Duck Duck Goose

Am I the only one who changes the words when I’m reading a storybook to my kid? OK, so it’s not exactly going to promote early literacy, but it gets you through a story more quickly than the kid loses attention. Usually after about 15 seconds on a page, she’s grabbing for the next one. At this rate, we’ll go through about 10 books in a bedtime story session. Prolific!

I think I got a bit frustrated last night at one of our marathon bedtime sessions that my husband opted out on helping in. I swear if there’s something you can slip into your food that gets men to lactate, I’ll be the first one in line to buy it. But we’re pretty much stuck in the current ritual of story, nursing, story story, nursing… etc. Usually the kid passes out at the milk bar before I announce “last call,” but lately she’s been wearing me out and I think it may be getting to me.

It started at about book number 8, which went a little something like this:

After working in the garden all day, Rabbit comes home to eat dinner with Pooh and Piglet. As usual, Pooh has opened up a can of honey and set in on the stove, which is really nice and all, but rabbits don’t really want to eat honey every night. Still, it seems like the only thing that Pooh knows how to make, and Rabbit wants to provide a nutritious meal for her family - so guess who ends up fixing dinner?

Soooooo, now that Pooh’s had about 3 helpings, he’s waaaaaaay too tired to clean up. Never mind that Piglet just threw half of her noodles on the floor. “I’ll clean up in a minute,” says Pooh, “but I’m so full, I think I’ll relax a bit first.”

“yeah, right,” says Rabbit, who’s heard this a thousand times before and knows how it usually ends up:

So after cleaning up, Rabbit’s pretty sleepy herself, but is her day over? Nooooooo!

Guess who has to chase down Piglet, nurse her and read her about 400 books to get her to sleep? Meanwhile Pooh, the fat, lazy sonofabitch, is snoozing on couch - totally oblivious to how much freakin’ work Rabbit does around the house and doesn’t even show any appreciation. Pooh is most definately not getting any tonight! Not like Rabbit has to worry about that too much these days.

But after Piglet finally fell asleep, Rabbit starting thinking that maybe she’s a little stressed out running the -er- garden and all, and Pooh all-in-all is a good guy who’s working really hard at other things, and even though he’s not as tidy as Rabbit, and doesn’t cook as well as Roo, he takes really good care of Piglet.

But he’s still not getting any.

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Who Will Be The Next Celebrity Pregnancy?

1. Jennifer Aniston
2. Sarah Michelle Gellar
3. Nicole Kidman
4. Jennifer Lopez
5. LeAnn Rimes

Jolie with son, Maddox.

And just think, a couple years ago she was dry-humping Billy Bob Thorton on the red carpet, zapped out on god-knows-what kind of medicinal substance.  Seems that Angelina Jolie got bit by the baby bug - and the Mother Theresa bug - big time.   I saw her interview with Anderson Cooper this week, and I have to say I was impressed by her maturity and compassion.  Many celebrities talk the talk about using their tremendous wealth and influence to make a positive change in the world, but I think Jolie is one of the few who are actually walking the walk.  It’s not just the perosnal impact she’s made on the lives of the children she’s adopted, but the awareness she’s raised of the dire situations that the World’s poorest countries are in.

My husband and I have been talking about adopting for some time now, but we currently have our hands full with one toddler, and a business that’s in its infancy.  We’re still going to go through the process very soon, because it takes so much time.  We’re thinking China, Eastern Europe, or Latin America, but hubby says there are plenty of kids here in the U.S. that could use a break, as well.

When I told my mother we were adopting, she gave me a puzzled look that said “why would you want to go and do that?” - which kind of threw me off guard, because Steve and I just figured that adoption was something that everybody automatically supported - even if you’re not in a position to do it yourself.  Everybody has their own situations and reasons that make them decide whether or not to adopt, I suppose - and I respect the decisions of others as I hope they’ll respect ours.

It would be interesting to hear other people’s comments on this matter:  Do you support adoption?  Would you adopt a child yourself?  Why or why not?

A picture from Angelina Jolie’s Baby Shower– Looks like fun!

more celebrity baby photos here.

Inside of the store, This was taken in Feb 2006

Most recently our town had their annual Strawberry Festival, here are a few pictures of our “All American Berries” window display. We had front row sets to the parade and were able to walk down to the Festival from the store. We are located at 125 S market St in downtown Troy.

Here is my MySpace. Yes, I know it is a little corny but I like to keep in touch with friends and it is pretty easy to find ppl on here nowadays. The picture in my profile is Lily– She loves to dress herself.. very well I might add!

All I know is that after watching those Dateline internet stings, there’s no way Lily’s going near a MySpace account!