Let the Little Ones Come

Gandalf Goes to the World Cup

A little laugh for you on this 4th of July!  

Gandalf Goes to the World Cup

Hope everyone has a wonderful day celebrating and thanking God for all our freedoms.

Attachment Parenting--1930's Style

This picture of an adorable little baby is from The London Through a Lens exhibition. The Getty Images Gallery "shows the UK capital in a spectacular and sometimes surprising light."

The above photo was taken on January 27, 1934.  To quote from the exhibit, this is "an example of the wire cage which East Poplar borough council in London proposed to fix to the outside of their tenement windows, so that babies could benefit from fresh air and sunshine."  January 27 is Rose's birthday--however, she was still 68 years from being born--and I know that I would not have taken kindly to this sort of contraption for my little one.  Yikes!

Picture: GETTY

Beware of Geeky Husbands....

...even though I love him A LOT, I am getting frustrated at his attempt to use his "remote blogging software."  He keeps posting things to my blog instead of his...so if you see some repeat posts or strange ponderings, just ignore until I can throttle him into submission calmly explain to him to stop using this software!!  

Oh, and just for the sake of cuteness and to let you know the kind of Monday I'm having--here's Geeky Husband's youngest son having a little fun while I was teaching Math to Paul.  I am calling it

FLOUR DISASTER or SNOW IN SEPTEMBER?!:

I like her, I really like her....

Kathryn Jean Lopez, that is. She is HILARIOUS, erudite and very smart. Check out this post with great pictures (she was there herself) of the Pope at the White House this morning.

I also really appreciated her humorous post on Pope Benedict XVI's personal secretary. Who knew he was oh so handsome??

I should be doing the dishes...

but Superman shouldn't have to do such menial tasks. LOL!

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Time to slow down....

I was driving home from a friend's house last month, running a bit late to get the girls to dance class. Needless to say, I was frazzled and feeling rushed. I was driving faster than normal--seven miles over the speed limit, to be exact (at least I thought I was)....yeah, I know, I was speeding....I shouldn't have been....

Well, come to find out, once the friendly police officer (yes, he was very kind) pulled me over, he told me that I was actually speeding 17 miles over the speed limit. You see, there is a small stretch on the road I was travelling--about a 1/4 of a mile-- where the speed limit drops 10 mph and then goes back up 10 mph and I didn't see it and well, as the young officer patiently explained, he was going to have to write me a ticket because they have this new program and can't give out warnings anymore. WAAAAAHHHH....I haven't gotten stopped by a policeman since 1992 when I was driving home from work at 1 a.m. and was weaving a bit because I was almost falling asleep from exhaustion!

So, today was the very LAST day I could go pay for my ticket--talk about procrastination...well, I made it to the courthouse. God was merciful; there was NO line...and the county clerk was very friendly and apologetic when she told me that my fine was $193!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO, THAT'S NOT A TYPO AND YES I AM YELLING!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After I wrote my check and hustled back to the van, I told the kids how much it had been and they were flabbergasted...I was not too excited to share this with dh, who has bravely resigned himself to the fact that he married a spendthrift....Well, he was actually pretty nice about it, though he joked and ribbed me a bit. In fact, he was still poking fun again before we prayed the Rosary when I finally lost it mentioned the fact that I still had no idea how much of our children's college fund he had spent on Texas/OU tickets when he and Paul went to the big game a few weeks ago...Well, that shut him up pretty darn quick. ;) Moral to the story? Time to slow down and remember to drive safely--I have precious cargo and there is never a need to speed--especially through small towns with speed traps!

Meez soccer husband--self portrait of Thin Bill

This is what your husband and kids do when you are gone on a quick errand on a rainy morning! :) Bill has been reliving his childhood playing soccer three days a week on his lunch hour with a lot of other old fogies guys and enjoying himself immensely--just a little good-natured ribbing, dear! All that fun and exercise has been good for his health, too. He's never looked trimmer! :) He's been calling himself "Thin Bill" for a while now...

The Kid's version of Meez

Edited to add: Yes, Katherine, it is Dr. Pepper (Diet, now that I've started Weight Watchers again) in that big ole mug! The kids did this hilarious version of me on their own; I even own the pink crocs (bought them on sale this past week--they're oh so comfy!).

My name in heaven

Conversation between me and Rose (4 years old):

Rose: Mommy, when you get to heaven, what will be your name?

Me: I guess it will still be Jennifer.

Rose: St. Jennifer?

Me: Yes, that's right, sweetie!

Rose: Well, I will call you St. Mommy.