Star Gazing

Tonight I looked at hundreds of stars twinkling above me. I saw the sun and moon move across the night sky in a slow but hypnotic motion. The temperature was a warm 70 degrees and a little bit stuffy. Where was I? I was at the wonderful Juneau Planetarium. Juneau's Planetarium is the ONLY one in Alaska. It has been running for about 40 years in the Marie Drake building. The admission is free and all the workers are volunteers. Right now there are two scientists that work the giant star machine. You can tell they love their jobs and get a kick out of teaching people about the Universe. My family has been going to the shows for two months. We have enjoyed the presentations and have learned a great deal. Ian is totally in love with all things having to do with astronomy. He HAS to go to the shows and will talk about the future shows throughout the month. He wants to help out with running the machine and wants to ask questions about everything. Ian's love for science is great....so we will do anything and everything to help him learn about the Universe.


Tonight's show was about The Earth Without the Moon. It was fantastic! We saw pictures and slides with the earth covered in water. We learned about the stages the moon goes through and what it does to the tides. Did you know Easter would not exist without the moon? Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox..We found out it would have to be a set day if we didn't have a moon. Hahahaha. All in all we had a great time and can not wait until the next one at the end of November.

Puzzling Questions

I have TONS of questions that need answering in my life. I have pondered these questions so often that I am kinda going insane... Maybe you guys can help?

1) Where do all the spoons go in my house?
2) Why does my son love to run around the house naked after his shower?
3) How can I tell Sashi it isn't nice to kick Ian in the nads?
4) WHERE are all the spoons in my house??
5) Why does my son spray toothpaste all over the mirror, in the bathroom, when he spits?
6) How can I tell Sashi I don't understand whine?
7) WHERE ARE ALL MY SPOONS???
8) Why does Ian hide all of his dirty socks?
9) How can I tell Sashi it is OK to be wrong?
10) Where the HECK are all of the spoons in my house?!?

Please I need help...please.

Hanna Love

I have fallen in love with a online store called Hanna Andersson. This site has the cutest dresses for little girls. The styles are adorable and the dresses are made with wonderful materials that do not wear out. I love how the dresses are fun and and age appropriate. A little girl of 7 can look like a little girl of seven and not like a prosta-tot waiting to do her next trick. I enjoy how the dresses have sleeves. You would be amazed how hard it is to find dresses with some sort of sleeve on them. I do not think a child needs to have long sleeves on all the time, but I do like a child to have some sort of short sleeve on. Sleeves give freedom of movement without having a dress fall off while in play. Sleeves also provide warmth which is much needed in the climate that I live in...who puts a child in a dress without sleeves in 40 degree weather? Fred Meyers thinks you should. Why do stores in Juneau have flimsy, non-sleeved clothes? Most of Hanna Andersson's dresses have sleeves of some sort.
Sashi ADORES Hanna dresses because they are soft and are very girly looking. She just got a dress through the mail that twirls when she spins. Sashi had a conversation with her brother the day she got the dress.

*Sashi twirling in the living room with her new dress on*
Ian: Sashi I can see your underwear.
Sashi: That's because it is a good dress!

Sashi would get all the dresses in the catalog if she could have her way. Tonight she was showing me all the dresses that she wanted. Most of the dresses she picked out were lovely...here are some of her favorites:

Halloween Is Near

Halloween is coming faster than we can say... YIKES! Yesterday the kids wanted to go out and buy costumes. So, off we went to go dive into the wonderful world of ghouls, goblins, witches, ghosts, and every imaginable character you can think of. Ian and Sashi were in absolute delight to walk down the aisles and touch all of the merchandise. Sashi had to touch and look at all of the princess dresses. Ian had to try out every make believe sword in the store. Once Sashi was done in the princess aisle she had to go look at all the decorations that moved or made noise. Ian thought it would be cool to turn on every movable device within seconds of each other so that all they would all move and scream at the same time.

Sashi got scared of a skeleton bowl which grabbed her hand when she got too close to it. She screamed bloody murder!! Sashi was kinda pissed off that a bowl scared her, but then she got over it when she saw the wigs! Oh joy! Wigs of all colors and lengths!! Ian started to yell my name when he got to the candy aisle.."Mom, I am in chocolate heaven!" I walked to where the yelling was coming from and there was Ian with huge eyes drooling over the candy bags.

I knew it would be a good thing to get him out of this aisle before he started asking me for bags of chocolate to take home. Dang, too late. Ian said, "Mom, you know, our house is lacking chocolate." Then he smiled at me and went for a bag of the Kit Kats. I told him that it was ok that we didn't have chocolate in the house and that we would all live without it. He didn't seem to believe me but he walked on.

Ian picked out a phantom outfit that looks like this:

Sashi got a pumpkin patch witch costume.


I think the excitement of Halloween is going to start increasing with each passing day. My children already want to decorate the house and make Halloween cookies. Ian wants to have Halloween art projects for the entire month of October. Am I excited for all of this chaos? Yes, Yes I am.

The Wonderful World of Glow Sticks

Imagine a light that you could hold in your hand. A light with a soft glow that could light up any tiny space. What if this light could come in different colors? What if this amazing luminous orb could come in different sizes? What if this light was only a dollar at the store and you could buy it anytime you wanted?? Sounds too good doesn't it? Let me introduce you to the Glow Stick.



Who ever came up with this idea was a genius! My children LOVE glowing things. It doesn't matter what glows they will want it and it will have to go into their rooms. Ian has had in the past: stars, toys, books, clothes, planets, Lego's and even paint that glows. He loves to have-the-power that comes with something so awesome. He pretends it is his lightsaber and will have all sorts of battles in his darken room.



Sashi is just starting to get into the glow-in-the-dark-craze. She has little toys that glow and a few shirts, but her all time favorite toy is the glow stick. Today she picked one out at the store. It had to be the biggest one and it had to be the brightest one. She talked about it all the way home in the car. Once she was home she spent an hour creating a tent out of blankets and chairs. Then the giggling began. I went to go see what the laughing was about and there was Sashi sitting inside her tent with her glow stick in her lap....singing and laughing to her stuffed animals. She had created a wonderland for her animals and what made it the most magical of all...was the soft glow of a green glow stick.



It is delightful to get a "toy" that your children can use for hours and never get bored of. It is fabulous that the glow sticks are only a dollar! It is amazing that someone had the insight and know how to make an object glow. Yay, for Glow Sticks!!

My Guilty Pleasure

I am totally enamored with Phineas and Ferb. This cute cartoon made it's way into my living room almost a year ago and I can not seem to get enough. This is a show about two brothers with TONS of imagination, who can do ANYTHING that they put their minds to. No one but the neighbor kids can see and play with the inventions that the boys come up with. They have a teenage sister who tries with all her heart to "bust" her brothers and to bask in the glory of getting her brothers in trouble. She fails 99 percent of the time..much to her frustration. The boys have a pet called Perry and he is a platypus. Perry is not your typical pet he is a secret agent who has to foil the evil plans of the town villain. The characters are very easy to fall in love with and you always seem to want the sister to succeed in her annoying habit.

I have watched this show almost every night and I think I enjoy it more than my children...well, maybe not. I really enjoy creative programs and this one is on the top of my list of fun and entertaining shows. It is a show I am not ashamed to have my children watch and even quote.



It has taken my a while to write this post in fear my man would tease me relentlessly. I have given it a lot of thought and I am now ready to have the teasing begin. So Bring It On!!

Burning Eyes

I have been so tired this week that my eyes have been burning every day.

It feels like the Sandman has dumped 30 bags of dirt in my eyes.

I know I should sleep...dark rings look cute on a raccoons, but not so much on me.

My bed is so inviting, but I do not want to rest.

I guess I will stay up all night and play on my computer and complain about how tired I am....

Maybe red eyes might become a fashion trend and I will be in style for the first time in my life!

Maybe not...ummm....Maybe I should go to sleep....NIGHT!