Thursday Thirteen #14 Scrubs Edition

Thirteen Things about Lisa13 Reasons I love Scrubs! I love watching Scrubs! Don't call me between 11pm and midnight, cause I'm busy watching 2 episodes of Scrubs. At first, we refused to watch Scrubs because it looked so incredibly stupid, and we did not want to be dumbed down by watching it. Then one night we heard something in the background, and it was kind of funny, so we watched a little, and then we were hooked. Thanks Devon, we appreciate the dumbing down! 1. JD and Turk always make up silly games, like throwing a hat a Rowdy, their dead stuffed dog, Steak, Ankles, and Graveling. And when Turk wins: Turk: Say it! JD: I'm your beyotch. (We now gravel each other as a sign of love, putting gravel in each others shoes, its just funny!) 2. Elliot: My life is a mess! J.D.: At least you're pretty. Elliot: Yeah, well, pretty don't pay the rent! Carla: It does for my sister. Elliot: Oh, my God, your sister's a prostitute? Carla: She's a model. Come on, Elliot, we talked about thinking before we speak. 3. "Yes! I'm the king of Gay Chicken!" Said by Dr. Cox's brother in law after they almost kissed but Dr. Cox backed out first. A weird game they play. 4. "Darn, I've become predictable." said by Janitor when JD figured out his offer for a place to stay was so he could slather JD's face with jam and sick racoons on him. 5. Dr. Cox: "I suppose I could riff a list of things that I care as little about as our last week. Let's see... low carb diets, Michael Moore, the Republican National Convention, Kabbalah & all Kabbalah-related products, Hi-Def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hotspots, the OC, the UN, recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys, Jeff that Wiggle that sleeps too darn much, the Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show, everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everythingj every-everything that exists past present & future, in discovered and undiscovered dimensions!...Oh, and Hugh Jackman." 6. J.D.: (singing) I'm feeling so good today... (falls, then immediately gets back up and starts singing again) I still feel good, 'cause nobody saw me fall... 7. Dr. Cox: "I know you and I have never really connected - maybe that's because you're relentlessly annoying, or maybe it's my fault because I can't tolerate relentlessly annoying people - I don't know." 8. Dr. Cox: This moment is so great I'd cheat on that other moment from before, marry this one and raise a family of little moments! Dr. Cox: I love this moment so much I want to have sex with it. 9. Did I mention Dr. Cox's rants? Dr. Kelso is getting an award for... Dr. Cox: Jerk-Off of the Year. No, Bastard of the Year! Uh, don't you tell me! Guy I Despise So Much, I'd Pay Someone To Kill Ya and Stuff Ya and Leave Ya by my Bed, So That When I Wake Up in the Morning, I Could Roll Over and Punch You in the Face...of the Year. 10. Dr. Cox: "Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I do naive bubbleheaded optimists who walk around vomitting sunshine." 11. The one-liners are SO funny! The light bulb up the patients hiney on the x-ray. Dr. Cox: "I'll tell you there Bobb-o, either this kid has a lightbulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea." 12. Dr. Cox: Let me ask you a quick question: are you trying to make my head explode? Because you have no idea just how frustrating it is working your *butt* off trying to inflate a tiny little balloon inside somebody's clogged artery when all that person has to do, really is - oh, I don't know - go for a walk in the morning or choke down a fresh green salad. And you come back here looking like that? And, I know here, I know I'm supposed to be Dr. Give-A-Crap, but you wanna hear the God's honest truth? And this is a fact: you are what you eat. And you clearly went out and devoured a big fat guy, didn't ya? 13. Turk: You know, I never get chocolate cake. Elliot: Oh, right, cause you're diabetic. Boo hoo. You know Turk, if you want sympathy, get a disease people can see!

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My wonderful life, and all the junk that comes with it.

So yesterday Devon comes home from track practice and looks a bit worse for wear. He crashes and sleeps the evening away. Its apparent he is not well, but I'm not sure if its a combination of little sleep at Districts last weekend and track meets and track practice, or if he is sick. But as the night went on he became more and more red in the face and meaner and meaner to anyone making noise.
I finally had to send him to bed. But I got to thinking that he must have a fever with that red face, so I broke open my brand new underarm thermometer and head up to his room to take his temp. 104.8 Now way. So I grab him some advil and ice water and take his temp again. 105.5 WHAT??? I decide that the new thermometer MUST be wacko. So I head off to find the oral thermometer. By this time Devon has had the ice water and advil in him close to 10 minutes. His oral temp is 103.8. So I make a call to the nurse line and find that the combination of very high fever and a headache is bad news and they want him to be seen in the ER. Yikes! Devon really did not want to go, so I waited to see if he was going to come down in temp. He did, all the way down to 103.3.
Yep, trip to the ER is in order.
As I'm getting ready to go Hope-Anne points to my wall next to my downstairs bathroom door. There is a HUGE paint bubble full of liquid! The toilette upstairs is not steady, and apparently is leaking! I left Donnie to take care of that stinky job, you betcha I did!

So we head off the the ER and get settled in. They did two blood cultures, which they wanted from two different draw sites at least 1/2 an hour apart. And then an IV, chest x-ray and the kicker: a spinal tap.

Devon was around 3500 teens over the weekend, and his fever wasn't a baby, paired with a headache, they were very concerned.

He is still very high today, 103.1. But all the tests came back looking like he has a virus, but should be fine. If he doesn't break the fever tonight, I'll be taking him in to the doc tomorrow for a throat culture, which they did NOT run.

Look who's blogging now!

I finally talked my mom into blogging! Bring Your Own Cheese, The Whine is Free. We thought it would be great for her to blog about all the weird stuff going on in her life. She is raising two of her 24 grandkids because of some bad stuff going on, and all the hardships that has brought to their family because of it. (like a convicted murderer calling with threats, accusations of molestation, her husband can't live in the house for awhile, then all is well) Then there is the whole being landlords drama! THAT has brought its own level of bizarre. (crazy tenants, missing tenants, seeping sewers, $10,000 worth of dirt)

Maybe in the future ABC will make a soap opera out of it.

Well, then add in both her boys having tattoos, and her only daughter wanting to get one, and you have plenty to whine about! But the whine is pricey, so bring your own cheese to go with it! Check out her Wordless Wednesday post, its a joke she played on me after my last WW pic from her house, the hole in the snow......

Purse give-away!

While reading blogs in my favorites I went to Just Me And My Guys and Stacey leaked the news that Haley at Love, Life, Family... and then some is having a give away for a Coach purse! Go here, check it out and enter to win. I'm hoping its me, but I never win, so feel free to enter! I'm sure Kaytlin would steal it anyways if I did win.

Tickle my funny bone, Tuesday #2

NOAH IN 2007

In the year 2006, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States , and said, "Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans." He gave Noah the blueprints, saying, "You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights."

Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark.

"Noah!" He roared , "I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark ?"

"Forgive me, Lord," begged Noah, "but things have changed. I needed a building permit. I've been arguing with the inspector about the need for a sprinkler system. My neighbors claim that I've violated the neighborhood zoning laws by building the Ark in my yard and exceeding the height limitations. We had to go to the Development Appeal Board for a decision. Then the Department of Transportation demanded a bond be posted for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions, to clear the passage for the Ark's move to the sea. I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it. Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local treesin order to save the spotted owl. I tried to convince the environmentaliststhat I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go! When I started gathering the animals, an animal rights group sued me. They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodation was too restrictive , and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space. Then the EPA ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood. I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I'm supposed to hire for my building crew. Immigration and Naturalization are checking the green-card status of most of the people who want to work. The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience. To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species. So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark. "

Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow stretched across the sky.

Noah looked up in wonder and asked, "You mean you're not going to destroy the world?"

"No," said the Lord. "The government beat me to it."

Districts

Here is a picture of Trinity and one of her closest friends and his little brother. We had a little picnic at the park recently.

This weekend was Districts. Not sure what that means exactly, but its a conference for our teens that happens once a year. My kids enjoy it so much that they will give up almost anything to get to go. They will sell things, work, get good grades, what ever it takes in order to go. You'd think it was a big joy ride full of games and daring stunts the way they act. Two of my kids were so excited about going that they last 24 hours was spent feeling like throwing up! Drew went around taking videos of kids who were going and made two videos for the youth group as a count down. One was pretty funny.

What I can tell actually happens is that there is worship, small classes, group times, fun time, and very little sleep. Lots of practical jokes, picture taking, friendship time, and learning.

Drew called me Saturday night and he sounded pretty close to tears. He said "Mom, I love you. And I'm sorry for the way I've been acting lately. I love you. Mom?" "Yep, I'm here, I'm trying to figure out what to say, Drew." LOL I was in shock. I didn't know if I should try to figure out exactly what he was sorry about or just forgive and let him get back to the conference.

Drew realized that he was trying to get his way NOW instead of living where God has him now, which is under our authority. And he was very moved by it.

I'm so glad the kids went. Other than Devon coming home with permanant marker on his face, someone tried to turn him into Spiderman. And we had picture set up for him Sunday after Districts. Guess who didn't get pictures taken.....

Yesterday's bomb threat

Yesterday I was at church for our Mom's of Munchkins group, and it was really nice to have 4 new women! One had never been to our church, and one had only been when she was in youth group.
As we were cleaning up our pastor came downstairs and told me that the middle school was in lock down because of a bomb threat. I freaked! Devon is in that school! But he quickly assured me that they had taken the kids out of the school and put them across town. They got the threat and locked the kids in the building until it was cleared to leave. I'm not sure I get that one, umm, if its a real bomb, shouldn't they get the heck out of there? But, my child was safe, so I didn't go run down and get him out of the church he was at. He would NOT have thought that was cool, lol.
Apparently it was a kid at the school, but I don't know when we'll ever get the details. The school didn't even send home a note about it. My dd's school sent home a note that they had been in lock-down because they didn't want the kids to see the emergency vehicles going to the middle school, so until it was over they kept the kids in the building.

I don't understand why people want to "copycat" stuff like this? I hear its happening all over the place. I feel sorry for the kid. Was he joking around and never meant for it to get to the school officials? Was he trying to get attention? Did he mean for it to be that big? Either he needs help or he's in a whole lotta trouble for not using his brain. Poor kid.

The weird thing is that for most of my childrens' lives they were homeschooled. But in the few years that they have been in public school, this is the second school evacuation we've been through. The other was some threat on a teacher's voicemail at the younger elementary school.

Makes me wonder why on earth am I letting my kids leave the house? Are they going to end up that messed up? Are they going to end up hurt by someone? I keep trusting God. I gave them all to God, and I know He loves them more than I ever could and He will bring them to the path He wants them to follow. Its out of my control, but not out of God's. And it is better that way. Afterall, I don't want God to be my co-pilot, I want Him to be the pilot!

Thursday Thirteen #13

Thirteen Things about Lisa13 T-shirt logos I want to get 1. For Devon: as a matter of fact I did sleep in these clothes 2. For Donnie: Can I get caller ID for the voices in my head? 3. For Donnie: SHUT UP VOICES or I'll poke you with a Q-TIP again 4. For my friend Sarah: Sanity is back-ordered Sarcasm is unlimited supply 5. For Drew: What i really need are MINIONS (he says he already has some) 6. For my mom: I'm not driving badly, I'm multitasking! (her dog won't willingly get in the car with her!) 7. For Hope-Anne: I don't have ADD! Hey, look! There goes a squirrel! 8. For Drew: There is no problem so complex that it can't be solved with DUCT TAPE 9. For Drew: You probably don't recognize me without my cape 10. For Sarah: National Sarcasm Society Like we need your support 11. For Kaytlin: If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon 12. For Devon: DON'T make me go all NINJA on you. 13. For me: Careful, or you'll end up in my blog! You can order these at http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/ Except for #13, which I made up and want to get! Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Modern Musings 2. Soliloquy 3. "We're all mad here," said the Cheshire Cat to Alice. 4. Any Apples 5. Amy's Random thoughts 6. Dane Bramage 7. Here Comes A Storm 8. BLAH BLAH BLOG - THE SOAP BOX 9. For Such a Time as Now 10. Writing My Life Away 11. Just Bloggin' Along 12. toni (in the midst...) 13. laughing mommy 14. Raise the Cup! 15. Michelle's Pillow Talk 16. Least Significant Bits 17. Babysteps 18. ancsweetnsassygal 19. Experience Imagination

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Freaky dude

Last night we were eating supper together and going around the table telling something that happened in each of our lives that day. Its a fun way to hear what happens with the kids, usually. But last night Donnie got the award for freakiest event.

Donnie and his co-worker, John, went to some guitar place so Donnie could ask about our recently breaking guitars. On the way out John tells Donnie this enormous, 6+foot tall guy had been checking Donnie out. Eww, right?? Yeah, so the guy follows them out to the car, just happens to be parked next to them, so he can get his coat in the 75 degree weather! John is such a great friend that he wouldn't unlock the door for Donnie to get in while the guy was there. Nice friend, huh?

Donnie said he didn't care if I posted that. Its kinda creepy and kinda funny. Well, a LOT creepy, but funny, too.

Tickle my funny bone, Tuesday

Mildred, 93, was despondent over the recent death of her husband Earl, so she decided to just kill herself and join him in death.

Thinking it would be best to get it over with quickly, she took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart since it was so badly broken in the first place.

Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to learn her heart's exact location. "Since you're a woman," the doctor said, "your heart is just below your left breast. Why do you ask?" She hung up without answering.

Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her knee.

Bungee Jumping

Alice and Frank are Bungee-jumping one day. Alice says to Frank, "You know, we could make a lot of money running our own Bungee-jumping business in Mexico." Frank thinks this is a great idea, so they pool their money and buy everything they need: a tower, an elastic cord, insurance, etc.

They travel to Mexico and begin to set up on the square. As they are constructing the tower, a crowd begins to assemble. Slowly, more and more people gather to watch them at work

When they had finished, there was such a crowd, they thought it would be a good idea to give a demonstration.

So, Alice jumps. She bounces at the end of the cord, but when she comes back up, Frank notices that she has a few cuts and scratches.

Unfortunately, Frank isn't able to catch her and she falls again, bounces, and comes back up again. This time, she is bruised and bleeding. Again, Frank misses her.

Alice falls again and bounces back up.This time, she comes back pretty messed up -- she's got a couple of broken bones and is almost unconscious. Luckily, Frank finally catches her this time and says, "What happened? Was the cord too long?"

Barely able to speak, Alice gasps, "No, the Bungee cord was fine...It was the crowd. What the hell is a piñata?!"

(graphic from http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/women.html)

Sam has another new trick!

Sam was just being so cute that I had to video tape him! Then I decided to let him sit up, since that is his new trick. But then he did something to totally shock me! He's growing too fast!!!!!
(sorry about the nudity, he has the most fun when he's diaperless.)

Tattoo's and other random thoughts

I've always thought tattoo's were dumb idea, and especially should not be gotten while young. You don't know what life will bring you, so you don't want to mark yourself with something that could offend you later. Like 666 and then you become a Christian. Plus, do you REALLY want something on your body that will become all stretched out and gross looking when your 80? What if you need to dress up? Do you want a tatoo showing when your at a very fancy event? Like your wedding? Its never had any appeal to me.

Recently, oh, maybe for the last 6-12 months or so, I've been wanting to get a tattoo. Midlife crisis? (Like I have time for that!) I don't want something others would see, except my husband. I'm thinking my lower back, but found out that is called a "Tramp Stamp." Yep, almost enough to convince me not to get it, lol. Turns out my only sister wants to get one, too, and in the same place! LOL We are so NOT alike in any way, that I find that pretty funny.

So, Thursday I'm trolling around through the Thursday Thirteen posts and someone posted the 13 tattoos they want to get. I responded about wanting to get one some day. That person comment on my TT and said something about me getting a tattoo. I immediately concidered trash canning that post because I would be "outed" to my mom! Yep, she DID read it and called me up and chewed me out! So, um, thanks for that.

I don't understand mom being upset, both of her other kids have tattoos. LOL Besides, I will wait at least another 6 months before I do it, I want to make sure that I still want it, still want the same thing in the same place, etc. I don't believe in jumping into something that permanant.

All the p00p stuff that goes on at my house is an endless source of amusement to my friends. Seriously. They just crack up at all the things that Trinity does with her p00. Its gross, and I don't enjoy it, but I'm pretty laid back about it, because what else can I do? She doesn't show signs of it ending. (well she DID show signs, it stopped for a little while, then the whole carpet cleaning incident happened.)
Last night was ladies night, and as always, our p00p stuff came up, who knows how, but it did. So I had to tell them about my boys. We were having a very good heart to heart one day. Its always nice to get to know more things about the inner workings of your teens and pre-teens. But then it turned disturbing. Apparently there is a price at which my boys will eat p00p. And they even went so far into thinking it through that they decided eating their own p00p would be better than eating someone else's. And their price? As little as $50.
I can't imagine that. If there was a million in CASH sitting on the table with a plate of p00, I would not eat it. I'd say "God will provide, thanks anyway." I would walk away from a million dollars. 'Nuff said. I MIGHT let a spider crawl on me for a guaranteed million, I'd have to think on it.

I've pulled a couple of practical jokes this last week. I said to my dh, in a very suspicious way, "Noone seemed to notice the difference in the mashed potatoes." Sure enough, curiosity was peaked in the eaves droppers. So I fessed up that I had accidentally used breast milk in the mashed potatoes. I was hoping for screaming and gagging, but Drew said "Hmmm, I noticed something was different, but not bad different." Uh huh. I DID accidentally put worchester sauce in there, but not that much, so I know they didn't taste different, lol. Well Cody started laughing his head off and pointing at Drew. See, Cody had not eaten the potatoes because he was out to prove he could live off of tuna for 3 days. Which he did not do. He forgot before the second meal and ate crackers, so had to keep starting over, lol.

So, to keep my pranks going I went for the big guns. I gave Donnie a postive pregnancy test that I found buried in my desk from Samuel. He freaked! "This isn't real, right? No, I mean it, this isn't real, right?" It was great! He was so happy that I am not pregnant that he didn't even get mad at me for doing it.

Then I found out that I got that pranksterness from my mom. Wordless Wednesday #3 is a pic from my mom. That is genuine. But she sent me an email yesterday that had a pic of her deck with SIX of those holes in the snow. What is going on? Drew and I are looking at it and he's saying someone must have done it that time, and I'm arguing that maybe it was the wind through the trees, or water droplets blown into it. Mom did it herself with a spoon just for fun, took a picture of it and sent it to me. Mmmhmmm. I'm that gullible.

Sam's new trick!

Sam is 5 months old, as of the end of March. He is starting to sit if we put him in a sitting position, for up to 2 full minutes! Look how proud he is of himself! Not to mention how doggone cute he is!

He is also rolling around a bit, too. He learned to roll early, but he doesn't do it much, so when I put him on a blanket and found him off the blanket on the other side of it, I was a bit surprised! He is also reaching for everything now, and playing with toys.

The first pic is of Sam and his cousin A. A is 6 weeks younger, but 2lbs heavier, lol. He's a chunker!

Thursday Thirteen #12

Thirteen Things about LisaWords of wisdom from Lisa's Mom, thanks Mom! Some words of wisdom for you! 1. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire. (for my mom it would actually start with locking your keys in the car twice) 2. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. 3. Always remember that you're unique. Just like everybody else. 4. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. 5. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. 6. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. 7. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. 8. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 9. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield. 10. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. 11. A closed mouth gathers no foot. 12. Duct tape is like 'The Force'. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. 13. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. And the bonus: Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. The Scrap and Knit Blog 2. Jen Holland 3. HomeSchool Mommy 4. Denise's Den 5. Least Significant Bits 6. Babysteps 7. samulli

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Wordless Wednesday #3

This pic was taken by my mom in Maine. She doesn't know how that perfect circle ended up in the snow. Did it just collapse like that and leave a perfect circle? Did a bird fly through it? LOL

Thursday Thirteen #11

Thirteen Things about Lisa 13 Blogs I love to read! 1. Babysteps She's so cute, and I am facinated with being a dorm mom and having a family. Plus I just love her honesty. 2. Dane Bramage I love his TTs! 3. Boomama I love to go here for a good laugh! 4. Holymama Seriously, she got a treadmill for her dog, and its hysterical! You have to read about Duke's sprain! 5. It Coulda Been Worse She has THE best stories EVAH. Look in her archives for the Perfect Gift, around Feb. 07. 6. Life In A Shoe Another large family blog, I enjoy reading about people similar to me. 7. No Diet Coke for Mommy I have to admit, I went there to to see why mommy wouldn't want Diet Coke, but I stayed! 8. Touching Heaven Well, she's family! I'm watching their journey to become missionaries in Africa!!! 9. Rocks In My Dryer Lots of reviews there, and great posts! 10. Terrific Teens Miracle stories, Sunday festivus, sane mom of teens..... 11. Laughing Mommy Good, sweet, and apparently shares my fear of spiders. I almost threw up a little when I saw the pics on her Sunday Festivus 13. I'm REALLY that freaked by Spiders. 12. Trophy of God's Grace Another large family AND vasectomy reversal family with reversal babes! 12 kids, I love it! 13. Antique Mommy She has to be one of the most popular bloggers out there. I really enjoy reading her posts. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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My first activity as Women's ministry leader

It was a very busy weekend, but I made it through! Sam started screaming fits on Wednesday after meeting Mac, who is a screamer. I thought it was weird, but whatever. Then on Thursday he broke out in a head to toe rash! It only got worse on Friday, but I couldn't get him to the doctor, so I could not be sure of what was wrong. I suspected an allergy but couldn't be sure.

I went to the retreat anyways because I was the leader, and Drew brought Sam to me a few times to nurse. But Saturday I had to have him with me because I didn't have a driver at home to bring him to eat. So Hope-Anne babysat him away from the ladies and other babies. I took him in and it was an allergy! I had switched laundry soap recently, and then found out Kaytlin broke out from it, too, but hadn't mentioned it.

The retreat went well! It was small, which is hard to keep a good head about, because I wanted it to be a "success" by numbers, but that is not what it is about. One of my written goals as women's ministry is to create smaller groups of women for more intimate sharing and support. I met women on a level I had not known before, and even found out another family in the church had gone through a reversal and had reversal babes! The speaker, who is my cousin, check out her blog Touching Heaven, was great! She has been called to Africa, her and her family, not just her, and it was great to hear about it.

Oh, the drama in my life recently! I am ready to pitch the whole used cloth diaper trading and buy new to avoid people who are unbelievably mean-spirited. But the good that has come from my review of someone's business is that my blog readership is going through the roof. Check out how my stat counter has risen since the owner posting in two different forums about me on Saturday. I hope that I gain some new readers and some new friends from it all. I know that I have gained many new friends through it already, as I was invited to two different forums over it. The drama got so crazy that the posting had to be stopped and people got infractions for the things they were saying, which may mean being banned for a few months in some cases.

I will also be removing a pic because someone who gave me permission to use her pic decided she didn't like me because I would not "obey" her every wish on my personal blog. It wasn't enough for me to give the maker of the diaper a link to her site, I was supposed to name her business and give her credit for it on the say-so of the person whose babe was in the pic, the maker of the dipe did not have a problem with the credit she received. I later acquired a dipe from her and love it so much I dedicated a post to her dipes, but I wasn't about to endorse her before I had tried the dipe. Unfortunately, I have ill feelings about using that diaper maker because of her "friend." If the dipes are so wonderful, and all the bad reviews are not true, why does she need to be so vehemenantly defended when there was nothing to defend? Its kind of scarey. Maybe I only got good service because when I got a dipe from her she already knew about my blog and talking about the dipes?? I realize it is her friend that is acting crazy, and telling lies about what happened, which were corrected by me, but because I pointed out she was lying and proved it, she suddenly wants her pic down. If I don't have her pic up, there is no reason to link to the maker of the dipe. She is hurting her friend. I don't have to remove the pic, once you are given written permission to publish something, its published, and they can't revoke it. But I will still do it because I don't want to deal with her and her public lies and bashing. (against forum rules, so she was reported.) All 10,000 members of that community have access to her tirade, and have access to my blog showing exactly what I did, and that she was lying.

I have someone else who is giving me a pic of their Superman diaper by the same maker to post, though, so I don't have to change anything else in the post. But still, I wonder if I want to promote that business now?

Ok, this is a book now, so I'll move on. I should have made it a Sunday Festivus post, lol.

Oh, I could post 13 of the meanest, or most ignorant comments made on my TT this week!

What Makes America Great?

I don't understand something. What makes America great is that we have freedom. Freedom to do much of what we want and believe in, and freedom to disagree with things and freedom to speak about it. But people want freedom to do what they want and for me to not have freedom to disagree with it.
Isn't that amazing?
I have a diaper review post. I reviewed diapers I have tried and talked about the owners business sites and products. I gave a so-so review of the diaper, parts of it were impressive, but they don't work on Sam, however, her website had a picture that I felt was unprofessional, and I said so. Nothing against her beliefs, which pretty closely coincide with mine.
I now have a couple of "anonymous" people commenting that it is hurtful and I shouldn't say that about people, and that it is discriminating to not buy something from someone because they are so proud of nursing their toddler that they post pictures of their br*ast on their business website.
Discrimination. That's a buzzword to get people to shut up. Sorry, I won't be intimidated.
I have stopped buying products I love because companies support causes I am against. That's not discrimination, that's freedom.
Its just a bonus that they are screaming discrimination against breast feeding when I am currently a breast feeding mom, breastfeeding my 7Th child.
Isn't it nice that they have the right to be offended by my saying something is unprofessional? Some countries they don't have the right to be offended, the government says whats what and you get to deal with it.
Oh, and they even said I am what is wrong with America because I think bo0bs are "private" parts, lol. They want the right to show off your private parts, and other people should not have the right to have pure thoughts and not be invaded by others lack of modesty. If you are hurt, too bad, because if you don't like it you are hurting them. They are the only ones allowed to hurt others.
Sorry, a review is my opinion on something, and my opinion is going to be said on my blog. Turn the channel. Which is what I did with that diaper site. I don't like it, so I won't look at it or buy it.
Oh, and thank you, Anonymous who also says it is unprofessional without slamming the person's viewpoints!

Win a Dyson Vacuum!

Looky what exciting new prize is being given at 5 Minutes for Mom ! Stop on over there and enter this contest for the Dyson Slim. Unless, of course, you want me to win it, then stay away from their site and don't enter!

I bet this would be great for vaccuming my stairs! And it has to be lighter than my Kirby. I like my Kirby a lot, and it isn't TOO bad to lug around, but stairs are just not easy to do.

Thursday Thirteen #10

Thirteen Things about Lisa13 things I won't miss now that Trin is potty trained!(I can't figure out how to get my pictures from my other computer so I can't do my cakes this week.) 1. Finding clothes I had washed, dried and folded thrown on the floor and peed on. (once) 2. Finding p00p under the crib. (Three times) 3. Finding p00p smeared all over the crib and rails. (Every. Single. Day. For a whole year. Sometimes more than once a day.) 4. Cleaning p00p out of every crack and crevis of the Little Tikes doll house. 5. Finding my bed peed in. (FOUR TIMES!!) 6. Cleaning the p00py skidmark out of the carpet going ALL THE WAY down the stairs. 7. Sitting down in my computer chair and getting a VERY wet back end. (NINE TIMES!!!) 8. Going into Trin's room late at night and smelling the odor and finding p00p smeared all over the bed and on a sleeping Trin, who then has to be woken up and bathed and sheets and blankets changed and washed. (twice) 9. Going in Trin's room and finding very dark circles on the floor and discovering yet another puddle on the carpet. (can't even count them) 10. P00p finger painted into the sheets. 11. Trail of p00p down the wall. 12. P00py hand prints on walls. 13. Scrubbing Trin from head to toe and getting p00 out of her fingernails and hair and belly button and toes and fingers and tummy and face and legs and clothes and............ We're done!!!!!!! Now, on to Sam. ** I find it funny that these are so amusing to people. I didn't even mention the p00py figures she made and left on my banister like playdoh people! ** Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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My neice!

I made it to see my neice, Mac, finally! This is a pic of Sam and Mac. He is just 5 months and she is just a tad over 3 months. His hands are twice as big as her little ones!

At one point he rolled toward her and grabbed her little hand in his and just loved on her, it was so cute! And then she started the screaming. The screaming that she seems to like to do. It was heart-breaking! She cried lots and lots, and I just couldn't help her at all! My sister can't do much about it either, but her daddy? Not a thing! He had her for 4 hours one day and she screamed until she passed out on him! Please remember my sister in your prayers, this is really hard for her, she's a single mom and doesn't enjoy babies, so this is really hard. Its a real blessing that she is able to stay home for now, the father is paying all her bills for now, but that also means she doesn't get away from the screaming.

Funny thing was that no matter what we did, Mac kept screaming, after 1/2 an hour we couldn't take it anymore and my sis put her in her crib, and 5 minutes later she was happy. Weird, huh?

She is adorable, though, and I love her cute little crooked smile! I can't wait until next year at Christmas with 2 one year olds running around the house!

We'll have that on my husband's side as well, since his sister had a baby 6 weeks after Sam. Our sisters were due days apart!

I am getting a few calls that women are coming to the retreat! The speaker, who is my cousin, check out her blog Touching Heaven, has actually been what is keeping me even the least little bit positive about it all. She did not want to speak, and was going to say no, and then God gave her a title for her talk........... mmmhmmm, and she was still wanting to say no, but she got more and more ideas about it, and since they are planning to be missionaries she really needs to get this speaking thing started, right?? Our church is very loving and easy going, so we're a great place to start! (they deal with me, LOL, "Ummm, yeah, women's retreat this weekend, please, please sign up, I'm scared silly!") So, if God is preparing and sending a speaker, He must be planning to have listeners, right? I'm leaning on that.

Somehow I need to find time to bake a Lightning McQueen cake for Saturday pick-up. Maybe for tomorrow's TT I will post 13 cakes I've made.

Titleless

How's that for a title? I win for most interesting title??? haha

I just don't even know what to say that would adequately reflect what happened in yesterday's meeting between us, the family in our church that have been an issue, and our pastor.
It has become blatantly obvious that her tongue is out of control, and she feels absolutely justified in what she says, and that it is other people's problems for taking it wrong. Its all misunderstandings, mostly on others parts, and that she isn't' sorry for saying things. Her apologies are for your feelings, not for causing them. There is no ownership.
I thought we had actually made it through, gotten to the point where she would "work on it" as her and her husband say, but then she suddenly dug her heels in and said that if we expect her to work on it and control her tongue, but she struggles with it for the rest of her life, then she shouldn't stay here. (trying to get me to say we won't hold her accountable for her words?)
So, there may be another meeting, or they may leave, by her choice, her husband obviously did not want to move on at that point, but he doesn't run the family, he must keep peace in order to be able to live there. It used to be that way in our house, too, and I praise God that He came into our lives and changed that. It was a horrible time in our marriage. Even though things went my way, I wasn't happy.
Now I need to set this aside, and focus my brain on this weeks activities.
I have a Women's Retreat to finalize and run. A cake order to fill. Go see my new niece. Get my son's tennis papers signed and payed for. I probably need to find the tennis racket and get it to him, I'd be surprised if he brought it to school. Plus a meeting for our new church pictoral directory.
I've learned something big in the last few weeks. Don't wait for the last minute to sign up for things, or show up when it starts. I'm planning the retreat, which can be as big as 100 people or as small as 30. But many people don't sign up in advance or pay in advance. I now have to plan for the right amount of crafts supplies, pizza's to buy, breakfast fixings to buy and cook, and if I can afford the speaker with only SIX people signed up! I have more people working it than are signed up! I can't afford that stuff out of my pocket. I have someone coming in for the craft, and even though she is not charging us for her time, we are paying for the supplies. I have a speaker coming, but the pastor said we do have a speaker budget, so I'm good there. But how many pizza's do I order? Do I order for those signed up? Do I order for what I think will happen, about 30 people? What if 50 show up? Do I say, "Sorry, you didn't sign up in advance, so you don't get to eat."???? So, I will be proactive in the future. I did get up in front of church and told everyone that I really needed to know so I could plan for food and stuff, and I think 4 people responded. Mmmhmm. I even let them know that I was scared silly because this is my first event, and since there were more people working than were signed up, I was getting more than a bit nervous! Still, not much help.
I am going to have to seriously pray all week about what to plan, buy, etc. I'll be leaning on God heavily. Our pastor and the former women's ministry leader both encouraged me to keep it going, people will come.
Whew. Why did I agree to make a cake for the same weekend as the retreat? Why, you may ask. Cause I'm crazy. Really, I just love making cakes, and this is a new customer. And she is willing to order from me when she is more than an hour drive from me. Plus I have never done a Lightning McQueen cake! Although there HAS been a search result that led to my sight with that search "lightening McQueen cake." AFTER I had agreed to do it, but I have never posted on it! LOL Surely that's a good sign!
Why am I squeezing going to see my sister into this week? Its 2.5 hours each way, but I have not seen my 3 month old niece yet. I feel like the most horrible aunt! We don't have our van running yet, so I can only go Sunday afternoons or Tuesdays when Donnie is off. Sundays have been crazy, with Drama, the crazy church lady, getting the pictoral directory worked out, banquets that we don't know about that suddenly need Donnie to drop his life and come run the A/V stuff with NO notice at all. Stuff like that. Throw in weeks and weeks of sick kids and I'm just tied down to this town. I've decided that Tuesday is off limits for anything. I am going to go visit my sister and my nieces. I would love it if my husband would come with me and we could leave things behind for a day, but he has more A/V stuff at church. (no one volunteers for that after 6+ months of offering classes for people, he pretty much has to sign people up and say you better come learn it before you have to do it. Donnie and my boys were the only ones who could do it until recently!)
You know what? We have a great church! I don't mean to imply that we don't. We just have a problem volunteering ourselves, and are notorious for signing up at the last minute.

A little end of week humor!

I've been so busy and stressed out this week that I haven't had time on the computer, and yesterday one of my children was on my computer almost all day doing online school work, so I couldn't get on to post my Thursday Thirteen. I've thought about doing it today, but I'll wait.
Trinity seems to be potty trained. There have been accidents, but many good days, and no more playing in her po*p. We have to go and see her droppings on the toilette and do the Po*py Dance, but that's a small price to pay to not have to scrub it off walls.
Sam, at 4.5 months, is getting teeth. They come and go, and bother him a lot, but have not broke through. I don't want them to come for a few more months, but I'd rather they come through than torture him.

Ok, I promised humor, so I really should deliver, right?
My dd is in a small group of girls with a group leader. The girls love her so much, I can't even tell you how much. It borders on worship, lol. So, leader tells Kaytlin that she has to show up to church on Saturday and help roll bandages for a missionary thingy. As they are working Leader says to Kaytlin "Remember the movie we watched on Wednesday? Well, you be the concubine! Be the concubine!" Kaytlin is just loving this encouragement, right? So, this other lady in the church gets this horrified look on her face! She can't believe this is just said! So she says "Leader, do you know what a concubine is? Its a prostitute!" So Leader and Kaytlin are laughing so hard that they are both in tears. Here is why:
Last week our youth group watched the movie "Harvest" which is about some family, a dad dying, farm needs to be harvested, and the son suddenly hears a thunder as things seem hopeless, and all these combines start coming down the road to help them.
She meant to say "Be the combine!" Now she has to stick with "Be the tractor." because even explaining it she still says concubine!
So, Sunday I find her in the nursery, and we are alone. I say to her "Leader, I need to talk to you about something you've said to the girls." She takes a deep breath, sits down, lets it out and says "Ok." I said "I hear you have been telling our daughters to be concubines." She busted out laughing! It was great!
If that wasn't funny enough, here's something else.

Minnesota Women
Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties.
The first man had married a Woman from Colorado and had told her that she was going to do dishes and housecleaning. It took a couple days, but on the third day he came home to a clean house and dishes washed and put away.
The second man had married a woman from Nebraska. He had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking.The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done, and there was a huge dinner on the table.
The third man had married a girl from Minnesota. He told her that her duties were to keep the house cleaned,dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, enough to fix himself a bite to eat and load the dishwasher.

Wordy Wednesday??

I don't really have a wordless Wednesday, but I just have to post this pic! Sam is just so cute!

I have so much I want to say, but I really shouldn't, or can't say.

Things are hopefully going to get better at our church. I'm not sure if it will end with everyone staying in our church, though. People are talking, and headway seems to be being made. Things got ugly, but hopefully will get cleaned up by next week.

I've had to eat humble pie a couple of times in the last month. Not fun. And that is why I had to remove my post. Way too much information, plus something that was stated in a way that could be interpretted in the wrong way because of how I said it, not because of what I actually feel. I was wrong, and I had to apologize.

I could keep going, there is just so much on my mind and I can barely get to sleep at night. Ugh. Well, we meet with the couple who are involved in the situation on Sunday, and hopefully things will be spoken with wisdom and things are heard with understanding.

But isn't Sam just too cute?!

A church torn apart. *Updated

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Thursday Thirteen #10

Thirteen Things about Lisa13 Politicaly correct terms 1. Ignorant - factually unencumbered 2. Road Kill - Vehicularly Compressed Maladapted Life Form 3. Grounded- you’ve hit a social speed bump 4. Frog - amphibian American 5. Gang - Youth Group 6. Body Odor - nondiscretionary fragrance 7. Cowboys - bovine control officers 8. Dead - living impaired 9. Dish Washer - utensil sanitizer 10. Gas Station Attendent - petroleum transfer technician 11. Vomiting - Unplanned Reexamination of Recent Food Choices 12. Gossip-the speedy transmission of near-factual information 13. Bad hunter- Vegetarian Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Where the impossible happens... 2. The Two Rs - Reading & Writing... 3. Wired Wisdom 4. Babysteps 5. I really should be writing... 6. It's a Raggedy Life 7. jenny 8. Dane Bramage 9. Least Significant Bits 10. Barbara H. 11. Susan Helene Gottfried 12. Sonya 13. irene 14. Sanni 15. YoungMommy 16. Mama's Moon

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Job update

I had a second interview this week for the secretary position. It went really, really well. I was very happy with it. However, I was really torn, I did not want to work right now, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity to work there because I love working there. Before I went in the for interview I prayed that God would make it perfectly clear to the people deciding who should be in the position.
All three people who had a second interview were well qualified, and it was a hard choice, but our pastor put us on a point system, and I was half a point under the person they hired. I am soooo happy! I really am glad that I did not get hired! Besides, this lady, whom I have not met yet, was an office manager, so I'm sure she's more qualified than I am. Down the road, when I don't have an infant, I would love to work there.
And more importantly, haha, I love my life right now. I have great friends and I am very involved in some things that I just don't want to give up. God will find a way for us to get the van fixed, so I'm not looking for a different job. And I don't have to give up spending time with my friends. And a job won't interfere with my being the women's ministry leader.
God's perfect will happened! I'm still hoping that the former sec. will get over what I said and we can still be friends. I'll be giving her a going away present, I just haven't decided what. She did such a great job for our church, and we will miss her so much. I pray she gets a fantastic new job soon.

Sunday Festivus #6

Sunday Festivus is something started by Pam at Terrific Teens to gripe about yourself or something other than other people.

I am so sad that I cannot potty train Trinity. What am I doing wrong? She is over 3 years old!

A couple of days ago I thought we hit a breakthrough. She came and sat on my lap and I said "I love you!" And she said "I love you, too, Mommy!"

Me: "I'm glad you are my baby!"

Trin: "I not a baby, I a big girl!"

Me: "Then why did you pee on my computer chair, and on my bed?"

Trin: "I sorry, mommy! I not do that again! I pee in the potty chair."

Me: "Oh, good."

And she has been! All day yesterday she used the toilette. All day. Then I put her to bed and she took her diaper off and peed all over her bed in her sleep, even on her pillow. Most of today she used the toilette. She had one accident today. Great! So I put her off to bed tonight after a pretty good day. Then I went to put Sam to bed. I snuck over to tuck her back in the blankets. What did I find?? She'd taken her diaper off. After she po*ped. And played in it.

I'm really nauseated tonight. I read someone's blog off of my favorite place, diaper swappers, and she had a link to a really gross video. The top ten zits, cysts, etc. on you tube. It was really gross and fascinating! I ended up watching it three times, and I don't normally have a weak stomach, but even my teen boys were feeling like puking. But we couldn't turn away, lol. So, its self-inflicted. Still not fun, though.

I'm really not happy with myself about something else, too. I quit working 1 1/2 years ago. I was working for a construction company, and aside from the fact that my bosses were nuts, (my direct supervisor was great, the owners were nuts) they were doing some "creative bookkeeping" and wanted me to do things that I just could not do, like put things done for this insurance adjuster's house on someone else's tab, getting the insurance to pay for it.

After that, I did a little bit of subbing for our church secretary. I absolutely loved it! I basically told God that if I ever have to work I would like to work there, but I didn't want to replace the secretary, just get her job if she gets a better one and moves on. Its been a long time now, and she recently put in her resignation.

Wow, most of our vehicles do not work, we eventually need a new roof, (very soon), and we could use a little more money to get out of debt. Then this dream job opens up! Well, of course I have to apply! But I have a 4 month old, so I really don't want to work right now. I am completely torn.

Well, I thought I was pretty good friends with our secretary. We have always gotten along really well, I even watched her teenage son for a weekend. (she does not go to our church, so we only know each other because of her working there) So, thinking she was moving on to another job, I told her how funny it was that I had prayed about wanting her job if I ever had to work. She shut right down. I have apologized to her, but I think she is still really hurt. Now I know that she didn't leave with something lined up. She did tell me that she doesn't know why God had her leave, but that she does believe it will be better for her and better for our church. So I don't understand why she is so upset with me. I didn't WANT her to quit, and I do NOT want to work right now.

And I feel bad that she is telling people that noone that applied is qualified, when I am actually qualified. She specifically told a friend of mine that noone was qualified to do the quickbooks or payroll. I did quickbooks AND payroll on quickbooks (which she doesn't do yet) for 6 months at my job! One of the software that the sec needs to know was bought by my husband and is run by him, and I have run it. There is one thing I do not know, but everyone says that is not important because its easy and not a big deal.

I really thought she would enjoy training me as much as I would enjoy learning from her. Could I have really blown it that bad by telling her that?

Now I have to decide if I really even want to work. Can I work? The babysitting seems to be working out pretty well up until September. And I can keep nursing Sam because my son can drive him up during the day to nurse. The kids can even hang out at church occasionally. Its not every day work, either, so Sam and Trin would only have sitters 3 days a week.

I just need to keep praying. I don't want to work if I don't have to, but if it is where God wants me, then I would LOVE to work at our church.

Minnesota's Ten Commandments

1. Der's only one God, ya know.
2. Don't make that fish on your mantle an idol.
3. Cussing ain't Minnesota nice.
4. Go to church even when you're up nort.
5. Honor your folks.
6. Don't kill. Catch and release.
7. There is only one Lena for every Ole. No cheatin'.
8. If it ain't your lutefisk, don't take it.
9. Don't be braggin' about how much snow ya shoveled.
10. Keep your mind off your neighbor's hotdish.

The most powerful weapon on Earth... a devotional

The kids love doing family devotions. And our favorite ones came from these series by Heritage Builders! They have a great example on their website about toothpaste, but it didn't work for us, our son got the toothpaste back in the tube. It cost us $20. They still got the point, though. Well, in one of the books there was a devo on the Most Powerful Weapon on Earth. Donnie stood outside with the weapon while I took turns sending the kids outside to touch it with a blindfold and see if they can figure it out. They got to go out and touch it and hold it and try to guess before we allowed them to see it. It was a tongue. We used a cow tongue, which is really heavy and gross, lol. I think they even suggest using one in the book. We got one because we had actually bought a 1/4 of a cow. Anyways, the tongue is the most powerful weapon on Earth. What you say cannot be taken back and it has the power to do lasting damage. It also has the power to do major good. It made for a great discussion and family time. Combined with the toothpaste activity, the kids were really set to thinking about things.

Entropy

I went a blog hopping yesterday and came across this post at The Mother Load. Entropy. Basically it means all things are heading for chaos, disaster, or destined to fall apart unless acted on by another force.
Entropy.
Fall apart.
To break down.
Hmmmmm.
You know, your house will become a disaster unless acted on my someone to clean it up. Your car will break down unless worked on by a mechanic. It needs maintainance.
I've been watching my family breaking down. It scares me. Why are we having disrespect? We've never tolerated it, its always been very easy to keep our home respectful. But lately that has been gone, we've been constantly dealing with disrespect. The kids to us, us to the kids. And other things, too. Things are falling apart. We had a wonderful, well behaved, loving, respectful family. Now its a struggle.
We stopped working on it. I guess we felt we had instilled those things and then dropped the ball. We stopped, gradually, family prayer times and devotions. Eventually it was not even thought of to have a family prayer. Devotions? Oh, yeah, I remember that!
Entropy.
I need to act on this.

Thursday Thirteen #9

Thirteen Things about Lisathirteen ways to embarass your kids 1. When talking to them on the cell phone, keep repeating "I love you." until they have to repeat it in front of their friends. 2. Dad to do cheerleading stunts at their soccer (sports) events. 3. When the kids leave up their IM's, get on and tell thier friends "I'm so pretty!" Or talk to their friends and tell them juicy things about your kids, like "We call Drew a Giant Hobbit because he is soooo tall and has the hairiest ankles ever." 4. Talk to their friends. Better yet, volunteer to be leaders of things they are involved in. Then their friends will think you are cool, and your kids will be really embarassed. Their friends like it when you tell them things about your kids. (we are the Drama leaders, lol) 5. Chew out stores for having bad customer service, or screw up your order. (my teens hide their faces in hoodies when we go through the McDonald's drive through) 6. Tell embarassing stories about them in front of them. Like the time they did something nekkid, hehe. 7. Talk about their favorite bands and stuff, and be totally dumb about it. (apparently Alien Youth is not a band, but a CD title by dd's favorite band Skillet. No wonder I couldn't find it.) 8. Try to be cool, use their slang. (My mom did this. "Gel out!" instead of chill out in the 80's) 9. Get caught making out with your spouse. Man, the kids hate that! (Cody told us to get a room one time! LOL) (oh and our pastor caught us kissing at church, lol, that was funny!) 10. Check all their "stuff" regularily, like emails, IM's over their shoulders, their MySpaces. 11. Lick your finger and wipe their face in front of their friends. 12. Talk. Exist. You know, just be yourself. 13. Blog about them. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. amy 2. Di 3. ChupieandJ'smama 4. jenny 5. yofed 6. Marcia 7. ~**Dawn**~ 8. JAM 9. Carrie 10. Dane Bramage 11. Sonya 12. Stephanie 13. tAnYeTTa 14. Sybil 15. Rashenbo 16. Lady G~ 17. Marilyn 18. laughing mommy 19. Raggedy 20. Darla

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Party Day 4!

This is a pic, obviously, of a giant icicle off our house after the lovely blizzard in Minnesota last weekend. This kids have had a blast with all the snow, and making forts with huge icicle bars sticking out. My dd is 5'4" if that gives you a clue as to how big that icicle is!







Normally I would NEVER put an ugly pic of me up, but this one I am because its actually really, really funny!
Trinity, who is 3yo came up to me and told me to smile. How cute! She's playing photographer! And then the Red Eye flash went off and I realized that not only was she able to WORK A DIGITAL CAMERA, she was about to take my picture when I had not showered and had no make-up on! I can barely operate a cell phone, so this amazes me. She's likely to be one of those kids who buys a car on ebay with his parents account. *update: I originally posted this as a Wordless Wednesday post, and it took me two hours to figure out that today is Monday, so really, I think posting an ugly pic is my just desserts for being stupid, hehe.



I also want to let everyone who is a Veggie Tales lover know about the new movie! It just came out and if you order through Veggie Tales mom for a limited time, on the featured links, you get this hat and mask with it for free! Click on the picture to get to the website. A friend of mine is a Veggie Mom consultant. I should be getting my copy tomorrow!

Happy Blog partying! Blog party begins! Day 2 of the blog party! (this is where the funny stories are!) Party day 3!

Party day 3!

Welcome to the third day of the Ultimate Blog Party! Stop on by the big party hub at 5 Minutes for Mom! Lots of great people to meet, and lots of prizes! Who doesn't love prizes?

Yesterday I wanted to share some great stories with you guys, something to make you laugh for Day 2 of the blog party! Today I want to take the story a different route.
Veggie Tales is a very popular kids (and adults, admit it!) video set. The company has taken to the home party circuit. I think it is wonderful! I love these movies and buy them frequently, so why wouldn't I want some of that money to help out a mom?
Last week I went to a show and was able to get a preview of Veggie Tales new movie, which is a sequel to Little Joe, called Moe and the Big Exit. Its a very cute movie, and the kids just love it! Right now it is on sale for $12.99 and comes with a free hat and mask! You must get this in the featured link or it is $14.99.
My very good friend Jean is a Veggie Mom sales consultant. This is a shameless plug for her! I love these movies, and I know many of you do, too. So, please check out her site and maybe order the new movie. Also, remember that Easter is coming up and there is a really cute Easter movie called An Easter Carol, and there is a music cd called A Very Veggie Easter.

For those of you who have teens, there is a CD called Veggie Rock that has many of your kids favorite bands, like Skillet, Rebecca St. James, and News Boys!
I have three teens, and when they found out I was going to a Veggie Tales show they ALL THREE gave me a list of movies to order!

Day 2 of the blog party!

Its day two and if you haven't joined stop here for a look at whats going on! Its the biggest internet party I have ever seen! I am really enjoying going from blog to blog reading about people and finding some really funny people. I love to laugh, so I am going to send you to some of my all time favorite posts ever! They all made me laugh until I not only had tears running down my cheeks, but my family thought I had completely lost all touch with reality.
An Open Letter by one of my favorite bloggers It Coulda Been Worse is funny for all you who are PMS'ing. But my favorite post by her ever, make sure no one is around you who would not want you laughing hysterically, like if you are at work.... is this post The Perfect Gift. This story will make you popular with your friends! Its a great party story!
Another story that gets my friends all in giggles and snorts is this one at Raising Future Esthers. This one'll get your pregnant friends peeing their pants! I know, I told it to my pregnant friend!
I found this on a TT post, that I don't want to link to because, although the TT was great, she is an erotic novelist, so her site is not something I'd want to send readers to, just in case. But if you want to know, leave me a comment and I'll email it to you!
So you think you are having a bad day? Thank the Lord that you are not this guy!
We've all had trouble with our animals, but I don't think anyone can top this one:Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate my excuse, I always get the feeling that my boss thinks I'm lying.
On one recent occasion, I had a valid reason but lied anyway, because the truth was just too darned humiliating. I simply mentioned that I had sustained a head injury, and I hoped I would feel up to coming in the next day. By then, I reasoned, I could think up a doozy to explain the bandage on the top of my head.
The accident occurred mainly because I had given in to my wife's wishes to adopt a cute little kitty. Initially, the new acquisition was no problem. Then one morning I was taking my shower after breakfast when I heard my wife, Deb, call out to me from the kitchen. "Honey! The garbage disposal is dead again. Please come reset it." "You know where the button is," I protested through the shower pitter-patter and steam. "Reset it yourself!" "But I'm scared!" she persisted. "What if it starts going and sucks me in?"
There was a meaningful pause and then, "C'mon, it'll only take you a second." So out I came, dripping wet and butt naked, hoping that my silent outraged nudity would make a statement about how I perceived her behavior as extremely cowardly. Sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink to find the button.
It is the last action I remember performing.
It struck without warning, and without any respect to my circumstances.
No, it wasn't the hexed disposal, drawing me into its gnashing metal teeth.
It was our new kitty, who discovered the fascinating dangling objects she spied hanging between my legs.
She had been poised around the corner and stalked me as I reached under the sink, and at the precise moment when I was most vulnerable, she leapt at the toys I unwittingly offered and snagged them with her needle-like claws.
I lost all rational thought to control orderly bodily movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my masculine region.
Wild animals are sometimes faced with a "fight or flight" syndrome. Men, in this predicament, choose only the "flight" option. I know this from experience. I was fleeing straight up into the air when the sink and cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent. The impact knocked me out cold.
When I awoke, my wife and the paramedics stood over me. Now there are not many things in this life worse than finding oneself lying on the kitchen floor butt naked in front of a group of "been-there, done-that" paramedics. Even worse, having been fully briefed by my wife, the paramedics were all snorting loudly as they tried to conduct their work, all the while trying to suppress their hysterical laughter......and not succeeding.
Somehow I lived through it all. A few days later I finally made it back in to the office, where colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me about my head injury. I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk about, which it was.
"What's the matter?" They all asked, "Cat got your tongue?"
If they only knew!

Once you can see through the tears, please pass that on! Oh, and no, your husband will NOT laugh at that post. Neither will any of your sons or brothers or dad. They really won't find it funny. But all your best girl friends will!

I hope I've made your day! I know each one of those posts has completely changed my day when I found them!

Blog party begins!

Click here to visit Day 2 of the blog party! I've broke out the funny stories to make you laugh!

Today is the first day of the Ultimate Blog Party! Click the button on the left over there and go check it out. There will be prizes.......... And lots of great blogs to check out.

I'm a quiverful mom to 7 great kids, whom I lovingly refer to as qtpies. I'm passionate about babies, cloth diapers, blogging, Diet Dr. Pepper, reversals, not vaccinating, God and my family. You can read more about me at 100 Things about me.

If you read my blog, you will soon see that there is a lot of pooooop here. (gotta mispell that, you wouldn't believe the searches that lead here!) After 5 perfectly potty trained children, I have met my match. And we have all sorts of messes around here. But this too shall pass.

We are snowed in, so I have 6 wonderful days with all the kids home 24/7, so my party hopping may be limited.

I'm off to join some other parties! Leave a comment so I can come find you and say "Hello."

And try to visit Day 2 of the blog party! on my main page to see my current post, full of laugh out loud funny stories!