I will be transferring Pay Pal funds tonight so IF you were able to go that route could you let me know if it won't be tonight when it would be just so I can do the last accounitng before knowing how much isn't raised for the tuition -- I really want to pay for it tomorrow morning

also please IM me if I am supposed to be checking the snail mail for your lovin (got New Leaf AND Meg's THANKS!)

i just wish i could HUG you all and thank you in person for making this crucial 1st step possible
HUGSHHUGSHHGUSG

all monies actually IN and accounted to right NOW -- including checks RECEIVED AND every dime i have transfered from Pay Pal is a WHOPPING $370...this does not include anything anyone has pledged to send as soon as they are able -- right now i need to count only hatched chicks, kwim?

I am glad some mamas are taking advantage of this as a chance to get some of Claire's pads & soem Vinny necklaces -- those 2 mamas are above & beyond wonderful in figuring out how to contribute even though they don't have the finances to do so monetarily

in case you missed THIS --

i know i have been absent from HM for a while -- LOTS been going on, lots,

part of this lots is that my job fell apart & i am in a position to make soem serious changes to my life & future

as a few of you know I have decided to get training for a career as a lactation educator & a doula....

i have the opportunity to begin an on-line extension class @ UCSD for Lactation Educator/Counselor Training beginning April 2...
http://www.extension.ucsd.edu/studyarea/index.cfm?vCourse=RMED-4V014

thing is I do not have the $650 to register & the next chance to take this class is January

cute little art to hang somewhere near my computer

hope you have an enjoyable day filled with messy kisses and big bear hugs from your kiddos & all the other stuff

HAPPY BIRTHDAY oh great Sunflower, the Unflower, Yoda of the Yoni

http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/2380

This is a public swap I posted on Swap-Bot & the number is odd -- who wants to join in the April Fool's Fun?

AND this one starts later and is also currently at an odd #

http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/2404

http://hipmama.com/node/30248

anyone else want in?

password is riledup

http://www.Mamaphonic.com

http://www.lifescript.com/channels/healthy_living/Womens_Health/is_breas...

since this past one was soo great i was thinking what about another??

~1~ April Fool's http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/2380 -- this is public, gonna try that out, see what happens...

~2~ for the kiddos http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/2378
this is private for us - passowrd is riledup

sign up deadlines are March 4/5

~~1 ooey gooey lunch of turkey/lox sandwhich with salmon AND regular cream cheese & capers on a toasty onion bagel

~~2 @ work so Oy has his buds to play with

~~3 wonderful neighbor who drove us to work this a.m. in the DRIVING rain

~~4 daddy-o coming over in 2 hours so we can go hoem together early

~~5 ordering pizza so i don't have to cook or think about dinner

~~6 did i mention it was new york GIANT pizza?

~~7 naptime in T-minues 15 minutes

I see YOU

hope you are doing well
missed you tons

wanted to shout out & send you soem lovin'

i have had this mini poster since i was in high school & it always helped me thru shit

i just put it in Oy's room for him to learn this lesson

http://www.davidbyrne.com/radio/index.php

Icicles

last night feeling all sorts of emotions and unable to go to bed i grabbed my cup of magnetic poetry tiles and spread them on the couch

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balance/ing your immense need/full life with my love support is consume/ing workout

glass sister crack/ed by stretch/ing her bruise/d muscle

like liquid stregth her tongue run/s stagger/ing/ly up avenue slice/s deep

has blue bomb/d my play/ful summer song into dark dirt/y evening

i wish to teach you to swim through weight/s of you/r secret help/less/ness

pushup through you/r dry skin
start over
blossom with his refreshing green beauty on love/s warm wind

i have discovered that if you click on your "my buddylist" just under "my blog" it will show you which of your buddies is on-line...kinda makes up for the "who's on" being on the Home page..which i can never access w/o being logged off and

thought i'd share

AND remember the good old days when we blogged about going into the twitchy hiccuppy chatbox so mamas knew we WERE in there not just listed cause we HAD been??
maybe we could do that again...

and i am not going up there to be with her as she is not asking and i decided after her shitty attitude about me not talking to anyone from her bf's family if i were to be there so i am staying put and i will make the trip some time after he is born and home

anyway my visions of being there are shot to hell and the idea of being the silent sister sitting in the corner of the room knitting and not talking to anyone as if i were a rude anti-social loner bitch when i am not turned me off of being there soo much

family fucking stinks

hot against me

we listen to wild winter winds whipping thru the trees
craving quantities of quilts to counter the chill
snuggling down to slumber i need your heat against me

we ambush each other angry attacking arguments
our time bomb tempers ticking together
viscous verbal volleyball i yell why are you hot against me

entangled in ecstasy’s endless entwining embraces
pointedly pursuing passion’s pinnacle
driven by distracted desire i want you hot against me

summer’s sizzle survives stifling as we sometimes sleep
heavily humidity hangs in my hair
pushing perspiring parts away you’re too hot against me

i pmed Susan about the new member

hey snookums

what is up???
how are you?

after etta & lucy's posts about mamas i wondered -- who else is a motherless mama?

most of you know my mother died a mont before oy was born but i was trying to recall who else was in this group

these do not do justice to the actual photos as i scanned in the ones 16's bf's dad took & printed out for me
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so it happened....i just closed the front door as my first-born child drove away all dressed up for her 1st formal dance with her first real boyfriend

sigh

she is such a pill -- to get her into the nice dress and to get her hair done and some {I MEAN a teeny bit of} blush and eyeshadow i almost lost my mind

don't get me started on her shoes!!!

i just needed some empathy from da mamas as i prepare to wait for 1 am when she gets brought back from the dance way down at the harbour at the House of Blues

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My daughter draws designs; geometric type designs and colours them in with coloured pencils. To personalize the dress she doesn’t even like (1st sigh about teens), that luckily an irl mama friend gave her that fits like a glove and is stunning on its own with a slight slit and a nice lace up back (chic all the way), we beaded and embroidered one of her designs onto the hem. I also added part of another as a motif to the neckline. I spent a good part of today beading a blue rose for her boyfriend as they had slacked on the flowers, (2nd sigh) while she finished the dress hem.

had to drag myself over to the furnichair (what Oy calls our comfy overstuffed armchair) to let ya all in on this --
if you can watch this episode on your On Demand (Noggin) I would!

not only is John Stewart on it BUT
STEVE has a music video!!!!

Steve from Blue's Clues!!!!