Isn't she cute!!

Just watch and see for yourself. :)

I have angels watching over me!!!

There's no other explanation for it! Today as I took my kids to school the sun was shining and the day looked bright. I got home and ML hadn't left for work yet so he asked how the weather was. I told him bright and sunshiny. He almost left his coat home but I told him you never know what the day could bring. Well, how true those words were!!

About an hour after he left the wind started blowing like no other. Then, a little while after that, I look out the window because I could hear pelting outside. Snow had joined the wind. Well, between the cold wind, the warm streets, and the cold snow, the streets were virtually ice skating rinks. I had a dentist appointment at 12:30 (to check a crowned tooth that's been bothering me). I started out for it in my trusty little Saturn and soon realized how bad the roads were. I was driving with caution but as I was trying to turn at a stop light onto a major road (avg mph: 60) I began to slide sideways toward the truck who was turning in the next lane. We narrowly missed each other. I then travelled along (more nervous than before) and tried to avoid going too fast (though others around me certainly had no qualms about sailing along :P ). I approached the next stop light going about ten mph under the limit and the light changed to yellow so I tried to stop. I pressed as hard as I could on the brakes and it seemed to have no effect. I sailed right through the red light!! As I did, time seemed to slow down and I looked at all the people I was passing and thought what a miracle it was that nobody had started through the intersection yet. I saw at least half a dozen accidents in my 12 minute drive to the dentist. I'm still quite shaken up and amazed that I wasn't one of those accidents!

Christmas is officially over at our house

On Saturday we finally got together as a family and tag teamed taking down everything Christmas. The kids did their own little projects while ML and I took turns working on the major stuff and picking out pictures to put in our adoption profile. It feels great to have that checked off the list, but on the other hand taking down all the fun lights/trees/decorations etc. always seems to leave our home feeling a little less warm and cozy to me. I made this comment to ML and so he starts singing, "I CRY THE DAY THAT I TAKE THE TREE DOWN...". lol (That song has never been one of my favorites.) :P

Book on CD Junkie

Since I love to read so much and I don't have time for that right now with my other activities and obligations (I don't really have that much going on I'm just a plodder I guess. Whoever, besides me, takes six hours in the kitchen at night?!?! I'm such slow cook!! That must be why, if I have to choose, I'd rather clean than cook...I'm not SO slow at that.) So I've been frequenting the public library to get my fix and coming away with stacks of books on CD at a time. They will only let me take ten at a time so I usually get all I can and then have BR get a few for me on his card. :) As it is I get strange looks from the librarians. :P When I get them home I download all the disks onto my ipod and then I can satisfy my craving to read while I'm driving around and especially while I'm cleaning houses.

These are some of my recent "reads":

I'm composing posts in my sleep

Last night I woke my self up thinking about something I wanted to write about on my blog!! But that usually happens when I stay up late putting any sort of thought into anything. Last night it was blogging that kept me up late and so it occupied my dreams. Saturday night ML and I stayed up late playing this card game (till past 3) and so that night/morning I dreamt that Ben and Mitchell were living cards in this game and it was very strange. Another night I stayed up playing a wii game with ML and so I dreamt that my arms were interchangeable like the wii remote accessories. :P Crazy overactive dreamer...I wish I could just sleep!! :)