Z-Man Graduates Pre-K!

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Right around Christmas time we had a stray cat adopt us… which worked out well seeing that I had a owning a cat on 2 visions boards and had asked AK & The ZMan for a cat for Christmas. Awesome – now we had one that The Universe had delivered to for free and she was able to hold her own with 2 boys and 2 dogs… not sure which one is worse.

Shortly after that I realized that is was not our charming personality that had won her over – no it was the warmth and dry-ness of our home and the ready supply of cat food… things that were very important to this… you guessed it… soon to be MamaCat. And thus began our Adventure of MamaCat & her 5Kittens.

8 weeks later, this particular piece of our Kitten Adventure is coming to end in a beautiful crescendo of kitten-ness:

1. Kitten distribution will officially begin this weekend
2. Schipul (the company I work for) and The Houston Human Society ( now officially a client, whoot!)  are partnering up
3. The Schipul Blog post for Trend Tuesday was written by Caitlin Kaluza (soon to be Ruby’s new mom) all about twitter trends and squeezing as much as you can into your tweets. Trust me, click the link – it’s relevant.

This week seems a spinning mosaic of animal adoptions, humane treatment of animals, spay and neutering, twitter, blogs, and Schipulites with the mortor being — kittens.

So, I am taking this opportunity to give a shout out to the Houston Human Society and advocate for Spay or Neutering your pets.

The Human Society not only offers adoptions – they offer limited vetinary services for your pets. Its a great way to love your pet and fund the Human Society’s efforts:

For those who will participating in Kitten Distribution:

CAT VACCINATION PACKAGES:
(Office visit  $10)  Saturdays and Sundays: $20 office visit  $30 doctor exams
Kitten- 101
BEGINNERS (8-12 wks. of age)
$22

Spay/Neuter Surgery (plus $10 office visit) – $30
Post Operative Pain Medication – $8

Our kitten family will be expanding this weekend… not to worry, from Facebook Fan Pages to reunions – we have all kinds of kitten fun cooking up to make sure you get your fix.

And remember… it takes a villiage to raise a kitten!

(or something like that)

More MamaCat & 5Kittens Fun >>

Her Bad Mother has a beautiful and, as always, honest post about her personal experience with motherhood and is leading an initiative to connect mothers around the world with a single blog post per mom.

From The World According To Mom…

Here’s how it’s going to work: this post that you’re reading? Is the departure lounge. I’m going to link to a couple of other mom bloggers here in Canada, and to a couple of mom bloggers from other countries around the world, and they’ll write their posts, sharing 5 things that they love (or maybe what they don’t so much love – this playground doesn’t force conformity) about being a mom, and then they’ll tag a few more bloggers from their own country and from other countries, and so on. And you’re more than welcome to join: just write a post of your own (5 things that you love about being a mom) and find someone to link to and tag – someone from your own country, if you like, but definitely someone from another country (Google is a good resource if you don’t know any; google any country name and ‘mom’ in their blog search function) (be sure to let them know that you’ve tagged them!) – and link back here and leave a comment and we’ll add you to the ‘itinerary,’ which David will compile and post and update as the tour proceeds.

5 things I love about being a mom:

1. The way my heart feels physically heavier in my chest and tears come to my eyes when I really think about how much I love my boys
2. Holding hands
3. That all holidays are magical and mystical again
4. That each encounter with an animal of any kind is like finding a treasure chest full of gold
5. That these precious, amazing, beautiful, gifts from God finds that snuggling with me is the best way to end their day

and…

5 things I don’t like about being a mom…

1. That ever nagging question in the back of mind, “Am I screwing them up?”
2. Wondering if they will remember the times I lost it… hoping they remember the gold star moments
3. That within 10 minutes of cleaning the house it can look like a tornado came through it
4. Whining
5. Fighting in the back seat of the car, in grocery store, in the bathroom, at birthday parties, from separate beds at night in the dark when they are supposed to be asleep, in the…

The next desination:

1. Schipul: Happy Katie
2. Texas: The Bloggess
3. US: Pundit Mom
4. Canada: Attack of the Red Neck Mommy
5. Mexico: Moving Kids to Mexico
6. South Africa: Mccarty’s African Adventures

Well this is actually my favorite thing about yesterday – Aug. 06, 2008… The Day of Infamous Edoard.

I would have liked to post this yesterday, but with camp closed and being cooped up in the house with AK & The Z-Man (6 & 4 year olds) meant as much as I would have liked to take the day to lounge around and catch up in the Social Media world… it just wasn’t happening. I made it my goal to finish (super)hero camp concepts and then move onto kid friendly activities like making cookie bars and watching “The Princess Bride.”

Through it all Fab!Hubby (@lassberg) and I kept checking on the weather to see were we really about to get slammed by the Tropical Storm Edoard and quickly float away?

What I liked most about Houston yesterday was that Web 2.0 news we kept tabs on was the most grounded and informative news we got yesterday.

Blogs and Twitter posts were so much more informative and real than “Traditional” media outlets.
Here are 3 of my favorites:

1. Houston Chronicle’s SciGuy: http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/hurricanes/edouard/
2. Houston Chronicle’s Dwight Silverman: http://blogs.chron.com/hurricanes/2008/08/stormwatchers_on_blogs_and_twi.html
3. Jenny The Bloggess for The Chronicles Good Mom/Bad Mom: http://blogs.chron.com/goodmombadmom/2008/08/belly_laughs.html