BREAKFAST TIME

Butch in every which way is always trying to steal a piece of bacon.
The little wretched thief.

IN THE HOSPITAL

Well we got here at the ungodly hour of 6:00 a.m. The stinky part
about where we live is that it takes a good 45 minutes to get here.
Therefore we had to wake up by 4:30. I am now ready for a nap.

THE BIG DAY

Well folks, tomorrow morning is the big day. Dad is going into the hospital for what is known in the medical field as a epigastric hernia repair. Yep, that's right. Dad has a hernia. About one month ago dad said to me "Here, feel this. I have a small lump in my stomach." I felt it but was not quite sure what to make of it. At first I thought it might have been a tumor. Then dad said that when he laid down the lump would go away. Then when he would stand up, the lump would come back. Then I knew it was a hernia and told him to make an appointment with the doc. Sure enough I was right. So for a whole month I told him not to pick Mimi up and carry her around as she is all of 41 pounds now and solid as a rock. Didn't want to make it any worse than it is.

I am so thankful that I have such wonderful friends in the neighborhood. Since we have to leave the house around 5 in the morning, I asked Keri if it would be alright if she took care of Mimi all day tomorrow. She said that it would be fine. Blake was in 7th heaven. So therefore Mimi went to play at his house for a little while after school then came home to bathe and eat dinner before going back over to Blake's house for the sleep over. Then dad and I walked her over to Keri's house. There is one slight problem though. Bailey loves to play with Mimi too and I think that Blake feels a tinge of jealousy because the girls will huddle together reading a book while putting Blake out. I'm sure he'll live though.

We should be home by the evening.

SEE THE RESEMBLENCE???

Kinda scary ain't it? This Halloween in particular Mimi has been afraid of her own shadow so to speak. She refuses to go upstairs by herself at night. For a while she would come home with stories about how Rachel says that Lake Wilderness is haunted or how Noah has a ghost in his bathroom and the water continues to run. Then one day last week after dropping her off at school, I took this picture of the front of our house totally forgeting that Mimi has a stuffed dog with the same likness.

JOB WELL DONE

Everyone in my family knows that I am not the most gracful person around. This is the bruise that I sustained last week while doing gardening work in our backyard. When I set out to do something, I do it right.

SEX TALK

Well folks, it's already happening at our house. Even dad does not know about this one yet, but I am sure he will by tonight.

Very shortly our local elections will be held. There is one proposition out there to "protect the sanctity of marriage". As we were driving to Ms Celia's house yesterday afternoon for her weekly piano lessons, there was a group of people standing at "four corners" with their picket signs promoting this particular proposition. While we were sitting in the car waiting for the light to turn green, someone in the intersection yelled out "Gay Pride!!!". Naturally Mimi asks "Mom, what's Gay Pride?" In a few seconds a lot of questions ran through my head. Do I tell the girl? Do I not tell her? How to tell her? Do I make something up or ignore it all together?

I then figured that if Mimi is old enough to ask, she's old enough to know at least on a first grader level. I then proceeded to answer her question in a short, sweet and truthful manner. I told her that the word "Gay" has a couple of meannings. One is when a person is happy or in this case it is when two men want to live with each other. "Why do the men want to live with each other?" Mimi asked. "Well it's because they love each other" I said. "You know what mom?" Mimi continues. "What?" I ask. "Well, when I get older I want to live with Alex. I don't want to live with Blake. He makes up too many rules." Usually they are rules that suit his fancy too. I told Mimi that one day she ought to call his bluff and see what happens.

LOOKS LIKE SNOW

Not. Just hail. Was in Walmart when we all heard a loud crashing sound
and thought that something had fallen off the shelves but instead it
was the thunder followed by the hail and rain. Now the sum is trying
to peek through the clouds. The stinky part about this whole ordeal is
that the weatherman said there would be no rain today just cloudy so I
brought Butch with as he loves to go out and it's cooler and I efty
sunroof open just a tad for ventilation and now my car is wet inside
but not too bad.