1 year old and a little more

Penelope had her 1 year check up earlier this week. I know I'm late. It was actually done at 13 months. Oh well. She weighed in at 23 lbs 4 ozs (in the 75%). And 33 inches tall (again off the charts). People keep asking me if I was "off the charts tall" when I was a kid. And the answer is no. I was always near the 100th percentile but not off the charts. And my sister, who is now 6 feet tall, was always shorter then me if we compared age to age. She just had an additional growth spurt that I missed, thank God. So needless to say. I hope all you other moms are making tall boys because my girl is going to be a tall one. Maybe she'll play for the Olympics 2028 in women's volleyball.

Back to my roots

I had a great time with you reminiscing. I so wish I could find the one picture when we were in elementary school standing in front of the submarine ride at Disney. Looking totally 80's with yellow kid band aides on my knees.

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a little of it all

Recently a friend of mine posted a blog about Environmental Hysteria. I do have to admit it was hilarious! But because I have talked about environmental issues a lot lately I would like to bring up some issues. I want to say that in no way should anyone just follow the leader and not think for themselves. I don't care if you are in a church, at school, with your friends, or in an organization that you really like. People need to think and take responsibility for themselves.

Also a really big point that gets missed in being "earth friendly" is conservation. That means not buying stuff. Why does it get missed? Because people don't make money if you don't buy anything. Check out buy nothing challenge. Or there is a new acronym APLS (Afluent persons living sustainably) which you can read about here, or here, or here with a sustainable superhero.

Read about american enviornmental actions. Or read this article, it will scare you.

I guess if all else fails we can always have the response of this guy....

Mission of Motherhood

A slight coincidence......I got some books I ordered from amazon yesterday. Three actually: Pagan Christianity By. F. Viola, Grace Based Parenting By. T. Kimmel, and The Mission of Motherhood: Touching your childs heart for eternity By. S. Clarkson. I started reading The Mission of Motherhood last night before I went to bed and then laid out my work cloths for today. Penelope woke up every 2 hours last night. So after a while the hours that became left to have a "good nights rest" didn't amount to much. So today I'm home and now awake, but maybe later I can go back to sleep.

ramblings of the world, disney, and green things

I like travel and I like unique things from traveling--even if I wasn't the one who went there. So I thought I would share some of the things that I have collected from around the world. I would love to see what it is that is unique in your house that you love.

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Here is also a couple of pictures of our trip to Disneyland.




On our first day, while Russell and I were on Space Mountain all the lights went on and the ride slowly came to a stop. So we decided to take some pictures of what it is like inside of Space Mountain. It defiantly isn't as scary in the light.






Russell and I near the entrance of California Adventure.



Penelope and I on the dumbo ride




Daddy and Mama take turns carring Penelope all day. It worked out pretty well. And Penelope had a great time. Here's wishing for Season passes...someday.



Here is some more ramblings I started the other day but didn't get to posting...

I think of myself as a person who strives to be "green" conscious. I'm not perfect, but I try very hard to commit myself to a couple things that are within my reach to do. I would say that it has been a very slow process of the little efforts that make it up. But sometimes when I venture onto other sites that are green, or environmentally friendly, or organic, or whatever they like to call themselves. I feel so less than adequate.

You know what I like a down-to-earth world conscious discussion. Because after all we are all not made for some things. But we can all put in effort. I found Green Bean Dreams which seems to be at a reachable standard.

almost 100

according to my blog this would be my 100th post. Except for the fact that I didn't actually post all my posts. So I'm 4 short. What do you ask? What were the other posts about? Well some of them we're just me babeling about something and I just didn't finish it in time so it didn't get uploaded and some I just wanted to talk without anyone hearing so it intentionally didn't get posted. Sorry folks I'm still not sharing the later with you. But I'm going to share the others. Only two people know my all inclusive password and can get to it. One is my husband and wouldn't put that much effort into the computer, plus he knows everything anyways. And the other....well lets just say she's been warned ; )

Anyways here are some of the unimportant posts that didn't make it...

Had some down time so I thought I would give you guys some interesting facts.

How to save on fuel cost:
1. avoid quick starts and stops, use cruise control on the highway and don't idle.
2. every 5 mph you drive above 60 mph on the freeway is like paying an additional 10 cents per gallon for gas.
3. maintaining you vehicle in top condition will improve gas mileage by an average of 4.1%
4. keeping your tires inflated to proper pressure would improve gas mileage by 3.3%
Read more here

....see now wasn't that excitting. I know that you guys wouldn't be fulfilled without it. : )