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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Last night I got in to a heated debate about Christmas trees. My husband is suffering from a umbilical hernia and has surgery scheduled 2 days before Christmas. He will have a few weeks of recovery after that. I mentioned to some friends that this Christmas we were not going to put up a tree.  I realized people have strong opinions about Christmas trees. First of all, I don’t think our Christmas is going to be anything less without a tree. Every year my husband climbs into the crawl space of our home to retrieve our artificial tree…YES, I SAID ARTIFICIAL TREE! That’s another whole topic! So, every year my husband drags the tree down, I haul out boxes of ornaments and we start the process of decorating. It is nothing like they show on tv! You know the picture, the entire family is dressed in red velvet, singing carols
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
It’s time to take care of what you have! Let’s face it, times are tough and are about to get a lot tougher. Families in most homes across the country are rethinking their budgets. Every news program, talk show and magazine and news paper articles are featuring how your family can employ budget cuts. Budget cuts, like diets, focus on what you CAN’T have! I do agree cuts have to made in our family budget, but I am looking at enjoying what I have.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
I belong to a wonderful group of women who are wives and mommies. They are called the Manic Mommies and they are a network of moms like me who listen to and love the Manic Mommies Podcast by the founding manic mommies, Kristen and Erin! I encourage all my friends to listen to the podcasts and visit the website. (www.manicmommies.com)
In a day and age where friends, girlfriends, are so very important, the manic mommies offers a place where other moms can get advice, empathy, ideas or laughs! I don’t know my next door neighbors, our schedules never really permitted us to bond. I have some good friends from church and school, but again, our schedules get hectic and we get busy. Many of us grew up with stay at home moms who had good friends up an down the street! They helped each other out, watching kids, borrowing a can of tomato sauce, doing laundry for a sick mom, helping with carpool. But today’s woman doesn’t have that. We can, however, reach out out to other moms on the web. I am hoping my own blog can do that. I do enjoy the Manic Mom Web site, blogs and message boards. There are so many smart, savvy, and humorous women who share ideas, thoughts and suggestions. It’s like a neighbor who is available when you are!
You go Manic Moms!
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Where the heck have I been? Has it really been 2 weeks since I blogged? I have so many ideas on which to blog because my family and I have been through so much since I last wrote an entry. Of course we are all in the middle of the nation’s financial crisis and it seems like the news changes hourly! Since “Black Wednesday” there has been so much financial chaos on Wall Street and the effects are now being felt on Main Street. We are all awaiting to see what happens on Thursday, the first day back to work since the Jewish High Holidays.
My uncle lost his best friend and partner of 33 years 2 weeks ago. My sister’s husband and one of my favorite people in the whole world, Uncle Dave, had a stroke. We looked at a public school for our daughter and had to make a choice as to where we were going to send her to school for the rest of the academic year. My unions are back to fighting and a possible strike once again looms over Hollywood. My husband saw his doctor yesterday and now has to have a surgery he has been able to avoid up until now. Throughout it all, I have been auditioning for TV shows and have had some great stand up spots in town. I have been managing my home during financially tough times.
No wonder I haven’t had a chance to blog! But I have missed it. Those of you who journal know just how therapeutic it can be. I will be blogging on all of this and more. I am having a cup of coffee while my little girl sleeps well into the weekday morning. We were all up until 4 A.M. with the noise the wind makes when it whips through our canyon. My poor husband didn’t sleep at all. He was like a guard dog over his family trying to figure out if the noise was actual damage to the house! I look forward to sorting out the thoughts in my head and sharing with you.
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I was looking forward to blogging today. But, I will be spending the entire day sitting next to my fifth grader at school. My daughter continues to not take her school work seriously. I will sit right next to her and WATCH her all day. Hopefully one day of your mother sitting next to you will be enough. I will let you know. Stay tuned!
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
I like my husband! Believe it or not, this statement is ground breaking in the world of marriage! I have heard many wives talking about their husbands and read many posts from still others who can’t stand their husbands. It is almost as if when we are in a group, we are supposed to run our guys down, complain about them and put them to shame! Why? I liked my husband when we were dating. I fell in love with him and then I married him. But you know, I still like him.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I recently had to defend my view on hiring household help. If you read a prior blog entry, you may know that I do my own housework, not by myself, my family helps too. In a nutshell, my thoughts are, if we dirty it, we clean it! We are the ones who eat off the plates, dirty the laundry and, last I looked, it was our hair in the shower floor! Why is it someone else’s job to come in and clean that? I have heard people say, “Don’t worry about it, the maid will clean it”. Why is it her job to pick up the glass I drank out of? I can take it to the sink and wash it!
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I love watching Jon and Kate plus 8 on TLC! That mom loses her mind on every episode! In fact, I am writing this during commercials and sipping a glass of well deserved merlot! Kate tries to micromanage every move these 8 children make. She is successful too! Now, everyone who blogs or comments on Kate says the same thing; Kate has to micromanage to keep order in the house. But does she have to treat her husband like crap on every episode?
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
My husband made 4 of these Emergency Kits last Christmas and gave them to each of our immediate families. You can personalize them to match your needs and even do one with just food and water! Having these little luxuries in an easy to carry duffel bag would mean so much to us if we had mere moments to evacuate our home.
Keep this in an easy to find place. We keep our in the closet next to the front door. Also, you may want to add to it throughout the year. It would be a good idea to open it up and inspect it once or twice a year. Give yourself a visual reference as to what’s in there so if the time comes to use it, you’ll remember more easily what you have.
Putting all this stuff together may seem like a daunting task. If you take it little by little, you’ll see that it’s not that hard and it won’t be such a hit on your bank account. Before you know it, you’ll have an emergency kit and a sense of security knowing you’re covered if an emergency hits.
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
It wasn’t the big one, but it certainly was a frightening one! Yesterday’s earthquake rocked Southern California! I was visiting my mom at her home in Diamond Bar, one city away from Chino Hills, when it hit. My mom, daughter and I huddled under the doorway as the ground shook and pictures came flying off the walls. Once the quake stopped, we went outside on the front lawn. Neighbors were checking on each other as car alarms blared in the distance. Within moments we heard police and fire sirens. It was very scary. We couldn’t get anywhere on the phone. Land lines and cell phones were unable to get signals and connect us to family members. My niece was home alone in Chino Hills and her family was spread out in nearby cities.
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Oh, sure, I had my doubts about my husband’s parenting. Of course, I thought I was a better parent. After all, I was the one with the extra clothing packed and ready in the car, I was the one with detangler and a hairbrush in my purse, I pre-packed single serving snacks in baggies and kept them in a drawer specifically for kid approved snacks! When we went to a restaurant I took crayons, pencils, mini notepads, wipes, Cheerios, my purse looked like the inside of the 99 cent store!
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
And take that damn cow with you!!! Yes, I know I sound a tad harsh, but c’mon people, As a mom to 3 kids and a kindergarten teacher for five years, I have been reading this children’s classic aloud to one child after another, night after night, week after week, month after…OH YOU GET THE PICTURE! (more…)
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Can you believe it? Gas is over $4.60 a gallon and financial experts predict we can go up t0 $12.00 a gallon in five years and see this period in history as the good old days! The other day I filled up my tank and it was $65.00! I remember when I could buy 2 round trip tickets on Southwest airlines for less than that only two years ago! This is getting out of hand. The price of gasoline is on the lips of everyone and a hot topic for discussion and rant. A few months ago, people would pump gas and turn to someone else who was also pumping gas and find a comrade in the complaining about the cost to fill the tank. Now, no one says a word at the pump. They just stand there in stunned silence as they see the better part of their paycheck pumped into a tank of gas that may last them a week if they are lucky.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
George Carlin died last night of a heart attack. This will be a great loss in the comedy community. He was a pioneer in comedy as one of his most famous bits, the seven dirty words, went all the way to the Supreme Court. His courage to explore, attack and question any and all topics of comedy encouraged stand up comedians like myself to do the same.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
My daughter and I went on a bike ride the other day. We were very excited. We were planning to go on the bike trail which runs beside a lake. Now, as some of you know, I got my bike as a Mother’s Day gift and have only been riding it for a month. My daughter was being very helpful. She pulled the bike out from the garage to the sidewalk. I have a basket on my bike, so my daughter filled it up with the necessities; water, binoculars, snacks, notebook, pencils, this week’s happy meal toy from Kung Fu Panda…there was hardly any room for my cell phone.
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I am an actress, a talk show host and a stand up comedian. I love what I do. It is my oxygen. I feel alive when I am on stage and connecting with the audience; ranting and raving about children, marriage, sex and current events. I love interviewing people; each question and answer provide insight into an interesting topic. As an actress I can be anybody! The choices are limitless! I have been called in for a two headed snake, a talking daisy, a bombshell secretary, a high school principal, and of course many calls for a wife and mommy, a role I am well suited for.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Yes! I said it! NIPPLE RINGS!!!! Why? What are the reasons for nipple rings? A place to hang my car keys? God knows, I keep losing those keys and that would be a sure fire way to keep track of them!
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Hmmm… I wonder how many of you clicked on here just because you were warned there was adult content within this particular entry!!! Good for you! We are going to get a little bit naughty, but it’s for a very good reason!
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
My daughter made me so angry this morning! Then again, it is like any other morning. She argues with me about everything! She argues with me about her breakfast, what I am packing for her lunch, even what she is going to wear…now get this, the child wears a uniform, but somehow, there is still an argument about what to wear! By 8:oo a.m. I am spent! I have bargained, pleaded, yelled, threatened, and even cried before we even head out of the door.
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I love the Super Nanny! She is amazing! What amazes me the most is that she employs common sense parenting on a very no nonsense level. She knocks on the door and you know what you are getting! Still, we need four seasons of Jo Frost repeating the same things over and over.
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