Ahhh, if she were only reading this now...

I sure do miss the turmoil from my anonymous blogger friend/enemy. I thought of them today as T and I were watching the last 10 minutes of Larry King Live. Dr. Laura Schlessinger was his guest. She is the author of a book entitled In Praise of Stay at Home Moms. Now, you want to talk about judgemental! This lady takes the cake! Ms. Anonymous (I am assuming it is a female due to the drama), THAT is someone you need to take your sharp tongue to! Have you heard her stand on the career mom? It isn't pretty. And it isn't something I agree with either (for the record). She accuses working moms of ignoring and "forgetting" they have children. She says that this is why kids are left in cars and such. It was pretty extreme. I had to give a couple of exaggerated cheers when she would say "praise the stay at home moms" even though I am only a smom not an actual mom (yet). But it was all in good sarcasm. The only thing that I "admire" or relate to when it comes to Dr Laura is that she never wanted kids and only wanted a career until she was 35. She already had her tubes tied but decided she wanted a kid. So she married, had surgery, had trouble becoming pregnant but eventually did - so, my assumption would be that she was about my age or older. I love women like that because I can relate to them so much better. I can't relate to a young woman or girl having babies. I couldn't imagine kids in my 20s. So I can't relate to that. But I can relate to Dr. Laura's experience. But it was my husband, my s-daughter that made me want a baby of my own...not a show on Nova! If you want to read more about this "doctor," click here or google...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123913529589098057.html.

Oh - and side note (mostly to my anonymous bitch smacker - that is, if she is still reading which she claims she will never do again), don't flame me for this lady. I am sure you could google search a contact email address to give her your piece of mind!

Onward! I finished my Derby invitations today. They aren't what I was hoping they would be but I couldn't find the items that I needed to make them perfect. I was hoping to find silver horse shoe charms to hang from the ribbon among other things. But I think they turned out ok. I wanted them to have a "formal" feel. This year I want the "theme" to be more Millionaire Row. Sharply dressed, big hats and flair. Next year, unless T and I are AT the Derby, I want to do an infield theme where everyone dresses in cut offs and tanks and has huge beer shooter cups. I do want to take T to the actual event soon. It is a must. So here is a look at the invitations:






I can't believe tomorrow is already Thursday! I am meeting Amber at the gym at 8:30 to hit the cardio hard before the sculpting class. I haven't decided yet if I will come home and shower or shower there before heading to my Thur grocery trip. I will probably come home first. Something I noticed when I showered at the gym today. I have a bit of anxiety about dropping the soap. Not because of the usual reason people say that! But because I would have to leave it for dead if it hit that floor. There is no way I would pick it up and use it on my body! Bleh!!! Almost made me gag there. Oh, and no naked people today in the locker room!! Whew!

The garden is looking great. Other than the hairy spider I found resting by my cuke hill this morning! Great. It is a wolf spider that is pretty small right now but can grow bigger than my head or something insane. When I told T about finding it, he said "that's great! They will be good for the garden because they eat bugs." I just said uh-huh while my hands sweated and I felt goosebumps rise on my arms. I am sure there are plenty of bugs in that garden for little wolf spider to enjoy making him big and strong - wouldn't his stay at home folks be so proud! So, in an effort not to ditch all of my gardening effort because of my paralyzing fear of spiders, I have decided to name our little fuzzy friend. And it can't be any name. It has to be a funny, almost cartoonish name. So I have decided on Wilbur. Wilbur the Wolf Spider. He will be my gardening companion. But as soon as he makes his way up my gardening glove or hops a ride in my hair, we will no longer be buds and his little head and six hairy legs will be on the chopping block the next time our exterminator comes by. I wonder if he will read my blog. I will take a pic of him if I see him tomorrow. But I won't cry in my Wheaties if I don't.

I do want to take more pics of my garden so that you can see how it is coming along. I should have time between the grocery trip and Tay's arrival to snap some shots and post them. I think it is really time for me to thin out my radishes so I may need to do that tomorrow too.

Spring is in the air - and has been for months now - and easter weekend is quickly approaching. All kinds of mandatory family fun on both weekend days. That will make for a tiring weekend but I will have Monday to recoup...after inhaling cleaner fumes while doing the bathrooms. Standard Monday chore. Tay and I will be working on decorating eggs Friday and decorating cookies Saturday. I have easter cookie cutters so that will be fun. I am planning on getting rid of them at the family gatherings. We don't usually eat the cookies Tay makes...you don't want to know why...just know she is a kid and kids do gross things. If Lauren or Ryan are reading this, they will probably bypass the cookies as well.

Well, I thought the computer screen was becoming dim when, in fact, it is my eyelids shutting. I guess I will head out and get some jammies on for the night. We will probably hit the sack early and watch the news in bed like we did last night. I have to get up fairly early to water the plants out front, take care of the kiddos and get to the gym by 8:30 so I will be dozing pretty early.

Just to start some drama...PRAISE THE STAY AT HOME MOM!!! Thank you Dr Laura for being a bigger biatch than your's truly!! Haha!