BluesChick

He is adorable! There is nothing better then those true baby laughs and smiles! except for maybe baby cuddles! Mine are very big now, almost 16 and 12, but occasionally they still want to hold my hand and cuddle with me and it is still the sweetest feeling!

It's amazing how much you would do. Although my husband and I joke that you know you are a parent when you know you'd throw yourself in front of a bus to save your child yet you also considered tossing the same child in front of the same bus at least once. In other words you'd do anything even tho they will frustrate the hell out of you.

Congratulations!!!!

I will have to remember that one!! Your dad is a smart man!

I am always suspect of signed jerseys from vendors that you don't know.

He is adorable! My "little fella" will be 16 this year and the thought of teaching him to drive scares me!! Thank goodness we can put it off for a few years until we get back to the US.

i have goodreads but not sure I have an account. Love the bookshelf pictures, would take a picture of mine but it would be sad since 99.9% of our books are in storage in Memphis I am quite sure we'd almost have enough to fill a room and call it a library. I have a really old set of books called "My Book House" that were my mum's and probably my grandma's because they were published in the late 1920's early 1930's that I remember reading as a child and will read when we get them out of storage. Each one has a different type of literature, some nursery rhymes from around the world, another fairy tales, another folk lore, etc… I loved them growing up and the fact I could read the originals was probably amazing because mid-70's and 80's in the US they were busy trying to make everything so homogeneous that they lost their original meanings and interesting parts. know I read what I can get my hands on in English, what my kids are reading, and what ever can occupy my mind LOL My name is memory is the current read of my daughter The Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard is what my son has to read

awful, I have a throbbing headache hoping it doesn't become a migraine

Probably because they learn it when they are little, I am starting to understand more. Certain characters have certain parts called radicals that give you a hint what it is about one indicates people, another money, another home/buildings, another speech/language, etc. I am learning it as an adult way past my prime learning age and I can tell you there are days I look at it and shake my head! My kids are doing much better with it than I am! My daughter especially seems to pick it up quickly.

Safety and quality of engineering are a must! Wouldn't want you to end up in colonial American or pre-colonial times… although you might meet one of my Chippewa ancestors

US women don't get as much as the men, I but I haven't looked up the amount.

I think they tend to play longer because there are few women that play and stick with it past their mid 20's. Plus professional women's sports tend to lag behind men's sports with the possible exception of tennis and golf. As of December 15, 2012, Wambach has 152 goals in 198 international matches. Out of her 152 goals, 61 goals or 40% were headers. http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/playeroftheyear/player=186483/index.html

I was happy to hear that Abby Wambach won the women's Ballon d'Or!!

Nice looking lad

that's not good, I hope you feel better soon.

It isn't really an alphabet, they say to read a newspaper you need to know 3000-5000 characters (words). I can recognize almost 50, I can do better with pin-yin (looks like English) character combinations, then I can translate what I read, but my spoke Chinese is woeful. My tutor says it is because I am too timid. I have tutoring two days a week and should do more but I work some days so I can't always have lessons.

He must of been proud of you! I am glad you went to see a doctor. Yes, in the British English "plaster" is the right term, however in the US we would say bandage or band-aid. Small differences in our wording sometimes. My kids go to a British school so I find their wording is changing toward the British manner of speaking, it only takes me off guard when it is words that have slightly naughty meanings in American English like when my daughter needed new erasers (in the UK they call them rubbers… not the same meaning in the US). I hope your exam goes well and good luck in your next game. My daughter is the same way if she doesn't get enough sport during the week, she as if she has too much energy and has had no way release it and I think it also helps her process and prioritize her life.

I am learning Mandarin the grammar is easy but the vocabulary and characters are a nightmare! LOL there are at least 6 ways to say some words depending on the situations and some words sound similar but the tones are different or they sound the same but the characters are different (ta for he, she, & it is a perfect example of that!). My crazy kids are learning both Mandarin and German so when I ask them questions they answer me in a mix of English, German, and Mandarin… it gives me a headache!!

So how's the DeLorean coming along? Up to 88 miles per hour yet? I'm the one in the front in the black and white shirt. I attached a bit better one below where I'm not laughing. Btw this is how I still think I look, until I look in the mirror then I wonder who the hell the old lady is. @manpe Thank you for making me smile yesterday! Your post made a not so good day better! PS My husband is babbling about building at T2000 and sending it back 21 years +1 day to meet you and then he laughed in a weird mad scentist way…. just thought you should know

ouch, must have been a hell of a save! Make sure you keep that blister clean. My daughter had one on her knee from a save at an indoor game and ended up with a staph infection… nasty infection and the treatment was the the grossest antibiotic I have ever smelled. Best to keep it clean and get it healed.

like I said she gives women a bad name. Obviously something there is something not right in that relationship but you shouldn't drag others into your unhappiness. The guys are right there are plenty of other women and you are better off with someone else!

Roma was amazing….We had wonderful weather the day we went to the Trevi fountain and The Spanish Steps. Thankfully, I have two photogenic kids!!

I hope the next woman you meet is someone who can appreciate you and not a complete witch… geez. Women like that give all of us a bad name

Most of my family Me: tired and jet laggedMy handsome boyMy beautiful keeper/left midfielderBoth my munchkins

I'm honoured to make you feel special and hopefully smile Better aim for 21 before I met my husband I was at Purdue University working on my biology degree and studying Russian of all the God awful languages to try and learn… should have chosen Spanish or German… well Mandarin if I had had a crystal ball….