Common Sense Prevails:

Resellers do not have to certify that their children’s products have been third-party tested and conform to safety standards; that is the burden of the original vendor. Whew!

‘Cause I’ve got a closet FULL of Cassie’s old stuff I’ve been meaning to take to the consignment shop, and whatever they don’t take goes to Goodwill.

Thank goodness all those clothes won’t end up in the landfill!

And neither will Cassie’s cowboy boots.

Well, you look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?

Yes, I just wanna see
If it’s really that expensive kind

You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine

Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

-Bob Dylan

Cassidy received a bag of hand-me-downs at Christmastime, and she’d been waiting until the first day of school to break out the leopard print sweater.

But just before we left, she pointed out that something was missing.

My vintage leopard-skin pillbox hat. And matching handbag. (It’s faux, it’s not “really that expensive kind”.)

Which I somewhat reluctantly retrieved from their place of honor; because truly, they look so much better on her.

Alas, after one hits 30, there seem to be fewer and fewer occasions on which it is acceptable to wear one’s leopard-skin pillbox hat.

When she arrived, she burst into the classroom hollering, “Look ! Look! Look at my brand-new leopard-skin pillbox hat!”

And man, I just about died laughing.

If you can’t imagine why I think this is so funny, you should really listen to more Bob Dylan, it’s good for the soul.

At least listen to this song here. And imagine my 4 year old prancing around dancing to it in her newly beloved accessories.

Internet, I am suffering from a blinding headache- and I say blinding because it appears to be located fully in my left eye.

It started yesterday afternoon and is still here at 6 a.m. I type this with my eye all squinty; you can give me a pipe and call me Popeye.

I’ve taken some last-resort meds and I’m going back to bed for an hour.

Yesterday I was quoted in an article on msnbc.com about my love of the Y- that article here– and I had a featured blog post on the Green and Clean Mom community page concerning National Bird Day. I do have more things to say about both of these topics; with Advil on my side I’ll get to finish that post later today.

One more goal for 2009: Start writing posts in advance.