new shoes are for walking!

When you were about to start school, what was most important to you?

Rhayn starts school very soon, and she wanted some new shoes. I wanted her to have some nice ones without any cartoon characters on them, some that were not plastic. We compromised. These cons have pretty crystal hearts on the side, they are pink and black (so they will match nearly everything) and hey if they came in my size I would have bought them for myself, too, because those are cool shoes!

Don't ask me about that outfit, though, she picked it and she loves it. Gwennie has a dress just like that (although on her the sleeves leave welts on her chubby arms.) But I think my Rhayn definitely has a sense of her own as far as fashion!

Gwennie thinks she might want to think about walking. The past few days (since we came home from my parents and she watched Madder walking) she has been letting go of the coffee table, her arms in the air, to stabilize herself, and she will try to take a step. So far she has gotten only one foot to move before she comes crashing down. She only tries it at night, too. I am ok with her waiting and I am ok with her walking. Whatever she does, she has already waited two weeks longer than Rhayn, who walked Christmas morning (she wanted that tree SOOO badly!) when she was 9 and 1/2 months old.

I looked at getting Gwennie a pair of shoes, but her chubby feet do not fit in anything other than the Robeez that she has. (The Robeez do fit, as in they do not fall off, and she can cruise in them. However they leave red welts on her ankles. Oh but I love that fatness!)

Will is still gone, we have only 1 week and 2 days left. It is going by quickly, but still I miss him especially at night. The girls go to bed and I stay up watching movies. So far I have watched In Her Shoes, Prime, and Alfie. Tonight I am watching Imagine Me and You.

I loved In Her Shoes. It was so great. Dacheese- you should watch it (its a little dirty- PG-13 but the movie is sooo good, and its about sisters!)

Prime, well it left me wanting something the ending was crap.
Alfie, same feeling at the end. But the cinematography was great, it was artsy and in the same vein as Down With Love (done like a 1960s flick.) And if you must know- I loved Down With Love.

I prefer a happy ending, because I am (get this!) a *GIRL* (Sometimes I am even a little bit girlie!) I don't want to watch death and murder and WAR. If I want that stuff I will read the news, because it is surrounding us. I refuse to watch Saving Private Ryan. I know it is supposed to be one of the best films, but I think that the world is messed up enough and I watch movies to ESCAPE from that. Its like the reason I read books that are light and easy to read because they do not leave me feeling like the world is a worse place.

Not saying that I don't care about the world, or what is going on in it. But there is NO reason to go watch a movie like World Trade Center, or that one about the passengers on the airline that fought back, and still died. Seriously, I know those are supposed to be "feel good" but they just remind me of all of the people who died, all of those people who lost their parents, friends, brothers, sisters, lovers. All of the babies who will never know they parents. It brings tears to my eyes. I am not spending my few precious child-free moments watching that. And I am certainly not watching it with my children, maybe when they are older... but let them be kids and be free, and not worry about the woes of the world just yet.