My One and Only Political Blog

For the longest time most of my friends have been commenting to me how interesting they find it that I haven't said anything about the election on this blog. I mean, you spend approximately two minutes in a conversation with me and I can somehow turn it to politics - talking about how Greyson needs health insurance or about how we need to save the planet. Frankly, I haven't said anything because my husband politely asked me not to. He wanted to make sure at the end of all this that our conservative friends were still out conservative friends.

But I wanted to say something (two things actually). The first being a olive branch of sorts from the liberals to all of you conservatives out there. I know y'all are pissed and disappointed right now. Believe me, if Obama had lost I would have been mad at Raif and I would have spent the next few weeks talking about packing up the family and taking advantage of his EU citizenship and moving to Europe. And I don't expect your disappointment to end anytime soon. That being said I also hope that you can give us liberals a chance and try to come into the next few years with an open mind and some patience. The US is pretty screwed up right about now and it will take all of us together to put it back on track - it might not be the perfect track for everyone but hopefully it will move in a general direction that everyone can live with.

The second thing - regardless of your political views I think we should all take a second to realize what a moment we lived through last night, in the election of the first African-American President. Last week I was talking to Ms. Tina, Greyson's preschool teacher, and she was telling me that they were doing an excercise in class about different and same. They were asking various children things that were different and same including each other. It made my heart skip a beat when she told me that Greyson thought he was the same as his friend Johannes- even though Johannes is African-American. I hope yesterday was a big step in the right direction for race relations in this country.

OK, enough about the election. Although, I will admit that the gleeful liberal inside of me is going to listen to Sean Hannity cry on his radio show this afternoon as I go to pick up Greyson!!

The BEST in Atlanta

What can I say about Jon Whitaker? Well, he has been doing our (first Raif and I and now the kids) hair for a little under a decade. Over the years he has transformed from our stylist to a dear friend. When Greyson was in the hospital and I couldn't leave the house he started coming over and taking time on his days off to cut our hair. And even when we moved to Nashville 3 1/2 hours away he stills comes up every 6 weeks or so to visit, play with the kids and keep us stylish.

A month or so ago, Jon left VanMichael in Atlanta and opened up his own salon in Virginia Highlands - JonDavid Salons. It is AMAZING. While we were in Atlanta last weekend we got the opportunity to visit and of course get our hair done. For all of our friends in Atlanta - if you are ever in need of a new stylist check Jon out. I promise you, you won't be disappointed.

JonDavid Salons 404-524-9241
The finished product - don't they look great!!!

GA/FL game

One happy Gator girl.....

Young love.

Corrupting the Tuck youth while Andy was sick - I think he would approve though.

OK, just to get this out of the way: FLORIDA SUCKS!! Now on to bigger and better things.

This last weekend we went down to Atlanta to spend Halloween with our friends and to go our friends Keith and Susanna's annual GA/FL party (aka The Second World's Largest Cocktail Party). Thankfully I spent most of the game running around after my children so I wasn't subjected to Georgia's humiliating ass-whooping.

It was a great party - we got to see all of our old neighbors and their respective children and got to see some old Vandy friends (thanks to the Tucks and Lindseys for making the effort to come out and see us). And Guinness and Cooper even got to play with an old doggie friend - Mayzie. Raif did his part to contribute to the delinquency of the minors by teaching them all how to play beer pong. I personally think Sam Tuck is a natural. If Georgia had won it would have been a perfect day but hey you can't get everything you want in life. I guess I have to wait til next year - that is if Keith and Susanna invite us back. For all of the pics go to Raif's smugmug account:

http://sailrace.smugmug.com/gallery/6462579_LtP2Y#P-1-15

Go Dawgs sic 'em Woof, woof, woof.

Happy Halloween

We spent Halloween in Atlanta this year and trick-or-treated in our old neighborhood. We had so much fun and it was so great to see everyone again. Raif, of course, took a lot of pictures - far too many to put on the blog so if you are interested in seeing the rest of them please visit Raif's smugmug site: http://sailrace.smugmug.com/gallery/6463544_8CpYU#409984358_oWjp3

Lil Punkin Parade

At Greyson's preschool they had a Lil Punkin Parade on Friday. All the kids dressed up and paraded around the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt (their education college for those not intimately familiar with Vanderbilt). The faculty and students were great there - decorating buildings and handing out candy. Greyson had fun and got the hang of begging for treats very quickly. Of course 2 pictures in to the event and the battery died on my camera so my pics aren't that great but he had fun nonetheless.

Like Father Like Son

I dropped by the grocery store on the way home from picking up Greyson from preschool. Both kids were in the 'race car' grocery carts at the local Publix. As we went up an aisle there was a lady and her cart blocking the way. Greyson piped up and said "Beep, beep - Out of my way!!" Who else can picture Raif doing that in his Volvo - although I don't think Raif would have used that polite of language!?

I've Been Tagged...

I was tagged by my fellow friend/blogger Katie Tuck to reveal 7 random things about me. Most things about me are pretty random so I had a lot to choose from. Here it goes:

1. I think ABBA is the best band ever. When we were in Sweden a couple of years ago, I actually made Raif go to the ABBA museum with me.

2. I am addicted to politics. I seriously don't know what I am going to do come Nov 5th when I don't need to check the CNN website to find out what the latest polling numbers for the swing states are. If anyone has any substitute addictions for me - let me know.

3. I have a crush on Anderson Cooper (I think that comes from #2).

4. I have an intense phobia about hosting parties. I hate it. My biggest fear is that no one will show up. Which is why I don't want a funeral when I die because nothing is sadder that no one coming to your funeral.

5. I HATE having my picture taken which is why it will probably never show up on this blog.

6. I am a crazy environmentalist - from growing my own veggies to buying organic mattresses (bet you didn't know they made those) I am all about everything green.

7. I think naps are the greatest things in the world.

Now I am suppose to tag 7 people and make them share 7 things but I don't know enough people blogging who haven't done this already so it will have to end with me.