Paint

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. -Danny Kaye

It seems my daughter has grown out of her pink princess phase. She is done with her pink walls with the cute white flowers. She has been asking me to help her with a room makeover for quite a while now. We cleaned up her room a week or so ago and bought some paint yesterday. The color is what one might call "Screaming Purple". The marketing department thought that might not help sales so they decided to call it "Mirabella".

She is SO excited about making the change. I am glad she is starting to paint her canvas early in life.

Friends (insert Twilight Zone music here)

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. — Mencius

After I wrote my last post, I finally decided to let other people read my blog. As you can see it had been about 6 months since my previous post.

Almost immediately after I sent an email giving out my blog address, I got an email from my good friend Beth. It said, "Ha - great minds think alike :-) I posted to my blog for the first time today since April of last year." How weird was that?

Does this mean that I have found the other half of my mind in Beth? I was wondering where it had gotten to.

Peanut Butter

Man cannot live by bread alone. He must have peanut butter. -Bill Cosby

Ok. So I have been a little lax about my blog. I started it a year ago and now have a whopping 4 posts. I was going to figure out a way to "fix" my blog so that my second post which describes why I started my blog came before my first post. Then I was just going to delete my first post because I thought it didn't sound like me. Then I decided to leave it all alone. It is what it is and I like it.

So, why the peanut butter quote? The other day I was at a friend's house and there sat one of those frightening packages of peanut butter crackers. Given the recent salmonella scare, it became the topic of conversation. That led to a discussion about favorite brands of peanut butter. I have bought Jif for years because it is what choosy mothers choose, you know. A couple of people mentioned that Peter Pan was their favorite. I had to buy some Peter Pan peanut butter and see formyself. I had my daughter give me a blind taste test with Jif and Peter Pan then I gave both of kids the same taste test. All three of us chose Peter Pan!

That led me to thinking that change is good sometimes. With this being the day after the inauguration, I am hoping that this is true.