Starburst Personality Test

Scene: A moving car. LORIN is enjoying a post-swim class package of Starbursts. MOMMY is driving.

Lorin: What's your favorite flavor? (She rummages through the package, finds a yellow Starburst, and holds it up.)

Mommy: The red ones.

Lorin: (Thinks for a few seconds.) But I thought you liked the yellow ones?

Mommy: Nope, I don't. My favorite are the red ones.

Lorin: (Still holding the yellow one.) But I thought your favorite was the yellow one!

Mommy: Fine. You're right, I like the yellow ones. (Lorin hands over the yellow Starburst and waits for Mommy to eat it.)

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So here's just one little reason why I love my husband: we had been married for over a year before he finally confessed that his favorite Starbursts also were the red and pink ones; he let me believe that he liked the yellow and orange ones best so I could have all the good ones.

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And back to the car, where now I am eating yellow Starbursts because I love someone and want them to be happy. Lorin, however, is a better person than me, because a few minutes later I heard, "Mommy, here's a red one for you!"

Want to rent our house? Or know someone who does?

So it looks like the third time's the charm; we are actually going to close on a house later this month. (For those of you I saw over the holidays - it's a different house.) But first, I'm helping the best landlord ever (my sister-in-law) rent out our current house.

Here are lovely pictures; I tried to crop out the boxes of my crap.





It's in Gilbert near the 202 South Loop; has 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and a loft; and was upgraded (plantation shutters, 18" tile, 2-tone paint, landscaped yard on a drip system, etc.). We'd feel way better about moving out if we could find someone to move in...

Feel free to get in touch with me/pass along my info, and I can give you/your friend who wants to rent more details and my sister-in-law's phone number. Thanks!

Trying out for the 3d (or 4th?) generation of Mouseketeers*

*Because it worked out so well for Britney.

Guess who is no longer scared of the Carousel?

Time Warp: Back to November

What else did I miss putting on the blog in my work haze? Just Lorin's first (out-of-utero) trip ever to the Happiest Place on Earth.


First ride ever: the Matterhorn

First reaction to a ride ever: "It was scary. But just a little bit. The lion [the Abominable Snowman, actually] came out and said "Roar!" [Picture her little arms up in the classic bear pose]

Favorite ride: Dumbo

Favorite activity: Toddler frogger [she and Rowen would run sideways through crowds of people in Downtown Disney trying not to get hit. Parents of the year right here]

Favorite treat: Suckers shaped like Mickey's head

Most exciting thing about staying in a hotel: Her own room with bunkbeds

Most disappointing thing about staying in a hotel: Not being allowed to sleep on the top bunk

Top parenting hints from the trip: Disney's toilets all automatically flush, so bring stickers to cover the eye until completely finished; pull the top bunk's comforter down and sell the bottom bunk as a "cave"; those Mickey suckers occupy kids for a long, long time