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Irene has bangs. Finally. I resisted for a long time because I was afraid of the result. At the same time I was very tired of this: And this: Clips seemed to work just fine for about five minutes. I still find clips stashed around the house with huge clumps of hair in them. This works fine, but I am not sure if she will always want to wear her brothers undies on her head, when she is older. Yes, they are clean. I think that the bangs make a big improvement. Don't you? Tell me what you think.

Update: scroll down to vote. I will feature your choice this Monday, so lets keep voting till the polls close. But don't worry if you were mortally concerned that I might not feature book love weekend. Have no fear. It goes on as planned. Did I just hear an audible groan? I have felt so uninspired lately. I really want to write something funny, but I can't think of a darn thing. I hate having you all come here and get serious post, after serious post. I am so desperate, I ended up asking Anthony what he thought a funny thing to write about would be. He said that I should write about a car that tastes and smells like root beer. I thanked him through a clenched teethed, fake smile, waited until he was out of earshot, and called his sister. Her suggestion of chicken and bubbles tells me that I am on my own. So now it is up to you, dear readers. I will put it to a vote. What humorous story would you most like to hear? The Artichoke Hot Girl The Watcher pollc...

I was honored with yet another award---wow, that sounded quite humble, let me try again---I have been once again mistakenly awarded, this time from what works for us , a blog that I have recently started enjoying. The award originated from the egels nest ,very cute name for a blog, that promises to be a permanent addition to my bloglines family. In turn, I am going to pass this on to a friend who apparently likes to up and decide to tear her house down for the heck of it . You always need someone like that in your life. Her blog is, ironically titled, Home Sweet Home .

....and yes, Irene is the lion....

I got this meme through more of my incessant blog hopping. This is from a blog of a blog . I am sure that many of you turn tail and run when you see the word meme but this one was just too delicious to pass up. If you want to do this too, then please do so but leave me a comment with your blog address or email me. I want to see what your result is, as well. My answers are in red and Edgard's are in blue and anything, extra I will note in green . 1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car): Catso Jetta Ruch Ranger My absolute all time favorite answer belongs to my father: Princess Magnum 2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie): Chocolate Chip Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie (also known as Cha-ookie) Coffee Snicker doodle 3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal): Blue horse Blue Dog 4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born): Sarah Elizabeth xxxxx sorry can't give you the rest of that one. Ed...

The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon "The Treasury of David is a superb literary achievement. Eric Hayden, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle a century after Spurgeon's ministry began there, calls this work "Spurgeon's magnum opus." Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial." Quoted from The Spurgeon Archive .

I asked her to go in her room and put on her socks and shoes. In retrospect.....I think I could have been a little more specific.

People say there are no dumb questions. I submit then for you these brilliant queries. Decide for yourself . Are there other types of dogs in Mexico besides chihuahuas? Honestly I didn't think that there were any chihuahuas left. Aren't they all on the arms of drunk bimbos in Hollywood? Do they have tea in Mexico? How did you get here? A question for Edgard, who answered: "by plane." The person then replied, "no...really, how?" Is this your first child? A question put to me several times while I was pregnant with Irene and holding Anthony's hand. I have also been asked, in front of Anthony, if he was mine. I just think that is such a stupid question with all the different families nowadays. Are there universities in Mexico? Well not much of one... UNAM is only the second oldest university in all of the Americas--- UNMSM in Peru takes the honors, as it was founded on May the 12th of 1551. It is a little embarrassing as they missed th...

I am so excited that this is my one-hundredth post. I am sure that seems like nothing to all of you seasoned bloggers but I am excited nevertheless. The name of my blog is due to my intense problem of procrastination. Even now I should be cleaning my house. I truly have never done anything for more than a matter of about three days so I felt that my blog would suffer a similar demise. Now you understand why I am so happy that I have made it this far. There are more things that I want to accomplish for more than "three days" but now my little success here makes me feel as if I will be more capable to accomplish it. On another subject---yesterday Anthony started his 4th AWANA year. I am very excited that he has a chance to take part in this. Up to now he has memorized 180+ bible verses and is on his way to become an approved workman for Christ. The difference with this year is that about a month ago he accepted Christ. I always told him what was what, but never pushed...

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So Edgard and I took tests concerning which world leader that we most resemble in personality. This was Edgard's result. Leading with his mind...hmmmm. This is was my result. I think that we make a cute couple....what do you think. We are like a dream team. testlink Thanks to Bridget over at Don't Lick the Floor for the idea...

So I know that I just did an anniversary post a month ago...but guess what? It is our anniversary again! It was exactly 9 years ago, today, that Edgard and I met. I am sure that I have enhanced his life in every way, right? ---------------- Now playing: Jars of Clay - Good Monsters via FoxyTunes

Last Monday (week 2): 191 Today:191 Loss for this week: 0 pound I will accept a no gain/no loss weigh-in. I had a bad weekend as my fitday account will show. I couldn't exercise on Saturday because I babysat 2 children from 12:00p.m.-9:00p.m. Although, four children total, for nine hours was exercise in itself. On Sunday, I bow my head in shame and admit that I could have exercised and ate well and simply did not. I plan to exercise everyday this week excepting possibly this Wednesday. Wednesday is Anthony's first day back to AWANA. We are all excited about that. This will be his fourth year. We hope that he can continue in it until he graduates from high school. The other days should be workable to fit in some exercise. But I will also challenge myself to include Wednesday in this, as well. I also have to give a huge congratulations to Groovybabe , who has reached and surpassed the 100 day mark on her way to changing her life. You should check her out if you ...

A Six-Cylinder Courtship by Edward Salisbury Field is a book that was written to be very trendy. The bad thing about being trendy is that trends go out quickly And then they are no longer fashionable, they are simply absurd. The good thing about trends is that after 100 years they go right past the absurd, right into quirky and quaint. (two Q words in one sentence...that is impressive) This story is about a man who falls in love-at-first sight with a well moneyed young lady who mistakes him for a chauffeur. The reason for this, is because he owns a car. In those days they were owned primarily by rich people, and she assumes that he is too young to be rich, so he must be a driver. Alas, he is rich but continues to pretend to be her driver until such a time as she will fall in love with him. Hilarity ensues . It is not a great literary contribution, but it is a sweet, innocent look at life in 1907. ---------------- Now playing: Robi Draco Rosa - Penélope via FoxyTunes

So my Dad is fairly new to reading my blog because I was too chicken to let him read it before. This is what he had to say about the previous post. Hi everybody, I love all the pictures. That's a cute story about the old couple. But who are those people in the pictures. Yep, I still think you're a natural writer. Some magazine or newspaper is going to pick you up and you will be rich. Behind a keyboard, getting writers cramp, blurry eyed, and rich. But you will be online and rich so you can buy me books. Did I mention, I like books? tee hee. It's really a cool blog Ra. Love, your Dad I think I just figured out where I got my writing style from. My parents also read the comments and were quite touched. Have an excellent weekend and don't forget that I will be posting a photo of another book.

My parents married August 31st 1973. Twenty-nine years later, a few days shy of their anniversary, they separated. A year later the divorce was final. They would have been married thirty years. There were so many situations and issues of why this occurred and I am not going to tell you even one of them. (Sorry) Sufficed to say I was devastated. It has been five years since that happened and everyone has moved on as best they could. They have both stated a wish to begin to meet new people. They have grown and matured and learned a lot about themselves. One of my parents made the initial choice to separate, which left the other one feeling abandoned and betrayed, and as a result, they made the decision---because the pain was too great---to not have any contact whatsoever with the other one. This has been awkward, to say the least, and heartbreaking when you really get down to it. Anthony was 6 months old when his grandma and grandpa split up so he has had no recollection...

This really is a building that I saw, on trip with my best friend, in a city 2 hours distant. Talk about unfortunate names. I think I might have chosen to change my name. If you would like to have a look at all of the Wordless Wednesday participants haz click aqui por favor

Just remember all of the races that lost their lives that day. We all suffered loss. Beauty and love comes in all colors. Mi Familia

I have been double tagged for the same meme by Lady-T and Groovybabe So without further ado here are eight random facts about Rachel at www.threedayblog.blogspot.com (thats me!) 1.I have attended 13 schools and not one of them was college. Yes, I moved that much! And they were all in the same school district. My parent flipped houses before it was a tlc show . 2. When my older sister, Michelle , had a newborn I stayed with her for the first month to help out. She was a single mom and at that time had no car. I woke up the morning I was to move back home with an overwhelming urge to buy her a car before I left. We spent the whole day looking everywhere before my mom found an old ford on a used car lot that had the price tag I could afford. Price=triple cheap. The thing that is interesting about this whole story is; the car that I bought for my sister was previously owned by Edgard. Yep, my husband. I met him about 6 months after I bought the car. 3.At last count I own 880...

So I am starting my weigh-in, all new....again. I am so frustrated with all the ups and downs and I really had thought that I could solve that by airing my dirty laundry here...on my blog. Not so, apparently. I still eat with wild abandon regardless of how embarrassed I will be on weigh-in Monday. So here I am on my way down again. Needing a miracle. I know that I can lose weight. Last year taught me that. I also learned that it is purely a mental thing. If your head is in the right place...then eating differently will be an easy choice and once you start registering a loss, then you have another mental reason to keep going with it. Well I don't know what the answer is. I need everything to click back into place so that I can start losing... again ...for the LAST time! That being said: This is my first week anniversary of using fitday. I love it! It is easy to use and has all those great graph and pie charts. I have recorded everything regardless of if I did well...

So I thought that, for the weekend lull, I would introduce something that is near and dear to my heart. Books. More specifically---the beauty of books. Every weekend I will be sharing a picture of one of my books. I may tell you what the title is, who wrote it and maybe even what it is about. Then again, I may not deem a description necessary. Maybe the picture can stand alone. And yes...I have that many books. Outre-Mer a pilgrimage beyond the sea Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And please, by all means, let me know what you think about this idea....

My idyllic life... THE REALITY!!! And I wouldn't trade it for the world.

We don't need to ask ourselves where genius comes from. We simply need to avail ourselves of it when we are lucky enough to have it cross our path. As you may remember, I am now using FitDay . A friend let me know, in the comment section, a little (read: freaking important) tip about Fitday . I would like to repeat it here. oh yeah, and one thing about fitday...you should enter in the amount of hours you sleep every day under activities, because otherwise fitday calculates the amount of calories you're burning as if you were awake 24 hours a day! I would say that is important to know so all of you that use fitday and read my blog...take note! Thanks Mamacita Chilena from your friend Mamacita Raquelin. Oh, and one last thing...this is where my sleeping an average of 4 hours a night is finally gonna payoff!

You will, no doubt, notice the gorgeous tree in the front yard of our home. Isn't it pretty? isn't it sumptuous? You should smell the beautiful chainlike pink blossoms in the springtime. It smells like California. And not the stinky littered parts of California either...the nice blossom filled California. But you can't. It is no more. That is why my husband spent a half a day, in the blinding hot sun, uprooting a tree . And yes, in case you were wondering, it was not salvageable. We strongly suspect that some kids tried to hang on it. We have neighbors, whose children are allowed to run wild, and they often choose to play in front of our house, alone, and in the street, I might add. They range in age of about 3 to 17. Stinking kids parents.

How was your labor day weekend? Exciting times at our house. This is what my husband busies himself with on a three day weekend. ...to heck with house projects. To be fair, Edgard uprooted a tree, mowed, weeded, changed a tire, cooked his own dinner (pobrecito) and exercised everyday. ...and yet... I bet the bag will be the highlight of our weekend. Simple. Perfect.

I am taking a page out of Melodee's book and signing up for a FitDay account . I originally used a different web page to record my foodery but FitDay is, by far, the most user-friendly. I especially love the small do-able goals that you can set for yourself. Oh yes, and the big blue dot on the graph that tells me I am "severe overweight". That is just the added bonus. So I have a link to my personal food journal on the side and here it is again just for the heck of it!! www.fitday.com

I joined the group top mama. ...thought you should know.

Whoever it was that said parenting is a serious job, has never read the blog--- Up in the Night . I found Shauna through hopping from one blog to another blog and, after I stopped laughing, I subscribed via bloglines and have been enjoying her hilariously quirky takes on motherhood ever since. Well I have, lately, been twice honored by her. Firstly she tagged me for a meme and secondly she awarded me a very touching award. I can't tell you how much that I appreciate that. I haven't been writing my own blog for long but I really enjoy it! This lets me know that others, kinda, sorta, enjoy it as well. Here is one, out of the many that I love, that I think really deserves this: Linda Wagner over at The Ten Pound Club ---This blog always brings me back to the place I need to be. You would be hard pressed to find a kinder woman. In fact, if she is open to adoption... one can never have too many moms! Now onto the rules for the meme: You have to post these rules before yo...