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I'm going to go ahead and admit that there are a few things I miss about Facebook.  Mostly just the availability of the status update for a good old fashioned brain-dump.  There is a back up in there now that should probably be getting out somehow. 

Sometimes things that get posted there- like when my status update read "I'm going to stop judging people who leave Christmas decorations up all year long as 'lazy' and start classifying them as 'really into Jesus'"- can be followed up with something funny that the kid says like the other day when we passed someone's backyard that was totally (I mean TOTALLY) decked out for year-round Christmas and he said "people who leave their Christmas decorations up all year long work for Santa.  That's where he hides the spy cameras". 

But then you are that person who just posts things that her kids say because they are way funnier than she is and we all get tired hearing about the kids.

Is it just my town where people don't feel a need to take down the mangers and the garland and the angels?

Also in funny kid news, we were talking about some of our neighbors awhile back and Jake asked me if they come from a different country since they have an accent and I said, "yes, Italy, the one that's shaped like a boot" and he said "Mom, you say 'off the boat' not 'like a boot'.  It's not nice to say someone is shaped like a boot".  How he knows about being off the boat I have no idea, but it was really hard not to laugh.

I need to get out of the house so I stop talking about my child all the time.  As funny and adorable as he is.  And full of attitude lately.  Godalmighty, the attitude.  And the impatience.  And the bossiness.  I sat him down last night and told him that the number one most important skill of the ninja is patience.  Ninjas know how to wait quietly for the exact right time to spring into action and they never need to ask questions they already know the answer to and even though ninjas are strong and smart and skilled in a lot of ways, they still need a sensei to guide them and provide them with the skills they will need to one day become a sensei themselves.

We'll see how well that works.  Relating thing to ninjas is one of the best ways to get through to him these days.

Also, kindergarten in two weeks and four days.  Ack.  I'm not sure if there is a word that says how I feel about it.  I swing between excited and, well, I can't say sad.  Just emotional.  I may or may not have teared up at the JCPenney's back-to-school denim commercial the other day.  Yeah?  So what.  I forgot this emotion- the same one you get when you see Johnson&Johnson commercials when you are in your last trimester of pregnancy.

You know something big is about to happen but you aren't too sure exactly how it's going to change your life.