Not Everyone's Mama

If you’re here from SITS, I’d love you to follow me on Google, I’ll follow you back! Scroll down to the end of this post for my card!  I forgot about it until after I had posted my post today.

The kids still have school, but Pato’s work canceled last night for the first time for snow in as long as I can remember.

Here’s our forecast -

They are calling for 8-14″ of snow.  Yippie!  Not really.  The kids school just sent out an email saying that they are getting out 2 hours early, which to me makes more sense than Pato’s work closing all day, but hey, if someone’s wife is more paranoid about their husband driving in the snow than I am, more power to them.  I’d rather Pato be safe than in a ditch.  If it was his other boss, they’d be going, but Carlos is in Mexico and I guess the other manager’s wife was calling all day yesterday warning her husband about how much snow we were getting with each news update.  I am kinda wondering if she has just come up from Mexico and hasn’t experienced snow yet.  Usually the men after making it through their first winter up here have the motto of the mailman when it comes to working, neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow type of thing.  Now that I want any of them driving me around in the snow, but that has nothing to do with snow.  Pato and his friends are scary drivers.  Or maybe I’m just paranoid now that I have kids.  (I’ll be honest, it’s the second one, I’m a much more cautious driver since I had children.)

An update on my post yesterday about the ZhuZhu pets.  I was watching the Today Show and they said that the testing on Mr Squiggles was not reliable and it looks like Mr Squiggles will be exonerated.  A quote from that page -

The US Toy Industry Association had also criticized GoodGuide’s reliance on XRF readings, saying: “False results are not unusual using XRF technology, so decisions should not be based simply on these methods.”

and another article has Toys R Us saying

Retailer Toys “R” Us Inc. said test reports “clearly indicate that the Zhu Zhu Pets product meets all federal safety requirements, as well as safety requirements in other countries.”

It looks like the CSPC will be running more tests, but so far it’s looking good for Mr Squiggles.  Mr Squiggles, you can come home now.  Alyce misses you.  But she “yost” you.  She can’t remember where she put you.  If you could just moo once, I know we could figure out where you are hiding.

In other news, I’m waiting on a shipment of seeds from Ebay.  I’m a plant nut.  I have a plant stand in front of my sliding glass door and Christiano and Alyce decided it would be fun to play with my plants one day while I was taking a shower.  (This is why I only shower when Pato is home usually.)  They destroyed all of my plants but 1.  *sniff sniff* Some of those plants I have had for 7 years.  I bid on a bunch of seeds.  Now, I’m not sure what I’m doing to do with all of them.  I don’t have room, but I couldn’t help myself.  I’m getting seeds for China Doll, Philodendron Selloum, Dwarf Coffee, Ponytail Palm, WILD OLIVE (Olea europaea) Fruit Bonsai, FIBRE OPTIC Scirpus cernuus Isolepis cernua, Toffee Twist Carex flagellifera Copper, HENNA Lawsonia inermis, and TEA TREE (Melaleuca alternifolia) plants.  Plus, I still have bids on Asparagus Fern and Coleus Rainbow Mix.  What am I going to do with all of those?  It wouldn’t be such a problem, but they all need to be put up high I’ve now learned.

I’ve never grown plants from seeds.  I’ve always grown them from shoots off of another plants.  Anyone have any tips on growing these so they thrive and not die?  Do I need to do the old bean thing?  Putting them in plastic bags with wet paper towels until they start getting roots?  Or do I just plant them in dirt?

I’m most excited about the Tea Tree plant.  We use Tea Tree oil for EVERYTHING around here.  Not that I’m going to be getting oil out of the plant, but it just feels good to have one in the house.  I need to get a new aloe plant too.  And a snake plant (mother in law’s tongue).  That was my oldest plant.  Destroyed.

Have a great day!

I posted this the other day, but had to say Merry SITSmas to my ladies!

May the true meaning of the season touch your lives during these holidays!  May you and yours be happy, healthy, and safe.  Show love to someone that needs it  in their life right now.  And have a beautiful Christmas!

Check out the giveaways I’ve entered on my alter ego’s blog – Giveaway Chick.

I’m trying to decide between the Blackberry Curve and the Palm Pre for my birthday.  I’m leaning toward the Pre.  What is your favorite smart phone or type of PDAs?

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