My son and I had this conversation this past week.

Me: Hey Seth, Let’s watch Sound of Music.
Seth: Does it have robots?
Me: No. It’s about some mischievous kids and their nanny.
Seth: Does it have light sabers?
Me: No. But it’s a cute movie. Someone plays the guitar. Give it a chance.
Seth: Why doesn’t it have light sabers? Or robots?
Me: Watch it for 10 minutes. You might like it.
Seth: Can I pretend it has light sabers in it?
Me: Sigh… Sure. Why not. I just want to sit down for a minute. I’m tired and I don’t watch to watch Star Wars. Let’s just try something different. There’s a puppet show.
Seth: Are there bad guy puppets?
Me: I don’t think so…
Seth: Can I pretend one of the puppets is really a bad guy and know one knows but me?
Me: Works for me. Let’s sit down.
Seth: We’ll name the bad guy puppet Darth Vader. K?
Sigh….

The support I received after this post was amazing. (Thankfully, the scary ordeal is no longer “scary” nor an “ordeal”.) But I wanted to thank everyone who took time to read the post and comment. So I’ll be thanking a group of people as a part of each post until I’ve thanked everyone.

So thanks to: Ibdawnk, Lisa Marie Mary, Lara, Keri, Schmee, Dana, Lisa S. Kelly of West Coast Girlie Blather, Three Under Two, Melanie, Gwendomama, Carol, Stefania, Laura from the Fringe, Kelley, Liz and Manager Mom.

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Everyone has those dirty little secret snacks hiding somewhere in their house. Ok. Maybe you don’t, but we do!

So when Parent Bloggers Network asked bloggers everywhere what’s in the our panties? (er uh, PANTRIES. Typo but I’m keeping it.) I felt compelled to share.

 Now that Seth’s in school and he has to bring a snack each day, we HAVE to have alot of snacks in the house, right? (Ok, so that’s what I tell myself.) So as you can see, there’s no way anyone’s gonna go hungry — Nilla’s, Fruit Roll-Ups, Goldfish crackers, barbecue chips and Cheetos crackers. (You can’t even see the popcorn or the Doritos hidden in the back.) And that’s not counting the “candy box”.

The candy box usually contains the sweets. In this case licorice and Hershey’s Candy Corn Kisses as well as a stray Hostess Ding Dong and as a few lollipops.

And did I mention how we usually have some sort of baked good in the house as well? Last week it was a Cherry Stollen from a local bakery. But earlier this week I made chocolate chip cookies. Next week I’ll probably make brownies…

If you read this blog with regularity, you’ll ask yourself, “Where the hell is the chocolate.” Well… Good question. Last month between a food poisoning and some other stressful event, I stopped eating sweets. Hell, I stopped eating much of anything. I lost 12 pounds! And for some reason now, I just don’t get much pleasure out of eating sweets (or anything in general.) The good thing about this is that its been easy to keep that weight off. So now what I buy is stuff the hubby and the boy will eat, ergo…

Why don’t YOU share your snack time stories too. Post anytime between Sept 5 and 7th. And don’t forget to include links to http://www.brothersallnatural.com/ and http://blog.parentbloggers.com as well as mention, “This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as an entry for a contest sponsored by Brothers-All-Natural.” Then send the post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com for a little linky-love and a chance to win FREE groceries for a month (a $250 value) as well as some Fruit Crisps and Potato Crisps!

(This post was written as part of a blog blast sponsored by Parent Bloggers Network and Brothers-All-Natural.)

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Remember the “Name this laptop” contest? Well, last night “the boy” took a break from his super busy schedule of going to school, pestering the dog, stinking up the bathroom, begging for candy, riding his bike, evading showers and playing outside. He really got a kick out of the names ya’ll submitted. He gave his duty far more consideration and consequence than I thought. I figured it would be a close call between “Lightsaber Princess Poo Poo Pants” (Combining Star Wars weapons and potty talk?  What’s NOT to love there?) and Daphne. (He loves Scooby-Doo.)

But after a good giggle over Linlee and Andrea’s ideas he settled down. He had a very important job to do. As he munched thoughtfully on some Ritz Bits, he chose “Libby the Laptop” (Aleka’s World).  Congrats Alexandra!

Thanks ya’ll for participating. It was alot of fun hearing the names. Hope your weekend is a happy one!  

As of last Saturday I became the owner of a laptop. You are laughing, aren’t you? Because you’re on your third one…

I didn’t care what it looked like — it just couldn’t weigh more than my son (40 pounds) and had to do what I wanted it to do WHEN I wanted it to. (Very much UNLIKE my son.)

I had heard Very Bad Things about Dell laptops and the company’s customer service. Has HP Pavilion dv2000 pissed anyone off? (Gulp.) Hope not. Cause that’s the kind I got. (And I know this is so not a big deal to anyone else. But its a cool thing for me!)

Some neato features? A built-in webcam (great for my homemade porn biz - I cater to the men with cellulite fetishes. All two of them.) and some really pretty design across the top and keyboard area.

Don’t ask me anything else about the computer because I have no clue. Its like my car — I have no clue what’s what. And as long as it does what its supposed to do, I will love it, maintain it and probably leave candy wrappers all over it.

Speaking of taking care… This here computer needs a name, yes? She’s female (because she has female “parts” or plugins). So what shall we name her? The winner (Seth will choose) will get a $15 gift cert to Target or Wal-Mart. Feel free to leave your name idea in the comments section. Oh and if you think Target and Wal-Mart are evil, I can even donate to a charity in your name. Winner is planned to be announced on April 28.

P.S. There’s another contest opportunity at my other blog. Grab your feisty fem friends! You could win a trip to London.