BIRTHDAY BLUES

Besides our neighbor friends Jess and Scott, dad and I are a rare breed up here in our neighborhood and town. Older parents with a young kid.

This afternoon I got together with my friends for a glass of wine before picking up the kids from school and the topic of discussion was birthdays. Apparently quite a few of us have January birthday. Now mind you, at 53 years of age, I am old enough to be the mom of some of these ladies and they all act like they are over the hill at 35! It was pretty depressing to listen to them talk about how old they are. Finally I could not take it any longer so I let them have it! Told them "You should all be ashamed of yourselves acting as if your life is over. Look at me! I'm 53 and still going strong. I think I'm doing pretty damn good for an old broad! Not only that, I getting ready to have another kid!"

EGGING

Early Sunday morning our little "Beaver Cleaver" neighborhood was vandalised. However it is sad to say that growing up on the "Westside" and moving from LA, this was nothing new to me. It was an everyday occurrence for me. 99% of the time, I would hear the helicopters late at night or the sirens going due to the fact someone was shot or robbed.

Fortunately for everyone it was nothing serious other than a couple of not too bright Tahoma High School boys out for a joy ride at 4 in the morning whooping it up in our neighborhood and egging my dear friend Janet's home. The house next to the park. This really put a scare into Janet and her family. She was more scared for her kids Erin, Liam and Patrick more than anything else. She was also mad as hell. As sweet and loving as she is, I have witnessed her getting mad and I must say that you do not want to be anywhere near.

This all got the neighbors who live next door to her all riled too as they too heard all of the commotion. Long story short, the boys were caught by the police, Janet and Sean had a long talk with the boys parents and they promised that the boys would help us out as part of our Spring park clean-up.

HITTING THE SLOPES

It's that time of the week again folks. I am sooooo glad that I bought that lime green jacket for Mimi. Makes seeing her so much easier for me as I do not ski and today's visibility was close to nil. Last week as you may recall poor ole Blake was having a doozy of a time trying to stay standing. Today however was way, way better. Wade had the day off yesterday and so the whole family took Blake up to the mountains to practice. We are so very proud of him. He did not give up. Not only that, little Bailey decided that she too wants to ski. "I wanna go keying mom!" she would say over and over. So Keri took her on the slopes today too.

GROOVEY SMOOTHIE AND MANGO MARGARITA

Happy Birthday to us!

FIRST LIBRARY CARD

Saturdays are usually the day when Mimi and dad spend time together.
Together after breakfast at their usual hotspot Black Diamond Bakery,
it was time to head over to tje library where Mimi received her very
own library card. She is quite jazzed about that.

SHABAT SHALOM

Mimi was singing this song all through dinner tonight. "Mom, you know
what Shabat Shalom means? Mr O'Connell says that it mean have a good
day." Mean while Butch was trying to steal her shrimp ramen. Soup is
always good on a cold, cold day such as today.

'I AM A COLLABERATIVE WORKER AT GLACIER PARK"

Yesterday afternoon when Mimi came home from school, I noticed she was wearing a stick-on nametag and was going to ask her about it but she was already upstairs changing for her gymnastic class. Then I forgot all about it. It wasn't until she was getting into bed when she asked "Mom, what is a corra-ber-ator? Cora-ber-ative? Well......anyways, I'm one of those people." We then talked about it. I'm so proud of my little chili pepper. This is definetly going into her scrapbook for sure.