PHOTOS

New photos.

By the way, I DIED during Desperate Housewives this week when Bree dropped her dinner party bomb. AWESOME.

These Are the Days

It's been a bit since my last post.

Things have been crazy lately what with the Artist's debut in So Cal, Owen's pre-school/speech therapy schedule, his asthma attacks, and Stewart's WALKING.

I've been my usual self- vascillating between "I'm a fucking goddess" and "I'm the worst mother in the world!" - attacks.

Any mother can sympathize with me there. You know how there are those days when you hit your stride and you can wheedle your toddler into peeing on the potty, while brushing your teeth with one hand and miraculously catch your baby before he falls into the bathtub with the other? Those are the goddess days.

Then there are the days when toddler pees on floor, in hand, or kicks and screams and refuses to go at all, you can't even get your pants off to take a piss without them clawing at your legs and screaming (never mind brushing your teeth or showering), and you narrowly miss your baby at every turn and he ends up with giant bloody scratches on his face and a couple of Shrek stickers pasted onto the roof of his mouth. Those are the days when you turn on the Disney channel, dole out the Tootsie pops, and flagellate yourself for being a horrible mother.

On the goddess days, you think "Damn, I'm good! I oughta have another baby! I owe it to the world to have more than two because I'm just THAT GOOD! I'm gonna have four! Five! Sky's the limit, honey, look out!"

The worst mother in the world days make me wish I had tied my tubes when Stew came out.

So, most of the time, I'm in one of those two mindsets and pity poor Kyle- he never knows which.

I've discovered that, much like teaching, motherhood is a constant state of guilt. The good days are merely the ones that I can push the guilt to the back burner.

Debates

In last night's debate the gay marriage issue was addressed- and surprise surprise! Kerry doesn't support gay marriage either!

His line about giving gay couples equal rights under the law is the same one used by Bush when the gay marriage issue came up earlier this year.

Now, I'm not telling you who to vote for- I'm not particularly enthusiastic about either candidate.

But if you're voting for Kerry because you think it's a step forward for gay rights, think again.

It's a shame that not one major candidate will "come out" (haha-good one, Sarah) in favor of gay marriage.

And what was with the matching polka-dotted tie thing?

Whose Clues?

After watching Blue's Clues: Colors Everywhere, Kyle thoughtfully pointed out that mixing blue and green is kind of like incest, since blue made green by mixing with yellow. So it's kind of like "blue sleeping with his own daughter."