Get a Tissue!

This is one woman’s beautifully written account of the day her daughter was born with Down syndrome.

It is such an honest, heart-wrenching story. And the photos are amazing!

Snow Day Links

Sleep Talkin’ Man: A mild-mannered Englishman becomes a foul-mouthed comedian when talking in his sleep. His wife started a blog to document the hilarious things he says.

Cake Wrecks: A collection of “professional” cakes that are just horrible. Lopsided, weirdly decorated, adorned with poorly spelled messages, or just generally disturbing.

Bad Parking: Annoyed citizens send photos of their local parking offenders. I may become a regular contributor to this one.

Red Pen, Inc.: Examples of failure to edit. Misspelled menus, signs with “unnecessary” quotation marks … the kind of thing nerds like me notice.

Passive-Aggressive Notes: Disgruntled co-workers, annoyed roommates, fed-up neighbors … they are all scrawling “helpful” reminders that end up on this site for ridicule.

Postcards from Yo Momma: Funny e-mails, instant messages and Facebook wall posts from mothers everywhere.

Lamebook: A collection of the stupidest conversations, photos, descriptions and status messages on Facebook.

Just Dance!

I love this promotional video for the new Wii game “Just Dance.”

How cute is this guy?

Christmas Lights

This house is about a block and a half from us. When you tune your radio to 91.7, you hear one of a handful of Christmas songs they picked out — and their lights are synchronized to go with it!

And they have their own Web site!

Also around the neighborhood:

Merry Christmas, y’all!

The Berlin Wall

It seems impossible that 20 years have passed since the Berlin Wall came down. I can still remember the guards at Checkpoint Charlie, laughing at my passport photo.

The Boston Globe has a great collection of photos to mark the occasion. (Be sure to click on photos 12-15 for the interactive fun!)

This is for my Mama!

People falling down, news anchors laughing uncontrollably …

It’s like they filmed this just for you, Mommala!

A Quick Survey

My husband is pursuing a master’s degree in public relations, and his project for this semester is to create a strategic plan for the Philadelphia Eagles regarding Michael Vick’s return to the NFL.

He needs some responses to this survey to proceed. Please take a few minutes to answer 15 questions.

Thanks!

Wow.

This was in a booklet from the Petersburg City Schools’ adult education program.

I hope they will discuss the pitfalls of the spell-check feature!

Joe’s Very Own Blog

I started this blog as an outlet for all the silly things I like to write about. That was two years ago.

Last year, when our sweet boy came on the scene, the blog became “all Joe, all the time.”  (His fans demand it, and who can blame them?)

So now, all things Joe will live at JoeTremblay.com. And at this blog, I will resume writing about whatever silliness pops into my head.

Which may still be a lot of Joe. We’ll see!

Fathers Day

When Patrick wakes up, he’s going to watch this and then open presents.

We’re sending much love to all the Dadas in Joe’s life — Grandpa Mike, Papa Burt, Uncle Rich.

Hope your day is great!