http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com Tue, 13 May 2008 21:23:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The call. Let's relive the moment together. Mike took Delaney to school with him because it was his last week of school and everyone is all hippied out on the last week of school often allowing furry animals, child animals and party snacks etc. into their classrooms. And also I was all ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/05/13/okay/ Ya'll. We have a son. A 2 year old son. FOR REAL! AAAAHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! We got the call this afternoon at 1:30 and then proceeded to NOT get his pictures until 5:30. Okay, and you all know me. You can imagine what those 4 hours were like for me. And everyone within a ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/05/08/re-to-the-ferral/ Apparently, this wait is making me a bit delusional because I've done something entirely crazy and inappropriate. I've registered for school. I'm going back to school. I'm gettin me an edumacation. Fancy that. But Jamie. You are adopting a child, you will soon have TWO disease-spreading, grimey, loud-mouthed short stacks running around ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/05/05/who-the-heck-am-i/ You guys are so great. I love the internet. Who knew blogging could be this AWESOME? I'll tell you, Al Gore did, that's who. Let's all have a moment of silence for Al. Thank you Al for the internet, for giving me the opportunity to blog and make internet BFF's ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/05/02/thanks-guys/ Okay. A lot to catch up on. I'll be quick and summarize. We are no longer requesting siblings. For a variety of reasons, one being that Mike has ALWAYS wanted to just do one at a time and I have always been the one to be like "NO! Let's adopt SIX ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/04/28/freaking-out/ I'm going to go ahead and assume that these same friends of mine that RAN in front of EVERY camera and shamelessly posed like the paparazzi-hounded celebrities that we are, are also the same friends that won't mind if I post some of the photos on my mommy-blog. The fans, ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/04/26/you-want-pictures-oh-ill-give-you-pictures/ I used 5 heaping handfuls of conditioner and half a bottle of leave in treatment and STILL managed to pull out a pounds worth of my product-saturated hair. I measured the hairball. And after I measured the hairball, I grabbed a hatchet and chopped off my feet. Because I KNEW ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/04/22/back-amongst-the-living/ In T minus 2 hours, I am leaving. Leaving this life behind me. Never to be heard from again. At least for the weekend. I'm off on my annual girls trip to Vegas. 4 days of sleeping by the pool, talking with my girls and dancing our HEARTS OUT on the dance ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/04/16/launch/ Since moving to our new house, the one where I give directions by telling people "You can't miss it, it's the one that looks like all the others", we have gotten to know our next door neighbors pretty well, probably because I sometimes get confused and pull into their driveway, ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/04/14/olive-branch-extended/ Something about my child is.... different. Different, I don't know how to describe, but not in a creepy or scary way. Unless my suspicions of her being Mother Theresa Reincarnated are indeed accurate and in that case, that's a little creepy, I'm not gonna lie. Being the Mother of Mother ... http://fullyoperationalbattlestation.com/index.php/2008/04/11/different/