I went to my sister's house for Christmas with her hubbie, my neice, my two nephews, and my mom. We had menudo and tamales. I got a Gameboy Advance SP, a paper shredder, and black and white Converse All Stars. :) Woo hoo!

Been working on a new solution for the DHBIS and man, I'm awash in alphabet soup... SSI, CSS, PHP... at least Blogger has a nice ring to it...

Had a strange dream. I dreamt I fell asleep in a truck, in the front seat, while everyone else had gone into the house. Woke up, it was pitch black, and I had a stack of black DVDs in my hands. Only the DVDs were something evil. Stood up, tried to walk into the house holding the DVDs, which were turning red and melting together. When I saw them in the light, they were normal DVDs. Then I woke up, in the pitch black.

CNN Article Link

Boy punished for talking about gay mom

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) --A 7-year-old boy was scolded and forced to write "I will never use the word 'gay' in school again" after he told a classmate about his lesbian mother, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.

Second-grader Marcus McLaurin was waiting for recess November 11 at Ernest Gaullet Elementary School when a classmate asked about Marcus' mother and father, the ACLU said in a complaint.

Marcus responded he had two mothers because his mother is gay. When the other child asked for explanation, Marcus told him: "Gay is when a girl likes another girl," according to the complaint.

A teacher who heard the remark scolded Marcus, telling him "gay" was a "bad word" and sending him to the principal's office. The following week, Marcus had to come to school early and repeatedly write: "I will never use the word 'gay' in school again."

A phone message left for Lafayette Parish schools superintendent James Easton was not immediately returned.

The ACLU is demanding the case be removed from Marcus' file and that the school apologize to the boy and his mother, Sharon Huff.

"I was concerned when the assistant principal called and told me my son had said a word so bad that he didn't want to repeat it over the phone," Huff said. "But that was nothing compared to the shock I felt when my little boy came home and told me that his teacher had told him his family is a dirty word."