Snow in Malibu!

What a crazy day. First time in like 20 years. But seriously...we live in SoCal for a REASON. This COLD can stop ANY TIME NOW!!!!

David Beckham

Well, he's coming to play for the LA Galaxy...and we are so excited! Now I know what to get J. for his birthday!!! SAH-WEET!

I LOVE a Bargin!

Ok first of all JOANNA ROCKS!!!! I went by Starbucks and my friend Joanna was working. SHe gave me my coffee for free and then hooked my kids up with hot cocco! They LOVED it! It was really sweet of her.

So yesterday I was at Target with my kids buying waffles. (Eggos - $1.52 - can't beat it!) And we went to the toy isle. BIG TREAT! So we were in the After Christmas Toy Isle when the man was marking things from 50% 0ff to 75%off. So we spent a half-hour and had a home-school lesson on how great it is to get a BARGAIN!!!! Oh, yeah, we did the math too. Anyway, Ethan used his recycling money to buy a Superman guy for like $1.75. Carter got some Batman stuff. Sophie found a horse for $1.24 and Taylor decided to save his money. (First Born).

The other lesson my kids learned is that Mommy can't refuse a bargain! So I bought this wooden doll house with like the little wooden Swedish people in it. Originally $30, on sale for $5. Yes! 5 BUCKS! I know, how can you walk away? So it's one of those great imaginative toys that encourages group play. And so we brought it home and put it together. 5 BUCKS! And it ROCKS!!!! THe kids spent all afternoon playing with it. I had gotten a seperate box of people to go with it. So they each had their own characters. AND there was even a bald grandpa...so he becaame daddy. There was a little dog that looked like Eddie and in the other set their was a bigger wooden brown and white dog and the kids named him Mac. Later I was out of the room and I hear the kids. "I want to be Pastor Nathan." "No...you be Miss Jill." "Can I be Mac?" So their were enough people to add a few extras to the family. It was so adorable. And they all just kept playing so sweatly together. Best $5 I've spent in a long time!!!

(J&N: Know you are loved and you are missed by all!)

Great gig!

The other night I went to this focus group studying moms and mom trends. It was pretty cool. The place was down on Wilshire in Beverly Hills at the Creative Artist's Agency (which, by the way, just signed to represent David Beckham in this country!). I spent 2 hours in a room with a bunch of moms just chatting about life and stuff. And I got paid $200. (That's $100/hour!)

Now I'm on this list to continue the research/dialogue and they send me Amazon gift certificates. So cool.

...But I WAS the freak mom with the 4 KIDS! (People thought I was from Mars I think!)

J.R.R. Tolkien

Today it was Tay's idea to celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday. So I made a cake. Sofa was quick to point out that we were making a cake for a dead guy. But it's cake...so who cares? My mom bought me a new bundt pan for Christmas that is shaped like a castle. Beefy says it looks like "Edoras" but the older two are convinced it it "Gondor". Whatever...just another excuse for a party, I suppose. Happy 115th!

...Speaking of which...I watched this documentary on "Ringers" (LOTR Fans)...and those people are KOO-KOO-CA-CHOO! It was embaressing! I now understand why some prefer to think of themselves as "students of Tolkien" rather than "Fans". CA-RAY-ZEEE!

...but them again I did just bake a cake for a dead guy...