“Hey, look, honey,” I said to Steve the other day, “I found a funny typo in the paper. It says President Bush is on vacation for five weeks! Ha, ha, they said weeks instead of days!”
Category Archives: Political
My sheltered life
So, last night hubby and I decided that after the kids were in bed we’d watch a video for about half an hour while the kids settled down and then, ahem, we’d, you know, go to bed early.
Off my chest
Ok, I know I always seem to get into trouble when I rant blog about birth, but I just have to get this off my chest.
Our neighbor around the corner just had a baby, her first, earlier this week. (Aside: I don’t know when I’ve ever been happier to hear of a pregnancy; they’d been trying for years, and had actually started adoption proceedings when she finally conceived.) I haven’t seen her or the baby yet, but I did get the birth story from the father, who stopped by a little neighborhood shindig last night. He said they scheduled her for a c-section because it was the day before her due date and the baby hadn’t dropped yet.
Bookworm reviews a movie
We went to see the new Star Wars movie in the theater!
Two thumbs down. It was awful. Even aside from the ridiculously bad acting (I’m pretty sure Anakin had a fake English accent in the first few scenes, but it quickly evaporated) and the fight scenes that were waaaaay too long (this movie did not need to be 2.5 hours long), I have a major gripe about the way Natalie Portman’s character is treated.
Separation of church and state?
When I walked up to our neighborhood public elementary school today the flag was at half-mast. For the pope.
Does this bother anyone besides me?
I’m going to pretend it was at half-mast for Saul Bellow.
Home birth
I have three children. The first was born in the hospital; the second and third were born at home with midwives.
Before my first was born I never would have thought I’d be having home births. I’m pretty mainstream. My kids are all vaccinated and they go to public school. I’m not an attachment parent. We don’t do herbal or homeopathic remedies; we go to the doctor when we’re sick. We eat a lot of red meat. And I hate tea.
