Hmmm. From Shit To Shining Stars

So okay, it's Monday and when I got out of bed the first thing I did was to step in dogshit. Okay.

Clean it up. Shit happens.

Then I came out to the dining room to find more poop.
Then, oh dear god, THEN, I went into the hallway to find oh, about an apple bushel full of dog poop. Not in an apple bushel, mind you, but approximately that amount.
Last night our boxer dog had been obviously distressed, whining, crying, wanting to sit in our laps.

I think she feels better now.

Sometimes, you just gotta get it out.

Metaphorically as well as poopily.

But then, after I had cleaned up all the poop and life was again a clean slate smelling nicely of Fabuloso, I opened my laptop and what did I find in my google reader?
Not poop, I'll tell you that.
No. Miss Maybelle had posted a new piece on her blog and listen- it made my heart stop with pride. Whoa. That girl.
I am speechless. Once again she has rendered me speechless.

And Miss HoneyLuna has been posting poems which she is writing for a class but you know what? I am so glad she's taking this class because that girl- well, that girl can write a poem and really, what can't that girl do? When HoneyLuna was a little bitty child it became apparent that she had a severe reading disability which just shocked the hell out of me because for me and all the rest of the kids, reading had come to us as easily as breathing. DownTownGuy taught himself to read at the age of three. Miss Maybelle stressed herself out temendously because she didn't learn to read until kindergarten. And I don't remember when Lily learned to read but it mustn't have been too traumatic or I would have remembered. But HoneyLuna REALLY couldn't learn to read. And if she'd been another sort of person, she probably still wouldn't really be able to but because she IS the sort of person she is, she took advantage of the amazing teachers she had in school and despite the frustration and overwhelming difficulty of the task, she not only learned to read, but now she's one hell of a writer, too.

Then there's DownTownGuy who posts occasionally at Tallyhassle and he wrote recently about a passion of his which is coming to a sort of fruition and you might want to check that out. I think he blogs in about fifteen different places but this is the one he tells his mama about.
More, please, DTG.

And I should mention (for those of you who have no idea of what I'm talking about) that Miss Maybelle, Miss HoneyLuna and DownTownGuy are my kids. I have one more child and she does not blog. I don't know why.
But she is doing something rather important these days which is creating an entire human being in her uterus as we speak!

So. That's the news today from Lake Lloydbegone where all the men are good looking, all the women are strong, and almost all the children have their own blog.

And where all the dogs obviously need a change in diet.