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The Upstate NY Moss FamilyMy

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The Upstate NY Moss Family

My husband is Polo and our children are our 10 year old dd Rosey-Posey, 7 year old ds Posco,3 year old ds Fastolph and 1 year old (as of 1/29) Gorbulas.

The Moss Thing ok, the

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The Moss Thing

ok, the Moss thing. A few months ago, Pansy and I were delighted when our hobbit names (Pansy and Peony Moss) revealed that we are kinfolk.

My family's hobbit names are Posco (my dear husband, whose birthday is this weekend by the way) and Hambet (our little son.)

So Sleepy I have the

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So Sleepy

I have the flu. I am a horrible sick person. I hate being sick (like anyone loves it). I would give anything to climb into bed, but the little ones keep me up. Posco (yes a common name among us Mosses of the Shire) the 7 year old and Fastolph (3 year old) fight continuously. I stopped to think about how miserable I felt, and how I wish I could go to bed. It then occured to me how blessed I am that my big problem of the day is that I have these children to tend to. More like a blessing and a great occasion for penance.

My husband, Polo Moss, told me not to worry about cooking tonight. With the realisation that I had an opportunity to do penance, I made pizza dough, and it got all smooshy and pasty. Oh well, maybe I will skip dinner making penance tonight...

It's late in the afternoon.

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It's late in the afternoon. My kitchen is a mess, even though I haven't cooked anything today. The little table and chairs given to my son for Christmas by his loving parents (Husband: "You know he's just going to knock them over, don't you?" Peony: "Yes, but when he's older he can color there or something like that.") are lying on the floor with their legs sticking up in the air, like cartoon characters do when they faint.

Silly Mommy! Color on paper while seated at the little table? That's what the refrigerator door is for. And mere crayons will not do for the wee monseiur; monseiur must have pens and pencils from Mommy's desk.

Baby Hambet is twenty-three months old. Every day of his life has brought some new skill -- some tiny, some huge -- and yet, somehow, in the last five months or so, it's as if I can look in his eyes and see his brain laying down more cable. He's getting to be a little boy, but he is still a baby.

Among the latest development has -- unfortunately -- been tantrums. This morning, while we were getting dressed, Hambet suddenly decided that his tummy needed to be anointed with "chest lotion" (that vapor rub stuff.) This need, this yearning, this craving, so overwhelmed him that he dissolved in kicking and tears even as I was giving him a dab of "chest lotion." The demonstration continued all the way through getting dressed, two attempts to distract him with a favorite book, going downstairs. But then when I finally got him distracted, the wailing and gnashing of teeth just...stopped. This baby anguish seems to have no regulation at all. Either things are hunky dory or the world is absurd because the chest lotion is not being applied to the tummy at the moment I first thought of it.

I wish I could get inside his head better. Perhaps that would help me keep my equanimity when he dumps the sugar bowl out onto the table, or rips the lamination off his board books (probably for the same reason adults like to pop bubble wrap.)

Maybe it would even help me figure out where he has hidden my bank card this time.

We've been noticed! by Davey's

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Hmm, link didn't work Student’s

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This is so dumb. Student’s

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This is so dumb.

Some quotes from the article

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Some quotes from the article:

Obstetricians tended to view pregnancy, especially early pregnancy, as a disease state, and their only patient the mother.

They forgot that although premature babies are now considered human, 18th century English common law classified them as "monsters" with no right to an inheritance.

So we actually have come farther in recognising babies are people too? Jinkies.

Ok, maybe it's me, but what I do not understand is out of all the types of people in the world, babies are the easiest to love, get along with, cheapest, easist to transport and are really cute.I am missing something...

Although, today, they are not referred to as "monsters", people are allowed to kill them before they were born, when they are here, people spend a great deal of money and brain energy trying to find ways to get away from them. Then everything else caters to the recreation of teenagers. Ugh. Backwards...

Star Wars/Buffy con'tNumber 9Episode: 6.13

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Star Wars/Buffy con't

Number 9

Episode: 6.13
Air Date:February 5, 2002
Title:"Dead Things" Screenplay: Steven S. DeNight

As Warren (Adam Busch) pursues Katrina out of his room, Andrew (Tom Lenk) and Jonathan (Danny Strong) fight with plastic lightsabers. This scene might have been inspired by Joss Whedon's purchase of a lightsaber at the San Diego Comic-Con.

stay tuned...

Buffy/Star Wars con't: Number 10

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i>Evil is So Inconvenient


Episode:3:19 (season 3, episode 19)

Air Date:May 4, 1999

Title:"Choices"

Screenplay:David Fury

As her friends discuss what they will do after graduation, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) complains that the trouble in Sunnydale keeps her from going away to college.

Buffy:"Faith's turn to the dark side of the Force has pretty much put the proverbial kibosh on any away-school plans for me."

stay tuned...

Star Wars and Buffy: The Connection

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The February 2003 edition of Star Wars Insiderhas an article which was way too cute called Jedi Knights and Vampire Slayers:The Star Wars/Buffy Connection. To make a long aricle short, it has the Top Ten Star Wars references in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

...more to come...

Okay, this is real sick.

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Okay, this is real sick. Someone forwarded this link to me, apologised for sending it, but felt the need to share in the horror. Now I am going to do the same thing here. I'm Not Sorry.

I stopped being very active in the pro-life movement about 10 years ago. Not that I stopped being pro-life, but I stopped going to marches, life chains etc., mostly due to the birth of my first child. I also felt the need to hold back from debating.

It was around this time in my life that I had my first pro-life debate with someone that said "I know it's a baby, but infanticide for the good of the whole has always been practiced."

Ack! I about stopped debating after that. Heck, I almost stopped coming out of my house after that! How can you argue with logic when people refuse to see logic, or how can you argue that life is a precious gift, when people do not believe that either? Only their own lives.


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