Kat around? you use Pampers or Boudreaux's?

I don't... with Grace we use Huggies and we've been butt paste free. I really need to get Grace potty trained, but it seems like this giant insurmountable hurdle.

BTW, Jessica, I'm getting rid of several BumGenius and another brand. Do you need any?

Buy Green Stamps

Do you all remember the stamps that grocery stores used to give out and you'd paste into a booklet and get prizes? Did that happen in my childhood or is it something I read about only? I think we did it when I was really young, for dishes maybe.

I was obsessed with the full booklets of Green Stamps my grandmother had around, but I think it was already too late to redeem them at that point. That or she just wouldn't let me.

I LOVE the bots for tots!

Jessica, could you cobble one together with a Wii Balance board, a Roomba (for the something-in-the-way sensor) and a Bumbo?

If she doesn't, I'm going to.

Oh hell no! You can still redeem green stamps: [link]

Apparently the Jamaican Prime Minister wants to meet one-on-one with my father.

Huh.

Nice, ita! Your father's fancy.

Dag, Kat. I bet my grandmother threw them away.

Really wonderful article about the importance of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and why all of the "Grizzly Mamas" a la Sarah Palin ow her a debt of gratitude: [link]

To which I would just add that Palin and the Mama Grizzlies also owe a debt of thanks directly to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who almost single-handedly convinced the courts and legislatures to do away with gender classifications in matters ranging from a woman's right to be executor of her son's estate (Reed v. Reed, 1970), to a female Air Force lieutenant's right to secure housing allowances and medical benefits for her husband (Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973), and the right of Oklahoma's "thirsty boys" (her words) to buy beer at the Honk n' Holler at the same age as young women (Craig v. Boren, 1976).

. . .

You can draw a straight line between Ginsburg's fight against these seemingly harmless gender classifications that were rooted in seemingly harmless gender stereotypes and the Mama Grizzlies who roam our political landscape today.

Those who like to believe they have picked themselves up by the bootstraps sometimes forget that they wouldn't even have boots were it not for the women who came before. Listening to Palin, it's almost impossible to believe that, as recently as 50 years ago, a woman at Harvard Law School could be asked by Dean Erwin Griswold to justify taking a spot that belonged to a man. In Ginsburg's lifetime, a woman could be denied a clerkship with Felix Frankfurter just because she was a woman. Only a few decades ago, Ginsburg had to hide her second pregnancy for fear of losing tenure. I don't have an easy answer to the question of whether real feminists are about prominent lipsticky displays of "girl-power," but I do know that Ginsburg's lifetime dedication to achieving quiet, dignified equality made such displays possible.

Anyone following the U.S. Open?

Baghdatis out in the first round.

the mama grizzly thing makes me want to gag.