My husband is such a geek - when making holiday cookies he set aside a "standard" to make sure he was rolling to spec - he is cute that way. Normally I make the cookies, but tonight I was helping my son with his homework. In other news I felt like such a PARENT today - we had our first consultation for getting braces for my daughter...

Synergy between my tween daughter's musical taste and my affinity for crude snark, I give you:

Cartman covering Lady Gaga's Poker Face:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/254168/

andhttp://www.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/12foot-fork-in-the-road-designed-as-birthday-prank-might-become-art-in-pasadena.html

If our parents had named us what they had wanted originally, my husband and I would have been "Falcon" and "Scarlet". Although I like to wonder what our lives would have been like had that happened (the irony is that we probably would have gotten together anyway), I think reality is better...

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Settling back into work and daily routine. Son is starting new school and daughter is back at old school. Need to startup activities again - piano, gymnastics, etc.... Miss Germany.

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