That the world is still a wonderful place to live in. There are still people out there , even on the big scary internet who care. Wonderful people who will go out of their way to make someone smile.
Jittery Joe checked the mail after work today. He Brought in a box. It was addressed to my blog name :o) and it was from Blogarita. I love me some snail mail, So I was kind of excited. Then I read the note that came with my gift :
Sorry this isn’t new, But I found a pair of them at a garage sale and thought they looked a lot like my cat Mars and your (ex) cat Shadow. (…) Now we have identical mugs. I know you like coffee, so I hope you can use this.
And I almost cried.
What an amazing Surprise. Rainbow Man was with me when I cut open the box, up on a stool peeking over my shoulder trying to get a better view. When he saw the gift, he immediately asked if we can share. We came to the agreement that I would have it weekdays while he is in school, and after school and weekends, it would be his to use. Mr. Rainbow misses Shadow a lot still. I thought that he would be young enough that it wouldn’t hurt him this badly. But he often looks at us and says in a sad little voice “I sure miss Shadow, Don’t you?”
This made his day. Added to that he pulled his tooth tonight. Finally. And It is resting inside the mug, waiting for the tooth fairy to come, He is sure the tooth fairy will leave just a little more because of his “super cute kitty cup”
I want to thank you, Blogarita, not just for thinking of ME, while out hunting down the sales, But for making Rainbow Man scream with excitement. He thought the kitty on the mug looked so much like Shadow he went to get pictures to compare. He is so happy! And really, anything that makes my kids squeal like that, pleases me immensely. Even more so then a Meme.
And speaking of sales. I’m kind of jealous. Garage sales at this time of the year, I Wish! Ours are usually from end of May to end of August, then it gets too cold. Sigh. Six more months to wait.
Shadow And Rainbow Man
It says “Your cat loves you when Nobody else does!”
The picture on the cup
Now, I have to exchange a soggy old tooth for some nice shiny coins, so if you would all run on over to Blogaritas’ and leave a comment about what a wonderful person she is? Go on, get going…..
Getting this post up early, because I plan on being super busy tonight working an a certain quilt. I have been putting off doing the last of it, because it is hand work, But If I want it done for Christmas, I better get a move on it.
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Blue boy, poking at the tree he is not allowed to touch : “I think the batteries died”
I guess he never saw us plug in the lights yesterday, the lights we turn off at night. That made me LOL!
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So the tree is up. But Jitteryjoe Smashed my favorite strand of lights. The are globes covered with some sort of frosting. They were my favorite part of my parents tree, and one year my dad gave them to me and my sister. The string of lights was very old and in pretty sorry condition. It pretty much killed me when he smashed the one bulb, which meant they could not go on the tree this year. It will be the first Christmas I remember without them. So I went to the city to try and find replacement bulbs. For a 20 year old strand of lights. Not bloody likely LOL. I found something even better people! The same strand of lights, the last two boxes. Oh sure they are half the size, but at least they look the same and believe me, I will be hunting more of them down after Christmas. If they have them in mini they have to have them in regular size somewhere!
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Someone check my math for me, Is it 35 days until Christmas?
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Because Blogarita loves me, she tagged me with this. Yet another chance for me to talk about myself. This pleases me.
1. If I had to do it all over again differently, I - Wait do I have to do it differently? I’m pretty darn pleased with how my life is right now, and after mulling this question over last night I can’t think of what I would change. Sorry if that’s not in the spirit of the meme, But I’m just happily satisfied!
2. I wanted to be a Vet/mom/writer when I grew up. But Two outa three aint bad, eh?
3. If I were ten years younger, I’d be just starting to date Jitteryjoe. Id slap myself on the back and say way to go, get him girl……Wait never mind, I did that anyway. I might have paid more attention in university too, but probably not. Oh and I would have stockpiled A&W Chicken Nuggets, because they don’t make them any more and that makes me sad.
4. I am horribly Lazy. I’m lazy lazy lazy and I like it. I clean house front to back about twice a week, other then that, the dishes get piled and the clothes sit in a hamper. I sit on my butt and watch the kids make-believe, and I read lots of books, and if I’m lucky I have bon-bons Pffft! According to my esteemed mother in law, Dirty dishes in the sink are grounds for divorce LMAO
5. My biggest fear is Spiders. Icky black creepy crawly spiders. When I was around seven or eight months pregnant with Blue Boy I decided to make him pillowcases to match the new crib sheets we had bought him. I was sitting on the floor, my back against a couch. A disgusting spider crawled out from under the pile of material in front of me. I scrambled up the couch, the back of the couch and onto the stair railing behind the couch to get way from it.
I call people who live in different towns and beg them to come over and kill spiders for me. This is why I had three boys, It’s now their job to kill the spiders. Unfortunately they seem to only be able to kill them outside. Inside they are as scared as me, and that sucks.
Helpful hint of the day, Spraying a spider with hairspray makes the spider slow enough that even a two year old can kill it :o}
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So we are done With Weffriddles as far as we can go. Weff is making a batch five, which is super exciting. But no one knows when it is expected to come out. If anyone needs Weffriddle help, send me an email with a legitimate email address. I’m not going to hint/spoil here. No one else wants to read it LOL. Plus weff got mad at me. I’m getting lots of comments saying help with level 14 or level 45 and stuff, but with no return email or a blog link, how can I help you??
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The rush for the PS3 amused the crap out of me. Don’t people realize that around 5 million are expected to be released by years end? That’s only two months people! Did Game Cube ever have sell out things like this? People were sleeping in tents outside the stores. HELOOOO??? It’s winter. I heard the Nintendo Wii Did the same thing, but at least the Wii sounds cool!
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Christmas cards to the four people who gave me their addresses, (Catch, Lori, Fab And FantastaGirl) Are ready to go. If you want a card, I need your address. This includes Family. If you want a card Say so, Cus I have coooool cards this year!
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That will be all. Now please leave a comment or I will cry. Oh and the Christmas Tree Pics are up in the Photo Blog.
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Total Transformation Program for behavior challenged kids? Interesting. Written by James Lehman
And now… SUNDAY SIX! Here are your questions for this Sunday, and of course, the theme will be Thanksgiving! And of course its been a month and a half since Thanksgiving in Canada. I also added a seventh Question this week. Blue Boy (4.7) Stuperman (2.6) and Rainbow Man (7.1) all played. Please drop me a line if you played! I Love reading the different answers!!
1. Do you like to eat Turkey?
Rainbow Man: Yes
BlueBoy: Yes
Stuperman: Yuh.
2. Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
Rainbow Man: Uh, Ummm, I don’t know.
BlueBoy: So Santa will come.
Stuperman: Swing Candy. Yup.
3. What other foods do you eat at Thanksgiving?
Rainbow Man: Turkey
BlueBoy: Ham
Stuperman: Food. Yup. Eat it. Gibing. (thanks giving) The food needs it.
4. Which would you rather be, a pilgrim or an Indian? (why?)
Rainbow Man: Indian, because a long time ago there were Indians.
BlueBoy: A police man
Stuperman: I want to be a dinosaur mommy. I gonna be a dinosaur.
5. Where do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
Rainbow Man: At our home
BlueBoy: In Space.
Stuperman: No. (Drinks juice, I ask the question again) Kitchen mommy!
6. Do you have a special tradition for Thanksgiving, if so, what is it?
Rainbow Man: Yes. I like to eat Turkey at thanksgiving
BlueBoy: No.
Stuperman: No!
7. What are you thankful for?
Rainbow Man: For having the turkey with my family
BlueBoy: For me to eat candy
Stuperman: (Shakes head no and makes a kissy fish face) I done my juice (Gets up and walks away.)
- Putting up the tree tomorrow. Kids talked me into it. I’d rather wait two more weeks.
- Did some grocery shopping
- And more Christmas shopping. I thought I was done.*
- Got some cool candy canes for Rainbow Man to share with his classmates. Check the photo blog
- Bought Christmas cards for the Blogger exchange. They rock. I only have two people on my list. I have twenty four kick ass cards. Do the math and e-mail me your address if you want to join in. But you have to snail mail me one too!
- Won Five bucks on a scratchy.
- Smallville is on tonight :o)
- Slept till noon. Tried to back the car out of the garage only to find the neighbor had company and his company parked in our driveway. They neighbors driveway was empty.
- That pissed me off
- Grandma left on a plane for BC today. How do I find out if it landed safely?
I got an e-mail today from my friend, OneTallMomma. About my post on spelling. We used the IE Browser on the Desktop computer downstairs and the pop-ups for spelling and photos never worked. I knew that on the laptop upstairs, where I am running Firefox, the photo pop-up worked, but never once thought to try the spelling pop up. Spellcheck works on this computer. Thanks for the Brain Shake up Momma, I appreciate it. Think about sending me your address for the Christmas card exchange. I promise not to stalk anyone But Fab (I’m outside his house right now and he is having penguin for supper) Who sends me their address.
I’m going downstairs to download photos now. See you tomorrow for Sunday Six
*By done, I only mean we know what we need to buy and are just waiting for the appropriate paycheck to come in to buy it. Still left to spend is 164 for a DS lite, 100 for two DS lite games, 55 for a pirates of the Caribbean lego chest, Brothers gift, and something for my dad. My dad should leave a comment telling what he wants. When ever I ask him he tells me “I want good kids.”
Ok first I want to say again, I Really DO want to be eaten by a shark. I have since at least grade 11, so whats that ten, eleven Years? It wasn’t something I made up to be funny.
The other thing is that PYMMOTI, from the meme below, I got a comment telling me its an actual site, which I guess I would have known had I bothered to google it.
Thats some funny shit. I wonder how I can send in some photos? I have a mustard one that would go great with his collection. I totally bookmarked it!
And on to the reason for my 2 am post. Oh shut up, its friday night, well Saturday morning. I get to sleep in, I can stay up late.
I was in the bath, thinking about today and realised my dad never called me back. Blue Boy had done something funny, and I wanted to tell him. Umm, my mother in law did not think it was funny. But JitteryJoe kept ringing the doorbell so he would do it again and again, and each time it got funnier and funnier.
We are horrible people.
Our washer and dryer were deliverd today. Well not so much as delivered but picked up - whatever, thats not important. Washers are quite large, and so are dryers. Both come in boxes. Large boxes. Some of you know where I am going with this and for those of you who don’t have kids, I will let you in on a little secret.
Boxes , like diamonds to women, are a childs best friend.
Out came the marker and the blade. Doors were cut, windows were fashioned. A door bell was requested by each Boy. Plans were made for the painting of the houses on Sunday. Blue Boy also requested a fridge. We told him no.
The afternoon passed with the children playing in the boxes, and after supper, Jit and I went to the city to buy some stocking stuffers the kids sooo do not need because I am done, done with shopping, but the dinasaurs! The pirates and snakes! The wee little fake shaving kits!!things. We came home, picked up the kids, and I fully intended to get them straight to bed. But first we had to try the new chocolates we had bought.
So Blue boy is in his box, eating his candy.
“Mommy! Mommy! Ring my door bell” He says.
I do it. And stand waiting for him to invite me in.
“NO! I need you to go away so I can doooo something” he tells me.
So I go into the kitchen. I watch him as his little head pokes out. He looks left then right and shakes his head disgustedly.
“Damn Kids, Get off my lawn!”
*yes I took photos. Yes I will post them. Eventually*
