So What do You Think?

Are we still a capitalist society even though the government now has control of many of the main banking institutions and the biggest are no longer privately owned (aka stock)? This is the concern of some economists at the moment.

And if we are no longer capitalists what would that make us?

Sometimes I take them for granted.

There are times when I wonder why I became a mother. There are times when all I would ask for is two minutes alone. There are times when I get so frustrated I could scream.

These are not those times.

Honestly, my kids are what keep me going. They are wonderful, and really for their ages, they really are pretty good siblings to each other.

This morning Missy My was the first one up for the day, all she wanted to do was sit on my lap and hug me (this could have been because she was cold, but I'll take it anyways!) Goober does his best to always look out for his younger siblings and tries to help me as much as possible. And The Energizer Bunny is usually more than happy to give me the most wonderful smiles under the sun.

I would be lost without my kids.

Dreams

Do you remember dreams? I don't mean "hope's and dreams" I mean those psychotic things that your mind makes up in the middle of the night.

I don't. At least not usually. When other women talk about how dreams get more vivid when they are pregnant.... nope, not me. I don't remember them even then.

I seriously haven't remembered a dream in over a year.

There is only one time I can recall remembering a pleasant dream and that was when I had a dream about Missy My's name... before Goober was born.

The rest of the dreams I remember? Yup, you got it. Nightmares. Fun, Fun.

Well, I guess the year long drought of dreams is over cause I got to remember not just one dream but two last night. Ugh. I hope this means I get to go two years between dreams this time.

Do you remember dreams regularly? Cause I wonder if I'm the only one who doesn't.

Have you ever been behind a dangerous OLD driver?

you know, the ones that weave all over the road while going two miles per hour?

Now, I admit, I'm a little bit of a speed demon. I like to get where I'm going and get to doing whatever I'm going to do. In general I don't want to meander all over the road and sight see unless I'm somewhere exotic.... which for me would be anywhere outside of Idaho and Utah at this point :)

So a couple of weeks ago Jer and I got behind one such driver. And as we went ten miles per hour below the speed limit for about five minutes (which, I might add, seems like an eternity when driving... er riding shotgun... errr while trying to get somewhere!) my thoughts meandered to other elderly drivers. Namely ones that have passed away in the last five years and were blood relatives. Ones whose children either didn't see, or didn't have the nerve to take licenses and/or cars away.

As I watch those that I love age and watch as they help and care for their parents it makes me think about that distant (hopefully very distant) day when I will be in the same spot. Whether that be caring for my parents or being elderly myself. I really would prefer that my children have the guts to possibly make me really mad, but to take away my car and license when I'm no longer a safe driver.

Anywho, back to following the driver... I happened to be on the way to my parents house when that irritating occurrence happened. When I got there these things were still running through my thoughts. So I decided to give my parents the heads up for the possibility that some day I may make them very, very, VERY mad at me... cause I'm just stubborn enough and gutsy enough to take away those things when I don't think they are capable of driving safely anymore.

So, I told my dad.

He didn't seam to thrilled about that... hopefully it was just the fact that I was thinking about him getting old. And not the fact that I'm gunna have a HUGE problem on my hands when that day comes... :( Cause honestly, I would rather him be mad at me than have him accidentally take a life via massive earthbound maned missile. I think that would be much worse for both of us.

Then I told mom.

Her response.....

THANK YOU!

P.S on a similar topic, I'm really worried about when my kids learn to drive. not because they will be scary drivers (which I'm sure they will be), but because not only will they be new drivers, but the main mass of the baby boomer generation will be into that "Scary Driver" age range. Yikes.

Ahhh. So, THAT's what it takes!

I finally figured out what it takes to get me to clean the whole house by myself in a reasonable amount of time. As in not 15 hours. And all while helping Goober get his homework done and making sure Missy is not UBER LOUD so that she doesn't wake up The Energizer Bunny.

It's a call from a realtor to show our house at 4pm.

Sometimes I wonder if it's possble for me to actually be really productive in a day. Well, I got my answer today! With The Energizer Bunny asleep I can accomplish ANYTHING.

Yay for naps!

Wednesdays

Ugh, Wednesdays are bad.

I honestly can't think of anything I particularly like about Wednesday besides the fact that it's NOT Monday!

Jer has scouts on Wednesdays (which makes my day with the kids all that much longer...)

And by Wednesday I'm usually just plain ol' tired.

last night I was really dumb.... really really dumb and stayed up till past midnight. WHAT WAS I THINKING???? Am I really begging for punishment that badly?!

Being a person who hates Wednesdays I should know that I HATE WEDNESDAYS... and therefore not make it worse by staying up till oh dark thirty! Derrrr.

So now I'm just plumb tuckered out.

And on top of that The Energizer Bunny keeps trying to turn off my computer via the power strip. Darn those bright little lights on it... they are like magnets. Except instead of metal... they attract ONE YEAR OLDS. I can't even tell you how many times he has turned off my computer mid task. And it's not for lack of trying to keep him out from under the desk either... the kid is like a reverse Houdini! Instead of getting out of places... he's a master of getting into them!

Sometimes Blogger can be dumb, dumb, dumb,...

So as you all know I tried starting a family blog....

Stupid thing wouldn't let me add other authors. So I had to delete it and make a new one. :(

Thing is it wouldn't let me have the same address for the blog ... dumb dumb dumb.... I even deleted the old one. Hopefully I'll have more luck with this one.

--- update---

Then it decided to mark my new blog as a spam account :P I think cause I sent too many invites in one day... so instead of messing with that I deleted it again... then went back to the old address (cause it would let me now! :P)

So now I'm only adding one author a day... seems to have worked ok adding Jer on... we will see on the rest of the fam. If Blogger is stupid this time... I'm going to go to another blog site to do this... SO TAKE THAT BLOGGER!