Just sayin...

OK, I just have to put this out there.  I was the kid who bought the fancy diary with the lock and the key, and I would find a great spot to hide the key.  I would write it in the first couple days and then I would never use it again, forget where I hid the key, and then throw the dumb thing away.  Blogging to me is like the diary.  I remember, do some, and then forget to do it again.  By the time I remember, I have forgotten the password and it takes me half an hour to get into the thing, then I am out of time, and can't post. 

Just had to put that out there.

It's Perfectly Normal

OK, so being very open as I am, I liked this book.  It is very explicit which I think is great.  I have the philosophy...if my kids don't learn it from me, they are going to learn it wrong from someone else.  So...I would rather have them learn it the right way from me.  I have told both my kiddos 12, and 14 EVERYTHING.  I grew up in a very strict home where we didn't talk about anything.  Not even a girl "becoming a woman".  (I don't know what I should post on here so I won't be specific).  My kids know it all.  Even their friends come to me and ask me thinks which is great.  I had a group of 6 girls and 1 boy come to me and we sat at the kindergarten tables and did their sex ed homework together.  They would ask me questions in small group that they were way to embarrassed to ask in their classroom.  It was great.  ( I also had 5 of them in my Kindergarten class, so kind of like old times.)  I would rather them learn it from me--not that I am an expert--but I know how it is, and I know what it is like to be naive.  I went to college and didn't know what sex was.  NOT GOOD!  I survived, but would have been much better if I had known, not have gotten myself into some situations if I had known more.  This book is like a dictionary for kids to understand what sex is and all that goes along with it. 

Tales of Outer Surburbia

I loved this book!  I had to read it all in one sitting.  It was so completely random.  It kind of reminded me of my daughter.  Some of the off the wall things she says I just have to blink my eyes and think...'what'?  She loves the saying "I'm not as random as you think I salad."  That sums up Katie.  It also sums up this book!  I loved the first story the best about the water buffalo.  There really is no meaning to it, the only thing I could get out of it would be that everything will work itself out in time.  Everyone followed the way the buffalo pointed.  And finally they got to where they were going.  But there really is not a connection that I found any way between the short stories.  But I did enjoy this one quite a bit!