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!!