Dancing with the Stars....

How great is this show? I love it, my kids love it, I even catch Mitch strolling in feom the kitchen to see certain couples! I love Leila Ali's partner, Maksim. SERIOUS eye-candy.....It's so awesome to see celebrities from all different mediums coming together, joking around, doing those group dance numbers. Great family entertainment, which is so rare any more. I feel the same way about "Amazing Race" except that tends to get a little nasty from time to time.

Woohooo....my Catslife Press stamps showed up in the mail today! So cute. And the price is reasonable too. I may have to get a few more.

I am so not trying to get involved in any more shows but I've seen this "October Road" show like 3 or 4 times and it's pretty good. Oddly, this week was the season finale, I think which is weird because it hasn't even been on that long! It borders on hoakey (is that how you spell that?) though sometimes. Good music anyone. A lot of Bruce Springsteen type stuff.

Today was "Take you child to Work Day." Seth came with me and Hannah went with Mitch. I think they both had a good time. Seth got to help with the kids and meet the Spanish and Music teachers at JMT which will be good for next year. Then he went out for pizza with me and the girls and sat in on my workshop and a meeting. Hannah sat in on some conference calls, played on the computer, did her homework, ate lunch in the conference room and met a bunch of people. She was so funny last night. We were in the car on the way to the choir concert and she asked Mitch "What time do you eat lunch? Because I eat at 12:30 and I have snack at 10!" Maybe some of my organizing tendencies are rubbing off an her!! Too bad she hasn't caught the neatness bug yet! Hopefully that will kick in sooner rather than later.

Why are families so impossibly complicated? Seriously. Ideally these are the people that love and support you, that you're closest to. What's it like to be a part of a large family? I can't even imagine. My family pretty much consists of just my sister, my mom and myself. Other people have come, been a part of our family for a short while, and then gone but for the most part it has been the 3 of us. Sadly, we're not what most people would consider to be a close-knit family. Too much conflict there. A lot of stuff has happened over the years. Maybe that's why. Even when you have a big family there seems to be a lot of craziness. What is a NORMAL family? Does it even exist? Being married and having 2 kids feels like the closest thing to an average family. I hope it stays that way. I hope we are still as close with our children when they are adults as we are now.

I actually got to watch an entire black and white movie tonight, almost completely through, without being interrupted with "Can we change the channel?!" I saw the very end of "A Place in the Sun" with Elizabeth Taylor. Interesting. I will have to see it from the beginning sometime. Then I watched all of "Roman Holiday." Old movies are weird. They always seem so overly dramatic, sometimes I want to laugh at inappropriate times! This is probably the main reason I choose to watch them alone! Not that the kids would want to watch with me. They can't at all understand why I want to watch ANYTHING that is entirely in black and white. The closest they've come to watching a movie in black and white is the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz." I once watched "A Summer Place." I think Troy Donahue was in that one. Talk about over-dramatic!! "National Velvet" is going to be on Monday night so I set my DVR to tape it. I've never seen the whole thing, although I have watched bits and pieces and I read the book a million years ago.

Registration for th CK convention at Valley Forge is this week. I think I might refrain from signing up for any classes this time after the experience Christy and I had last year! I read through some of the class descriptions and nothing really grabbed me, which is a good thing. Hopefully I will be able to resist the temptation. I'd like to just go one day, shop and come home. I think I say that every year!!

Virginia Tech.....enough said

I finally had the courage last night to sit down with Mitch and watch the movie "United 93." Wow. Intense.

What a horrible, yucky day. Good day to stay indoors and be warm and dry. It doesn't help that both kids are sick too. If this weather coninues, we'll be playing soccer into June. They haven't had a regular game in almost a month. Gotta love Spring soccer.

I had intended to go to the Memories Expo yesterday for a couple of hours but after talking to Christy, I decided to skip it. We have pretty much the same taste and if she wasn't terribly impressed, I knew I wouldn't be either. Much better to save myself the drive and cruise the ebay sellers instead. No need to leave the house to get the latest scrapbooking supplies!

My kids have discovered the wonderful world of Webkinz, thanks to the Easter Bunny. They are now completely obsessed. They won't go to bed at night until they've gone online and put their Webkinz to bed first! Too bad they're not as responsible for keeping their rooms clean!

I am proud to say that in the midst of all the organizing of my scrap space (otherwise known as procrastinating!) I did manage to get one whole layout done. I did the pictures from when Jen and I went to NYC to see Mama Mia! with Robin and Cheryl, friends from college. That was back in 2005. Then I realized I don't even have an album started for 2005! I haven't scrapped any other pictures from 2005???? How can that be? I've lost an entire year! I don't even know where the pictures are from that year! The ones I did last night I got from Jen!

Does anyone else think that Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel is hot? Yes, I know he is bald but, still......

Is this a mistake??

I hope I'm not making a huge mistake in doing this blog thing! I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing so I'm just hoping for the best. We'll see how it goes......I'm sure, if nothing else, it will lull anyone who reads it right to sleep.

So, please do not operate any heavy machinery while reading my Blog!!!