At 41, I think I don't want more character building.

How am I going to survive the following:

1) Roaches in my apartment.

2) School starts tomorrow.

3) Girls are wearing last years clothes to school. Gigi has to wear 4th grade clothes to the 5th GRADE!!!!!

4) Rabbit is in the house. Oh my goodness.

5) Severe lack of funds. Hope the rent check clears.

6) Tomorrow is Monday.

7) My apt is filthy.

8) SEVERE lack of funds.

9) I can't even look at my kids, they are so grown up with their new hairstyles.

10) Cook out next weekend. Do I have a car to get to and money to pay for this cookout?

new animal - FRANKIE - the rabbit

This is Frankie (Frankenstein). Evie's rabbit. She wanted him for her birthday. He looks calm and cool in these photos but right after I took the third photo down, he tried to kill Evie, she screamed like a girl and quickly put him on the ground. I can't say she dropped him because she 'DIDN'T DROP HIM!!!!!!!!' Like the good mother and compassionate person that I am, I had to let her know that when it comes to her and the rabbit, the rabbit's safety comes first. They are doing much better now. Frankenstein is holed up in my brother's kitchen at my parents' house where the girls are spending my last glorious week of summer freedom from my children. The hellish school year offically begins this friday when I pick up my kids FOR GOOD. bitterBITTERsweetness.

he is the cutest thing ever.

they are the cutest things ever.

this young woman raises and shows rabbits with the help of her grandfather.

poopface.

huge feet.

Exhausting weekend. We had to metro around town saturday and sunday, but spent most of sunday in my father's car driving around Damascus MD....where I want to live now.

2009 Montgomery County Fair

books, authors I need to read

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/

I love it when I can (with little effort) find books that interst me.

Zsoka's (Jojo's) big interview

Is Zsoka the best lifguard ever? I do think so. The girls love her. Too bad she leaves in a few weeks.

at the pool. we love summer

The guinea pigs, Jinx and Juicy

Jinx is the grey and white. We think she is older as she is more tolerant of our attempts to handle her and she is generally larger and less skiddish. Juicy is smaller and terrified of us...well me. She did the highpichted squeal thing when I tried to hand feed her last night. They are active in the morning and the evening and run around cooing and purring to each other. They are super cute.