent point. It's been fun!! Hopefully my sewing will keep getting better!!

This Was Not So Long Ago

Justice and Ellie

Look at these 2 cuties!! The other day little Ellie Plunk and her mama Jodi stopped by, much to my delight. Justice and Ellie were hanging out on the couch and just being adorable together. They are only 1 month and 2 days apart, so we're expecting that they will be best of friends and playmates as they get older. For now their relationship consists mainly of looking at each other and taking each other's paci. Gotta start somewhere.

24 Viewers, I Need to Hear From You.

OK, I don't know how many of you are still faithful 24 viewers, but I am still hanging in there. I have so far watched every minute that Jack Bauer has ever been on TV, and now I've learned that his minutes are numbered. I'm very curious to see how this final season will wrap up. But let me just get a show of hands... how many of you were so mad that they killed Renee??? I was sooo mad!!! Is it so impossible to let Jack be happy for more than 10 minutes?? Seriously?? Call me naive but I was picturing Jack and Renee finally settling down after Jack tied up this last crisis in truly-24-unrealistic fashion and maybe having a new baby since Jack doesn't seem old enough to be the grandpa that he is and dropping off the radar and never being called again with another national security crisis. Ahh, it's not to be. Renee is dead, and Jack will probably die in the season finale although he's evaded certain death more times than the number of grains of sand on the seashore. So it's actually more unrealistic that he would die than live. Anyway, when I saw that a couple of weeks ago I said yet again, alas, Jack will truly never be happy and will continue in his tortured existence forever. Wow, that was depressing.