The Good Wife Quiz

Okay now it's the ladies' turn to take a simple one-question quiz:

1. You are very busy getting yourself ready to go to work and the kids ready to go to school and your husband yells up the stairs, "HEY, HOW COME YOU SWITCHED US TO 1% MILK?" Here is a list of possible answers:

a. LOOK IN THE MIRROR, FATTY!!!

b. Because I love you and I want us to be as healthy as possible so we will both live in wedded bliss as long as possible.

c. Because the 1% milk has a pink cap and the kids wanted the milk with the pink cap so I have been buying 1% milk ever since.

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The Correct Answer: c

a. This may cause your husband to go into a shame spiral. When we are in a shame spiral we feel frozen and blank. Can you recall a time when someone has made a joke about you that 'hits you in the ego'- that somehow triggers a sense in you that you are not OK as you are - you feel ashamed, go blank, and become unable to respond. We brace ourselves to create a state of virtual non-emotional existence, where we don't feel very much at all...blah blah blah... It's just mean!!! Don't say that!!!

b. Unless you are a newlywed, your husband probably won't believe this and think that the real answer is 'a' anyway.

c. This is a nice, believable, harmless lie. Although it is important to ensure that you pick the correct color for your brand of 1% milk.

Author's note: The above quiz is based on an actual conversation that Missy and I had this morning. She responded with the answer 'c' and I was satisfied until I went to the refrigerator and saw that our 1% had a GREEN cap!!!!

If a Tree Falls in in the Forest and the Only Person there to see it is Jillian...

Jillian Elizabeth McAnally

I am a Bad Blogger

I know that I am a bad blogger because I have not blogged anything in over a month. In fact, the only reason that I am blogging now is so that I at least get one entry in for the month of January 2008. So let's kick things off with some random notes and maybe the creative juices will start to flow for February:

1. We drove to Long Island, NY for the week between Christmas and New Years. We downloaded the driving directions from AAA and they sent us through Manhattan (Holland Tunnel then the Manhattan Bridge). Usually we drive through Staten Island (Goethals Bridge then the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge). At first we were skeptical but since it would be the day after Christmas we decided to give it a shot. The worst thing that could happen is that we would spend a couple extra hours on the road but at least the girls would get to see some NYC skyscrapers. It actually turned out to be one of the nicest drives through NYC that I have even done. It was quick and we were able to show the girls a few sites like the Brooklyn Bridge and Chinatown. I will never doubt AAA again.


2. While we were at my parent's house Emily picked up a new addiction. My mother had some Scooby-Doo videos and Emily watched them everyday up in NY and every day since returning from NY. Scooby-Doo was always one of my favorites (only the pre-Scappy episodes of course) so I approve of this particular addiction.


3. One of my favorite parts about weekends at our house are the stroller races. Every weekend after breakfast the girls load up their strollers and tear around the house at break-neck speed. Sometimes I participate as a fellow racer. Most of the time I am the announcer, referee and timekeeper. Emily usually plays full-contact stroller racing so as referee, I need to make sure she does not body-check Jillian too hard into the walls. Of course, it does not help that every time that Emily laps Jillian, I, as the announcer, pretend that Emily has fallen behind Jillian(when she is actually several laps ahead). Here is a picture of the last round of stroller racing. This one was special "Princess" version of stroller racing:

Driver: Princess Emily w/ passenger Smoovdah

Driver: Princess Jillian w/ passenger The Cat in the Hat