sleepover
Lydia, Kimberly, and Lauren came over for a slumber party Friday night. We got to visit Scout and Aari, eat stew, and make chocolate chip cookies. I just wish I'd remembered to take a picture. Lydia had claimed for weeks that she hadn't seen "Singin' in the Rain," so we watched it. She kept having flashbacks during the movie, so maybe her subconscious had repressed it. Who knows.
It turns out that our house is very good for playing tag and hide and seek. It also turns out that Frank is a tattletale. Whenever you hide, he goes and sits right outside of your hiding place.
In other news, I woke up this morning with a headache. I'm also nauseous. Maybe I'll let myself off work a little early this afternoon...
posted by Carroll @ 10:09 AM
16 Comments:
The girls LOVED their sleepover! I have never seen Lauren laugh as hard as she did during the part of the movie where Gene Kelly's friend sings "Make 'Em Laugh." It was so cute!
Moses supposes his toeses are roses then Moses supposes erroniously..... I always loved that song.
heehee, I can picture Lauren giggling now. I need to have Carroll tape just that part of the movie for me so the girls can watch it over and over...and over...and over...annnndddd...maybe not.
Sounds like you had lots of fun! The girls will always remember it.. I can remember my first sleepover at my aunts house- she brought out her barbies and we played for hours! I was around Laurens age at the time. We laugh and talk about our special night to this day!
Yikes. Musicals. We just received a Christmas package someone sent, and one of the gifts was a pair of Christmas musicals (White Christmas and another one, I think) so it's all that's been on in our house lately. Awful.
Oh, and as the most vehemently conservative I know, I always think of you when I see political stuff. Here's a funny joke someone sent me, and of course I thought of you:
http://www.mymanmitt.com/mitt-romney/2008/01/i-hope-this-joke-becomes-reality.asp
Well, I guess that won't work. And I've just noticed I inadvertently left out the word "person" in my comment. Anyway, you'll have to take my word that the Hillary joke was funny.
Hope you feel better soon.
J - Fred's out of the race. What are we going to do???
LOL. I love that Frank is the show-and-tell tattle-tell. Sadie is too. Dave tries to hide and scare me, but Sadie almost always gives him away!
Uhhh, I think my brain is still stuck in the moving boxes. I meant hide-and-seek, not show-and-tell!
How do I get invited to a sleepover? I know someone who knows someone, AND I have a terrific recipe for fast homemade donuts! AND two little girls that would giggle over Cosmo's big scene. Do you need references?
Carroll,
This is going off your blog topic, but you asked... You know that I am waaaaay less conservative (fiscally) than you, so I don't know how much you can take from my thought process, but here's basically how I'm thinking.
The only R who makes me wonder if it would even be worth going to the polls is Giuliani. Pro-choice? No can do. So, now that Fred's out, my thinking is that I have to vote for the anti-Rudy. I can't get behind Mitt either, since I think he would lose by 20 points at least in the general to Hillary. He's not as bad as some have made it sound, but he's just a terrible campaigner and could never win an election.
That obviously leaves McCain and Huckabee. I think Huck is way more conservative on fiscal issues than the fiscons are letting on (they hate him with a passion and are doing their best to make him sound like Stalin in a pastor suit). The only thing in his record I don't like is the pardons, which make me wonder if he understands that there is a place for a legitimate division between church ("grace") and state ("justice"). Overall, though, I love him and think he'd be the best president. No way we get a pro-Roe judge on the SC if he's at 1600. However, he's the least likely of the last 4 to actually take the nomination, and then his battle with whoever the D is would be an uphill one (actually, I think his policies would be very popular, but a lot of people are going to hear "Baptist pastor" and stop listening).
McCain I actually surprisingly have come around on. I used to think he screwed conservatives around just for media coverage, but on closer analysis I agree with him on a lot of that stuff. Anti-waterboarding? You and I will probably disagree here, but I think it's immoral. I don't care if someone has a bomb that will kill 1000 people and I can find out if I just waterboard the guy. If we start down that road, I truly believe that nothing separates us from the terrorists, and there's no way I'm standing before my Maker and happily defending my decision to waterboard some guy. We'd probably have to agree to disagree there, I'm guessing. The only McCain thing that gives me pause is the campaign finance thing, which I think was well-intended but stupid policy. And, he has the huge advantage that he could actually beat Hillbama. I really think, that with the right VP and a good statement on judges (he's consistently pro-life, so that shouldn't be a problem), I could get excited about McCain. Basically, to me, he's the best of a so-so bunch.
Now back to your regularly scheduled discussion of the musical genre.
OK OK...Here's my thinking:
I agree about Huckabee. I like that he doesn't take himself so seriously, but the pardons are scary. His record on taxes is scary.
McCain is a no go. As John so eloquently put it last night, he'll never put a true conservative Justice on the bench because said justice would immediately vote to strike down McCain-Feingold, his one claim to fame. He's just too cozy with the Dems, and more concerned about the media liking him than limiting the size and scope of the federal government.
I guess Giuliani ties for second. I know he'd focus on national security, which is HUGE right now...but I question an R who is that socially liberal.
The thing I like about Romney is that he's a business man. He's made millions in the private sector, so he understands how to cut wasteful spending and would be a champion for businesses. It's all those "evil corporations" that employ everybody. What's good for businesses is good for the rest of the country.
Wow...that was a long way to say that I haven't decided yet either. Can we just write in Ronald Reagan???
#1 Huckabee (though I see nothing short of a miracle landing him a nomination).
#2 McCain (who's most likely to get the nomination).
#3 Stay at home and watch the exit polls ;-) because the only person who would make me vote for the R candidate simply to oppose the D would be Hillary (but I don't think that's a possibility [praying really hard] because she doesn't have what it takes to beat Obama).
Giuliani has proven his stance is pro-abortion (not "pro-choice") through his legislation and his own personal checkbook so there's no way I can vote for him (although I think the chances of him getting the nomination are just slightly better than Huckabee - thank the Lord ;-)
Totally agreed with Rich. No way, no how, will I ever stand before Him and defend voting for a man I knew was pro-abortion. Just won't do it. I understand the argument that he's more likely than, say, Hillary to appoint a judge that overturns Roe, but I can't stomach it personally. More power to you if you'd like to go this route, and like I said, I understand it.
I get your thing for Mitt, and I mostly agree. He's been guilty of changing his position (including appointing some terrible judicial appointments of his own, including reportedly two homosexuals who have fought for same-sex rights), but we don't have a perfect candidate left and his business experience is a plus. Overall, I think he'd appoint good judges, and that's my main issue by 1000 to 1 (in case you can't tell, I have a personal thing in politics where if someone wants stop killing babies, I'm willing to overlook a LOT of differences in taxes or immigration or war views).
However, like I said before, if it's Mitt vs. Hillary, he loses by 20 points. I'm not sure he carries more than 3 or 4 states. People just don't like him, and he's totally unelectable, in my opinion. If he can't get Republicans from his next-door state to like him when he's spending millions and saying all the right things, then how is he going to get your garden-variety wishy-washy "moderate" to vote for him in the general? Won't happen. I like him, I think he'd make a good President, but he will never be President.
I think we just won't be on the same page when it comes to McCain. I have to say that one of his big selling points to me is that he's the only candidate with more than a 20% chance of winning in the general. Add to that his consistent pro-life record in the Senate and I'm willing to let a lot of campaign-finance reform water under my bridge.
Just purely out of curiosity, I'm wondering what percentage of us would agree with me when I say that I would vote for a pro-life (and I mean truly believed it and had a record to match and promised to appoint anti-Roe judges) Hillary Clinton over Rudy Giuliani?
I'm genuinely wondering. For me, the judges issue is basically all I care about. I would happily vote for a full-blown socialist if I thought we could make it illegal to kill babies in the future. Do the rest of you feel the same, of do you think I'm taking that one too far?
J, that's a tough one. Are you really willing to stand behind one candidate and put all your eggs in one basket because of one issue? You wouldn't also factor into your choice their position on ESCR, homosexuality, DOMA, etc? I don't think I could be that black and white (given your artificial scenario there).
Here's some stuff to lighten the mood and help make us laugh. Read up on who the NYT editors have "nominated" (which should give you the exact person you shouldn't vote for ;-). Then there's another "nomination" from Ann Coulter (and she dares to call herself a Christian?). And finally, a nice bumper sticker many of us would apply to our car with pride ;-)
NYT
Coulter
Bumper sticker
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