WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

OVERHEARD

"The #1 movie of the year"
- announcer for an ad for the new SHREK movie

"The #1 movie of the year"
- announcer for an ad for ALICE IN WONDERLAND

"The #1 movie of the year"
- announcer for an ad for AVATAR on DVD

How can that be true of all of those films?  And what exactly is the criteria that makes the movie #1?  I'm curious...

TO BAPTIZE OR NOT TO BAPTIZE (NYC Moms Blog)

In a little less than a month, my partner and I will be "baptizing" our daughter.  We're not necessarily Christians in the purest sense of the word, but we do want to welcome our baby girl into this world surrounded by family and friends and a sense of ceremony.  The thing is, we're writing our own baptism ceremony... and I'm not really sure how to do that without following the standard Catholic baptism rites I grew up hearing in church.  How exactly does one baptize a baby when the baby isn't being baptized into any specific faith?

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BACK WHERE I BEGAN

Isn't it funny how you sometimes end up right back where you began?  I often do this with my outfit each morning (my beau can attest to the pile of options that ends up on our bed as I stumble out the door)... starting with one look, trying on a dozen others, only to end up wearing the first thing I picked out.  And now I've done it with my blog.

This current format is the one I used three years ago when I first began blogging as a way for my family in other states to keep up with my crazy New York life.  The minor differences:  the background was black instead of white and the columns were switched (blog on the left, other stuff on the right).  And then, I got antsy.  I got bored.  I wanted to change it up.  It started with the picture I had at the top near the title - I changed that from a pair of hands, to an OM symbol, to a pregnant tummy.  I changed the color of the links and the headers.  I changed the order of the side bars.  And then I changed the template.  I went from two columns to three columns - whoa!  It was wild!

And now, after a few days of bouncing back and forth between several different looks, trying them on like a dozen different outfits... only to end up back where I began - in the same black top & jeans (my "go to" classic style).  It's comfortable.  It suits me.  It makes me feel like I know where I am, what I'm doing, where I want to go.  And I like it.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

NEEDING BOUNDARIES (NYC Moms Blog)

Boundaries.  Security.  Comfort.  It was a lesson I'll remember long after I forget how to conjugate verbs or diagram a sentence. And ever since then, I've been aware of our need, as humans, for boundaries.  Spacial security.  Comfortable structure.  I see it on the subway, in conversation, and even in the crib.

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Trying out some new formatting on my blog.  With my writing starting to pick up more and more attention, I'm trying to streamline a bit and figure out the best way to move forward.  Hope you'll bear with me over the next week or so while I dabble around... and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the changes (likes or dislikes or suggestions - whatever!).