Mommy Uterus Radar Device

Yep... you know, we Moms truly are amazing creatures. We have this amazing Uterus-Radar-Device which allows us to have super-human traits: Mommy Hearing, Mommy Vision plus Super-Night-Time-Vision, among other super-secret powers that I must not discuss so openly.

Last night, somwhere around 5am, my son's spend the night guest wakes up in a night terror. Luckily for him I am the Mommy and 8 years of motherhood have honed my Super-Powers to a fine-edge. I leap from my bed in full alert mode.... and swiftly make my way to my son's room. My Auto-Night-Time-Super-Vision is already on, and scanning for said child making noises and calling out "I can't see! I can't see!" And where do I find the little lad? Well, here's the kicker. Somehow he's defied several laws of physics I'm sure, and is perched on about an inch of tv stand behind the tv, pressed flat against the wall as if the Boogeyman himself is coming for him. (NOT in my house. I've got a big iron sickle waiting on any bad-nasty that tries to mess with anyone in my house, especially a child!!!) It was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, mind you, with my Auto-Night-Time-Super-Vision.

I helped the little guy down, got him back to his bed on the floor, covers back on, and tucked him, reassuring him the entire time that he's safe and sound, and has nothing to fear.

Yeah... being a Mommy with Super-Powers is a trip.... and a hard-job....

.... but someone's gotta do it!!! I'm glad to be a part of such an elite super-team called by such a simple phrase as "Mom".

P.S. The great melt down is occuring which means the next phase "Mudfest 2005" is soon to follow.

An ice covered lense...

Looking at the world through an ice-covered lense is so magical.... sure, it's just frozen water you say... I say its a magical lense to view the world through! It adds an energy to everything that it covers, and of course also brings out danger. A leaning tree becomes a phonecall to your insurance agent just waiting to happen. A black-top highway becomes black-ice, news crews swamp to show films of all the accidents on the highways.

Ice... everywhere I look outside right now. Atlanta is iced-in. Some areas worse than others. It has made me want to snuggle up under a heavy quilt and sip hot-java or cocoa all day long. Our tv is out, and the lights have been blinking on and off. I would bet money that we'll loose power tonight as more ice is on the way.

I hear a chainsaw running... someone must have a tree-down in the neighborhood. Lee-Bones is up on a ladder (gulp) trying to get the ice off the sat-dish outside. Gar-boy is up in his room, wrecking it, dreaming of his next "ice-adventure" with his neighborhood pals. They sure had fun this morning out on "moss-hill" in the backyard... their giggles and squeals still echoing in my heart.

Ahhh. Love this -- looking at the World through ice-covered lenses.

Stay safe and warm. TTFN

Boys with Swords

After watching "King Arthur" last night on DVD my 8 year old son was all about playing with swords today. He has a Gaelic name, so I guess its just natural for him! I love to watch them playing, running through the yard, battle cries and giggles mixed together, blowing in the winds. He's a natural leader... just takes control, especially when swords are involved, which just fascinates me. Guess there is something "in" the male species that truly does make them warriors..... how interesting.

Well, its cold as hell here today -- the wind is still blowing furiously, gusts. Last night it was brutal. I've got chili cooking and we're gearing up for the Falcons game this afternoon.

I love my life.

A Warning -- against SpongeBob????

Have you read the article on CNN about how some right-wing-fundie groups think that a new video coming out using SpongeBob, Barney, and other famous and popular cartoon characters, promoting diversity is actually a plot to turn children gay, or at least to "promote homosexuality"?????

I can't for the life of me get this way of thinking. How screwed up can you be!!! Diversity is now a bad word... it now means that people are trying to make other people gay. I swear to the Gods... how does a person (who is suppose to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ) wake up in the morning and think this way? I tell ya... the Christians I'm friends with don't even sound like they are from the same planet as these fundies.

Life is too short folks -- A video promoting diversity is an excellent idea. Maybe it will promote FREE-THINKERS, and people that are COMPASSIONATE, and ACCEPTING of our differences instead of people that find Satan behind everything that exists. Can you say scape-goat? Can you say no personal responsibility? Can you say that homosexuality isn't a disease, nor is it evil, nor can it be "caught?"

Why not read what the company that is producing this video is all about instead of just casting stones? I think they are on the right track personally.

http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/

This is the tolerance pledge on their website which has caused all this fuss... I think it rocks:

"Tolerance is a personal decision that comes from a belief that every person is a treasure. I believe that America's diversity is its strength. I also recognize that ignorance, insensitivity and bigotry can turn that diversity into a source of prejudice and discrimination.

To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own."

Who would have ever thought that embracing diversity would be so darn deviant in the year 2005???? What have people learned? I tell ya.... I think we're moving backwards in so many ways.

Dreaming of Skulls

I dreamt of Skulls last night... I was in a wonderful store, in N.GA., up in the most beautiful forests... streams, boulders, evergreens, oaks... the smells of the woods... and here was this little store... I enter, and its filled to the brim with all sorts of interesting artwork, jewerly, candle-holders.... I was surrounded by images of the Ancestors. I was vibrating, electric, excited.... I was picking out a candle holder for Eolas even -- made of flourite I think. My favorite ones were about the size of a softball, wooden, hand-carved... they were red wood of some kind, or stained I suppose... inlayed with designs. Some had Celtic-knotwork of spirals, another of mistletoe, another one of stones.

I awake this morning with Them on my mind.... stirring in my Heart. The Ancestors. A driving force in my Life. My center. I contemplate Them.

Just starting out

Here I go, jumping a tad further out onto the cyberspace super highway. I've been wanting to do this for some time.... I'd love to do more with my website, but unfortunately I've not been able to take what I SEE in my mind and put it on a website exactly, and that is just terribly frustrating. Maybe as life allows (yeah, sure) I will be able to play more around with it. We'll see. So, what the heck, maybe Mari has finally inspired me and watching her neat blog develop finally torqued me in the right manner to get me out there. So, here it is.

And as my eye heals, and my vision in this world is skewed, I ponder my Vision and Sight elsewhere, and contemplate what is left for me to explore and understand.

You know, life is NEVER boring. Or at least mine isn't.

See ya