I'm so excited!

We have been wanting to take a vacation, and we haven't been on one in a few years, all of our travel is usually for work.

The kids want to go to Disney World, but that will have to wait for next season or something.

But, we are ALL going to the Grove Park Inn for 2 nights the day after Xmas. I know that's not far away (it's in Asheville, about 90 miles away), but tickets to Biltmore House holiday displays are included and also the Grove Park Inn is where that huge gingerbread house competition happens and they will have all of them still on display. It's a beautiful Inn and I am SO looking forward to getting away and checking it out!

Since we don't vacation much, this is a huge treat. And I am sure it will remind me that we need to vacation more!

Kanye West's mother died of plastic surgery complications

So sad!

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20159597,00.html

Why is AF playing peek-a-boo?

We were out to dinner on Thursday night and I felt like I was going to start AF, and I went to the bathroom, and there was the normal, telltale streaking that signals the start every month. I put my DivaCup in and worried (since this is my first month using the cup) that I'd have too heavy flow or something. But...later there was nothing. Next day...nothing. Saturday nothing, Sunday nothing. I've had SOME mild cramping but nothing major.

NOW...I know what you're thinking. And it would be possible except that DH has a vasectomy that has worked for the last 5 years, and we haven't had a bunch of relations this month because I've either been sick, too stressed over a major planning event, and my MIL is here for the month.

What gives? Could the stress have totally messed this up for me? My boobs hurt and I am so bitchy I just can't WAIT to start my period!

Stacy Peterson disappearance

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3810718

The gist of the story is that a 23 year old mother is missing. Her husband, a police sargeant is a suspect. He maintains that she left him for another man and had called to tell him as much the day she went missing.

His third wife drowned in the bathtub during a divorce and right before a property hearing. At the time, they ruled it accidental, but the coroner had said it was suspicious. The third wife had told people that if she ever died or went missing, to look at him because he did it. Apparently, they had a very long history of domestic violence reports and medical records indicating as much, too.

This does NOT sit well at all with me.

Small-minded people get my goat!

The biggest issue I have with this is the ASSumption that I give a shit.

A mom in my son's K class emailed me this (and to the rest of the classroom moms) to protest the movie "The Golden Compass"

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

Really? This is what we worry about? And no one gives a second thought to whether someone else cares at all about this or, WAIT, what if I am not Christian? CAN'T BE!!!

Oh NO she didn't!

We have had some somewhat volatile times on our PTA board, but the {expletive} is about the hit the fan.

There was an issue between two committees (not being specific lest I bore you to death with the details), and this morning the words "well, why can't she do it, she doesn't work?" were uttered to me by another member of the board about the other.

WHOA. I said that that was not a factor at all in this issue, but man, my blood was boiling. I had to stay professional and nice, but that woman was talking about ME when she talks about a mama who doesn't have a job outside the home. I don't. So obviously she was trying to make a point, even to me, who spends about 40 hours a week on NON-PAYING volunteer work.

We have a board meeting tomorrow and I am scared that the shit is reallllly gonna hit the fan.

Study shows that breastfeeding does NOT cause sagging!

FINALLY!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071101170723.htm