Faith is all it is.

 My son the 66 year old Rabbi.

Ok so my son is 16 going on 66.  He vacillates between wanting to be a physicist or a rabbi or both.  So the other night we were discussing faith and crazy religious beliefs.   I personally believe that ALL faiths sound crazy to ALL other faiths.  That is a fact.   Sooo as I am trying to make my point I say,

"What if aliens came down and we told them that our religion believes that a baby boy's genitals must be altered on his eighth day of life, then we cater a party."   (bris or circumcision...look it up)

The aliens would think that we are all crazy!

Whereupon he says,

"Who is to say that aliens are bipods anyway."

wait. what?

That is just sad when conversing with your baby son requires a dictionary.

Cats

Awwwww...look at these adorable kitten bookends that I came across at Goodwill the other day.  

***Aunt Peaches, please stop reading now***

Now I can say awwwww because these kittens aren't real.  A real kitten gives me the heebie jeebies and here is why.  The answer is actually two fold.

1.  Every time I saw a kitten when I was a kid,  my mom (a farm girl) would say, "Aaaarrrrrrggghhh! Don't you dare touch that strange cat, you could get ringworm!"  The dreaded ringworm.  That I DID get by riding my friends horse in shorts.  So there's that.

2.  My brother got a kitten once when we were kids.  It had some sort of disgusting illness that made it have diarrhea and then it died.  (Sorry if you just spit out your cornflakes.)  ringworm maybe?

And that is why this photo grosses me out. Amen.

Boss

 This is the actress Kathleen Robertson that plays Kitty O'Niell on the tv show Boss.  You can catch it On Demand or maybe on Netflix.  I love her smart-girl/naughty secretary look!   The buttoned up hot librarian look is really hot this fall, and since I enjoy dressing like Don Draper's secretary I am alll set.

Now let's talk about Kelsey Grammer's character.  He is soooo scary!!  He plays the fictional mayor of Chicago.  If you get in his way watch out!!!   Does anyone watch television on the television anymore?  It seems like I watch entire seasons On Demand or on my IPad.   I started out watching Breaking Bad on Demand and I was soooo addicted!  Boss is coming in a close second.  As for most of my time I blog for a living so it makes blogging for fun.....well less fun.  Now that my boys are back in school I thought I would have more time, but so far not so much!!

Back to School

Ahhh the first day of school.    NO,  teachers do not want an apple-shaped anything.  We want lattes.  (I'm no longer teaching, but I speak from experience.)

One of these would be lovely.

Or how about a ruler themed shot glass from Goodwill. (Wash them and don't send alcohol to school with the kiddos.) A bag o' coffee would be much appreciated. Yes I know some people don't drink coffee. I can't imagine it. So I choose not to believe it.   Oh wait!! Coffee or Chipotle. Either one works. Happy Back to School!    Enjoying your day off?   (I kid!)   One of mine is starting college this week, and the other is a junior in H.S. I will just be happy if they remember deodorant.

Tea!

Remember when the girls and I had tea at British Tealeaves for Katie's Birthday? We were so inspired we decided to head to Goodwill to see if we could put together a mis-matched tea party. Easy. We did it in three stores in one day. Yes I need a caffeine boost to keep up! Those girlies can shop! (they learned from the master.)

Here is our tea party with my two nieces Anna and Alexis. It was so nice to have them in Colorado at the same time. We are all spread across the West, so having them together was tremendous!

Tea Party!

No, not that tea party.

A real tea party at the adorable English Tea Leaves Cafe in Parker, Colorado.  It was Katie "The Intern's" birthday, and she is seriously the go to expert on all things London at the moment so off we went.  It was really girly and fun.  If you would like to enjoy Afternoon Tea, then you need to call 24 hours ahead for a reservation, so we just had a delicious lunch and beautiful scones that are hand made on the premises everyday.  Yummm!  The girls had Vanilla and Snowflake teas, and let me tell you they both were delish but the Snowflake was a huge hit. 

The owners are British and lovely.  You have to go try it out!  Thank you so much for such a great time.  It prompted us to go straight to Goodwill to buy our own tea party supplies!  Can't wait to show you our little party we plan on putting together!!

All Girl Summer!

I went from a no-girl house to a three girl summer!  From your left is Katie "The Intern", Anna (my niece) and Kelsey (my son Brock's friend)  We have been lunching, coffee-ing, and Goodwill-ing every day!  I am having soooo much fun!!