http://www.amysbrain.com Life, Motherhood and the Pursuit of Sanity Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:06:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you do nothing else today....Please Vote!  It counts! http://www.amysbrain.com/please-vote/ During a post-breakfast discussion about future home renovations.....Madeleine interjected the following into the conversation: Madeleine: "What about the robots?'. Our response:"What about the robots?" Madeleine:  "They are going to break our house." Our response:  Laughter It is always good to know what your children loose sleep over at night.   Those darn scary robots. http://www.amysbrain.com/fear-of-robots/ I am proud to say that on a regular basis I contribute to the lesser good.  I have now donated three bikes, a ladder, fencing, various tools and several car windows.  Not to mention a palette for the local artists to paint on (my husbands car).  Prior to moving to ... http://www.amysbrain.com/contributing-to-the-lesser-good/ Today I bought a new toy. It is somewhat in celebration of my new job. Obviously the new toy takes precedent to the job, since it gets its own blog post. It is a Toddy Cold Brew Coffee Maker. I have been looking at them for ... http://www.amysbrain.com/my-new-toy/ My broom is officially dead. It is old and the bristles are curled up all over the place. This is partially due to the recent use of it on the cement out back. In place of the old blue broom I decided to try and use ... http://www.amysbrain.com/i-am-not-a-witchbut-i-need-a-broom/ This weekend we escaped to the mountains for a quick break from the city. We went up the Poudre Canyon and stayed at a place called the Sportman's Lodge (aka the little brown cabin). It is a rust place about 50 miles outside Fort Collins. A wood ... http://www.amysbrain.com/nostalgic/ So I am crazy (see mosaic block number 11).....Today we adopted a new puppy. I dropped the car off to get an oil change and walked over to Target. On the way we passed a Petsmart and the kids asked to go in to look at the animals. ... http://www.amysbrain.com/my-new-baby/ Because I can be a follower....Here is my mosaic that I created on Flickr. I first read about it on my friends blog and then my husband followed her.....so I guess here I go. The questions: 1. What is your first name? Amy 2. What is ... http://www.amysbrain.com/following-the-crowd/ Today we went to the Gay Pride Parade. I have always loved going to parades! It is one of the reasons why I love living in the city. Two weeks ago we had attended the Juneteenth Parade in our own backyard. Parades are tons of fun ... http://www.amysbrain.com/everyone-loves-a-parade/ First of all...Happy Father's Day to my husband. Your kids are very luck to have you in their life! I know that times can be stressful but I would not want to go through this adventure with anyone but you by my side! We had a busy, but fun ... http://www.amysbrain.com/fathers-day/