dragon chic, these have your name all over them! i am eyeing the zombie stompers myself!
http://www.grindstore.com/Product-recordCount-3-CID-3513-PID--stockid-35...

whether your lucky number is one, or two...here is a love song, punkmama style for you all today!
xoxo -c

so i come here, cause you are my virtual village.
i heard today that a kid i treated last year was found dead of an overdose yesterday morning. she was 15.
then, i processed this with her four closest friends that are in treatment at this time.
that is why i am bummed out. it is not my first client to die, but it is the first one since i have been working with teenagers. i will work that out.
here is the input i need...

not a godwin, but remember this discussion?

http://hipmama.com/node/40918

well look what has happened...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011408...

i am not sure how i feel about this, i have to think about it a minute. what do you mamas think? is this abuse that warrants removal?

i mean seriously, my child is brilliant. writes his name. is incredibly creative. paints. draws. makes hilarious jokes. is so caring about others. he is so cool, i can't believe it. he is also 4 years old, turned 4 at the beginning of november, and will. not. poop. on the potty. he has been pee trained for 2 years. TWO YEARS. he wears underpants. he never pees his pants, never poops his pants. holds it. asks for a pull up, gets it, puts it on himself, goes. sometimes struggles with letting me clean him up, tries to avoid it i mean, procrastinates. wakes up dry almost all the time.

so like, i don't know, about 10 or so years ago, it was probably longer than that cause i was still with my ex husband, i took over the annual xmas eve dinner, that is to say, i laid down the law that i was a grown up with my own kitchen and could hostess ONE holiday as such.

hey, has anybody else seen this? it has probably already been posted...i am a total lurker these days, but of course thought of the collective "you" when i saw this...

http://beautifulcervix.com/photos-of-cervix/

i was fascinated, at times a little queased out,
(i guess just a visceral response to seeing the inside of a body, which i don't particularly like, one of the many reasons that i don't want to be a medical doctor...)

but wow, what a cool thing to see like that...thoughts??

i wish i could be this calm and commanding. is there a way to put this clip on a loop on TBN? CMT? FOX?

a friend posted this on myspace and it melted me a bit. learned religious people with kind hearts are like a balm to me, and quench a little bit of my scorn. i struggle with facing hate with more hate. this helped a little. i know, i know. there are people like this out there. i wish there were more of them and less of the ones who voted in california and elsewhere on tuesday.

come on back, sister.

ever since i can remember, i have known that i wanted to be a mom. i had three opportunities before you. two i chose not to follow through with, one decided for me. the minute i saw your face, i knew that you were my soul mate, my first born, my angel, my sidekick.

i am trooping out in a few to go cast my vote in a state that is a lost cause. everybody vote!

no really! here, waist deep in a red red red state, i needed to read this. can i get an amen?!? haha.

http://www.fuckjohnmccain.com/

this is as far as i am concerned the most trusted political action on women's health out there. take two seconds and put yourself on the list, with one million names being the goal. we are a slim line from losing so much...

thanks!

http://www.ppaction.org/ppvotes/join.html?community=t&qp_source=comm_fb

i just emptied out all of these...

of all of these...

so that i can inject all of this...

i got this in an email forward from a friend, and she doesn't know who wrote it originally, but it is very thought provoking and brilliant and to me, somehow...disheartening. i am on the phones at the democratic party office in my city, i have my yard sign on order...i always vote. but i am feeling hopeless and it scares me.

food for thought:

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white

privilege, or who are constantly looking for some

easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will

help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen

thanks to all the mamas who responded to my male in-home child care provider question. i actually was thinking about pitching that to punkpapa and of course wanted some hipmama backup, which i got. you rock.
now, i am looking at two charter schools for vincent. they are both ethnically and economically diverse and non-mainstream, very reflective of our neghborhood. one is montessori. these are my main criteria...the diversity and the montessori curriculum. both i am sure are on a vast waiting list.

mamas, would you consider using a licensed, in-home daycare if the provider was male, and had his own child there with him?
if so, why? if not, why not?
thanks thanks thanks.

so i am a counselor at an agency that serves inner city adolescents with drug addiction issues. our kids recite "the philosophy" and are required to memorize it in order to progress through the program. they rise to say it and say it several times a day. when they graduate from our programs, they get a coin, much like the coins that the 12 step groups give out. ours has the company logo on one side, and the phrase "i am society" on the other.

anybody else watch? wow.

going out last night with a mama friend for beers-rules
only being able to have two beers because i was driving-sucks
my friend spins dark eighties on wednesday nights-rules
being really tired right now at work-sucks
free coffee at work-rules

you grrls??

jimmy cliff-rules
diabetes-sucks
old friends on the phone for three hours thanks to facebook-rules
still almost 100 degrees-sucks
vincent and his makeshift halloween town-rules
cleaning the kitchen-sucks
audiobooks-rule
ghetto hand me down fridge that freezes everything on the top shelf-sucks

you??

i have diabetes. it started as gestational and never went away, and now is a crazy, out of whack issue that i am having trouble controlling. i take two kinds of insulin, an extra shot of another hormone called amylin and it is still not where i want it to be. doctors are starting to suggest more extreme measures, including lap band surgery, even though i am not 100 pounds over weight, with my BMI and the insulin resistance, it is something i qualify for.

doesn't matter really. i have been a lurker and thought i might have an interesting thing to contribute for once...
got this cool book for mother's day, daily thoughts from the double h DL, as i call him, or his holiness the dalai lama.
wanna think with me? this one is so apropos in one part of my life right now:

today: