Love handles!

It's no secret that I'm a little heavier than I was two years ago. I blame all the free food at work. Liam was sitting next to me on the couch, rubbing my back. He felt the bare skin of my love handles and said "Gross! That's your butt!" Then he started fiddling with my clothes and said "Pull up your pants!"

Time to get toned--especially when my kid thinks the fat sitting above my hips is an extension of my butt!

I should mention that this reminds me of the last time I had love handles, when I gained my freshman 15 in college. I went to North Carolina on a break. My grandmother told me I looked great, then grabbed my love handles and said "You just need to lose these."

Halloween 2011

Liam chose to be Spiderman. I know. You are thinking it's not that creative. But, this kid loves Spiderman. He's so cute that it is emotionally overwhelming . . . And I'm not exaggerating. We started the evening with a flat iron steak, pasta and arugula salad. Liam ate pasta and steak--no "trees!" He came home with a haul of candy; and, he is now up way past bedtime eating some of it. Marley wants to greet all the trick-or-treaters and Daisy would prefer to eat them all.

Yummy, children!

Why did the Mommy make apple pie?

Because it's delicious!

Liam is at his girlfriend's Birthday party today.

Liam is at his girlfriend's Birthday party today.

What the Yahoo! "Top Ten Searches of the Day" List Says About the Economy . . .

When we were living in England the entire World financial system nearly fell apart.  You know what I'm talking about.  And, on average, recessions happen once every four years--give or take about six months.  PLUS, economists generally can't tell you we're in a recession until we've been there a few months.  Here's what I do know:  You can tell a lot about what people are really concerned about by checking out the Top Ten Searches on Yahoo!  These days, the searches are nothing compared to what they were in 2008.  Other than that, I don't think I'm permitted to make any more observations about the economy outside of the confines of my office.  All I'm gonna do is list today's top ten and let you interpret this as you please:

10.  Stock-market news

9.    Student Loan Forgiveness

8.    Health-Care plans

7.    Kaitlin Olson

6.    Chelsea Clinton

5.    Mark Wahlberg

4.    Tara Reid

3.    Terrell Owens

 . . . we're getting in deep here . . .

2.    Sister Wives baby

AND, lastly, the number one search of the day . . . it's coming . . . are you ready????


Keep going down . . .


Yep, keep going down . . .


This is in lieu of a commercial break . . .

The number one search of Thursday, October 27th, 2011 was

JACK THE CAT

In case you're wondering why, here's the article:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2011/10/27/jack-cat-found-at-jfk/

That's profound . . .

Chocolate. But he's dipping abanana in it. So it's okay.

Chocolate. But he's dipping abanana in it. So it's okay.

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FWD:How my wild child rides. I just want to get out of the store in one piece

How my wild child rides. I just want to get out of the store in one piece.