It's a Wonderful Life

Yes, that is a lilt in my voice and a song in my step cuase I'm movin' on up and out of the whole Live Spaces "pain in the keester" "gotta have an ID to comment" World.  Yea~ Haw!!! Follow me, Pleeeeeaaaaase to :

 

See ya there!

Tammy  :):):)

The party's over.  I'm in let down mode.  But here's the thing... over 900 bloggers participated in this thing, and I had 1 new blogger leave a comment.  Thank you!! By the way!!  If you just happen to stop back by, I would have stopped by your site, but I have no idea who you are. :( 

 

Now, I'm understanding a little better why a lot of folks in this circle don't have live spaces blogs... this Stinks! (Notice, with a capital "S"!)  I am sure, after looking at about 40 of the party goers blogs, that I would have at least polite, "hey, how ya doin'? s" except that Nobody Outside of The Whole Live Spaces freakin' universe can leave a comment.  ARG!  Which, if I had realized this, would have caused me to start somewhere else.  But I could have sworn!!! That I was able to leave a comment before I had a blog... but now I can't even find where it was that I had commented witout the live spaces ID.  So I can not prove that I am not going crazy... which could only mean that... naaaahhhh

 

So, that said, I am putting honest to goodness, hard effort into getting my new WordPress blog up and going over this weekend.  Which is really going to bite, because my sweet Perrin wants to also sell her GS cookies door-to-door.  YUCK!  I would rather stay on the computer all weekend long to get this out of my system.  But, I guess, I should

*kick the dirt with my tenny-toes, look down at the resulting dust cloud with hung head*

Be the mommy today and not wimp out on my responsibilities.

 

Keep your eyes open for a link to my new digs! :)

So I haven't posted anything substantial in a little while.  Life is happening all around me, and I haven't taken the time to form it all into cogent thought.  But really wanted to share what I watched last night.

I put Moira in the tub for her "rub-a-scrub" (the ASL for bath is thumbs up, knuckles in, both hands on chest rubbing up).  She's down to only a few toys in the tub now... she just doesn't care for much... or maybe I need to change them around more frequently.  The point being, I want her to take a lot of time to play in the bathtub.  It's part of the teeny-tiny little bit of schedule that we've been able to maintain.  See, the first child(ren) are a lot easier to put on a schedule.  And I would whole-heartedly suggest one, because life is easier when you kind-a, sort-a know what to expect.  Subsequent children, especially, it would seem, ones that come along 10 years later, have to liv around the schedule the rest of the family has already adopted.  To a large extent, anyways.  But, I digress...

She was in the tub with her one little plastic neon orange (I kid you not) baby doll, a red plastic duck and a paper towel that she managed to sneak in with her.  This has become my time to read a little more while I'm sitting by her side.  So I look up once and she's sucking the water out of the paper towel and dunking it back in the tub to suck again.  Cause, as everybody knows, water that you suck out of a towel is infinitely better than water from a cup.  Only marginally better than the drip of water from the faucet that you manage to catch in your upturned mouth, but you take what you can get apparently.

I look down to read again (I'm rereading The Order of the Phoenix, in preperation for the movie and final book... which I obviously can't wait for in July.  Yes, I'm hooked!).  The next glimpse I catch of her, she has taken the leg off of her little dolly, is forcefully draining all of the water out of the resultant maimed dolly and jamming her little fingers up in the hole.  This is interesting.  Out comes a little huff of exasperation, in go the little fingers again... out she pulls her beloved paper towel.  Nods her head once for dramatic emphasis and tells the dolly thank you (ASL right hand palm up, tips of fingers at lips, take away from the face) and speaks something that must have been close to "baby".. discards the dolly in the water to play, once again, with the paper towel.

This child will either grow up to be a geat communicator, or a taste tester in a paper towel factory... I don't know.  Seriously, though... it's times like this when I am so glad that we have managed to incorporate a few signs into her language base, because she uses the few she knows ALL THE TIME!  To talk with anything!  :)  She is currently watching the Baby Einstein Wordsworth video (thank you, Aunt Missy) which includes the ASL for the images of things around the house.  Which, I love!  My Heart has commented that he was afraid that the signing would take the place of actual vocalizing, but it hasn't.  I think, mainly, because we always voice the word back to her that she's signing.  It is SOOOO neat!  To actually get to see her mind working in this way is fascinating.  I didn't get to do that with the twins... signing wasn't a big thing yet.  So, I knew they were thinking things through, but I had nothing to really offer as evidence a lot of the times... with signing, you catch that rare glimpse into how the very young child is working to communicate with their world.  Again, just amazing!

I sound like a commercial... I'm going to stop now and go see what they're into!  Have a great day!

 

Lots of you already visit 5 Minutes For Mom and know what a great community these ladies have started!  If not, this is the perfect time to start combing through all the stuff they have to offer... it's party time!  They've set up these next few days just for mom bloggers to get to know each other and make some new blog-friends.  And if you post their nifty party badge and sign their Mr. Linky, you can be entered to win one of the gajillion prizes other moms just like us have offeed through the party!  Cool!  Now I've got to go introduce myself to all of my attendees... excuse me, but make yourself at home!

 

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My name is Tammy  :) :) :) and this blog is my connection to adult "conversation", a way to work on my writing skills and my release valve when homeschooling my 3 children and life in general becomes funny "in so many ways".  I haven't had my personal blog for long... since December 06.  I did do some background research, snooping around a bit on some other blogs, before I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).  I don't have a huge readership, I think I might be fibbing a bit if I try to convince myself that it doesn't matter... I do like to be heard.

One thing I try to do to promote the "link-love",  community thing is to blog-tip.  Curious?  Want to know more?  Meet some folks who think outside the "space"?  Check some out!  I'm also looking at a blog-move to WordPress, also tipped!

Most people who meet me personally like me... I'm pretty easy going.  When training for my Kindermusik license my personality type was "bubbley"... that should tell you something!  But I can get up on a pedestal if I've got something to say.  We can agree to disagree, huh? :)

 

And since it's a party, here's a link to a recipe I previously posted on, Crab Dip.