Dear Bella

Please stop offering yourself to me sexually. I know you are in heat and I feel for you, but I just don't like you that way. Besides, you are a cat and I am human and I'm your mommy, so it'd just be wrong.

I promise I will get you fixed as soon as I can.

Love Mommy.


Now please...get off of my shoe.

Don't you think...

Taylor Swift should cut Kanye a check? I'm just sayin'.

She's Gone

My grandma passed away this morning. I can wrap my brain around it, but not my heart.

It's very hard to reconcile with the fact that she's not here anymore. I know I've had time to come to terms with the fact that she, that NO ONE lives forever, but that was just in a hypothetical context. This is real...too real. Granted, since her stroke she wasn't the Grandma I always knew, but a piece of her was better than none of her.

She shaped so much of what I know, what I rebel against, what I fight for...who I am. My heart is a little broken today.

From Boy to Man

The boy and his pops

I can't believe my son is 14 years old. It seems like just yesterday he was watching Barney videos and drinking from a sippy cup. Looking at him now...knowing the person he is...it just confirms what I've known for 14 years. God made me the caregiver of someone very special. Someone who showed me what a gift life is. For that I will always be grateful.

Happy birthday to a singular young man. I am honored to know you.

I love you, Bubba!

Mom~

SHUT...THE HELL...UP

If you are 30lbs overweight, should you really be criticizing the person who is 40lbs overweight?

Jesus said: First remove the beam from your own eye before you remove the splinter from your neighbors'.

Janine says: Shut your piehole, you hypocrite.

Damn it, Kanye!

If you didn't see Kanye's latest "stage invasion" I'm sure you've heard about it by now. I'm over trying to figure out why the man does the things he does. He's quickly becoming a parody of himself with his over-inflated ego and strange outbursts. I mean...there's eccentric and then there's pure, unadulterated arrogance and I think Kanye suffers from the latter. He couldn't just stand backstage and say "Beyonce was robbed"? He just HAD to go out onstage and steal Taylor Swift's shine 'cause why???

I think Kanye West needs to do two things:

1. Go to a psychiatrist and asked to be put on a cocktail of ritalin and prozac.

2. Take a really, really, really, really, REALLY long vacation.

Best way to end the summer.

Yesterday the boy and I went to my BFF Tira's house for a Labor Day celebration. All the BFF's were there w/husbands in tow as well as Tira and her husband's family. It was such a great time. Great company, great food, lots of laughs, jello shots and the best berry and pineapple martinis I've ever tasted. (I'm over 21 so I am allowed to partake) The kids were relegated to either the outdoors, or the "media room" which was just a room w/a television and a Playstation 3 (what more could a kid want, right?). I wish I had pics to post, but I forgot my camera.

I love hanging out with my best good girlfriends...we've all been close for about 10 years now and I just adore them. They are my counselors, my sisters and my friends. We've all got our own lives, but we make time for each other...either via a weekly IM chat, email, or facebook. And when we get together we have good laughs and great conversation. Friendships should be edifying, supportive and enriching, and we definitely let each other be exactly who we are and we're evolved enough to accept and love each other anyway. I'm definitely blessed to have these amazing women in my life.