Around the World in 80 Clicks
I've been Tagged! I'm going to participate so bare with me as I work on getting this right the first time! First the copy and paste. I was tagged by Cara over at Momma Says in this post Around the World in 80 Clicks.
The Rules.
The rules are to list five things you love about parenthood and link back to the meme's authors, Catherine at Her Bad Mother and David at It's Not a Lecture so they know you need to be added to the departure lounge. Then, you need to tag five other mommy bloggers, some from your country and some from others. David is hooking everyone up - see the HBM post I've linked to above for details.
Now for my 5 things...
1. I love that Parenthood has taught me I do not know everything, my kids continually inform me of the things I do not know or just how uninformed I am about the real world.
2. I love that Parenthood teaches me just how much I can love my kids, I remember the day I was handed my first boy, TJ was so tiny, and I got to hold him for only a few seconds before he was taken to be checked out. He was a 5wk preemie. I also remember talking to my Mom on the phone and saying "I love him SO much" and her saying back "I know" cause she did she knew exactly how much because that was how much she loved me and my siblings.
3. I love that Parenthood is constantly changing, there is no room to be bored here. No way, they rules change constantly and the little men change with each day, if I thought I had it "down" and knew what I was doing yesterday, I was being cocky cause today it's going to change.
4. I Love that Parenthood was given to me by my Hubbie and that I can see my Hubbie in my boys. It's those certain looks that he gets, or the chin dipples that I see in TJ that Hubbie has, the blue eyes in all of them. I also see some of his attitudes, and it's almost funny to watch.
5. I Love the Cuddles and hugs and kisses of Parenthood. I love when they used to cuddle in close for a feeding or hold my fingers while they got down to the job at hand. The tiny little fingers and toes and now seeing how big those tiny toes and fingers are getting. How BIG A hug can get from then to now, and I look forward to the Hugs of the future.
Now I will be tagging some of my blog readers.
Mrsblupete who write over at Tales from the Zookeeper
The Headless Mom who writes over at The Adventures of the Headless Family
Anne over at Teach Only Love
Michelle over at Michelle's Blog
Anissa over at Our Chaotic Life
OK GO! :)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Random Tuesday, we lost Spring?
I think I've lost spring, well maybe it's not so much as lost but having an identity crisis. We went from Snow in the back yard, to kids playing in a sandpile in shorts sitting beside the pile of snow? I did not get a picture though, camera was accidentally still attached to the Computer and battery juice no more. DARN!
Swine Flu? think maybe it's got something to do with Mexico trying to keep other people out of their country due to that drug problem?
There was a lotto Win, 10Bus drivers in my county, yep in my county, no none were friends darn it! seem to have won 106,000.00 between them. I can totally see myself blowing 10,000 without even getting a material item into my house. hmmm Those ads might not be a bad idea on this bloggy thingy? hmmm? "buy my stuff... buy my stuff" oh wait I have no stuff!
There's some late buses going on today, in my neighborhood... you know? I just realized that my kids bus driver yesterday was a fill-in? maybe they said the name of "that" community but really meant mine? I'll be the sub is still trying to find all the kids to pick up.
Summer, yep it must be, today's high is to be 28C! but we're also still on flood watch here. There is a part of the highway system closed due to high water levels. We're on high ground here, well kind of, there is that swamp in my side yard, and behind my lot that we kind of own but don't pay any attention to. We just have to watch for Bears, Fox, Deer, Beavers, and other critters of mass distruction. So far our most distructed feature is the front lawn, it now has a tunnel system with structural damage and sinks. Sometimes it's a nice flat law and next thing you know your up to your ankle in hole!!!! Damn Gophers!
Now that it's warming and the sun is coming around the back yard, I'm off to do my part for stopping climate change for a minute longer and hang out my laundry. Really it's more about saving me 30cents a load in electricity for drying those clothes.
Happy Tuesday, if i you have no idea, why I'm writing so Randomly, go on over and visit Keely The Unmom and get yourself a Random Tuesday Thoughts Badge and start randomly typing away... :) Also Hi to all the other RTT Bloggers out there reading and popping in.
Monday, April 27, 2009
KTTS and KTTD
I'm not sure if you've all heard this before but CTTD is Cute Things They Do, sometimes there are CTTS ,Cute Things They Say, but this one can get even the most tame parent in trouble.They just have to repeat everything you say don't they? Today I bring you my versions, a combination from MJ of KTTD and KTTS, as well as an update from the older boys. I think it's only fitting they now be known as K TTD and K TTS cause really my kids are Kyoot!(for those just joining or first time readers, Kyoot=cute)
Today MJ got up after the boys were ready at the door to go to school, this is good it makes hte morning move so much faster. He sat in his chair, I gave him a bowl of strawberries, the other boys had their in their lunches so he starts pulling them out 1 by 1 and lining them up on the table. I think there may have been a strawberry parade, but instead it was a strawberry beauty pageant where only the best strawberries get to stay in the bowl and be eaten. The other strawberries were sent to me for cosmetic surgery. "this one is dirty" in reality it's just a patch that's seedier then the rest or where this strawberry has run into another strawberry and got a bit roughed up. No Berries were harmed in the making of this breakfast. YES I took their heads off, yes your right I did cut them in 1/2 or 1/3s but they were big. Oh no! maybe I've become a strawberry judger? "you fat strawberry, to the back of the line..."
So after a bit he says "I'm cold" it was 0C here over night but got up to 2C by 630am, 7am it was bout 4C the sun is coming up, it's suppose to reached about 11C but there will be wind. Sorry Tangent, I get a bit carried away when it's weather. So I have to tell him that one of his little Einstein guys is by the radiator (hot electric rads), and he comes to get him and tells me he's missing 1. We go looking,
I said "which one? is it the one with the blond hair?"
and he says straight faced as ever" yeah like me but it sticks up straight like this!" and he pulls his hair up off his head. He just got a hair cut Saturday, there isn't much to pull up. Boys!
I said "was it like this", and I'm sitting here making pony tails in my hair with my hands, "yeah!"
I looked at him and explained "those are called Pony Tails"
and that's when it turns into another KTTD his nose gets all scrunched up and his eyes give me that "you can't be serious look" HA!!! now he's moving the sofa, and looking for the lost blond girl, at least he's determined.
AJ's turn this weekend had his first communion, he will not make it as a priest, since it's a bit too "subdued" for his personality. I think this boy may have to become an actor/musician/center stage hog! like his Dad. I was actually thankful that my mind was on MJ most of the mass so that I didn't see with my own eyes all of what Hubbie and the other 75-100 people in the pews saw. I know someday I'll be able to go to church and hear all of what's said and some day I will "get" the Homily? right? Good thing most masses are reruns from the year before. (see tangent)
AJ did okay.
He picked out his own clothes Saturday. I took him shopping and I offered new jeans and a button polo shirt, he directed me over to the manly looking dress pants and Shirt, and wanted a TIE too!!! We went off to the "family" dressing rooms and he tried them on. This was a first too, I'm more of a "measure it up to your legs get is a touch big, and bring it home and wear it" kind of shopper. This was good though, we went in, he tried the clothes on and they fit! and Oh didn't he look so handsome! I was so proud! I almost squished him with hugs. He is at the age where hugs are still okay. So we bought that, I also had to add in shoes for me, sneakers for TJ, T-shirt for MJ, T-shirt and jeans for TJ! 130.00 later I left the store. Oh Hubbie took MJ and TJ for their haircuts hear that cash register cha-ching. AJ had already been to the hair cut, Tuesday, more cha-ching for the store.
The results? AJ Sunday...
ignore the windblown and puffy mom...
TJ is at the age in life where KTTD and KTTS are a bit more few and far between, he also doesn't want you to notice these things and becomes easily embarrassed. I of course think that falls under KTTD, but I can't say that to you all, please read my mind here...>Whistles innocently while remembering how he tried to tie MJ's shoes for him, while I was chatting with other Moms and Dads at theafter party, I mean, little social gathering in the church basement with cake) He's still hugable and still says "love you". (hoping no friends' read here)
Another Funny story, but it's Hubbie. I was telling him that based on AJ's attempts to steal the show from the priest, I think that Maybe AJ should get into something stage based. I pointed out, "your mother warned me about this, she said anytime there was a stage or a presentation, you were front and center".
He looked at me shocked? "My Mom said that?"
I said "yes and she had some examples for me"
to which I hear "you know as I was watching AJ up there, I had a flash back, high school,(cue the flashback dream sequence) I was in a few bands. There were some of us that had been in bands before, but others that just never had any stage experience. So me and some guys got together for a talent show. We were up on the stage....(he's now taking his playing base guitar stance while tell me this, see any audience will do?) and we start in with the theme from Cheers, and then it's time for the singer... and he's not singing, he's standing there FROZEN! stage fright. we start into another song to save this show and he's not singing, just standing there holding the mic" Hubbie still has Base Guitar Stance while tell me the story, and you can see the arm of the imaginary guitar move around and the strut is starting, and he concludes with "so the curtains are starting to close and so I figure it's not getting any worse then this and I walk out infront of the curtains and start me a little Base solo" I had to walk out of the room all the while saying
"Your mother warned me, and she told me she could see you in the boys, but did I listen?..."
so that's our CTTD and CTTS for Monday, no of course there are no "me" stories. I can only be so Kyoot while trying to raise this much Kyootiness in one house!
Today MJ got up after the boys were ready at the door to go to school, this is good it makes hte morning move so much faster. He sat in his chair, I gave him a bowl of strawberries, the other boys had their in their lunches so he starts pulling them out 1 by 1 and lining them up on the table. I think there may have been a strawberry parade, but instead it was a strawberry beauty pageant where only the best strawberries get to stay in the bowl and be eaten. The other strawberries were sent to me for cosmetic surgery. "this one is dirty" in reality it's just a patch that's seedier then the rest or where this strawberry has run into another strawberry and got a bit roughed up. No Berries were harmed in the making of this breakfast. YES I took their heads off, yes your right I did cut them in 1/2 or 1/3s but they were big. Oh no! maybe I've become a strawberry judger? "you fat strawberry, to the back of the line..."
So after a bit he says "I'm cold" it was 0C here over night but got up to 2C by 630am, 7am it was bout 4C the sun is coming up, it's suppose to reached about 11C but there will be wind. Sorry Tangent, I get a bit carried away when it's weather. So I have to tell him that one of his little Einstein guys is by the radiator (hot electric rads), and he comes to get him and tells me he's missing 1. We go looking,
I said "which one? is it the one with the blond hair?"
and he says straight faced as ever" yeah like me but it sticks up straight like this!" and he pulls his hair up off his head. He just got a hair cut Saturday, there isn't much to pull up. Boys!
I said "was it like this", and I'm sitting here making pony tails in my hair with my hands, "yeah!"
I looked at him and explained "those are called Pony Tails"
and that's when it turns into another KTTD his nose gets all scrunched up and his eyes give me that "you can't be serious look" HA!!! now he's moving the sofa, and looking for the lost blond girl, at least he's determined.
AJ's turn this weekend had his first communion, he will not make it as a priest, since it's a bit too "subdued" for his personality. I think this boy may have to become an actor/musician/center stage hog! like his Dad. I was actually thankful that my mind was on MJ most of the mass so that I didn't see with my own eyes all of what Hubbie and the other 75-100 people in the pews saw. I know someday I'll be able to go to church and hear all of what's said and some day I will "get" the Homily? right? Good thing most masses are reruns from the year before. (see tangent)
AJ did okay.
He picked out his own clothes Saturday. I took him shopping and I offered new jeans and a button polo shirt, he directed me over to the manly looking dress pants and Shirt, and wanted a TIE too!!! We went off to the "family" dressing rooms and he tried them on. This was a first too, I'm more of a "measure it up to your legs get is a touch big, and bring it home and wear it" kind of shopper. This was good though, we went in, he tried the clothes on and they fit! and Oh didn't he look so handsome! I was so proud! I almost squished him with hugs. He is at the age where hugs are still okay. So we bought that, I also had to add in shoes for me, sneakers for TJ, T-shirt for MJ, T-shirt and jeans for TJ! 130.00 later I left the store. Oh Hubbie took MJ and TJ for their haircuts hear that cash register cha-ching. AJ had already been to the hair cut, Tuesday, more cha-ching for the store.
The results? AJ Sunday...
ignore the windblown and puffy mom...
TJ is at the age in life where KTTD and KTTS are a bit more few and far between, he also doesn't want you to notice these things and becomes easily embarrassed. I of course think that falls under KTTD, but I can't say that to you all, please read my mind here...>Whistles innocently while remembering how he tried to tie MJ's shoes for him, while I was chatting with other Moms and Dads at the
Another Funny story, but it's Hubbie. I was telling him that based on AJ's attempts to steal the show from the priest, I think that Maybe AJ should get into something stage based. I pointed out, "your mother warned me about this, she said anytime there was a stage or a presentation, you were front and center".
He looked at me shocked? "My Mom said that?"
I said "yes and she had some examples for me"
to which I hear "you know as I was watching AJ up there, I had a flash back, high school,(cue the flashback dream sequence) I was in a few bands. There were some of us that had been in bands before, but others that just never had any stage experience. So me and some guys got together for a talent show. We were up on the stage....(he's now taking his playing base guitar stance while tell me this, see any audience will do?) and we start in with the theme from Cheers, and then it's time for the singer... and he's not singing, he's standing there FROZEN! stage fright. we start into another song to save this show and he's not singing, just standing there holding the mic" Hubbie still has Base Guitar Stance while tell me the story, and you can see the arm of the imaginary guitar move around and the strut is starting, and he concludes with "so the curtains are starting to close and so I figure it's not getting any worse then this and I walk out infront of the curtains and start me a little Base solo" I had to walk out of the room all the while saying
"Your mother warned me, and she told me she could see you in the boys, but did I listen?..."
so that's our CTTD and CTTS for Monday, no of course there are no "me" stories. I can only be so Kyoot while trying to raise this much Kyootiness in one house!
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