Exploring different identities

MY ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Danny Volvo

MY GANGSTA NAME: (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
Moosetracks Milano

MY DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal),
Red Hedgehog

MY SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born),
Ada Wausau (that one turned out pretty funny!)

MY STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first (forward or backward),

Er- Ned

SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink),
The Seafoam Lemonade (that one is just not really working for me)

STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy),

Vanilla Twizzler

TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter),
Soxman Sacramento

SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower),
Autumn Hydrangea

CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)
Raspberry Shortsie

HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree),
Life Maple

M's Quote of the Week

"Every situation, properly perceived,
becomes an opportunity."
-Helen Schuchman

Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Argh swabbies, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! If ye Gentlemen o' Fortune need some help translatin', go here. I`ve made a few wee changes on th' blog in celebration o' this important holiday.

Embracing the POSIG-updated

Well, I`ve been wafflin' an' obsessin' about decorating/makin' more useful our upstairs common area, an' on a whim last high tide' I decided t' embrace th' idee o' them hideous, huge, red, furry inflatable things th' kids love (they be from IKEA an' called, in IKEA-like manner, posigs). I canna find a picture o' them on th' web since IKEA dasn't sell them anymore, but I`ll post pictures when th' room be set up. Here be pictures o' everythin' else I be goin' t' get t' go wi' th' theme: th' big bookcase be pretty huge an' will go on th' main wall. I will get some o' th' smaller ones t' match, an' put them horizontal wi' a flat screen TV on one an' th' other under th' port half o' th' windows. I got two each o' th' red chairs an' stools off Craigslist last high tide' fer $100- they looked like new, an' o' course K already wrote on one wi' a pencil. I be thinkin' o' gettin' one or two o' th' miniature chairs fer th' lass' an' th' lass' buddies. What do ye think?

Book Group Selection

I'll be leading a discussion of the book How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk on September 29th for our Relief Society Book Group (date may be changed). Here is the author's website.

Books We Are Reading:

claire: Rough Stone Rolling (Richard Bushman)
cje: The World Without Us (Alan Weisman)
M: Gregor and the Code of Claw (Suzanne Collins)
J: The Famous Five Adventure Collection (Enid Blyton)
K: Where is Baby's Belly Button? (Karen Katz)

Water, Water, Everywhere....

Here is J and one of her best buddies, A, at our pool this summer. I think M took this with J's underwater disposable camera.

M's Quote of the Week

This feature will be brought to you weekly by none-other than the eleven year old wonderchild, M! (she took this picture of herself)



"Failing to plan is like planning to fail." -Allen Lakein

'The Business of Being Born' is coming to Atlanta!- UPDATED

Movie Description:

Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life. But birth is also big business.

Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have babies.

Epstein gains access to several pregnant New York City women as they weigh their options. Some of these women are or will become clients of Cara Muhlhahn, a charismatic midwife who, between birth events, shares both memories and footage of her own birth experience.

Footage of women having babies punctuates THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN. Each experience is unique; all are equally beautiful and equally surprising. Giving birth is clearly the most physically challenging event these women have ever gone through, but it is also the most emotionally rewarding.

Along the way, Epstein conducts interviews with a number of obstetricians, experts and advocates about the history, culture and economics of childbirth. The film’s fundamental question: should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency?

As Epstein uncovers some surprising answers, her own pregnancy adds a very personal dimension to THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, a must-see movie for anyone even thinking about having a baby.

Parking: FREE!

Location:
Georgia Tech Student Center Theater
350 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0458

Ticket Info:

Tickets may be purchased in advance, or at the time of the showing.

Tickets are $12 for GBN members (www.gabirthnetwork.com) , $6 for expecting moms and $15 for all others.

Advanced tickets may be purchased by mailing a check to:
GBN
303 Gainesway Trail
Woodstock, GA 30189

Info on attached flyer OR on http://www.gabirthnetwork.com/news.html

Everybody wants a HERO....

So, all you TV addicts out there, tell me why I should invest 18 more hours of my life in catching up on HEROES episodes on DVD. We are 6 episodes in I think, and it's getting better. No spoilers please!

A few more pictures

Here are some of my favorites of the kids from the Wales part of our trip;
K-this is waiting in line for our train tickets to go up Mount Snowden. That is her grandma E on the left. M took this with her new camera she got for her birthday from her Grandma A.
J-this is at Carnaefon Castle. M took this one as well.
M- this is at the Druid Circle we hiked to in North Wales- what an adventure!

Blog Virgin No More-- here is my first post!

I thought I'd put up one of my favorite pictures from our trip this summer. It's in the south of England near Plymouth at a rock-pooling beach called Wembley. We had a lovely day with cje's parents, sister and brother in law, assorted nieces and nephews on the beach.