HAPPY 2010!!

Things I'm pondering on this day, the first day of the new year (and the last year of this decade!):

#1: Why the Mr. insists we eat this superstitious concoction of PLAIN sour kraut and PLAIN black-eyed peas.... Who came up with this tradition? Can't I at least cook them into some other dish to make them more palatable? Have you ever seen "Fear Factor?" That's what my poor kids look like trying to force down a bite of this stuff. As for myself, I don't mind the beans too much - they're all right. But that sour kraut - uk! I had to eat mine with a bite of hamburger.

#2: Why my six year-old daughter is asking me if Jason is dead. Jason is some guy in a hockey mask who runs around with a chainsaw in a series of movies called "Friday the 13th" and I have never EVER seen even one of those movies. Since I have never seen these movies I can't say if he's dead or not. I told her he's from a movie and all movies are pretend but where did she hear about Jason in the first place?

#3: Why my nine year-old BOY is walking up and down the hall draped in sparkly strings of beads from my recently dissassembled Christmas tree popping his hips like he's a supermodel strutting down the catwalk.

#4: Why my eleven year-old stepson is telling me when he dies (he said assuming I'm still alive) he is going to decide to stay in my house and will follow me if I move.

#5: Why my stepdaughter (12) is trying to convince me to believe in ghosts and wants to know "what could we do to prove it and make you believe in ghosts?" (I said if God Himself came down and said "YOU - BELIEVE IN GHOSTS" I would certainly believe in ghosts then - and that made all my kids laugh at me ...)

#6: Why I am actually eating the superstitious concoction of black-eyed peas and sour kraut since I am not a superstitious person at all (I constantly walk under ladders and I own a black cat ... and I've broken MORE than my fair share of mirrors!); although I think the main reason is because The Mr. is SO SERIOUS about each child at LEAST eating ONE BITE of this stuff that I'm eating it for show so that the kids don't get mad that I "don't have to eat it." So since he is making them eat it I am bravely scarfing down as much of it as I can so they don't feel bad. But boy am I going to have some yucky tasting burps later!!

As for everything else on this list I can blame the waning full moon. It affects my kids apparently!