for those with twitter

http://twitter.com/pattimouse is my profile. am not always updating it, but it is fun to play with.

my shelfari shelf..still in progress

come join me in shelfari. it is a great place for book discussions. my profile is http://www.shelfari.com/mommymouse

Poem….

Long and Dark……..

ok don’t laugh

just got Corel psp photo and tried to do the one picture i can draw off puter…and well…. beware is bad….

boy have i felt like this way too often…

my first stab at a comic…

names and random bits of fluff

ok i met a gorgeous child who had the unfortunate nature of being named “lovely”. I cannot imagine naming a child such a name. i collect unusual names, but that will never make the list as it is not a name to me. I love names and their meanings, i find them to be amazing when a child has a great name. I wanted to name my first son Lance Orion. Mom said it was a cabbage patch name, but i liked it. instead I named him Nicholas james. My middle child was going to be Nathaniel Robert, but i felt it would be unfair to him to have two names as i had to give him up for adoption. His parents named him Nathan Robert, so I feel it was his name all along. My girl I named Gabrielle Arianna. I am not sure there could have been any other name for her. I never have liked my own name. I want to change it to Serenity Rose. I wonder if others have thoughts on there names?

old english assignments and the philosophical thoughts they bring

my High school sucked, but there were a few bright spots among the teaching staff. the english teacher, Mrs. Latta, was fond of cows and had a way of making you think. she assigned a journal entry to us once that i was recently reminded of. “What would you like to be remembered for?” basically, if I were to die tomorrow, what would i like to be remembered for? The only thing i could think of then kinda holds true now. I would want to be remembered for being a nice person. nothing fancy i suppose, but that is alot of who i am. I would love to say i am always nice, but i won’t lie that way even to myself. I want to be a loving mother (really a good mom, but hey you can’t always be the worlds best parent. no one can.) A gamer of high skill (yeah i know, but i can dream, can’t i?) a poet with extraordinary talent. ( ok so mediocre is more likely…) but mostly as someone who was nice and fun and occasionally talented. if nothing else it is a reachable goal. so i ask each of my friends…

What would you like to be remembered for? good or bad… just one thing you would like the world to remember about you.

strength of mind and strength of heart.

I am afraid i am feeling quixotic today. Been trying to clean my house which seems like it has been getting worse instead of better. Also running around doing errands,  and I find i am getting very little done. the more i do, the more there is. and all i wanna do is take a nap.
Days like this i want nothing but a strength boost.  as all it seems like is my energy is sapped away from me. prolly my overactive imagination…. but still a nap sounds lovely………

Stop Thief!

Ok my angel stole my toast this morning. She has been sick all day with a sniffle. She looked at me when i said i wanted my toast back. she smiled and said that “mommy’s toast will make me better” ok so she stole my heart as well. just had to share the cuteness of the toast thief….