Snow baby!!!

Confession on a Sunday Evening

Brant has Claire today. I am at the office working on my copyediting project that is due on Wednesday (that will never be done by Wednesday). The heat is turned WAY down, and my hands are numb.

I have "my station" playing on Yahoo LaunchCast, which was painstakingly created over months and months of me listening to song after song and choosing my favorites.

Right now "Set the Night to Music" by Roberta Flack is playing. That's right, you read it. Go ahead, make fun of me. I don't care. You're just jealous that my coolness isn't contagious.

What a Wonderful World (ode to Nick and Rose)

I see trees of green........ red roses too




I see em bloom..... for me and for you




And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.




I see skies of blue..... clouds of white




Bright blessed days...




dark sacred nights...




And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.




The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky




Are also on the faces.....of people ..going by



I see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you do




They're really sayin......i love you.




I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow




They'll learn much more.....than I'll never know




And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world

Bibs and a Promise

I LOVE these bibs but ugh, they're so expensive. Now if they were FOUR bibs for $16, then we'd have something to talk about.

Oh, and I promise to give the full story on the exquisitely beautiful wedding of the magnificent Nick and Rose just as soon as I can. I don't want to rush through it, and trust me, there's a lot to tell!!

UPDATE: Jess tells the Rose and Nick wedding caper much better than I, so I'm referring you to her blog for the Florida adventure!!

See you in the Sunshine State!

Nick and Rose are en route to Florida as I write this!

I hope those crazy kids enjoy their road trip and are fluent in Italian by the time I see them next!!!!

Books I Want

There are at least three books I still need to finish and haven't touched in months. However, this does not stop me from wanting MORE books. That's just the charm of Kara. Deal with it.

So my must-read list now includes:

Ask Supernanny: What Every Parent Wants to Know



Most of you know my obsession with Jo Frost, aka, Supernanny. I watch her show every Friday night and try to absorb a lot of her ideas.






Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I watched this French film this past weekend and was mesmerized. Now I MUST read the book. Jean-Dominique "Jean-Do" Bauby, French journalist and former editor of Elle magazine, lived a charmed life in the fast lane until one tragic day he experienced a massive cerebral hemorrhage, leaving him paralyzed from head to toe...this "locked-in" syndrome (i.e., mental faculties intact but unable to move) left him only able to move his left eye/eyelid. With the help of a very dedicated therapist, he learned a new way to convey language. I won't get into the alphabet system he used. Google it, it's worth it. But he managed to dictate a book of his life using this language, and this is the outcome. Tragically, he died ten days after its publication.

The "Barack" books





Yeah, I'm a little late. Last election I had the Kerry book dissected, highlighed, and worn out before the election. I also didn't have a one-year-old who likes to run around and get into everything she shouldn't. That doesn't mean I still don't want to read all of these books. I do. I will.

I'm not going to blog about the list of films I want to see. That would be way too long.

Basket Bingo

Apparently storing toys in the basket and pulling them out is boring. Playing IN the basket is much more fun!