15 minutes - happy mother's day!!!

i have 15 minutes before i leave for church. is that really enough time to finish my last point on Paine (or begin my last point, for that matter)? i didn't think so either.

i almost forgot:

happy mothers day to all my moms!!!

((but most of all to my favorite mom, my real mom. I love you!))

in honor of mother's day, i present the following picture. this is what my family calls "the tired face picture." "tired face pictures" are a long tradition, beginning with the first time we scaled the great wall of china. by the end, we were so tired, the tired face picture was all we could muster up. come to think of it, there were a lot of tired face pictures in china, mostly associated with temples and endless stairs. in any case, this tired face picture was taken after my mom thorougly trounced everyone at monopoly last new year's eve (another time-honored tradition). the guy with his head cut off is my sister's old boyfriend. my fiance, refusing to get sucked into another picture where we intentionally look our worst, opted to take the picture rather than be in the picture. my mother, of course, is the beautiful one in the center, looking radiant, no doubt, because she has just taken every bill in the monopoly game, and also because it's next to impossible to make her look otherwise.