There is a TV series called Parenthood. It started in 2010 but I just discovered it on Netflix. It is an amazing show that teaches you all about being a parent! I fell in love with this show. It address everything that might happen while being a parent. It teaches you how to deal with all different problems that you might come accross with your children. It also address how to deal with all of the stress that comes with being a parent. It also teaches you how to keep the connection with your spouse or how to reconnect with them. It is a huge family show. It helped me to realize that it is very important to keep in touch with your family because you never know when you are going to need them. It is heartwarming and beautiful in so many different ways. I strongly suggest that all parents watch this TV show! In fact I think that eveyone should watch this show!

I Love Love Love my son Dexter! He is the most amazing little boy in the entire world. I cannot comprehend why he is so wonderful! I know that I am a decent, kind hearted person but I have no idea what I have done to deserve such a perfect being! Dexter is 9 1/2 moths old and the only time he gets fussy is when he is tired. So all I have to do is lay him down in his bed and Dexter falls right to sleep. He sometimes talks to himeself but he never needs any help falling asleep! Dexter is such a happy baby, all he does is smile. It doesn’t even matter if he has never seen you before a day in his life, you are still going to be his best friend for that brief period that he knows you! His laugh, oh my goodness, it is the most angelic sound in all the universe! I am telling you, you have not smiled and have not experienced true joy until you have heard Dexter laugh! He laughs when you look at him. He laughs when you smile at him. He even thinks that it is hilarious when you just open your eyes! He is just amazing. Every part of his tiny body is tickelish! He is so smart too. He recently had his 9 month check up and some test were done on him and his doctor told me that he is smarter than the average 14 month old baby! I am so proud of him. Now I am not taking all of the credit of raising such a wonderful and well behaved child! My Husband Dagan had a lot to do with it! He teaches Dexter so many different cool things. On days when I am at work, they watch the Minnesota Wild play or the Minnesota Twins play. He may not be old enough to understand what he is watching but boy does he love to watch his sports with Daddy! So I just wanted to kind of brag about my wonderful son. If you also have a wonderful family like I do and want to tell us about it then do so! I would love to hear all about it!

So the strangest thing happend to my husband and I today while we were on our way home from my niece’s birthday party. We were almost home when we pass buy a little 10 year old boy on the side of a very busy highway. He is all alone and crying, and to make matters worse, his little metal scooter is in the middle of the highway! I was terrified that something had happend to him and he had a broken bone or something! It was terrible for me. I am a mother and I have a terrible time with other children when I think that they are hurt! So I cry myself as I tell my husband to turn around! We get there and when I asked him if he was ok he shook his head no. He was not moving at all so I wondered if he hurt his ankle or something. When I asked him what was wrong he said that he was lost and could not get home. I was a little suprised that a young boy of his age would be on a busy highway by himself and now he is telling me that he does not know how to get home. I asked this little boy if he knew his parents phone number and he said no. I want to stess this. It is very important for you to make sure that your children know your phone number. Even if you think that you are the best parents in the world, accidents do happen. With your help the situation could be a lot less horrible for you and your child if he or she gets lost and knows your phone number. An address would make it even better. This was just a bad ordeal all around because now I have a lost scared child who is crying because he cannot get home. I move my 9 1/2 month old’s car seat over and make room for this little boy and we are going to find his home. Then another car pulls over and a man gets out of the car. Just one man…now I am not usually judgemental but I was a little weary of the situation. I know that I should not judge anyone, but when it comes to children I don’t take any chances. My husband and I followed them until the car pulled over and the little boy got out of the car with his scooter. The man also got out and walked up to the door. We pulled away and went home. I called the police station just to let them know what was going on just so that they could go and make sure everything was ok at the little boys home. We had no idea if the little boy had a bad home life or if he was just being disobedient and riding his scooter where he shouldnt be. But again, because there was a child involved, I wanted to send and officer over just to be safe. So I know its random, but his is what happened to me today!

I just made the best dip ever! It is just like those pickle rolls that everyone loves when they are brought to a holiday party but it is a dip. I made two different kinds of the same type of dip. I use 2 boxes of cream cheese, cornded beef, smoked deli ham, and either bread and butter pickels or kosher dill pickels! My husband likes kosher dill pickels more and I like bread and butter pickels more! It is an awesome dip. You can use different kinds of chips or crackers with it. I even love using miniture plain bagels!

This is for all the bosses out there. I just started a new job today! My new boss left on a business meeting while I started doing some paper work, just like I figure it will be every day, but when she came back she had a rose and a $50 gas gift card in her hand for me thanking me for all of my future help! To all the bosses, this is how you make a new staff feel welcome! She knew that my car had horrible gas milage and was very thoughtful and bought me something that was just so sweet! It made me feel like I belong!

I love DVRs. They save my life some days. On days when I am really busy at home or I am sick, I just turn on my DVR and pick out one of the many PBS shows that I have recorded on our DVR and let my son watch TV while I either get a bunch of things done or just rest on the couch and watch Sesame Street or Curious George with him. A different reason that I love my DVR is because sometimes I am not home to watch my shows and I really can’t miss them so I just schedule a recording and I can watch them anytime I want to! It is a wonderful thing to have!

I bought some fall cookie cutters. It came in a pack of 6. There is an owl, a maple leaf, an oak leaf, a rooster, an acorn, and a pumpkin. I just took simple sugar cookie recipe and after making the dough I split the dough into 5 different bowls and then I take different food coloring dyes. I dyed each bowl of cookie dough a different color like yellow, red, orange, brown, and green. Then I used the cookie cutters and cut out all different cookies in different colors then I took a different color of sprinkles for each color of cookie and put it on the cookie cut outs before I baked them. Always take them out before the recommended time and they will be very soft and chewy instead of crunchy!

I love the story of the Titanic, as most people do. The drama inherent in a mid sea emergency is hard to ignore, but in the 98 years that have passed since the ship sank and the 20+ years since it’s rediscovery, there seems to now be an unhealthy obsession with it. A recent expedition just went down to take more pictures. Aside from the people going down to retrieve artifact from the debris field, what else is there to see that is different? It’s still sunk, still not going anywhere, and still covered in rust stalactites. I couldn’t tell you the difference between one expedition’s images and another’s at this point.

I am really active, and I work out a lot.  Some days when I go really hard at the gym, the next day I can be pretty sore.  I really needed a massage! I wanted the best though.  I asked around and almost everyone told me to get a massage in Huntington Beach. I went there and I LOVED it.  I have never gotten a better massage.  The other massage places I have gone to have asked me what kind of massage I was looking for but didn’t exactly give me what I wanted. When I told the the massage therapist at Cloud Mover Day Spa, they did exactly what I wanted and nothing less. The environment was to relaxing and calm. Now I don’t just go there to get a massage when I am sore. I go there almost once a week! I can not stay away from there! It keeps me so stress free! This is also a great gift to give someone!

This is just too unusual to pass up. Twinkies, the snack food many joke could survive a nuclear holocaust, is in the middle of an “all-natural” debate. The reason for the debate is that some of the ingredients for Twinkies are actually mined. That’s right, mined. A Twinkie has minerals included with other mot traditional food ingredients. I’m not sure I want to eat one of these again, and hopefully no one tries to dissect M&M’s.