Good friend = Batesy

I have had several really good friends in my life. I would say the number is less than 10. Really good friends. To earn this title they must be non-judgemental, trustworthy, honest, loyal, embrace my children (this requirement came after I had the dynamic duo), love my kids, tolerate my moodiness, be funny, down to earth, someone I feel I can confide in and not have it spread to the outer limits of the world, fun to be around, and understand that my house is ALWAYS junky. Yes.....even the new one we just moved into.

Batesy is my friend. She is sooooo funny it's criminal. She is younger than me. 27. Batesy is single, smart, and a total band, science, and math dweeb. She's the most "gangster nerd" I know. She wanted to come to my kids' math and science night at their school because well....she's a math teacher and a gigantic nerd. So instead of just hanging out with us she ended up being our transportation for the evening which included taking me to pick the twins up from school. We only have one car right now (well for about the past 3 weeks) and I was in a bind and my friend Batesy helped me out and probably drove like 50-75 miles in the total process. Not only did Batesy attend the family night she was like totally into the event and was asking questions and stuff. Remember.....she is a math/science dweeb. The twins were excited and Mookie who totally looks up to Batesy (which I don't mind because Batesy has a Master's degree in biology, owns her own d*&m house by herself, faithfully attends the 7:45 AM service at her church on Sundays, is committed to being celibate until God sends her her husband, is a dedicated professional, super smart, and totally a strong, independent Christian woman) said "it's like she's a part of our family." We had fun. And no.......Baby Wade was not there because he would have totally wrecked shop on the school. :-)

Good friends are hard to come by. And Batesy is a good friend. Some of the presenters were from the district and not my kids' campus so they didn't know me from Jane and couldn't quite figure out who were the parents (me or Batesy) or if one of the kids belonged to me and one belonged to Batesy or what. Because I live in a small town the conversational topic the next day may have been "who was the lesbian couple with the two kids?" Funny.

Thanks for helping us Batesy. Hope the pizza didn't give you the bubble guts.

A letter to the other team

This is worth a click and a read. Click here to view.

An Open Letter to Barack Obama by Alice Walker

The literary genius Alice Walker has posted a phenomenal letter to President-Elect Obama. Check it out.

Yes we did!!

My heart is bubbling over. I am so proud of the accomplishment of President-Elect Obama and proud of my fellow countrymen who voted for change and did not let prejudice overcome a wise decision. This is only the beginning. Mr. Obama has a tough road ahead and it will take time to straighten out the dire state of our country. He is the president for ALL Americans. And it's going to take the support of ALL Americans to steer this boat around. Amen!

Nina

That is Wade's name for me when he really wants my attention or I guess to be really cute. He can not say "Trina" so he says "Nina." Gosh I love him. On last Friday, a 2 year old girl choked to death on a rock at her day care. My heart seized. That could have been my Waby or the twins when they were much younger. Why was no one paying attention to that angel? Her mom and family must be grief stricken.