AAAAYYYYYEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup, um, maybe even 6 lbs here.....between Tday and Xmas.....geez....

I'm sitting here with my new secret weapon:

QUAKER INSTANT OATMEAL -- WEIGHT CONTROL (banana bread flava...)


The darn stuff works! It does It does!!

Also in the arsenal....

FIBER ONE Chewy Bars
KASHI GOLEAN CRUNCH Cereal (yes Lara, it is good!! I agree!!)

Thanks for staying in touch with us in 2008 - we're planning more fun for next year, and look forward to seeing you here and on Facebook!

Maybe you can't tell from this picture, but it's SNOWING in New England today, the last day of 2008. Yay! It's so pretty! And so cold! Perfect weather for roasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate.

Cheers to a FINE 2009!!! How will you ring in the year?

Now that Christmas and Hanukkah are over, what will you do with the cards you received?

This year I'm particularly interested, since for the first time I sent a family photo card. I think I broke about 80% of Heidi's Holiday Card rules (check out our "This Week's Show" by clicking here) but I feel proud to have joined the family photo card club! And now I really wonder...what will become of the card after it's been read???

In early January, I generally put the cards we've received in a shoe box with all the other stuff I can't bear to throw away. My storage unit has a lifetime of shoe boxes, and I rarely check out what's in the boxes. I'm a hoarder, I know. But I can't bear to throw out pictures!

I think we all have a stack of cards to deal with right about now... What do you do with them? How long to they stay out? Do you save them? Toss 'em? Looking for ideas here....

I made up the name first -- and then created the drink....

3 x jiggers/shots vodka
1 x Absolute Raspberry (its not pink)
1 x Creme de Cacao (clear)
2 x Heavy Cream (or just cream or milk)
Splash of White (clear) Creme de Menthe
shake in mixer w/ ice
Garnish Rim with premade white icing from tube or can

yield: 2 drinks....or one big Ho Ho Ho!!!

(if you garnish w/ small candy cane, that's good too, but the red will "pink" your drink..)

For the green version from last year -- click here.

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I was on a business trip this week, and my team is all girls. In fact, I don't think there were more than two guys in the room at any time! I love the guys we work with, but that Pajama Party would not have happened if there were any guys around - it was great!

After we talked about which of the guys at the company we had crushes on, what our holiday plans are, and ate our weight in candy, pizza and beer, we got a lot of work done.

One woman very shyly mentioned something that her husband had done for her in preparation for the trip that will Blow. Your. Mind. You'll have to wait for our next show to hear about it, but in the meantime, I want to know: What's the nicest thing a guy has ever done for you?

Did he take care of you when you were sick (ie, hold your hair while you...)? Clean the bathroom? Whisper sweet nothings in your ear? Something manly, like shoveling snow...or something sweet, like bring you flowers after a bad day?

Look forward to hearing your stories!

An old friend from RockStarMommy Days (sniff sniff -the greatest blogger who ever lived...and disappeared) - started a business sellin' stuff like this with rhinestones:



Ooooo shiny things....ooooo. I just learned what "sliders" are....and can't believe I don't have them yet.

Check out her stuff at double9apparel.com. Click here.

Sure it's a little late to buy for xmas presents -- BUT, where you gonna spend your chrismas money from grandma????

She's a certified Texas 'cheermom' - so you know she knows her bling. And maybe if you ask real nice, she'll make you (or your daughter if you are up there in age with us) a custom school/team photo blanket....???? Never hurts to ask.

Merry Blingmas!

6 more shopping days until Hanukkah for Lara and all my tribe type friends : )

I know most like the Adam Sandler song the best....but I'm still the biggest fan of:




I only learned a couple years ago from Lara what Jewish peeps do on Christmas Day (duh, never thought about it before...too wrapped up in myself!).
This is pretty funny - make it to at least 1:25....



Of course the Classic Christmas Jewish Rap!!! And why do I (Luthern Mut) find this so funny????



How DOES Lara put up with me ??? : )

Who wouldn't want hot naked photos next to their obituary?

NSFW Picture: Merry Christmas from Bettie!

My favorite soccer mom role model even sings Christmas carols with her family!

(notice who is manning the 'jingle bells')



No, I'm not all goth or anything. I just think she's got it going on for a mom, right????

And I LURVE ME MY CHRISTMAS TIME!

If you're a kid in Switzerland, you may hit your neighborhood playground to find new swings - yay! Oh wait - The new swings have been reinforced to accommodate heftier kids, and there's a sticker on 'em telling kids they're fat:



This week's sign of the apocolypse is the new way to tell kids they're fat.

The whole story is here...

Honestly, if you're playground age, whose fault is it that you're fat? And seriously - the kids are at least in a playground, they must be running around a little bit. Maybe this would be better stuck on the front of the tv at home? What kind of complex do you want to give kids in the playground??

Doesn't this whole program seem WRONG????

I see maybe one movie in the theatre a year. (I have two young kids). So, this years film? Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

Dudes - it's a better adult movie than kid movie. BY. FAR.

If the old Chinese proverb "Every Minute You Laugh Prolongs Your Life An Hour" is true- then I'm gonna live another another few days because of this movie.

So who is your favorite Madagascar character?

For me, it has got to be King Julian XIII. He is the self absorbed Lemur King....complete with crown.


He's just all the clueless, yet very egotistical self centeredness that I imagine we all feel like acting on sometimes (or...is it just me?? again??).

My favorite quote from him this movie: "Relocate the Riff Raff"




And while searching around, I had NO idea that the voice of King Julian is none other than Sacha Baron Cohen!



Oh, wait, you may know him better as this...Borat! : )


Just perfect.

Now excuse me while I continue humming "I've got to Move It Move It...."

Ok. OMG. Ok. Ok. Ok.

So, I saw Twilight this weekend (THANK YOU, 15-year-old stepdaughter, for going to the movie with me!!!!). It was awesome - not the actual movie? The fact that there IS a Twilight movie is what's awesome, and that I got to see it without putting on a disguise and hiding in the back of a theater packed with girls.

As a movie, it was, like, SOOOOO disappointing? BUT - spending 2 hours with the people from TWILIGHT? So NOT disappointing.

Here's my guide to the Twilight Phenomenon:

1. If you haven't read the books, you should not see the movie. But you TOTALLY should read at least the first book, and see if you can stop yourself from the rest of the books or the movie.

2. Reading Twilight will remind you of what it felt like to fall in love with someone...when you were in high school. That guy you crushed on was so PERFECT! And GORGEOUS! And in the book? HE FALLS BACK IN LOVE WITH YOU!!!!!

3. When watching the movie, you will notice that the vampires wear too much makeup and look TOTALLY different from the humans, and not just because they're all so pretty. This is annoying and distracting, because really, you don't want to be reminded of the fact that you just paid for an adult ticket to watch a teen vampire love story.

4. Also? The movie is like a super-campy version of a very serious romantic novel - it's really an After-School Special, brought to you by Harlequin. Us girls in the audience laughed out loud at parts that were not supposed to be funny. The sucker dads in the audience were praying for a meteor to hit the theater.

5. Edward will not live up to your expectations, but really ladies - how could he??? Neither will Jacob! But c'mon - haven't you ever seen a movie made from a book you loved??? Does it EVER live up to expectations?

6. Do you know any teen-aged boys? If they want to understand how to make girls like them, Twilight will teach them.

In other words - you should TOTALLY read the book(s) and go see the movie!!

Did I miss anything??

Does it seem a little sad to you to scrimp on Christmas this year? I mean, it is tough work to walk through Target and not feel like you need an extra box of bulbs for the tree, extra lights for the house, and an extra present or two for the kids. "Everyone else is getting a Wii, Mom!"

But maybe this will give you some perspective. This is my dad as a baby in 1941 at his parents little cinderblock Navy home in Panama a year before the war broke out and the families were shipped back up the East coast.



The tree isn't big. The decorations are lacking. The Christmas outift is not what I see other kids wearing lately : ) And there is one toy.

But my dad will tell you, he has nothing but wonderful and full and festive memories of all his Christmases. Both his parents are still alive. My grandparents have never ever mentioned that they had "less" than they wanted or less than anyone around them. What I hear from them is also memories of close and happy holidays.

I wonder of all the Wall Street bond trader-types will look back someday so wistfully and happily on their holidays?

Dude, why am I always the last to know? PlayGirl magazine is gone as of last month. Folded. No more.

This is a travesty.

If I had run PlayGirl, things would be different.

First: Who PICKED those guys? What girl wants to see overdeveloped bulky gross gym dudes waxed to the nines?? So not sexy.


Second: Who POSED those guys? What girl wants to see an exaggerated dumb stripper pose? With that "look at my huge package' look on his face?


My girl Kate White from Cosmo Magazine does it MUCH better....I still have Mr. Peach Cobbler on the studio wall. What is sexier than this???


Third: Who wrote the articles? Was there a "forum" type column with sexy stories? Because my first hire would be tesco for his A-mazing sexy stories (check him out ladies, find stories on the righthand column).

Here he is.....so he also looks good. Could certainly be a centerfold himself in addition to writing...


Fourth: Who thought that LAYOUT was good? Everyone knows every magazine on the market is now a gorgeous mix of Real Simple and Oprah Magazine.



Fifth: Whose idea was it to take PlayGirl so seriously? Shouldn't it be sprinkled with health tips from the Naked Cowboy? Or with cheeky jokes from the guys of Puppetry of the Penis? Or a fun monthly feature from the folks who put together the book: Porn for Women by the Cambridge Women's Pornography Collective.




I mean, really, can you see it? The monthly section of the dude doing laundry or washing the kitchen floor? Fabulous I say.

It could have been done better.

And who knows....I see a possible new busines venture...I've always threatened Lara with this one : )