So I just sold something on etsy, this is only my 2nd sale (didn't notice this problem the first time around but maybe I just didn't notice?)
Anyway, it's $10 w/$2 shipping.
I got an email saying
Congratulations on your sale at Etsy! You sold 1 item to -----

item price: $10.00
shipping cost: $2.00

TOTAL SALE: $12.00 (US)

The buyer chose the following form of payment: PayPal

BUT the email from paypal tells me
This email confirms that you have received a payment of $10.00 USD from xxxxxxx

So where's my $2 for shipping?

From the mama who never means to be such a lurker but somehow still is.
Mwah!

1. Overnight sleeping has been decidedly improved. THANK MAUDE.

2. Mornings have been me getting up 40 minutes before anyone else, enjoying coffee and computer time in quiet. Ahhhh....

3. Finally broke down and joined facebook, have had lots of pleasant little interactions with people I haven't seen in so many years and have wondered about.-- read more >>

So I have a nice little light blue tee shirt.
I have some sublime stitching "camp out" patterns to embroider something.
http://www.sublimestitching.com/campout.html

I want to have a shirt to wear when my dd's wearing her vest.
Something, you know, that reflects my, um, non-dorkiness um...or something...

Anything clever you can think up for me?
All I can think of is this shirt my mom had when she was my leader that said "I'm the leader, which way did they go?" but I think I want something a little better than that. Or not, I don't know. Any ideas?

Not surprisingly, my dd went the lovey route and my ds went the random route.
DD: "I am thankful we got to adopt E"
DS: "I am thankful for pickles"

I'm thankful for both of those things, too, though pickles aren't really so high on the list for me. I like me a good pickle, but come on!

My smarty pants 6 yo reading entire anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes that is. Cover to cover. Repeatedly. And he confessed that at school when they say the pledge, he says it the C&H way, which is something like "I pledge allegiance to Queen Fragg and her mighty state of hysteria..."
And his xmas list includes:
cloning machine
transforming machine
anti-gravity belt
hypno goggles...

and one of my favorites, "english muffin ULTRA PACK!"

Forecast says rain all day.

I'm cool as a cucumber.

I'm so bad at the search on this site. Anybody remember who posted it or what it was called?

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- A magic wand, a fishing rod or a royal scepter?

The lowly stick, a universal plaything powered by a child's imagination, landed in the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with the Baby Doll and the skateboard.

The three were chosen to join the Strong National Museum of Play's lineup of 38 classics ranging from the bicycle, the kite and Mr. Potato Head to Crayola crayons, marbles and the Atari 2600 video game system.-- read more >>

Thanks to all the mamas for all your love, vibes and good wishes ever since he came home!

(working on a letter to the editor, this is what I have so far)-- read more >>

I know you know the tune, all you moms of Dora watchers...just made this up while doing laundry

We voted a black man to be pres-i-dent,
Yah, we did it, we did it, we did it, hooray!
We told Palin to go packin' and away she went*,
We did it, we did it, we did it, hooray!

McCain tried to swipe electoral votes away
But thanks to you we stopped him, we did it, hooray!

We did it! Wooooo!!!!!

(*with apologies to leighanastasia)

"Maybe one day there will be a black president"

Gah, mamas, I am so emotional this morning. I can't control myself.
I can't believe we did it.
Hooray, hooray and thank you!!!!

Always a lurker, never a poster. I suck, sorry. Every week I think maybe next week will be calmer...ha!
This past week was particularly crazy with us getting the brunt of that crazy October snowstorm you may have heard about in the news. Trees falling, cars crashing, parents having to go pick kids up from school as it was too dangerous for buses, my grandmother died that day (I've never been close to her, she was 97 and we knew it was coming...just added to the day's wackiness), power outages, etc, etc.
Scenes from my yard on Tuesday-- read more >>

Anybody know of a good one?
Thanks in advance.

Who knew it could be so funny?
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I mean I know the fabric store but do you think the supermarket would have it? I want to try to make Greek Yogurt.

ETA: Wait, cheesecloth is the same thing (more or less) right? I see online my supermarket has that.

Okay, anyone ever try to make Greek Yogurt at home?

A real true date that we are going to court to finalize E's adoption! Friday November 7th at 8:30 am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And woo~hoo, I just checked the calendar and the kids have off from school that day too!!!

Saw this tee shirt at a rummage sale Friday, had to have it. Not sure what the maker of the shirt was referring to but it's pretty obvious what I'm using it to refer to.
I didn't show dh my shirt and now he's en route to LA so I had my mom take this today so when he gets there and opens his email he'll have a fun little surprise:

-- read more >>

I'm disappointed that only two people came to our annual candlelight vigil marking the anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. The vigil honors his memory as well as all GLBT hate crime victims. True, I messed up the press release but also true is that nobody really comes from reading the press release, it's usually all students from the GSAs that we email and other people associated with our organization.

It's the tenth anniversary of Matthew's passing.
Join me in a moment of silence please, or send a thought out to his family and friends.-- read more >>

My costume is my own little political statement against the BSA's anti-gay, anti-athiest policy (and yes, I know they do accept non-Christian boys as long as they believe in god but christian just flowed there and nobody besides my dh will call me on. I think.)

It's a boy's size 14 shirt so if I tried to button it up it'd be one of those "sexy" costumes with lots of cleavage So I'll just wear a tee shirt underneath and leave it mostly unbuttoned.-- read more >>

Here we are, 10/10/00 (at 1:00 am, Daddy's little binary code baby...) This is when I got to meet the little girl I had always dreamed of having, she's always been the mini-me I thought I'd have one day.

Here she is now, wearing my shirt from when I was about 8...-- read more >>

When I am sneakily cleaning out my children's toys/books/clothes/etc and there is an item that I am certainly ready to get rid of but I just can't tell if my kids are going to ask for it again next week/month/year...I put it deep in the back of my closet in the OSOM (Out of Sight, Out of Mind) box...

If a long time passes and nobody remembers, I get rid of it. If someone does eventually ask for it, I tell them I will search for it while they are at school and wow! I found it!

That's my idea of the day.

Back to cleaning out toys.

Why not?
Mr. E is 2 & 1/2 now. We're *this close* to finalizing his adoption. You betcha I'll share the good news when I've got it

Mr. Z is 6 & 1/2 months old and super cute....-- read more >>

Question: do you use any kind of Endust type products? I don't but certain rooms, my bedroom for example, gets so dusty I could dust it EVERY SINGLE DAY and there'd be more the next day. Do any of these type of products really work to repel the dust and make it so I could last longer between dustings? I saw a method one at the store, piqued my interest but I wanted to ask my ladies first.
Ladies?

My son just said something so hurtful to me I need some help getting over it, I guess.

The lowdown is: my Grandmother is dying. It's really not a tremendously terrible thing, I am not now and never have been close to her and she has not been with it mentally for many years now. She's very small and frail and old and her life is over and that's okay. I knew my kids wouldn't be too upset not knowing her well either, but I never could have expected the reaction I got from my 6 yo ds.-- read more >>