Motrin no Mo', Wear Your Baby Proudly for International Babywearing Week!

Thanks to a babywearing group I belong to near where my folks' live, I was alerted to a craptacular intelligence insulting advertizement by Motrin and directed to Moms who wear their babies. Ugh, *sarcastic note here* I am sooooo gah-laaaaaad that Motrin was there to swoop in to relieve the pain in the neck, shoulders, and back from my "schwing". I am sooooo glad that you called me on being "trendy". blech!

If you search on youtube I am sure that you will find the motrin ad and the HUGE backlash of pissed off PARENTS that wear their babies and children. Twitter is in an uproar, nay the Internet is in an uproar!

This "trendy" way of taking care of babies and young children has been around since parents' wore leathers and cleverly figured out a way to put their baby back on their body with the realization that baby was very portable when baby was in utero, baby can be portable outside of the womb. They did this out of practicality, not some desire to fit in to the "trendy crowd". As it was then, is now today, babies are tied on mothers, fathers, grandparents, guardians and other carers around the WORLD. The "western" world has just started getting its' collective head out of its' bum-hole and realized just because non-western countries do things differently isn't wrong, just different and that western society can and IS learning that babywearing is beneficial other than transportation.

Babywearing promotes a bonding between baby and parents, helps extend and increase successful breastfeeding, helps baby's physical, mental and emotional growth, and surprisingly to the naysayers, promotes the much western idealized characteristic of independence! There are many other benifits that are too numerous to put here in my mini-rant, but those are a few to give you an idea of good this "trendy" thing is :)

here are 2 places to go to learn more about babywearing.
http://www.mamatoto.org/
http://www.thebabywearer.com/

As for me and my house, we will continue to babywear!

I love this picture of the moon. I took it from the top deck of a double decker on 11-11-08 on the 11 bus.


And who doesn't love a happy baby playing on his own and being sweet? Awwww!

the interview...dun dun duuuuuhhh.....

Actually went fairly well. Although we don't have the full ok for M's visa for us to move back to the States, we are (hopefully) 98% there. We need a document signed by my mother and another piece of paper scanned and emailed to us, then those couriered to the Embassy and then if we pass, they'll courier the passport with the visa in it. So we are chasing paperwork around some more, BUT it looks like we'll (hopefully) be home for the solstice and/or Christmas!

Bwahahaha!

And as I read my guest blog post, I was sitting topless, nursing my baby, on my couch and laughing that *I* was half nude!!!


Thank you ever so much Hillbilly Duhn!

*raises coffee cup for a ~*~clink~*~* Here's to another 15 years, and another 15 years and another 15 years and another 15 years.....

15 years and counting...

Have you ever had that dream in which you've showed up somewhere naked?

That's how I feel today. Hello, my name is Hillbilly Duhn, Lizzardbits is out today and I'm filling in. I am honored to be her guest, excited even. However, feeling a little exposed.

I've went outside my hillbilly world today, and forgot to put on my clothes. That's how I feel.

I've known for days I would come here; flipped through 15 years of Brain files, trying to find something to talk about and in the end all I can think about is, "Great! Lizzardbits is gonna come home and find me naked on the couch!"

And my simple hillbilly mind will reply, "What?? I forgot my clothes." And because she's classy, has the grace of a well mannered Queen, she'll stand there silently for a moment, looking at me. Then, she'll laugh.

And laugh and laugh and laugh, and because her laugh makes me laugh, I'll have forgotten the fact I had not been clothed, which will make her jiggle instead of laugh out loud, cause I'm sure you can imagine a naked person laughing, it'll be that silent laugh. The one in which causes your eyes to tear up, no sound to escape past your lips, leaving your body convulsing on the inside, the outside left to do nothing but jiggle... In the end, between choked sobs and laughter, her only words will be, "You're naked -" Jiggle "-On my couch."

Oh yeah-so I am. And so, with all my dignity left behind, I get up and leave in search for some clothes. "I love you K" I say, as I walked naked from the room.

Now, as you can imagine, because she is my best friend, going on 15 years of a friendship that I couldn't for one moment live without, we've had plenty of times like these, where we've done nothing but jiggle and laugh.

Here's to you, K, for many more years of being friends, and now an image of me naked. :) (On your couch.)

Tomorrow---

Tomorrow we finally have our visa interview!!! I am so excited and nervous at the same time--like butterflies the size of boeing 747 airplane big!

wish us luck!

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I was going to blog a long meaningful blog, but as I sat down to write alex wanted to type so I let him. He was so happy and filled with joy to do what I do. I wish you could hear him laugh.

Also, he still walks for food, lol


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Happy Birthday M!

I love you with all that I am and all I ever will be. You are my rock, my best friend, my lover, my wonderful husband and father to my and our children. I am so grateful that I have you and that you are so loving and kind to me, even when I don't deserve it. Today, on the 30th anniversary of your birth, I wish for you to have the best year ever, and Lord willing, another 70 more birthdays with me there by your side enjoying the ride of love and life.

I now have the movie "High Fidelity" on my brain So here have a Meme of my top Fives

Top 5 favorite towns
5. Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Ol' Willie Shakespeare's home town. Touristy, but beautiful.
4. Hot Springs, South Dakota. Beautiful Black Hills little jewel in the touristy trade, but also a nice place to live.
3. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. South Dakota's largest city, but small enough to find one's way around. One of my many "home towns"
2. Kalona, Iowa. Those who know me know why.
1. Sheldon, Iowa, will always be home no matter where in the world I travel.

Top 5 things that give me the creeps
5. zits/blackheads
4. maggots
3. Kanawha
2. Darkness after watching a scary film
1. Bridges-Seriously, I have a phobia.

Top 5 all time favorite songs
5. Reptile, by Nine Inch Nails
4. Du Hast, by Rammstein
3. Gravity, by A Perfect Circle
2. Christian Woman/Black No. 1, by Type O Negative
1. Heart of Glass, by Blondie

Top 5 favorite scents
5. cut grass/watermelon rind
4. Aspen for women (which they no longer make like back in the day)
3. coffee--smells like a warm welcoming house
2. My husband's neck-right after he gets home from work. I joke that he smells like work, but he also has an underlying scent that is subtle in a clean human odor kind of way.
1. breastfed baby's breath

Top 5 things and/or people that help me to be happy
5. my Aripiprozole
4. my friends
3. my family
2. my husband
1. my children

Top 5 things I'd like to be doing right now
5. I am happy to blog, so what I am doing now is what I would like to be doing now.
4. drinking coffee with my friends and laughing at each other laughing and trying hard not to spray coffee out of our noses.
3. driving. anywhere. just driving, even for my driving test to get my USA DL back.
2. arriving back in the States--if the telleporter was fixed I'd zap there now.
1. Hugging all of my children at once

Top 5 Worst recording artists/bands evah
5. tom petty--ugh loathe his voice
4. stevie nicks--she sounds like a billy goat
3. Vanilla Ice--need I say more?
2. the tom and stevie duet--blargh
1. new kids on the block--the epitome of boy bands-yuck!

Top 5 places I'd like to visit
5. egypt--pyramids dude!
4. oregon--portland and corvallis area to be specific
3. Utah--the salt flats with my hot rodded 64 Ford Galaxie 500
2. Highlands of Scotland--or just a loch or two
1. Norway-ja sure ja betcha doncha know!

So if you decided that you want to do a top 5 meme too, leave me a comment so I can look at your blog too! Feel free to add more categories!

Socks

Anyone know what to do with about 30 non holey non matching mens socks? We went through M's socks and have about 30 socks without pairs, but I feel bad about just throwing them away.

Ideas besides sock puppets? would there a be a sock sans pair good-will out there?