Our 1995 van dies. The mechanic says its toast.
An elderly couple upgrades their ride and trades in my dream car.
My local car salesman calls me because he knows its in my price range. The month is coming to a close and he has bills to pay.
The mechanic says it’s clean and mechanically sound with a great price.
The owner of the dealership says he’s hoping my husband’s company makes it because his car dealership is dependent on its employees. He’s also running for school board and wants our vote. He thanks us for buying the van …read more

Nothing like starting the year off with a totally Duh. Moment.
Duh. Moment. That’s when you realize it’s completely asinine to have not done something before.
You know. Like insist on Equal Pay for Equal Work for Women, including mothers. And if you violate that out of some good old boy mentality or some other equally stupid and archaic reason – then you get sued and lose lots of money.
Duh.
Can’t tell you how relieved I am to finally be able to read that news and not want to kick some sense into my representatives head.
Well, actually my personal …read more

“From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope — dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too — ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.”
–Barack Obama, Speech in Washington, DC
November 10, 2005
Fixing the Nation’s Health Care System: More than 19 million women are uninsured in this country, and women …read more

Congratulations America! Tomorrow’s inauguration of Barack Obama culminates a dream.

It’s a dream that will heal us all – black, white and all other colors and races.

(I scored this shirt last Martin Luther King Jr. Day from a street vender in Atlanta at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.)

Photo Source: The Girl Revolution.

Thanks to American Association of University Women for providing this little tool which keeps track of and tells you whether your representative voted for or against Paycheck Fairness Act or The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Go look and make sure you know how the people you hired voted. Send them a letter telling them what you think.

YOU are the only ones who can hold government officials accountable.

This just in from Momsrising.org:

Remember last month when we asked you to demand that Congress and the states stop treating part-time workers like chopped liver and provide them with unemployment insurance? Well, after nearly 10,000 of your letters to Congress, the New York Times reported that President-elect Obama and Congressional Democrats are now proposing an extension of unemployment insurance to part-time workers! [1]

Give yourself a high five, then let’s keep the ball rolling, or more aptly, keep that broccoli going down the hatch.

Tell your Congressional Representatives to support the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act (UIMA) as part of the economic recovery …read more

I scored this healthy air popper from the 1970s at a thrift store for $2.

The top part is broken, but it’s still functional.

But, then I saw this really pretty Nastalgia Electrics Hot Air Popper . I thought it was so cute I bought one for my brother’s family for Christmas too. It was our special family Christmas treat.

It SUCKS!!!

It didn’t even pop a lot of kernels and the bowl it fills is 1/3rd the size of my other bowl. Popcorn – popped and unpopped – flies all over the room. The second time we used it – it smoked.

One side …read more

I got an invitation to the most historic event of the 21st Century to date – Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009.

Now all I need is a free bus. Maybe PunditMom will let me crash on her couch?

It’s so nice how open and communicative our President-Elect is about his plans and ideas.

From Momsrising.org: How cool would it be for Fair Pay to be one of the first things that that President-Elect Obama signs into law? It could actually happen!

We just heard that the House is set to vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act this week, and the Senate could vote as early as next week! Turns out that while the economic security package is tied up in negotiations, there is a rare window of unscheduled open time to pass long-needed bills. Congress is thinking action…and thanks to the incredible advocacy of MomsRising …read more