The Median Sib

I will be leaving shortly for a couple of brief holidays trips — to my mother-in-law’s and later to my mother’s home for family get-togethers. Three full days away from a computer. I should be posting again on Tuesday. In the meantime, I will leave you with some good reading. Please click often on the links below and also the links on the sidebar.

Just read a post by Charmaine at Reasoned Audacity that addresses the question “What is a lady?” And it begs a further question: Do I want to be a feminist or a lady? Are the two mutually exclusive? What do you think?

Dr. Sanity has some definite ideas about The Idiot’s Guide To Victimhood. Check it out. Do you think she’s right?

Angie over at Ficken Chingers (sounds a little dirty, doesn’t it?) asked A Question about why people think being a jerk or a bitch is cool. I’ve noticed this in some blogs.

And over at The Reflective Teacher, there’s a wonderful post about a unique writing exercise. I’ve written about this post before, but I can’t help it. I love it!

Utenzi discusses a Washington Post article on the first appearance of white skin. Fascinating when you think of the historical and current implications of skin color.

If you’re in the mood for some light-hearted entertainment or maybe you need to have some riddles to stump your school-age children, you can visit Daddy’s Roses where Joan has a post of Christmas Riddles.

Click over to Alone On a Limb and read Terry’s Top Ten Christmas Memories. I loved it - probably because several of them are also my favorite Christmas memories.

Those are just a few of the posts I’ve enjoyed reading lately.

Hope all of you who visit THE MEDIAN SIB have a wonderful Christmas - and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, have a wonderful weekend. I’ll be back blogging on Tuesday.

The phone rang early this morning. Looking at caller ID, I saw that it was my daughter. However, when I answered, there was no sound from the other side for a few seconds, and then a quiet little voice said, “Grandma Carol, can we come over now?”

“Sweet Stuff, of course you can! Are you sick?” I thought that maybe she wasn’t feeling well, and my daughter wanted to keep her home from daycare. I was wrong. Apparently both Sunshine and Sweet Stuff woke up this morning and wanted to start the Christmas party early. Everyone is coming to my house this evening for our family Christmas dinner and gift exchange. Sweet Stuff and Sunshine wanted to come over and help Grandma Carol NOW!

So they’ve been here all morning. They’ve helped me make an apple pie and some pecan pies. They’ve helped me get the Chicken Cheese Corn Chowder started. All you moms and grandmoms know how “helpful” two-year olds and four-year olds can be. And now they’re using the rhythm instruments to sing Christmas carols! Only a grandmother would enjoy the ringing of bells, shaking of tambourines and mini-cymbals and little voices making up their own Christmas songs… “I will help you with a merry bow…” each word emphasized with ringing bells and cymbals and tambourines.

Sunshine’s latest trick is grabbing her own (or my) boobs and yelling, “BOOBIE! BOOBIE!” We definitely need to channel that energy in another direction!

I am a little sad, though. Sunshine has always refused to call me Grandma Carol. It’s always been simply “Cawol!” She has now started calling me Grandma Carol all the time. Another sign of how fast she is growing.

A full day of Sunshine and Sweet Stuff! Life doesn’t get any better!