Ron Paul 2012

Almost more than anything, I wish the guy had a chance at taking the whole thing. It does appear like he will be running for office, which I suppose gives me a reason to go to the booth (and be excited about the guy's platform). Excitement is tempered somewhat because of our uninformed electorate. If every American citizen sat down and read any of Dr. Paul's books, then there would be a good chance of, if not full agreement, then at least some understanding of his case for "a revolution". However, because he has ideas that would completely change this country into something good, something better than present-day, and into more of what we should have been all along, the guy gets reported as a nutcase by the media and becomes unelectable.

Whispering

So at naptime today, after telling a story about "Bobby" and singing the allie-bubba-catina-cat song, Greta mei asked me me, "I wu you seep wi' me". Being the sucker who just might love his kids TOO much, I obliged. After snuggling in between her and Lena,

Two Steps From Hell

So I came across some music the other day on Amazon that sounded like a collection of movie soundtrack themes. After listening to most of the samples, I downloaded it and compiled them in itunes under the genre "soundtrack" even though I had no idea at the time if the songs were from movies or not. Well, today I looked them up on wiki and facebook and lo and behold, this a music company that produces all of the epic music used in movie trailers such as Star Trek, Chronicles of Narnia, and Batman. Very cool - this stuff is amzanig!

Brownies

Yesterday, I got an urge for homemade brownies (with walnuts). Within an hour, with "help" from Maddie and Daniel, the brownies were sitting on the countertop, freshly dusted with powdered sugar. Not surprisingly, the kids inhaled their dinner in order to get their hands on them. Mei quietly sat in her booster for about an hour slowly nibbling on every last crumb.
This morning, according to Christine - "I asked Mei Mei what she wanted for breakfast this morning ... eggs, oatmeal ... and she said, without pausing ... brownies!" Funny thing is, if it had been me, I probably would have given her some. Reminded me of the story Bill Cosby told where his wife came into the kitchen to the sound of her kids chanting, "Dad is great, he gives us chocolate cake". There are some things you just don't do.