So, I’m watching New Kids on the Block on the Today show. Peanut is in her bedroom, supposedly cleaning when Donnie Wahlberg starts doing the “Hangin’ Tough” part of the medley. He shouts, “New York! I can’t hear you!”

Peanut comes tearing down the hallway, into the living room, screaming, “I’m coming Patrick! I’m coming!” She looks at the TV and she’s like, “Where’s Patrick?” Then I had to explain to her about NKOTB and how awesome they are and how she is witnessing history, even if Donnie Wahlberg does sound a little like Patrick Star from Spongebob.

PS: God, NKOTB are hotter than ever– the new song sounds great, too. I feel like I’m 10 years old again, tee-hee!

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So Saturday evening I’m getting dinner ready, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Meatloaf was in the oven and I’m peeling potatoes and all of a sudden the tornado siren goes off. My husband comes upstairs and says, “They’re really close, you better come down.” I say, “Just let me get the potatoes on the stove.” Then the power goes out, so I really can’t cook and I go downstairs. About 45 minutes later, all was well, but still no electricity. We used the grill to finish the meatloaf and mashed potatoes. They came out good. The power came on about four hours later- some of my neighbors still don’t have any. We still spent the night in the basement… just in case.

We drove to nearest big city for Mother’s Day because I wanted Olive Garden. I couldn’t really enjoy it because my stomach still hurt from worrying about tornadoes. I swear I will have an ulcer by the time we leave this horrible state. Driving to nearest city, we realize just how close that killer tornado was, closer than I thought. We see the destruction as the storm made it’s path across the highway. Home of the Floating Head sign was crumpled like tin foil. It was really sad.

I want to go home…

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So the Duggars are at it again! They are on baby #18. I can’t believe it. I guess I’ll have to stalk them again.

Happy Mother’s Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child

By JILL ZEMAN
Associated Press Writer
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — It’s a happy Mother’s Day for an Arkansas woman - she’s pregnant with her 18th child.

Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year’s Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.

“We’ve had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us,” she said, laughing.

The Duggars’ oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children - whose names start with the letter J - are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores - or “jurisdictions” - are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a “jurisdiction swap,” where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

“The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass,” she said. “The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms,” among other chores.

Duggar said she’s six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they’ll keep having children as long as God wills it.

“The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated,” Jim Bob Duggar said. “Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen.”

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

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So we went to the circus last night and while it was miles better than the infamous Ghetto Circus 2007 that we attended last year, there were a few “interesting” moments. As a side note, Ghetto Circus 2007 consisted of an elephant, some horses and a hula hoop girl and a guy with a REALLY bad comb over. Hula hoop girl kept messing up and you just knew she was going to get a beating after the show.

Anyway, I like to send out some notes to the people who made this year’s circus, which I like to call Not Too Ghetto Circus 2008, such a lovely experience.

Dear Family Sitting Behind Me:

The seat behind the pillar is probably not the best seat for your child. Especially since he had to practically LEAN OVER IN MY LAP to see the action. I know that you think that Junior is probably the greatest human being ever made, but I really don’t want him in my personal space. And when I turned around to tell him to move, don’t pretend you didn’t know what was going on. You knew and should have said something earlier. My favorite part, though, is when you thought it was a fine idea to buy your three children huge balloons on sticks during intermission. Getting whacked in the head eight thousand times with balloons and/or sticks was definitely my idea of a good time. May you burn in hell.

Dear Tank Top/ Low-Rider Jeans Girl:

Yes the circus is amazing. So amazing that you felt the need to lean over the railing with your camera phone and take pictures. In doing so, your shirt rode up to your breasts and your lovely gelatin belly was exposed to all. Now, I know I’m not the skinniest person when I’m not preggo, but I do like to try to keep the fat covered if at all possible. That wasn’t the worst part, though. The worst part was when you moved to the floor to take pictures and decided to hop over the railing when you were through. Sitting backwards on the railing made it really easy to see that your low-riders crept so low that they were at the tops of your thighs and we all got the really pretty site of your g-string and your ass. Special props to the spotlight guy who shone the light on this mess for about three minutes. The whole experience was just yummy.

-This is why I don’t like to leave the house. Oh yeah, and I want a lion- HE was cool.

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For those of you who are American Idol geeks (like me), how sad was it that Brooke got voted off? She was like a little ray of sunshine every week. Actually, I think she is way too nice for the music business, anyway. So long, Brooke!

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