http://holymama.org "True confessions from the everyday life of a sorta shallow Christian mom." Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:08:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [This is NOT the Winner of Club 17 post.  That'll be in a few more days.]  I'm wrapping up a very informal, ultra private celebration. What is that, exactly? Well. It's been fun. I set up a hot pink ipod on a speaker right next to the ... http://holymama.org/2008/07/party-for-one/ I didn't forget. Really.  The internet simply did not want to cooperate tonight. We've been switching from pc to macs, and the transition has been... bumpy.  For some reason tonight we had 5 computers in our bedroom on.  At one point there were THREE laptops in my lap, trying to ... http://holymama.org/2008/07/club-17-july/ 1.  I've been long gone - haven't even turned ON a computer in weeks. 2. I'd like to blame my mother for this. 3. Except that it is VERY tacky for a grown woman to blame her mother for her own actions. 4. But ya'll!  My MOM is here! 5. She lives in Australia, ... http://holymama.org/2008/07/j-mom-is-in-the-house/ So, the random winner for the BSE-er of June is....   Emily!    She just got a very pretty in pink new blog, so be sure to go say hi! PharmacistMike made an excellent point in the comments. It was one of the more entertaining comment sections we've had on these posts.  Men, check ... http://holymama.org/2008/06/winner-7/ If all of you just got a thousand notifications of new posts from me, um.  Sorry.  I needed to update the links in every post that mentioned Total Transformation and that kinda took awhile.  Who knew there were so many?  Anyway. I think I'm done now. Have you done that BSE ... http://holymama.org/2008/06/so-sorry/ As I type, a spider awaits certain death on the ceiling above me.  It'd be easier if we didn't have huge ceilings that form an upside down V, and if the spider were not at the highest point of that upside down V. But whatever.  At least it is not a ... http://holymama.org/2008/06/club-17-for-june/ So I'm going through one of those (numerous) spells where I avoid the phone, writing here (or anywhere else), and I haven't checked my main email inbox in 2 weeks.  I do that.  No big thing. I'm fine.  Hope you are as well. See you tomorrow.  (Really.) http://holymama.org/2008/06/still-here/ This morning the boys and I piled into the car, and Ethan-8yr immediately made a face and said, "Yuck! What's that smell?"  I don't have much of a sense of smell, and didn't know what he was talking about. But i DO have a phobia of gross, forgotten sippy cups lingering ... http://holymama.org/2008/06/ethan-8yr-sniffing-out-misdeeds/ This morning Ethan-8yr and Caden-4yr collided in the hallway.  I couldn't see it, since they were around the corner, but I could certainly hear it.  It was clear that Caden-4yr had been the one who got hurt.  He's pretty tough, so his yelping in pain got Ethan-8yr's attention very quickly.  "I'm ... http://holymama.org/2008/06/the-middle-brother/ I have a loose policy of 'no nagging.'  Mike hates nagging, and I usually dislike myself when I fall into it.  So instead I ask him to do whatever it is I want done, and then do it myself if he won't.  Works for us.  Very rarely there are exceptions.  When it ... http://holymama.org/2008/05/mars-and-venus-according-to-ethan-8yr/