You know...

I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook. I enjoy it/get annoyed with it in the same breath. What I enjoy most, is I can vent about those things that I can't talk about IRL with people, but by venting it, people I know IRL can read exactly what I think (like the fact that people who quit having children are lame and selfish or that people who send their children to public school are parasites and statists and humanists and well, lame, and have zero business complaining about Obama's ridiculous policies).

Once again, I have my gardens started. This year we're actually planting vegetables. Tomatoes (18 plants, including some vine type tomato plants), 6 pepper plants, zucchini, yellow squash, vine peaches (supposedly taste like mangos), blueberries (doing fantastically), basil, dill, cilantro, thyme, oregano (verrrrrrrrrrry slow), parsley (planting that tomorrow) and mint (still hasn't sprouted...seed packet says it takes several weeks, well they weren't kidding). We have 6 dwarf peach trees that are going gangbusters and I am trying my luck at 2 dwarf lemon trees and a dwarf orange tree. I am pretty annoyed that by accident I ordered 2 dwarf lemon trees and forgot to order a dwarf lime tree. Oh, well......I am not perfect.

My oldest son completed the classroom part of driver education. I read an interesting article today in Woman's Day Magazine by a Mom of 4 who agrees that 16 is the barest age that a teenager should be driving. My oldest son is over 6 feet. He's very smart and careful...yet I really dread him driving. He hasn't taken the driver portion yet. I need to call the school to find out when that will be. Interestingly, Driver Education is required by North Carolina to get a Learner's permit. We could pay $445 to do it privately, which is probably what we *should* do. BUT, when we get a new assessment on our house for our addition which states that EVERY year our taxes will increase by over $500 (that's right, we built our addition so we could pay $10 a week to the county for other's health care and education), *I* decided to make just about an even trade. Andrew learned a lot, like mostly the fact that he is much smarter than his peers, and for you drivers out here, here's something scary: 9 out of 36 students passed the classroom portion on their first try. And here's something else lame for you. If your student is homeschooled, they can take the class once at taxpayer expense. If they fail, no redos and you must either pay for it privately, or wait until your student is 18. BUT, if you're already a leech and send your child to government school for ALL their educational needs, they can take it as many times as needed, without any waiting period. That is downright scary. If you fail it, why on earth do you not need to wait at least 6 months to mature some. Oy, vey........

Good thing God is always in control! On the personal note side, my baby has been walking vor over 4 months (our earliest walker yet), and my 11 yod broke her radius today near the wrist. Poor girl. She's a trooper, though. :-)

I'll try to be more faithful. It's just been super crazy lately. Toddlers are a full time job, and well, I have 8 others besides her. So, as always, don't be lame. It's just, well......................lame.

Oh, before I publish this, let me just malign Twitter. It is an incredibly horrifying indictment on society that the microblog, limited to 140 characters, is somehow the most revolutionary thing to come down the pike in 2009. How can any substantive discussion ever take place, when what you have to say is so freaking limited. How stupid/sad is that?