Lily's Birthday festivities

I made Chicken Carbonara which is Lily's favorite meal and of course chocolate cake.
Lily wearing her crown that I made for her, I still can't believe that she wore it without tearing it off.
Look at those cheeks.
Ready for birthday wishes.
Hope they all come true.

Two balloons got stuck, then we tried to throw a soccer ball at it, it got stuck, so we tried another, and of course it got stuck. So, those two wishes won't come true.

700 BILLION!!!...what you can do...today.

Hello my fellow bloggie friends. Are you as ticked at the current state of the country's financial future as I am? I am not, I repeat not looking forward to paying my hard-earned (well my husbands hard earned) dollars on these companies bad business decisions. Here is a plan that I heard of today that could potentially work and not cost us billions, let alone kill the value of the dollar.

Simply insure those bonds and mortgages from the failing companies temporarily until the economy rebounds a bit and they can get their financial house in order. Paulson has been talking about this recently and hopefully his plan takes off. Here is what I emailed my state rep...



Hello,
I'm writing to ask you as my representative to not vote for the current bailout package. Instead please vote for a temporary change of the government insuring those mortgages and bonds, not OWNING them. Please please represent my views as my elected official or I will remember this come re-election.

Thank you for you time in reading my email on this regard.


Sincerely,

Jamie Mead



On another important note today is Miss Lily's birthday and I will be posting pictures later.

The room that tried to kill me.

Here it is...

Oh, and I threw in Lily and Lucy for good measure.

Say your prayers

I don't have a picture to post with this yet, but I will. So, we've been painting our cabinets in our study and by we I mean me. Anyho, Tuesday morning I sent the kids off to school had Lily down for a nap and went into my study to paint. I was using my Wagner professional paint sprayer with oil based paint. I had completely sealed off the study from the rest of the house and had a small window open. I was wearing a mask, but it wasn't a respirator.

I started feeling kind of fuzzy but didn't think much of it. I wanted to finish the first coat of primer before I stopped. I remember feeling confused and it was like I was retarded. I couldn't figure out how to do very simple things. I was trying to hang up a 24 inch bookshelf again and again. It wasn't working because I had the 48 inch wide bookshelf in my hand. I had the sprayer turned off while I was deliriously trying over and over again.

While this was happening I heard the phone that I had brought into the room with me ring. I answered and had what I've been told was a crazy conversation with my friend Angela (I still don't remember even talking to her). She came right over to check on me because I wasn't making any sense. When she got here she found me passed out in the study and pulled me out through the window. She called 911 and they came and checked me all out. I recovered a couple of hours later (and about 2 gallons of vomit).

It is so scary when I think of what would have happened had I not had the phone in there with me. And then, if the sprayer was still on I wouldn't have heard the phone ring. And of course my dear friend Angela who called. She is a good friend and said that she had planned on calling me but was going to wait till later in the day. But she had this little nag that she should call then.

I'm so thankful that all of these seemingly insignificant events came together to keep me safe. Right before I started the project, I said a little prayer that the sprayer would work easily, the cabinets would turn out nice and that I would be safe. I had no idea how much my prayers would be answered that day.

Words you won't hear from me

I'm just playing Devil's advocate.

You mean your intentionally being contrary and positively a total pain in the ***. When I hear these words come from people it drives me insane. You mean your being difficult and are keenly aware of it too? From time to time I've heard people use this expression. It has almost always been true that the person is also someone I don't like. I mean really, for heaven's sake. Either own that you disagree with my point of view and argue your case. But arguing for the sake of arguing, who has time for that.

Nie Nie Day

Hi there everyone. Usually I'm the witty comic relief blog but today I wanted to share something that has been on my mind. Through Design Mom's blog I found another blog http://www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/, I just love this world of blogging. I spent hours going through Nie's posts, enjoying her sense of humor and love of life. While I don't know Nie personally, I feel in love with who she is from her blog. Go there and you will too. Nie has inspired me greatly to be better. She is an amazing mother and has a great wit. If I lived by Nie I would want to be her friend.

Nie and her husband were involved in a terrible plane crash and are in the hospital fighting through recovery. They have four beautiful children being taken care of by Nie's lovely sister. I write this here on my blog today on Nie's day in hopes that you will include their family in your prayers. I believe miracles can come through prayers.

P.S. Another way you can help is by going to http://designmom.com/ and go shopping. You know you'll be shopping online one way or another today so shop there and help Nie Nie.

Where have I been???

Summer is almost over, the kids have started back to school and the temp is dropping! Holla freakin lu ya is all I've got to say. The boys started school on Monday and they are both loving it, (so are Lily and I). Owen has his BFF Bryson in his class, heaven help his teacher. They are both riding the bus and loving feeling like such big boys. Haven't really got a lot to post about, feeling very unmotivated. But wanted to leave you with a picture of Miss Priss.

In this picture Lily is feeling a little frustrated and overwhelmed that her mother has her outside, on uncomfortable sticky grass in 100 degree weather asking her smile, but not teethy smile. Smile like I just said something funny, not laugh out loud funny but something that two people who know each other well would laugh at but that most other people wouldn't understand. Oh and don't look at the camera while your thinking of that inside joke we want this to look natural, like you (an eleven month old baby) was just outside by yourself when I (a photo obsessed mother) happened upon this secret moment you were having with yourself. Come on LILY, get with it. You know this I'm a baby junk won't fly for too much longer. I mean by the time I was your age I was making dinners and doing long division. Amature .
Lucy is ever the hopeful puppy. Lucy has taken a real liking to Lily. Lily is always good for some food whether it's off of the floor or from her sticky fingers. It's always finger licking good.