- http://sparetherock.com/ A low-power FM station in Massachusetts has a kid's show every Saturday morning. The show's guiding principle: "Based on the radical notion that music for kids shouldn’t want to make parents gouge out their ears." It's a mix of actually listenable kids' music, plus rockin' music that no kid should grow up without. Magic Carpet Ride, anyone? You can sign up for a podcast of the show, or you can download MP3s of the shows and either listen on your computer or burn them to CDs. I just downloaded the most recent three or four shows to take with us for our car trip next weekend.
- Congratulations to my cousin David and his wife Cynthia, who have adopted a baby boy! I'm not sure who is more excited, the parents or the grandparents, who stopped by our place earlier this week on their way down to see the baby. Baby Miles is still having some breathing issues and hasn't come home from the hospital yet, so send some good thoughts in the direction of North Carolina, everybody.
- As I mentioned in a previous post, we sold three of our Hard Rock Cafe glasses (Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe) on eBay for $120. Considering the fact that Jason wasn't too thrilled with the initial idea of selling them, and he was surprised that we even got a starting bid of $10, I think he TOTALLY owes me dinner someplace nice. Or at least fewer nasty looks when I mention bidding on more kids' clothes ...
- Football preseason has started. Whoop-de-freakin-do. Well, at least I have an excuse to get lots of quilting done in the evenings a couple of nights a week.
- I spent a lot of time last week rooting out more ivy (bwahahahah! The Duchess of Destruction returns!) and trying to turn what was once an ivy- and bamboo-infested disaster area into something that wouldn't turn off potential homebuyers if we ever put the house up for sale. Here's what the area that didn't get done looks like:
Two completely packed trashcans full of weeding and pruning later, here's the "after" in the section I worked on:
- I have a shop on etsy.com, an online marketplace for handmade goods. Right now it's small, since I just started it yesterday, but at least it's a start. If you'd like to check it out, you can find it at: http://LazyMamaDesigns.etsy.com . I'm open to feedback, so feel free to trash (or praise) the site all you want. And check out the other stuff that's for sale, too - there are lots of cool items from lots of cool people. Support crafters! Buy stuff! Get ideas you can rip off to make your own versions for a fraction of the price!
- And, oh yeah, LIZA STARTED WALKING! Last week at Liza's OT appointment the therapist predicted she would start walking before our next appointment, to which I replied, "She'd better, because we've got a wedding to go to the following weekend, and I don't want people pitying my still-crawling daughter if I can help it." Wouldn't you know, by Thursday the kid managed two steps (after about five minutes of encouragement from both parents), on Friday she managed four steps without any encouragement, and today we ran her back and forth between us a dozen times or more, increasing the distance up to about 6 feet. She even managed a 90-degree turn during one lap, which I thought for sure was going to end up with her piling face-first into the carpet, but she did just fine. My little baby, she's all grown up ...
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So, how do the deer like the little deer-feeders that you've planted where the ivy used to grow?
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