DOH!!!

I can't believe it! I FORGOT to do the on-line tryout for Jeopardy! Damn! Why didn't you all remind me???

10 Great Things About Being a Nanny

I've been 'nanny Laurie' for the boys for just over a year now, and it's been (mostly) a lot of fun! Of course, I get the 'I wish you weren't my babysitter' fairly often, but it goes in one ear and out the other and the boys are usually very loving to me. So I thought I would make a little 'anniversary list':

• 1. I get to think of myself as Mary Poppins anytime I want (the good book version not the sappy Disney movie MP.)

2. How many jobs include a big hug and a kiss when you come in the door in the morning and leave at night?

3. I get time every day to rock a little boy in my lap and just enjoy.

4. Kids' laughter and pure delight at anything funny.

5. Taking time to answer all Liam's questions about animals, the universe, bugs, and much much more.

6. Helping a child learn to read, and getting to see him come out the classroom door with his nose in a good book.

7. Discovering that boys are NOT like girls in just about every way you can imagine.

8. Trips to the library, where we always have to find books about animals, dinosaurs, martial arts and wars.

9. Getting to do crafts, with tons of tape, glue, glitter and markers. Then giving them to someone special.

10. Sharing a favorite childhood activity; the boys and I celebrated May Day last year with little baskets of flowers they hung on the neighbors' doors and then hid. That was the most fun thing we did all year, and I can't wait to do it again!

I am so lucky to have these four little men in my life! They give love and laughter to me every day, and my life is richer for it. And fyi to my own kids: I'll still have plenty of love available for any grandbabies...

Warning!

Mikey cheats at "Chutes and Ladders". Liam plays straight up though. You've been warned...

Cute Book!

I've been trying to be very good and checking books out of the library instead of buying them (what with the jobless situation and all). I found this darling book the other day: Knitted Finger Puppets. Should be great for using all those odds and ends of yarn I have hanging around.

Stupid New "Gadget"

Do you see the 'Virtual Weight Loss Model' over on the right there? LOL it's really pretty stupid, but I thought if I published my weight for the entire world (well my 9 followers anyways) to see, that would be good motivation for me.

Week 3 Results

Not fantabulous, I lost .8 pounds, but I guess that's ALMOST a pound so I'll take it. Katie and I have been Weight Watchers buddies, we have lost almost exactly the same amount every week so far. Pia had a great week, losing over 4 lbs! Way to go P! That trainer Silka must be a real Jillian wannabe to torture that many pounds off ya!

Worst Cartoon EVER

I'm babysitting the gang this weekend while Mama is canoodlin' in Seattle ;-) Friday night is 'movie night' at the P's house (the mother unit wisely doesn't allow tv on school days), and they chose what I am convinced is the WORST cartoon movie ever produced: "Space Thunder Kids". Here's what a reviewer had to say:

"Trust me, a bottle of bourbon is all that’s going to get you through the brain-frying glory of Space Thunder Kids, a film so utterly confounding, so dazzlingly inept in every single way imaginable, that it achieves an undeniable aura of the sublime that glows so brightly it threatens to blot out the rest of existence."

Parents, for the love of all that's holy and in the interest of keeping your babysitter from utterly losing her mind and diving straight into that bourbon bottle, don't buy this movie. Of course, the boys loved it.