It's absolutely beautiful here! 83 degrees and raining for the first time in over a month! Both kids are asleep! Mama's drinking wine and I'm drinking absolute 100 and red bull. A last hoorah before she starts her surrogacy tomorrow. Life is good!

That's pretty solid.

I would add find yourselves a strong church or Christian community, but some of you wouldnt hear me anyway.

you are so lucky. i look forward to my next bout of food poisoning for some rapid weight loss.

I have been bouncing around between 135 and 138. Maybe I need to eat some bread...

And an interesting gem from councilor #1 was a book called something like "The Four Languages of Love" (Warning: it may have been the 5 Languages of Love). It was an easy read, but the premise is that that there are basic ways that love is communicated (like physical contact, service, gift giving, time). People expect that everyone communicates the same way that they do, but most don't. For the wife and I, I am a physical contact person, and the wife is a service. So if I do the dishes, to me its a chore, and to her it is saying I give a crap about her.

It was interesting to learn, but has a dark side: once you know what your spouse needs to feed love, when you are in a pissy mood you know exactly what to withhold to hit them hardest. I am not saying it as a plus, but if you arm your child with it, they will use it. I am crossing counciling, which like the beams, is bad.

I could have a had a very nice bike for the amount I spent on marriage counselling / councilling, and I still don't know which word is correct.

I hear you, loud and clear.

Took that much to realize that you were a guy, eh? ;)

Skip the bread, go straight to the milk shakes.

:innocent:

Great dieting tip. :thumb:

My kids say I make the BEST milkshakes. I usually make them black-and-whites (vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup). Maybe I should start to drink them...

We've been married nearly 29 years.

I have no idea how this marriage thing is supposed to work.

It's probably better that way.

Oh. Come on!

You're just toying with us now.

life is like a box of chocolates.

I just had a cupcake.

I'm about to bite the bullet and update the OS on my iPhone 4 to iOS 6...wish me luck!!

Not at all. My girls insist that dad makes the best milkshakes. Come over sometime and I will prove it.

Yes. I even use this to mix:

http://todayontheweb.com/keena/31M.jpg

clearly they are below the age where they think you are a total embarrassment and cringe whenever you try to act cool.

Wow. It's an 888 MB file to download. That's going to take awhile, even with high-speed internet. So glad we got rid of dial-up!

Yes, although the 12 year old starts to act that way in public if her friends are around...

Or dip some white bread in chocolate milk shakes.

I did it without incident.

I'll be there in 4 hours.