Friday fill-ins: family, dance floors, good meals and hairy legs.

Happy Labor Day weekend to all who celebrate it. And...here we go!

1. Family can be the only thing you need, or it can break your heart and change you forever. I am choosing to overcome the past and make my family with my husband and children be a warm place to fall, an escape from the world, and an unbreakable bond.

2. How things change. Way back when, in school, we would fight with our friends and then go back and forth on our latest BFF. In College we spent time going back and forth from the bar to the dance floor. When we met our special someone we went back and forth from their place to ours. A few years later we went back and forth, pacing the floor waiting for the contractions to be close enough to go to the hospital. And now, we shuttle those kids to and from their things, constantly going over in our minds the decisions we have made for them, back and forth, back and forth.

3. I love a good book, a good meal, and the giggles floating from my children's room.

4. Good conversation, family and friends, and a few glasses of wine makes a good meal.

5. I've got the hairiest legs I have ever had, hair in a desperate need of  coloring, weight that needs to be lost, a body that desperately needs sleep...........and a husband who needs all of this so he can be happier, too :)

6. Don't get me wrong, I love my reality shows....but have you seen the lineup for dancing with the stars? Apparently all you need to do to be a "star" is be a teenage mom, get drunk and party on T.V., again, get drunk and party on t.v., or just in general like to drink: wth!!!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleep (we have a family movie-in-bed-early-night....I don't think I will make it past the credit) tomorrow my plans include a VIP tour of Sniagrab to give you all a sneak peak of the craziness and a big family reunion for a 60th anniversary and Sunday, I want to take my kiddo to get his very first big-boy backpack and scissors so he can do his first mini-homework assignment!