hip hop amy

before i was a mommy i was pretty cool.

not to say that i am not cool now, just maybe a little out of practice. {wink}


i mean i have always been pretty dorky, but dorky in a cool way.

yes, that is possible. [heheheheheee]

before i was a mommy i came and went as i pleased, worked several jobs, worked out at the gym 6 days a week 2 to 3 hours at a time and i spent a lot of time at the night clubs dancing all night and staying out until the wee hours of the morning….spent any extra time and money shopping for new outfits to wear at my next club venture….

who was i before MOMMY?


my nickname was "Hip Hop Amy" then.

Hip Hop Amy, you say???

yea.....


a local dj here at the clubs gave me that nickname and it stuck for a very long time and people started to know me as this.

i was known for my baggy jeans and combat boots, little teeny tiny tops and rock hard abs, a silver belly chain (sometimes two) and my long blond wild hair bouncing to every beat my body did.



i was always asking the dj's to play MORE hip hop music so i could show off on the dance floor. so i “Hip Hop Amy” could do my thang.

i was a HAM. and then some.

yes.....before i was a mommy....i was QUEEN of the dance floor.

"Hip Hop Amy" was QUEEN of the CLUBS.

the baggier my jeans were and the farthest they could hang off my teeny tiny hips without falling off - the better....sometimes hanging on to a lovely pair of wild boxer shorts that poked out the top of them....holes in my jeans, funky jewelry, funky tops.....that was me...."Hip Hop Amy".

i was pretty hot. granted i still had my dorkiness but it was cool. i was cool. very cool. a dorky kinda hot cool that could dance like no one was watching cool and yet i jammed. i had little to no inhibitions about me then. when "Hip Hop Amy" hit the dance floor that was it. all eyes on her....uh....me.

then.

i used to break dance. seriously.

i did not spin on my head, but i could spin on my back and then pose, i could moonwalk and do a little robotic thing or to as well. I had this hip shaker thing we liked to call “the blender” – kind of like Shakira’s booty shake thingy. I used to tick too.

i used to know all the lyrics to every hot hip hop song out there. i knew all the new dance moves, and even made up my own. i could watch music videos all day and pick up the routines in a minute and then put a twist on it and make it my own. one of my fellow club dancers was a dance teacher (she still is and she is VERY good) recruited me and i taught a boys hip hop street funk class for a few years for little boys ages 5 -16. i used to bribe the little dudes with the "tootsie roll" dance if they did well all through class.....which they always did and they were always awesome. they loved that dance and so did their parents…..so much fun.

even they (the little boys & their parents) thought i was super cool. they even told me so. {cheesy smile}

yep....before i was a mommy.....i was hot. i was funky. i was cool. i was sassy. i was hip. i was "Hip Hop Amy"

i rocked it.

"Hip Hop Amy" was a legend in the clubs, i knew everyone, got in all the clubs for free, new the owners, dj's, bartenders etc....never had to wait in long ridiculous lines to get in anywhere. a friend of mine once said that "Hip Hop Amy" was such the schmoozer that i could run for president....now that would have been FUNNY. [hardy ha ha]


President “Hip Hop Amy” here to save the dance floor……

ummm hum....that's right.


i was really cute and i had some really cute boyfriends (that were a lot of really cute trouble, go figure) and i had a whole posse full of "clubbers" to go "club n" with. i did a local tv dance show called NB901 (we didn't have things like "So You Think You Can Dance" then) for about 3 years. i was the bomb-diggity. "Hip Hop Amy" was the shizzznit.


i used to be one of those people who jammed their music so loud in the car with my windows down that people would stare at me at stoplights, gas stations when i stopped for gas, pulling up at my apartment etc...because i was just soooooo cool....yanno. [not]


UmmmmHmmmmmm....so i was a pretty cool chica before "Hip Hop Amy" became "Hip Hop Mommy"......[heheheheeee]


i mean let's face it, club days are over, teeny tiny itty bitty tops are over, jeans sagging off my rear end with holes in them - so OVER and those yummy abs have been on a hiatus lately (but i will not allow those to be over, i am holding on to those, they will come back, they will, they will, they….will), 6 days a week with 2 to 3 hour workouts - OVER, my belly chain has SO retired, my mommy radar looks for more than "cute" in boyfriends now (and less than zero trouble i.e drama, games etc....) and unless you knew me in those "Hip Hop Amy" days...."Hip Hop Amy" ceases to exist....sure there are pictures, dance videos [yikes!], even a few pairs of old jeans that "Hip Hop Amy" designed with my very own scissors and saftey pins…tucked away for proof....but “Hip Hop Amy” lives on only in loving memory now….

[a moment of silence please……]

thank you....

now shnookie doodles and "Hip Hop Mommy" ....we have our own dance everynight.... to a little Backyardigans and a bit of Jack's Big Music Show....and i must say, we are pretty good dance pair!

i wonder what shnookie doodles will think of “Hip Hop Mommy” when he gets older…..

he will probably think mommy's music is old, mommy is such a corny person, and how in the world could my mommy have ever been cool?? and “Hip Hop Amy”??? are you kidding, what a cheesy name…..[ha]


and then i will break out my NB901 videos and show him a thing or two…..[heheheheheeeee]


...maybe.

interviewing

interviewing....

i think i suck at it.

(not always, just now, lately....

in the past few years.)

i can always think of a 100 wittier things to say AFTER it is over....

or a 100 things i could have asked, or a 100 ways to have answered something better....AFTER i have left.

AFTER it is OVER. (ugh)

during interviews....i think i come off shy, soft spoken and not as out going as i actually am or can be. i mean i can be shy though and i do believe that this continues to be my downfall when interviewing. recently anyway, not always. i used to be much more confident and outgoing (and thin and cute and younger hehehehee) i know my ability to not UP PLAY myself is a neg and my shyness is a wet noodle and i know this because my confidence level sucks right now. because I AM a witty person, a fun person, a silly easy to get along with - yet hard worker, intelligent, fast learner, team player HAPPY - person.

i am.....really. {smile}

a mouthful.

again it all goes back to my weight gain issue AGAIN and i am not as social as i once was since i had shnookie doodles. so i feel like i am loosing my social butterfly skills i once had and was known for and wore oh so proudly. [double ugh with a twist of sighs]

slack huh?


i know.


interviewing makes me feel totally ungraceful and clumsy in a natural sentence sort of forming way.


make sense?


yea....whack huh.


plus sitting in a booth at Panera Bread (of all places) with the Interviewers right-right across from me, very very close to me....is kind of an intimate situation.

donchu think?

trust me.

i think.

i mean a booth at restaurant is CLOSE. a booth at a restaurant is a place you gather with family, friends, dates, co-workers even....people you somewhat know - right? a casual gathering, a some what laid back atmosphere.

but a booth during an interview...weird, weirdly CLOSE. and not casual at all.

uncomfortable. REALLY uncomfortable.

strangers.

i don't know these people who are sitting far enough away from me that i could actually reach out and pinch their cheeks...seriously.

and here they are sizing me up...CLOSE UP...

looking at the new zit that popped up on my forehead last night as soon as she called to say, "hey you have an interview tomorrow at 11am."

poof. zit. forehead. ahhhhhhhhhh!

hide me.

and now, here are the interviewers looking at my zit as they tell me what they expect from this person, what they want in this person that they are looking to hire....

i know they are looking at it.

the zit.

how can they not? i am only a mere few "pinch their cheeks and tell them how adorable they are" feet away from them.

[humm...maybe that would have landed it for me, you think?]

okay, maybe not.

ugh.

i did try to cover the zit this morning with my bangs, but my bangs of course wanted to comb towards the opposite side of my forehead, not the side where the zit stood....

yelling and waving at everyone he could,

darn zit.

i am so mad at him]


so there he was, he, the zit....and there they were, they. the interviewers.....

looking.

[hole in the floor? swallow me up please? now?]


not to mention just the whole start of this ordeal.

interviewing at Panera Bread?
(not for Panera Bread mind you, another {wonderful, i might add} company.)

"How will I know who they are? How will they know who I am?"

"They are two white men, one mid 30's, the other mid 40's or so. One has brown hair."

"Oh....well that narrows it down."

right....Panera Bread in one of the shmoozy white collar sides of town at lunch time, busiest time of day for Panera Bread.


sure.....that's easy to figure out.

are you kidding?

so talk about a a great start.

i arrive 10 minutes early.
it is packed [duh!]

i am scanning the large room.

two white males, early 30's & 40's one with brown hair.......uhhhhhh.

yep. lots of THOSE types. [geeesh]

so i am thinking, maybe THEY will see ME looking around the room like i dork. like i
am lost. like i need a home.

yea.....

no.

they did not.

now i did see THEM, but i didn't know it was THEM. they were engaged in a deep conversation (like most everyone in there with laptops, cell phones, business papers) sitting across from one another in "the booth" and they did not seem to be looking or waiting for anyone....nor did anyone else in there for that matter.

so, after scanning several times. i sit down at a little table by the door.

and wait and look. and look and wait. and look....look......wait.

wait.

i feel like a dork.

i look over at the table where i had seen THEM, but didn't know it was THEM. one of THEM gets up, a man in his mid 30's? (i did research their website {verrrry impressive} and there was a picture of the, i am guessing, the 30ish man with brown hair) this man had dark blond hair (at least that is what it looked like to me) he walked in front of me and turned and said, "amy?".

yes!

(finally, whew)

he was very friendly and nice (didn't look at all like his photo on the website)

but this already was feeling awkward....

from the start, yanno.

he walked me over to the table they had been sitting at (all this time) and introduced me to the 2nd gentleman who looked to be in his mid 40's. salt and pepper hair, nice smile.

we shook hands.


booth time.

really nice men, they were very enthusiastic. loved it. loved them. loved the concept of the company. loved the company.

(i know i fall too fast sometimes, hheheheee)

but

will they love me?

that IS the question, right?

they really didn't ask me too many questions, they more explained what they wanted and what the individual hired would be facing if picked. there were a few odd moments of silence (errrrrrrrrr.....)

i can def handle it. the gig. i can dig it.....

just don't know if i portrayed that ENOUGH to them efficiently or not......

i now draw a blank.

but....



my feeling....

ehhh.....

could go wither way.


because i suck at them....

INTERVIEWS.

in a modest self-doubting way of course.

so we will see.....

YAY

random ISH

well here is some random ISH today....

we never really got our snow, we got a light dusting of it Saturday evening about 6pm (woo hoo, not) and it only lasted a couple hours and then POOF it was gone, and really what were we going to do with a light dusting when it was already dark outside and in no way was that even coming close to giving me a "snow day" away from work with my little dude....so looking up in the sky at the snow Gods - yea, gee....thanks for nothing! (and yes, to those of you who mentioned -40C and 6 feet of snow etc.....i hear ya, but i only wanted a day or 2 of the stuff and then for it to melt away the next day and Wha-La Spring would be here (right? isn't that how it works?)

right?

well that my bloggers - is my kind of snow and wintry weather.

and just to set the record straight, i am not a winter person nor do i really even like snow, i'd be happy living in Hawaii (or Fiji for that matter)

on a beach with the hot sun 24.7.

snow for me is just a "get out of work for the day (or two)" kind of thing for me, kind of like a child wanting to "get out of school" - and yes i was that kid too, 'pajamas on backwards down on hands & knees praying to the snow gods to pleeeeeeeeze bring me snow so i did not have to take that test i really didn't study for because i was there on my hands & knees praying for snow and not in the mood to study anyway" kid. surprised right? (not if you know me)

see, i am sending wonderful messages of slackness to my 16 month old already. [help!]

so enough about the non snow and my slackness.

shnookie doodles had his first dentist appointment about a week or two ago (and i am just now blogging about it, okay so we are discussing a little bit of my slackness still) so far so good, his teeth are coming in nicely and i was told the little gap between his top two front teeth (which is adorable at this age) was a good thing, this means his teeth will not be crowded. he has about 12 + teeth now.

and he can eat some food man!

brushing on the other hand- we go through the motions in the mornings and evenings where i let him hold the toothbrush and he thinks he is brushing them (more like sucking the baby toothpaste and water off the tooth brush and just twirling the brush around in his mouth) but hey he is getting the idea and the habit of it (i hope) but actual BRUSHING, good grief! who knew trying to pry his little tiny lips open when time for MOMMY to actually BRUSH them would be like trying to open a can of soup??

soup?!?!? why soup? well let me explain.....you know when you use the can opener and it doesn't quite open the lid all the way completely, and then you have to CAREFULLY try to pry the lid the rest of the way up on your own, with your fingers, without losing a finger?

yep, that is what i mean.....

(okay people this happens to me anyway)

and of course he crying like i am torturing him [aw]

poor little dude, but as soon as i give up he stops and smiles at me with that "i just love you mommy and you are all that and bag of cookies!"

(sugar free cookies mind you)

yes we do sugar free cookies, sugar free jello etc....NO juice except orange juice in the mornings (1/2 water 1/2 OJ) the rest of the day H2O and Milk. shnookie doodles LOVES fruit, he would JUST eat that if i let him. (occasional sweet things with real sugar are a treat) [boo! right?]

by the way the dentist (who was very cute (eh HEM, but young) and very good with my little dude) was very happy about that and very excited that i took the initiative to bring mr. shnookie doodles in at 15/16 months instead of waiting until he was 2. he said by then toddlers were already likely to start getting cavities. [yikes!]

as for the rest of my rambling ISH today....i am here at work, as usual....

these are not my coats and the walls are actually cream, go figure, but this is THE window. lol

i sit by this big window and catch myself gazing out of it every 5 seconds (not that you can see much but a bunch of trees and part of a house's back patio) but me and windows at work (or school) cause DAYDREAMING. wishing i was on the OUTSIDE. (ha) just ask my mother how many days she was called when i was in school about my "daydreaming"......{whistling}


i have a PILE of work to do today, and i am just not feeling it (but when am i ever). i sit in a cube with 3 other women and they like to whisper 24.7 (so annoying) so i basically mind my own biz. they seem to have their own "click" going on and act like it takes so much out of them to even say "hello or good bye" when i come in in the mornings or leave in the evenings. weird. but it doesn't bother me, i figure they have their reasons and i don't have time for the negativeness and it won't stop me from being polite and professional. we all need acts of kindness now and then, so that is mine to them DAILY. {smiling}

again, i have to give some major props to some excellent blogging going on....it takes me all day to get to everyone on my blog-a-licious blogger list, but i love it and i am so not complaining! the list grows every time i go to someones blog, i see a catchy name and i am like"hey wonder what their blog is about?" and then i am off to investigate, or a better term is blog hopping as one talented and clever dad - pointed out. he started a weekend blog hopping group and i loved his selling points for this awesome idea (which i totally joined their party by the way)

1. you are a parent and have no life

2. no time to club hop anymore so you blog hop [woo hoo]

i am so down wid it.

you will have to check this dad out if you get a chance.

(i personally just love meeting new people.)

now back to me, i am still trying to do better in blog blog land and blog more. (winking at Hallie who let me know in an ever so sweet (bribing me with money) sort of way, that my blogging is not enough and i am very slack) [ha]

so here i am....today....blogging some ISH![yay!]

other than blogging, i am trying to write more poetry (i am going to link the heck out of my latest poem until more people read it heheheeee) i used to write poetry daily, now if i do it monthly, i'm doing good. i would like to turn a lot of my stuff into music (one day).

so....i still need to lose weight (arrrgghhh, i am way past saying i just had a baby) face it shnookie doodles is 16 months, i don't think that "i just had a baby" works as well anymore. {wink} i am trying to eat better and do a little exercise at home....but with me....i need to be in the gym to really be motivated.

my back (that was out during the holidays) is feeling SO much better now [hoooray!] and i am able to get down on the floor (and get back up) and be shnookie doodles human jungle gym and fly him around the room singing "super kai" dunuhnuhunuhununanaa....

OH! and i can dance with him to Jack's Big Music Show now (shnookie doodles loves that i get up and dance with him).

other things i am trying to do better at....like keeping in touch with people, work on my procrastination bug i seem to get often, digging more into my spirituality and looking for a new place to live (our lease is up end of March) we will either do another apartment for a bit or possibly looking into owning a townhouse, not sure just yet. (but i need to hurry) right now we live in this teeny weeny tiny place and shnookie doodle's toys are taking over!

and because who knows who might be reading my blog.....i am doing other things as well to secure a little bit better future for my little dude and me {wink} will fill you in on that as it happens {smile} and hopefully i will be going back to school and taking some night classes in the Fall.

(my sis is off today to DC for a bit (a couple months or so) to help out some family members we love DEARLY that are going through a very hard time right now. i will miss her so much, but she is such a sweetie pie and this is such a wonderful thing for her to do. D&D are in our prayers DAILY and if you are reading this D&D WE LOVE YOU GUYS AND MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

so my plate is normally pretty full. being a single mommy with a 16 month old, it never really empties, but that's OKAY because I am SO Blessed (and yes, i do have to remind myself of that here and there at times).

full plates are good though!

Peace Forward~Unlimited Blessings!

no snow???

no snow???

darn it! we haven't had any good snow since 2004 and i was really hoping for snow today (those of you who get tons of snow like it is in your yearly contract with the world are probably cursing me right now) but i really wanted to get out of WORK and stay home in my pj's, get cozy with a hot cup of chocolate and my shnookie doodles and veg out - plus i would love to see how he reacts to the white stuff this time around - last year he was only 4 months old and we only got a teeny tiny bit and he just stared as mommy put him in his car seat and sat him outside in the middle of it to take his picture, i know "poor little guy has a dorky mommy" right? [i plead the 5th on that one]

shnookie doodles first snow January 2007.

4 months old

[i am also not admitting that i have taken a picture of every second and every breath of shnookie doodles 16 months of life, eh hem]

actually anything to get out of work and spend more time with my little guy is what i am all about. [oh yea] but unfortunately being a single mommy and running this show solo, we just don't get a lot of that "time"

, bills to pay & diapers to buy [hooRAH].

i do envy SAHMs. {smile}

hum....imagine all the blogging i could do if i was

a SAHM?!?!?!?! [woo hoo!]

OKAY....so....i have noticed a lot of my new found fav funny fearlessly talented bloggers in blog blog land blogging daily. [say that a couple times fast]. even those that are NOT SAHMs seem to get their blog n' on daily and MAN there really are some seriously clever HILARIOUS blogs out there....

i feel like i need to step up my blog game....

i do think i am doing much better than i was, i am at least trying to get a blog or two in a week. [yay me] i am even trying to get to all the blogs on my blog-a-licious blogger list and read them all so i can comment daily (addicting i tell ya) - although i do get side tracked because i will see someone with an interesting name or comment on one of my already blog-a-licious blogger's blogs and go to their page and then WHALA....i have a new blogger to add to my list and more to read - whew! [geeesh] cause yanno i am so sure if i don't get over to all these gifted people daily they will ALL be wondering, "where is A-Licious? why hasn't she been here today,

why hasn't she commented?" {chuckle}

in my dreams....

/dork!/ ...... i said i plead the 5th on that one.

poetry is actually easier for me, but i really haven't been doing to much of that lately either. i was thinking of doing a separate blog just for my poetry and linking it to this one when i actually poetisize (you like that, doncha) something. i used to be a daily "blogger" on yahoo 360 back before i got preggy with shnookie doodles. i actually had a pretty big "fan base" - i miss

that. 360 was actually a nice little community of bloggers (aka writers), lyricists, and poets, the only problem with 360 is that they like to micro manage your writings and if they saw something they didn't like (whoever they were) - they would just delete it with no notice or anything, and being an ARTIST OF THE WORD myself, i just thought that was plain rude. [sticking my tongue out with a raised eye brow at 360 and shaking my fist]

take that 360 ....lol


so....here i am.

i moved on over here to blogspot because one of my very close friends Mars had been posting her lovely and very endearing little blogs over here for quite sometime in blog blog land (before our adorable little ones made their debut into this crazy world here) and i was very taken with it so i started Living Out Loud in May 2007. {smile}

i am very random if you haven't noticed, the way i write is the way i speak, live and love (and complain lol). scary? maybe.....depends on who you are. (heheheheeee) my poetry is the same.

so anyway.....snow.

WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!!?
mommy wants to go home and play!

peace forward ~ be blessed

I just love all you bloggers out there!!! {wink}

blog what

okay, am i a total dork or what? <dork!> i honestly had no idea how addicting blogging could be?!?! i have been surfing blogs more recently (notice my awesome blog-a-licious blogger list) - mainly finding bloggers by other blogger's pages (how networking of me). who knew?!?!? man, i tell you, there are some VERY talented people out there, from writers to photographers to artists - who knew blogs could be so entertaining? now i personally love to write (wish i had more time for it actually) - albeit I am probably not the best writer [especially now that i have witnessed some extremely talented writers in my blog-surfing ventures] i am by far a way better POET (is 'way better' correct grammar? um er uh....see what i mean) than a writer, but with poetry you can get a way with forgetting all about the little writing things like (uh) oh punctuation, spelling, capitalizing, not to mention you can make up your own words, if you want. basically you don't have to follow any major writing rules [i guess].

so......

i am probably a TAD bit better poet than an actual writer, per say. i have to say though, after reading so many talented blogs out there in blog blog land, i am now feeling very inspired to write more (of course, then i sit down here to write something witty and i'm like DERRRRR, go figure).

just see my latest poem below in the past blog vs. just random writings (like this) and you will see what i mean [doh!].

i mean most of my blogging has just been about shnookie doodles, he is my main material these days and pretty darn entertaining material he is, if you ask me.

[at least i think so]

shnookie doodles (above) (in case you didn't know from him being plastered all over my blog) (and notice he loves MOMMY, hehehehee that's my lil man!)

but seriously, if you have some time and want to read some talented ISH i would def check out a few of these folks: Oh The Joys (omg she is HILARIOUS and so talented) Mommy Blog (another super duper talented mommy blogger) All Adither (so talented with a great sense of humor - love it) just to name a few. there are so many others i have come across but those have been some favs so far!

so please go enjoy! ;o)

oh and i must give a shout out to Sheri (another very talented writer and her blogs are so informative) for explaining to clueless me how to LINK someone on my blog [YAY!] i am so quite proud of me right now!

peace forward ~ be blessed!

OH!!! and dig this below!

got to love that right?

sweet tooth

sweet tooth

candy cane kisses in a milky snow blizzard cream
swirling concoctions of delicious sweet peppermint morsels on my lips
experiencing sugar overload from thoughts of
moon drops drizzling across my face and I see decadent fragments that come together in colorful m&m pieces
a polychromatic union of marshmallow manifestation in a milk chocolate Hershey bar s'more graham cracker vision
I exhale and breathe in vanilla and cherry vapors tumbling into my liquorish senses of taste

fresh strawberry preserves jam to a dancing peanut butter sexy tango
missile toe manifestation leave kisses of no obligation and hearts invest in all pie of lemon meringue
dipping my inhibitions in streusel and swimming in silk chocolate frosting
that ripples in between my daydreams and out into my life
on a sugar high my mind travels across tantalizing mountains of apple crumb cake and ice cream caves, surfing valentine heart candy waves

peach cobbler beaches with coconut raindrops
getting lost in 7 layers of delectable whip cream clouds
gumdrops hugging the inside of my cheeks and mouth singing sweet tarts into my reality

and waking up to a mixed candy fruit flavored edible rainbow parfait with
semi-sweet tang on the tip of my tongue in a titillating tingle tied up in a reverie of palatable explosions that
drift off into an orange cream exuberant embrace of gooey melancholy caramel with a sugary glaze leaving me in a daze of twisted peaceful pecan clusters
over dark bittersweet chocolate covered cherry bliss with just a taste of butterscotch pudding gloss on my lips in a kiss of i love you delish

AEP © Copyright 2008

i am

i am

working: WORK (of course) and trying to get back into my poetry writing

reading: the purpose driven life (again) and the bible

recording on dvr: gossip girl, dance wars, october road, desperate housewives, celebrity apprentice

tv shows anticipating: LOST, The L Word, So You Think You Can Dance (again)

looking forward to: moving to a bigger place at the end of March, better finances, a new cousin for kai!

missing: my grandparents, my brother& sis in law, kai's complete dependence on mommy, being IN love

over: kai's father's selfishness (or trying to be over it), presidential campaign

sick of: my weight and feeling BLAH, all the crazy sad news on tv, politics

loving: God, Jesus, my family, my child and my child's enthusiasm for the simple things in life

appreciating: my blessings, my freedom, my child's love for me, getting to be kai's mommy

i borrowed this from Mars (hope she doesn't mind) smile.

happy new year

happy new year

2008 is here, hard to believe. time really does fly - too fast.

i spent tonight with shnookie doodles - we ate take out, baked cookies and watched Jack's Big Music Show at least 15 times and then watched Dick Clark's show in Time Square, haven't done that in a while....unfortunately my lil man didn't make it to midnight - he fell asleep on mommy's lap clapping to fergie...lol...guess the cookies and milk did him in. ;o)

i am not making any "new years resolutions" - i normally don't. i just know that there are things i need to do, have to do and should do and want to do.....and i will do them in my own time - and that works for me. :o)

tonight was nice, peaceful and quiet and filled with my son's laughter and giggles and toys all over the place, his show Jack jamming in the background and the smell of fresh baked cookies.....who could ask for more?

i am BLESSED!

HAPPY BLESSED 2008 to ALL!

peace forward~blessings! xoxox