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You know how you have certain knick knacks around the house that remind you of the past? I have a certain framed picture in the laundry room next the the garage that has great significance for me. I reminds me of a time so very far away. Once upon a time there was a woman who married a man and they did not get along. At all. In fact, things were so bad for the woman that she found herself shaking in fear whenever her husband was due to come home from work. She even forgot how to smile. Her friends and family refused to talk to her until she got out of her marriage because they did not want to hear any more about her suffering. One day this woman was going for a walk around her neighborhood. She passed a garage sale and saw some framed artwork sitting on the pavement. She saw a certain piece that made her eyes grow wide. Recipe for a Happy Kitchen. This was a piece all about love and loyalty and happiness. It was a strain of music from so very far away, it almost sounded alie...

What’s your favorite digital sub-compact camera? a) The one I saw Lindsay Lohan carrying in those pictures of her on TheSuperficial.com . The pink case is so cute! (-10) b) My camera has a screen on the back. Is that a sub-compact? (+0) c) The one I saw Steve Wozniak carrying when he was in line to buy an iPhone . The Carl Zeiss lens is so nice! (+5) d) Any nice Canon or Sony that fits in my pocket will do, since I’d be carrying my SLR with me, otherwise. (+10) see all quiz here : Great White Snark

It's a snap for Kim Kardashian , who puts her new swag – a Casio digital camera – to use on her way in to the Maxim Style Awards bash Wednesday at Hollywood club Avalon. Inside, the socialite mingled with guests including Heroes star Masi Oka and Gabrielle Union. see more Kim Kardashian picture on people.com

/> Canon had a fashion show earlier this week and on Monday and Tuesday and Sharapova lookalikes will continue to being visible on the streets of Manhattan this weekend taking photos with consumers and handing out fans to fans. Sharapova , the 20-year-old defending U.S. Open champion, does commercials for Lake Success, New York-based Canon U.S.A for its line of PowerShot digital cameras .

Back on the scene after being released from the UCLA psych ward earlier today, Britney Spears has left her house and checked into the Beverly Hills Hotel . Followed to the hotel by a convoy of 20+ paparazzi, Spears was “promptly escorted inside the hotel with help of local police and, according to Extra TV , she even came face to face with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife Maria Shriver .” Also of note, Britney has a new chauffeur - Lindsay Lohan’s former bodyguard, who just so happens to be an ex-Israeli Army soldier. According to insiders, “It’s understood Spears ’ parents, who have taken control of her legal, financial and security affairs , hired the new minder.”

We have had yet another virus making the rounds here. It hit my 3-y-o the worst. Probably because he is the youngest and Baby A doesn't count because he is breastfed. The 3-y-o had the cough after a cold but developed a fever and couldn't eat much at all for the past 6 days. I took him to the doc's yesterday and he ended up getting a chest x-ray. No pneumonia, but he showed more "air bronchograms" than the doc wanted to see, so he assumed it was bronchitis. He took his first dose of Zithromax yesterday and within 3 hours the fever broke and all afternoon he was clamoring for food and actually eating it. I hope he puts his weight back on quickly. In his bath I noticed his little arms and legs were SO thin. Amazing how quickly the little ones lose weight when sick. He had bad diarrhea as well, but that is better now. I woke up with a sore throat, but that is a good thing, so I can make antibodies for Baby A. I am aggravated that the baby carrier I ordered...

It looks as if the iPhone will be the next must have celebrity tech gadget , with news that the fresh-out-of-rehab Lindsay Lohan has been spotted clutching Apple's expensive phone . I'm not sure that this makes me want to own an iPhone any more, but don't be surprised to see more celebrities adding this high-tech fashion accessory over the coming weeks. Presumably she got someone else to queue for her.

It seems Alicia Keys was more interested in watching the Minnesota Timberwolves play the New York Knicks Game at Madison Square Garden through her tiny Samsung Camcorder last week than watching say, the court. From what I can tell the songstress has got herself a 2.1 Mega Pixel Miniket Camcorder with built-in 1 GB. The Miniket allows you access to personal movies, pictures, music, data, web communication and costs $1,599 off the Samsung site. I can't help but notice it looks like Alicia has a gold camcorder, which may or not be some sort of "unattainable for us non-celebrity gadget lovers" edition. For a full gallery of Alicia Keys' photos and an up close look at the samsung camcorder.

Here are my 4-y-o and 9-y-o boys enjoying a moment between homework pages. DS received a Robo Pet from the Sharper Image for his birthday. It is very impressive. It can sense if something is in front of it, so it doesn't run into things, even if the operator of the remote control tells it to. And it rolls over, scratches itself, and lifts its leg to do its business. My 4-y-o made the headband at preschool in honor of Earth Day and he insisted on wearing it all afternoon. Awwwww!

Samsung is set to expand its Yepp portable multimedia player (PMP) series with a new sleek black offering. Dubbed the YP-P2, the device is rumoured to boast a whole host of functions ranging from videos and music, to FM radio, datacasts and Bluetooth. The YP-P2 is thought to measure about 10 x 5 x 0.9cm and, according to an online video of the device in use, be primarily operated via a 438 x 240 pixel touchscreen display or blue circular wheel. It may also ship with up to 8GB of Flash memory and include support for MP3, WMV, WMA and H.264 file formats.A bizarre series of pictures have also surfaced online showing a troupe of scantily-clad rollerblading girls, each sporting a YP-P2 worn as an armband. Samsung already has several other Yepp models under its belt. These include the U3, a colourful range of stick-shaped audio players with up to 4GB of memory and the K5, an iPod-esque player with up to 2GB of memory and a slide-out speaker.

Got some cute pics of the three youngest this morning. Enjoy. :-D

Now that Emma Watson just had her 18th birthday, what can she do? Well, in America she can vote, buy cigarettes, and purchase porn. But more importantly, she can now tap into the $20 million she earned playing Hermione. Yep, this youngin’ made ALL that money off those Harry Potter movies. For most teens, turning the big 18 and becoming a legal adult comes with a few small perks including voting rights. For Emma Watson, Hermione in the Harry Potter films, turning 18 grants her access to the $20 million she’s amassed making the wildly popular film series….Watson has sat through a series of lessons in money management given by Coutts bank…She’s reportedly learned about basic economics, investing, and philanthropy.” Lessons in money? British kids aren’t like the greedy American teens from Los Angeles. They know how to make their money last for a while. Someone should’ve given those money lessons to Lindsay Lohan. Now there’s a broad that needs it!

Mental and toxic Britney Spears has been slammed with a huge legal bill of almost $400,000. A Los Angeles California court judge ordered the singer to pay the cash to the numerous lawyers involved in all her legal battles over the past three months.That includes her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline and her conservator ship issues. At a hearing yesterday, commissioner Reva Goetz ruled Spears’ court-appointed attorney Samuel Ingham will continue to receive $10,000 a week and Andrew Wallet, the co-conservator of Spears’ finances, will receive an advance of $100,000. People.com reports Wallet has not received a salary for his services to Spears since taking over her estate issues with the pop star’s father Jamie in February. Meanwhile, the law firm which won Jamie Spears control of his daughter’s affairs will also be advanced $175,000, and a lawyer representing the singer’s brother Bryan Spears has been handed a $22,000 windfall. Finally, Spears’ new divorce lawyer, Stacy Ph...

We did our search last night and burning this morning. The boys had a blast. I hid the ten pieces and gave them all crank flashlights and a paper bag. And we didn't have any "lost" pieces like in years past. You know that bad feeling when you hid 10 things and you can only find 9? And then in the morning we fired up the fire pit and did the roasty toasty thing. Here are some pics. Can you see all 3 boys in the nighttime pic?

Oy, vey. What a day! I have been cleaning house for days. I vacuumed out the couches, under all the furniture (with help from Miss I) and spent all day today cleaning the kitchen and moving the regular food and dishes out of the cupboards, and replacing it with the special Passover food and dishes (paper and plastic). The *worst* part of Passover, IMO, is doing dishes by hand. So I avoid it for the most part by using disposable stuff. It is only one week, I figure, and if it helps me to hang on to my sanity, it is probably cost-effective. ;-) I have to use pots and pans for cooking, and coffee mugs for my hot beverages, but other than that it is toss and walk. Tonight is the night for Search For Chametz, which is the Jewish equivalent of the Easter Egg Hunt. We take a bread item and divide it into 10 pieces. I put them into ziplock baggies so that my clean house doesn't get bread crumbs put back into it. Then I hide the baggies and let the kids go find them after dark. I...

He ate the whole thing. Rice cereal mixed with a touch of formula. He seemed fine with the process of eating. And now he is down for a long nap. He had been acting hungrier and hungrier lately. Then when he woke up twice last night to feed, that clinched the issue. I ran to the grocery store and got his rice cereal and formula. I was SO embarrassed to buy formula. Eeeek. HEY EVERYBODY! I AM STILL BREASTFEEDING! I SWEAR! A sidebar is that this means my menses will be returning in the next couple of months.

Negative. I decided to take a test this morning because I get intense nausea about twice per week in the mornings after eating my cereal. I saw some ladies have this while breastfeeding, so that is probably what is going on. He is still exclusively breastfed, so I am still eating for two. I pretty much knew I wasn't pregnant, since my milk supply remains plentiful, but it is nice to see it confirmed. I have not had my menses since giving birth. In other news, yesterday was my son's official birthday. I got him a ping-pong table. He and I spent all yesterday afternoon putting it together. It has been fun playing on it. And I think it will get some use this weekend during his birthday party. And here is a gratuitous photo of baby A in all his sleepy glory. The prior pic I posted was a little out of date, so here is his current sleeping picture. He is almost grown out of the bassinet.

My big 8-y-o boy is turning 9 in a few days. His party will be next Sunday at the house. Every year, though I have offered elaborate parties at various venues, he asks for a party at the house with a rented bouncer. I found a cute one this year. It has a slide and basketball hoop inside. He also wants Auntie Rosalind cupcakes with yellow cake. It is a bittersweet time for me with regard to this son. The school is having him tested for learning disabilities. I should know what their findings are by the end of April. My stomach is in knots over this. :-(

I always saw myself as the mother bear. Soft and cuddly, but ready to tear into action on a moment's notice if my family were threatened. My daughter mentioned that she is happy she made it through childhood unmolested. {33% of girls and 14% of boys are molested before the age of 18} I told her this was no small feat. Especially considering that I was divorced from her father for most of her childhood and have been married twice subsequently. The statistics on child abuse and molestation go up significantly when there are non-bio-father men in the home. {A child in a female-headed home is 10 times more likely to be beaten or murdered. (The Legal Beagle, July 1984, from “The Garbage Generation”)} I feel the reason she and her brothers were protected was partially luck, but mostly because I took up martial arts when they were babies. She was about 3 and her brother was 9 months when I first took up the study of Hakkoryu Jujitsu. I received a black belt. Jujitsu is an awesome a...

Me? Surely you jest. It turns out that the men have been crazy about baby A lately. I was at Costco the other day and one of the young workers comments as we pass by, "Oh! How cute! He's got the life". One of the young male hospital workers in the emergency room said, "See how cute he is? This is why I want to have babies." And when I picked up my daughter this past week at a friend's house, her friend's dad went nuts over the baby and wouldn't let us leave without taking pictures of the baby to show his wife. He's trying to talk her into agreeing to reverse his vasectomy. ;-)