ah, It has been a time internets.
Yes – We found someone at the party stole cologne and perfume from the medicine cabinet and several bottles of wine.
So, clearly next time the party guest list will not be so open. Just a mild damper on what was a funky good time.
Our big fuzzy baby has been hangin out with us way more as Cammy has become much more Anubis friendly in these last few weeks. Which is awesome.
Cammy has certainly started to come into her own. She is dominating the puzzle world. She loves puzzles as much as I do. And I loves me some puzzles. She started off blowing through 24 piece puzzles like “Seriously, can I get a little challenge?” a few weeks ago so I upped the ante and brought home some 63 piece puzzles. She burned through those like whatever so next time I went out I grabbed some 100 piece numbers from the dollar store.
Can I just say I love the dollar store. It’s a toddlers parents best friend.
Now these are a bit more challenging for her. And she likes to work them with you only not really, the whole ‘help me mommy!’ is followed quickly with ‘you are in my way’. So I’m in a no win situation. Anywho she is doing wonderfully with those. We had our second meeting with New City school. I will be turning in the final handful of paperwork so we can make this school thing happen.
I think that is going to go well for us.
Shes a little clingy lately but we are doing well, I had my first major parenting fau pax over the weekend. J
ust for future parenting sake lets just note to self – cute toddlers should not stay up til 2 am with the party just because. Cute toddler will wake up as soon as party is over and be very, very grumpy and moody. I remember staying up with my mom and her friends during her house parties. Its how I learned to play spades and the like, although I don’t think I could hang as well as Cammy. We kept expecting to see her asleep on the couch, but no – we had to physically put her to bed. She was not just gonna fall asleep. However once in the bed she was asleep before I could get her clothes off. So new we know, bed time on party nights - ten o’clock.
This is your daily dose of Bri cute.
Shes is an amazing baby. Just as sweet and calm as she can be.
On a serious note I want to talk about something I believe is very basic
I believe in basic humanity. I believe in the golden rule. I believe that God really meant, don’t be judgmental, a’la Matthew 7:1a: “Judge not, that ye be not judged”. And not some hard core “get right before you do it, but please go ahead and pass judgement” kind of Christianity.
No. I just can’t do it, can’t live that way. I am not God, and would not want to be. I live as full a life as I can. If you want to know why I do the things I do, I can tell you. I am honest about my walk with God, and I am going through it everyday. But I believe in free will. I believe God didn’t give it to us to have it taken away by our fellow man. I believe in the separation of church and state, and I believe that people who are evaga-governing are doing a disservice to all of society. I believe in everyones right to marry, be them gay, lesbian, transgender or straight. I believe in a couples right to chose if they are ready to bring a life into this world. I believe in a committed healthy couples right to adopt children, no matter if that couple is same sex or not.
I believe we has humans have a basic right to be exactly who we are.
We live in historic times my friends. We live in a time when the political climate is prepared for more change now, than we have possibly seen since our country’s birth. And these changes are coming. And I welcome them so.
I say this for two reasons, one today the California supreme court is hearing arguments on the gay marriage issue. I am voicing my support and hope that the right to be married is won today for those who want that right. Want to stand and be committed with their partners. And Two I want to send my condolences to the family of Lawrence King, the fifteen year old who was shot because he asked a boy in his class to be his valentine. It is truly a sad, sad day that such an innocent act of love was given such a hateful response.
My brother is gay. And when I saw Lawrence Kings face I couldn’t help but remember my brother at that age, how sweet and fun he was. And how truly hurt I am that someone thought killing Larry for caring was the best response to have. I grieve for his family and his mother whose child was just trying to come into who he was. And I grieve for his killer Brandon, who is too young….
He changed so many lives, just changed forever.
We have a responsibility as parents to keep this from happening where we can. In our children.
Tolerance is not an affront to faith. Acceptance is not blasphemous. Understanding is not disrespectful to God.
Sometimes the dreams we have for our kids should just be simply be a good human beings.
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Wow, I had not heard about that shooting. This is just heartbreaking, and it is OUR responsibility as parents to teach our children to be loving, generous, and kind people to everyone even those who are different than us, because life and the world around us would be boring if we were all carbon copies of each other. I just don’t understand why people get care so much about what others do when it DOESN’T EVEN AFFECT THEM. How is it going to hurt your marriage if two men or two women get married and adopt a child that otherwise is going to be in the foster system for the rest of their life? It just makes no sense to me……
You have a gorgeous family. Incidentally the book of Matthew is my very favorite
I am soo proud of my children and their beliefs and talents. I didn’t know about that horrible murder. It makes me think of our family and that time in our lives too. I was soo afraid for your brother, as I still am, for some have come so far in accepting the differences in others yet some are still crippling themselves and those they come in contact with. I wonder if the young mans parents were supportive or even knew he had feelings for other boys.
“Tolerance is not an affront to faith. Acceptance is not blasphemous. Understanding is not disrespectful to God.” - Beautiful words lady. And oh so true.
Also that party? Holy cow. You throw good party. Sorry to hear about the stolen items!
love this post; love your style.
A party is not a party unless something gets broken or stolen.
(Still sucks that someone was that much of a jerk, though.)
I learned about that poor kid on the Ellen show, which I don’t even usually watch just because I’m usually busy doing other things at that time of day, but I happened to be watching it the other day while I was trying to get Isaac to eat some lunch he was reluctant to finish, and first thing she leads with this story, and I had to turn it off, because Isaac was saying, “Mommy, why are you crying?” and I just didn’t have it in me at that moment in time to try to explain to a three-year-old how much evil ignorance exists in this world.
I have to express my immediate support for your views. I will have to echo Bun’s words as they pertain to:
‘Tolerance is not an affront to faith. Acceptance is not blasphemous. Understanding is not disrespectful to God. ‘ - beautiful.
One of my dear friends is gay, my life would be stale and empty without him in it. His parents dis-owned him when he ‘came-out’. Citing their baptist beliefs. I won’t argue beliefs, just tolerance and acceptance. Him being gay is such a small part of who he is. As a parent I am saddened to seem them let him go so easily.
*BTW - what kind of dog do you have. Is it an old english bull-dog. It looks like our dog Henry we use to have. Lovely!
Lastly, the DOLLAR STORE rocks!!
Our dog is a Cane Corso, also known as a Italian Mastiff, which is a distant cousin to the old english bulldog, closer to an English Mastiff though, they have smaller jowls and heads (than their english cousins) if you can believe it. He weighs around 140 lbs.
Thank you for the support as well… it is greatly appreciated..
I second you and everybody else here. I “love” when people cite the word of God as an excuse for hatred. They are so misguided.
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