First, Nina of Queercents and one of the Personal Finance editors at Blogher, posted an interview called “Ten Money Questions” with me. Nina is doing a series of these interviews, and they’re pretty interesting — go check them out!

I am so ready for Noah to go back to school tomorrow. It has been a LONG five days. (Two sick days, one school closed day, the weekend.) He is soooooo fussy right now! I hope it’s teeth coming in, as we’re still at two, and if teething fussy looks worse than this, I am going to lose it.

Not that we haven’t had fun. Today, Noah’s friend Liam came over so the mommies could watch basketball. That plan didn’t work quite as well as we hoped, and the boys were both fussy until we took them outside to run up and down the neighbor’s driveway. And try to eat rocks.

Yesterday, I went to another one of those consignment sales and bought another $23.01 worth of summer clothing: Approximately a dozen items, including 3 suitable for church shirts. I was talked down from a baby backback that really wouldn’t have worked for a boy like Noah, even though it was $3.50.

Which brings me to my money mindfulness update. I think I’m doing pretty well. I’ve held steady on the starbucks and the books, and on the Internet and even on more cute cheap toys at the consignment sales. I’m pretty proud of myself, and I’m surprised by how hard it’s been. The Internet and starbucks have been the hardest.

The coolest update I have is to yesterday’s post!

Katie Orenstein found it on LesbianFamily.org and left a comment, excited to have me (and any of my co-authors who are interested) take her Op-Ed writing course!

I know it’s the weekend so many of you may not be reading until Monday, but I’m going to make some “I was talking to you” shout outs anyway.

Here are the first ten people who popped into my mind in no particular order when I was thinking about bloggers who I think would write great op-eds on a variety of issues:

I know that’s more than 10. And off the top of my head, there are 3 I didn’t list because I assume they already have: Polly from LesbianDad, Jessamyn of Librarian.net and Laura of Derivative Work.

Ok, I have to stop before I just go copy my RSS reader.

PLEASE KNOW, if you wish your blog was on this list, I meant to include it, I just had to stop typing and go clean the kitchen and get ready for my week. You’re totally good enough, and you don’t need to wait for the class any more than I do.