The stuff with 3 year old is great.  I'm not complaining there.  As for the rest of the day.... Here's a run down of my kids' names and ages: Craig = 6, Eric = 5, John = 3, and Adrian = 2  (now you know their mentality level) It all started when I woke up.  I didn't get enough sleep the night before due to my story.  It kept running through my head as ideas sprang up.  I did not even write before...

I carved C's pumpkin with some direction from him. He didn't want to touch the slimy pumpkin innards. This year H and S liked touching the slimy innards with their hands, but decided the pumpkin goo made...the finished jack-o-lanterns and set them at the corner of our grass. The following are a picture with the flash on, then with the flash off. Next step is roasting the pumpkin seeds

S also tried to carve her own pumpkin this year. I cut open the top and carved the mouth, but she carved the rest.

This is H's second year carving her own pumpkin. Except for helping her scrape out some of the guts and seeds, she did it all herself. Following is some photographic evidence.

...long time.  They've already been talking about moving in together.  Hell, he even wants to get a good enough job so she won't have to work and she could stay home and take care of the house and kids.        I don't know how to really take all of this.  I mean, I'm happy because we're not fighting, but I'm really depressed because I know that I will never have what little comfort he gave me again...

The Artisan Church youth group playing Rock Band in my living room after our Youth Bible Study tonight: Artisan has a youth group . . . .

This is Kelly Staples.  In 1979, she was in my church children's choir and Sunday school.  She was also one of my students in the tutoring program that was my first job.  When she disappeared the entire...  I think about Kelly a lot these days. http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=601910&orgPrefix=NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

Elijah: "Grandpa, I have a sticker of Underwear Dog." Grandpa: "Underwear Dog?" Me: "I believe it's a sticker of UnderDog, actually."

I LOVE this site!! I rarely can afford any of the stuff featured on it but every now & then they put something up in my price range. Still - it's nice to have somewhere to go where you know the toys are SAFE and not mass produced!