Right here, right now

I'm always a bit sad to feel fall coming. Saying goodbye to summer when you live in Chicago means that very soon you will be saying hello to winter and sometimes frigid temperatures and the inevitable snow and radiator heat that means it is either blanket-wrapped cold or sweaty hot in our little apartment, never a happy medium.

This week, we've run into several parents in the neighborhood and at co-op who've made comments on the changing weather, on getting out as much as possible before it is really cold, on dreading winter with kids and moms cooped up inside for too many hours of the day. And as much as I have a pang of dread myself, I am not ready to give in. Before I do that, I need to sink into fall.

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Project: Life Change. Who has already signed on?

There is an energy in the air. Or at least on my screen. I can feel the momentum in the comments here and on CityMama's post and on other blogs where we are calling out to women to make changes for the good in their lives. Here's a bit from those mama's who've caught the buzz. Stop on by and show them you're right there with them:

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Is it just me or...

Is Marie Osmond actually good? Like, bordering on sizzling good? I love a little bit country in the form of a curvy grrrl working it on the dance floor.

Is the new Bachelor just another partially bearded, buffed up dud? Zzzzzz...big bucks and pecs does not a hottie husband make, ladies. His only endearing quality to me is when he laughs at the women's dumb attention-getting antics confession style.

And am I the only one who thinks a producer totally pushed that sorority babe certainly non-drinking and  velour lounge-suit wearing woman down the big old marble stairs? You know the crew was laughing, pouring those Juicy Couture ladies giant bordeaux glasses full of pear vodka, hoping for a filmable mishap. Strikingly similar to the Beven sprained ankle incident. Coincidence? Ohhh ohh oh, I think not. That's the goods. 

Are all of you just biding time until Dirty Sexy Money is on again? Yowza.  So funny, so now, and as Self-Made Mom says, oh so Dallas for a new generation.

What are you watching and wondering?

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