…to Heidi Bett’s, where I’m guest blogging today on her cool site.  (Seriously, every page is a work of art.  Even if you don’t want to listen to me yak, then at least come browse her pages and be in awe.  )

Meet Maddie! Isn’t she just the most darling little thing??? Needless to say, my entire family is overjoyed at her arrival. My sister is doing well and my brother-in-law is absolutely over the moon. Their oldest child and the proud Big Sister has been in awe all day. It’s so sweet. My kids have been especially fun to watch, particularly my cool fourteen-year-old son who cuddled her close and sniffed her little head, then gave her a sweet kiss on the cheek.

Only fly in the ointment?

“Momma, why can’t you have another baby?”

Oy. “My baby factory is closed for business.”

“But–”

“No.”

**On Friday I’m guest blogging at Heidi Betts cool web home. Be sure and click over and check it out!**

Today my sister will deliver my new neice by scheduled C-section!
How can I possibly whine? At some point today I’m going to get to hold a whole new bundle of joy and smell youth and baby lotion and watch my kids go bonkers over this newest edition to our family. Maddie will be the first baby born into our family in almost ten years (and with my brother still saying that he’s never going to have any children, then she’s probably going to be our last.)

I’ll post pictures as soon as I’m able!

I’ve made my Wish List over at the Soapbox Queens. Pop on over and tell me what material goody is striking your fancy at the moment.

If I leave my wet hair in a towel over night and don’t brush it, I look a bit like like …

It’s quite disturbing.

Dear Inventor of the Hairclip,

     Thank you for giving me what I have dubbed “Lazy Hair.”  Say I don’t want to go to the trouble of curling my hair.  What do I do?

     I put it in a hair clip.

     No time to wash my hair?  No worries.

     I put it in a hair clip.

     Sick to death of being hot and want my hair up off my neck.

     I put it in a hair clip.

     Too friggin’ lazy to actually style my hair, when I used to be a Hot-Roller-Aqua-Net Queen?

    You guessed it.  I put it in a hair clip.

     I don’t know whether to thank you or hunt you down and throttle you for making me such a clip-reliant junkie.

     Confused in Alabama,

     Rhonda (whose hair is in a clip now)

I happened to catch the last thirty minutes of Steele Magnolias a few nights ago and had forgotten just how much I’d enjoyed that movie.  When the dh walked into the bedroom he took one look at my tear-stained face and stopped dead in his tracts.

“What’s wrong?  Why have you been crying?”

I gestured to the TV.  “I’ve been watching Steel Magnolias.  That was such a good movie.”

Husband stares at me as though I have grown another head. “You realize it’s a movie.”

“And you realize that the baseball game you just watched is just a game, right?”

“That’s different.”

“Do you really think those ball players can hear you screaming at them?”

DH smiles.  “At least I don’t cry.”

“You’re right.”  *innocent look*  “Alabama hasn’t played Auburn yet, have they?”  

(To be fair he doesn’t really cry.  It’s more of an agonized moan of despair. )

Lots of cool things happening in Blogland today.  I’m blogging at the Plotmonkeys and fellow fab author and friend Julie Leto is blogging at the Soapbox Queens.  Click around and visit!

So while it wasn’t raining and we had record-breaking heat, we didn’t have one of summer’s most miserable nuisances–

MOSQUITOES.

With the return of the rain, we’ve had an outbreak of epic proportions.  We can’t open the door without the blood-suckers swarming inside the house and taking the dog out requires Off repellent in gallon quantities.  Terrible, terrible.  I *hate* mosquitoes. 

Thankfully my dh has been outside–being eaten alive, no less-fogging and spraying our yard in an attempt to kill off a few of the little vampires.  Eek!  Is a happy medium too much to ask?  Why must everything be one extreme or the other. 

Damn.  It’s not even Wednesday yet.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day.  Also, if you’ve got a cool Labor Day favorite recipe, please post it in the comments.  Here’s mine.  Very simple, but very good.

Corn Salad

1 can shoepeg corn

1 can niblets

1/2 red onion, chopped fine

2 tablespoons of Miracle Whip

Drain water off corn, combine all ingredients, salt and pepper to taste and let refrigerate at least an hour before serving.  Very simple, but very good.  (My daughter absolutely loves this.)