The Monkey-Bird 
Species: monkeybusiness birdious
Habitat: Suburbs, backyards,
Traits:  

Strong desire to climb

Clever use of  tools and opposable thumbs

Engages frequently in monkey business

Enjoying picking things off floor, other monkeys, and furniture and ingesting them or forcing them into the mouths of mother monkeys

Two years ago for Christmas Techie gave me an iPod with the phrase “This is the year we start our family” engraved on the back.  Some 20 days earlier we’d completed our home study and after three years of trying to get pregnant and one miscarriage we were hopeful about adoption.  7 months and one week […]

I wasn’t even going to post about it but it’s been haunting my dreams every night since it happened.  The Westroads mall shooting happened in my hometown.  This is a mall I’ve shopped at hundreds of times…I’ve stood at the customer service counter to have gifts wrapped the same counter where innocent people were murdered […]

I love making things for other people, especially around the holidays.  Instead of sending Christmas cards (which I hate to do because they end up in the trash anyway) I like to make boxes of Christmas treats for a select group of friends and family. 
Now I can already hear some of you saying No way! Too […]

This is one of those gray cold miserable winter mornings.  I’m a big fan of the cold weather as you can see.  I’m no snow bunny, in fact I despise being cold and/or wet. I’m sure Freud would have something to say about that but Freud probably never had to mop wet boot prints off […]