Rock- a Dye- Baby

My little Rockstar had her first experiment with hair dye today. She loves it and is immediatley hooked. Body piercing, tattoos & Boys: coming soon. If she wasn't so much like her mamma, I might find ground to get frusterated with my 4 going on 16 year old. But instead of frusteration I find myself thinking " rock on baby girl, one day you WILL conquer the world"....

ALWAYS a bridesmaid

I am a bridesmaid for a friend who is a lawyer in Florida. Her shower is this weekend and I am flying down to Orlando. I am really looking forward to the adult plane ride. I can't even imagine what people do when they don't have to shuttle 3 kids back and forth to the bathroom for an enitre flight. Maybe I will actually read something educational and inspiring. More likely I will fall asleep. I am staying with another Florida friend, The Baker. All the womany (because we are not girls anymore) talk and bonding will be good for the soul. These are the people in my life that fill up my "half empty" glass. I am a lucky woman.....

Rock the Vote

I got my absentee ballot yesterday!! My vote will count! I get to vote in a swing state. I like to savour the last days before casting my ballot. I enjoy the power trip that comes with being an "undecided" highly coveted college educated white woman. It's not that I am truly undecided, I have known for quite sometime who I will be voting for, I just like to pretend to I can be swayed. It's like window shopping at Gucci. Imight go in and let the sales associates fawn over me and I may even try something on, but we both know I am not buying any of it. I try to talk to my kids about the election in a non-partisan tone (I am not very good at this). They have their favorite candidate and they based thier decsion soley on who would keep Daddy home with us and who would send him away for 100 more years. (I told you I wasn't good at the non-partisan tone). I will let them help me fill out the ballot as well. I took them with me 4 years ago to vote in North Carolina and I got a picture of us in front of the polling station.... i will haveto find that picture.

What was I thinking??

It seems hard enough to be a mom of 3, wife of one and a working Doula and Childbirth educator. What would make me want to start a blog?? Well we just just found out we are moving again and with all change, there is saddness and joy. It causes me a lot of stress to think that our children will be growing up so far from their grandparents. I also realize that I will no longer have the cushy hospital job that is flexiable and family friendly and I will need to work hard to find clients and students on the west coast. Somehow this blog and forthcoming website will ease the personal and professional transition for me and allow me to keep family & friends up to date with the kids and our lives.