Hodge-Podge of Topics

Dear Julie,

I regret to inform you that our blogging skills have been impugned. It has been suggested that we are lame in our blogging follow-through. Although, on further review, I believe I am being singled out for my particular lameness, as evidenced by the fact that you out-blog me (in content and volume) here at Posts From The Edge. I scoff (HA!) at this accusation since it was hurled by one who receives actual monetary reimbursement for writing things that people actually read. I mean, really....who are we hurting if we fall off the blog-wagon for days (week...or months) at a time? It's not as it actual people are hanging on every word posted here. Right? (Of course right.)

Now, about your son...I chortled when I read on your other blog that he told you, "I'm working on a Natalie tripping-device and it's almost done." What a nefarious little fiend you have in the making. I told Jim about it and he likened Ethan to Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes fame). I quite like that comparison. If he starts to build a transmogrifier out of a cardboard box, run. Run like the wind! Although I suppose he could actually transmogrify you into a Mommy Dog.

New topic.
Why is it so darn cold this late in May??? Maybe there's something to this global warming, after all.

Love,
Karen

PS: Did you know our parents bought a trampoline today?! I wonder if they make trampline bras??? Must look into that....

Proving Yet Again That She Is One of Us

Dear Karen-

So yesterday Natalie and I were doing her schoolwork and without actually using the word "synonyms," we worked on the concept that sometimes we can use different words that essentially mean the same thing. Her task was to think about the word "big" and see if she could come up with different words that meant "big." The lesson manual had a few listed, in case the child needed prompting...giant, large and huge.

To my delight, Natalie skipped right over those and went for these big guns:

-gigantic
-humongous
-colossal

We loves her.

Love,
Julie

Saving it for posterity

Dear Karen-

This is just a quick note with one of those "could my kid be any cuter?" things. So today we were outside and Ethan was looking at everything in the flower beds. There's quite a large dandelion out there that will open soon. Ethan looked at it and the flowers and said,

"This is gonna kabloom soon, right?"

I might have to use "kabloom" from now on. "Why yes, my flowers are doing well...the Stargazer lily is about to kabloom and the hibiscus should kabloom in a few weeks..."

Love,
Julie

The Survey Says.....

Dear Julie,

Yes, Betty Broderick tops my list. But.....I can't get enough "Family Matters." Especially later in the series when Laura falls in love with Steve Urkel. Unfathomable, I know.

I'd also have to say...The Reader's Digest. Or The Digest (as I like to call it).

How dorky am I, anyway???

Love,
Karen

And Now I Have To Ask You

Dear Karen-

I just did an entry over on my blog and I need to you take a moment to look at it - then come back here and reply. If you really loved me, you would leave me a comment there AND reply back to me here, but it's optional. I won't think less of you if you don't respond in both places because, as you already know, I couldn't possibly think any less of you.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry to any readers out there...it's a joke.

Anyway, I strongly suspect your answer would tend toward...yes...altogether now...A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story. You know, I haven't seen that on Lifetime in quite some time.

So is that what you would go with? Or do you have some other gem that you've been saving? It doesn't have to be TV/movie related.

Love,
Julie