Do you ever notice the enticing banners from Xanga, asking you to go premium? Mine today says,"It has been 1021 days since you joined Xanga! Won't you go premium?" And I thought to myself, 1021 days and I still haven't made this a habit. Too much time goes by between posts.

I have become a sofa lump this week. Amazing how a little cold will do that to you. For me one little sniffle=inability to function at normal mode (which to be honest still holds quite a bit of laziness) and must. lay. on. couch. and watch Regis and Kelly...even though Regis drives me insane. Anyway, today's show was about mothers (note to self: find something for mother, include mother in law...perhaps grandma...just how far do we go with mothers and mother like connections?? I digress) and making their dreams come true. Have you ever watched one of those episodes? Where they read off a wonderful letter that some one wrote about a woman who single handedly saved a city, adopted 12 kids, holds down 4 jobs (uniquely American is she), works out, and keeps a spotless house? How does one do that? And how does one keep from feeling woefully inadequate?

The letter from my children would go something like this:

Dear Regis and Kelly/Ellen/Oprah,

CC: Jerry Springer

Our mom is terrific. Sometimes she goes a whole 4 hours without nagging us to please pick up after ourselves (especially the straw wrappers from Capri Suns, which for some reason drive her totally nuts). Once she was 5 minutes early at the bus stop to pick us up from school...instead of 5 minutes late. Just last week, she cut our hair before our bangs reached the bottom of our chins. Our favorite memory is the time that our mother finished all of the laundry in the house and folded it!  Dad was hoping that maybe the shirt he hasn't worn in 8 months (because) it was in the ironing basket would finally hang free in his closet again. But she struggles a lot, our mom does. It was just too much for her.

In closing, we think every child deserves a mother as wonderful as ours...or better even.

***on a side note... Do you ever find a blog that is so well written, so entertaining...that you click and click, hoping for an update? That you make a pot of fresh coffee and sit down to read when it does update? That's how I feel about these two blogs:

http://www.sundrymourning.com/2007/05/10/alphabutts-and-questionable-parenting-skills/

http://bluemeany.diaryland.com/