Palm Springs

We are headed to Palm Springs early-early on Monday morning. Lately Dwight and Scott have been talking about leaving Palm Springs and moving to Phoenix. What shall we do! We would be bereft!

In the picture of Wilbur I can see his spiritual third eye (that's what I call it - he has a red dot between his eyes that I have always thought was a spiritual eye...)

We love going and so do the boys. We are taking our Wii, the mini-DVD player and a nanny.

Do We Ever Really Grow Up?

I was talking with a friend about times in our lives when our thoughts and emotions make us feel very un-grown up. And she asked the question, "Sometimes I wonder", she said, "do we ever really grow up?" I think she has something there because lately my life seems to be overwhelming me just a little and I can't seem to keep things in check. Little cats are scooting about and my mind whirs. I'm in one of those periods in my life where I realize that I thought I had things all figured out but the chaos inside causes me to come up short and accept that I don't. It's a bit of an emotional free fall. I am sure that this is a necessary correction - like the economy, my ego grows and grows and then events called corrections come along and take a little wind out of the sails.

The things that tie me down and keep me earthbound are Doug (especially) and our children. Doug is a saint. He is kind and funny, charming and sexy, smart and loyal (exceedingly loyal). Sometimes I think I don't deserve him.

Amidst the turmoil we play Super Mario Brothers and Smarty Pants. I can't really go batty when we have Mario and Luigi to pull me back.

Movie Night

Doug just took the boys to 'kids night out' up at the school and we are going to go see No Country for Old Men! About once a month the junior high kids offer a kids night out (read: Parents Night Out) and we always take the kids up there. One of the things that happens when you don't have family in town is that you rarely get out - or it's a big production to get out. So, when the school offers the night out (as a fundraiser) we take them up on it!

It's a CIRCUS theme and Doug just had to say something about clowns, causing Wilbur to rail against the whole idea. I don't blame him, I don't like clowns either. They scare me and they scare Wilbur!

I picked them up from school and got them all full o' fat with McDonalds and then they go back up to school with all their friends and we get to go see a movie.

We are really excited to see this film, and we'd like to see Juno and the film with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (is it Savages?)...

Emery also told me that next week on American Idol Miley Cyrus will be on. He asked me if I knew who that was... I said, "Hannah Montana?" and he said, "The VOICE of Hannah Montana. Always has to get more specific.

We are just at that age with Em where cultural relevance is very important.

I am almost finished with Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, which Lisa lent me. A very good read by Lisa See.

This weekend Emery is going on his first real sleepover. Very exciting. I am going to drop him off at his best friend's house tomorrow at noon. Hopefully it will go well.