It's Ellen Day!

Before I talk about my Ellen excitement, I want to start by saying I'm a little surprised that I didn't get any comments on Evan's bike race. I talked about it a lot up until the race and then posted what I thought were all these great pictures of my little guy in his bike race and not one comment about it. I know he's not you're kid and you probably weren't as excited about it as Greg and I were or Evan for that matter, but I thought I'd get at least something from one of you. Is it that some of you don't know how to comment, or you just didn't care to, or I bored you with the bike race talk? Whatever it is, just know that I do actually read the comments, and I enjoy reading them. I actually appreciate it when someone comments after a post because then I feel like I've connected to my readers out there. I was a little bummed, but I'm going forward because I've been able to laugh a lot this week.

Remember I'm a big fan of the Ellen Degeneres Show, and today was the big release of her cover on The Oprah Magazine. Ellen's been talking about it for almost a year. It was her New Year's resolution to get on the Oprah magazine. It started out sort of as a joke, but then Oprah called her and asked her to be on the cover. I don't ever buy the Oprah Magazine, but when I heard that Ellen was going to be on the cover and there would be other articles about Ellen inside, I knew I had to get it. Ellen makes me laugh everyday. It's my one hour of t.v. that I can thoroughly enjoy because no matter what the topic, I can count on Ellen being funny. She's never really disappointed me with her show. The past couple weeks she's had the countdown to her cover on O hitting stands, and it's been an absolute hoot! She recapped her phone calls over the months to Oprah, the reveal of the cover, other cover ideas she came up with, behind the scenes at the cover photo shoot, and much more. It's been so funny and it's given me lots of laughs.

So all week I've dreaded the trip to Meijers to do my grocery shopping. Finally today I broke down and made myself go. I had a little incentive because today I could finally get the Oprah Magazine! It was the first thing I put in the cart when I got to Meijer. I wanted to make sure I wouldn't forget, or with my luck they'd be out of it by the time I got to the checkout. So into the cart it went, and then I did the rest of my shopping. I got to grocery shop on a weekday afternoon and without any kids. This rarely EVER happens, but since Greg is on vacation he stayed home while Em napped, Evan was at school of course, and I went by myself! It was so nice. I could go up and down the aisles without having to worry about the kids or have them asking for every other thing they saw on the shelves. Suddenly when I got to Meijer, my thoughts of dreading the grocery shopping left me, and I was in and out of there in pretty good time.

Now I've got my Oprah Magazine and have looked through some of it. I don't want to finish it all at once, so I'm looking at it in parts. I want to thoroughly enjoy it! You all might be thinking, "it's just a magazine," and it is, but it's just a little something to brighten my day that I can enjoy during some mommy time! It's kind of like getting two doses of Ellen laughter in one day!