I hate the media

Monday, August 18, 2008

OK.. so we are expecting what amounts to a tropical storm. Very windy and rainy. With the media coverage we are getting here, you would think we were expecting a direct hit from a category 5, or perhaps an invasion by the Russians. And they wonder why people have "hurricane apathy" ... good lord.. Right now they are having some sort of round-table discussion on the Weather channel, detailing all the various horrors of hurricanes they have been through.

BTW, I totally think real hurricanes suck. We had Charley and it was scary! Plus I was like 39 weeks pregnant and contracting while waiting for the house to blow away, so that was kind of sucky.

In other news, Andrew & Elaina started school today!!! Lots of fun. Of course, they aren't going back tomorrow because of the breeze massive hurricane. But hopefully school will be back in on Wednesday. I'll post pics later.

getting close

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

to school that is... I am feeling a little better because we got a letter this weekend from the kindergarten teacher, and Andrew got into the class we were hoping for. The teacher is a friend of a friend, and that makes me feel better and less meat-grindery about the whole thing. She seems very sweet, and Andrew is pretty psyched that she knows her Transformers, having two sons herself.
Yesterday Liam had his 15 month appointment - where did that time go!??!! And Elaina had her 4 year appointment and got her exam for school and all that.
I love being the mother of school-age kids. It really is fun. I adore babies and all their soft sweetness, but I really like all the logic and reason that come with 4 yr olds and older.
Right now its about 6:30 am and I am sitting in the dark drinking coffee - aahhhhhhh. Andrew woke me up at 6 asking me to please put Liam back to sleep because he was "scweeming"... I was so out of it I didn't hear him on the monitor and it took poor Andrew about 5 tries before I grasped what he was telling me. LOL So I went in and got the baby to go back to sleep for a bit, and Andrew fell back to sleep in my bed. Now I am sitting here hissing at the cat to "Shut the ___ up" because she is sitting at the bedroom door meowing in that horribly loud meow of hers.
Well I will include a few random pics from this weekend since I hate posts that are all text.




That would be Liam, coated in sunblock, making his "beastie face"