She's a flyer (and a yeller!)

 


Photos courtesy of the lovely and talented Sara Gamble! Thanks Sara. I owe you big!

When you care enough to send the very best ...

To Mike, from Kassie. She made this card back in May and carefully saved it for this special day.The "Happy and Healthy and Active" line sounds like a PSA for some Government Nutrition and Fitness Program but it really is her sentiment - in her own words.

Marijuana is NOT a refreshing summer beverage.

Recently, I was chatting with my good friend Patti about how we were all looking forward to the warmer weather, the good times, the get-togethers, the special times spent chatting around the pool.

Upon hearing this Kassie interjected, breezily, Yeah and you moms can sit around and enjoy your marijuana!"

To which I expressed immediate and profound SHOCK because, uh uh, no way, that doesn't fly around here? What am I, a member of the Grateful Dead?

Quizzing her immediately on what EXACTLY she was talking about and how did she, little missy, even know of such things she shrugged, sheepish, and said you know mommy. Those pineapple drinks? With the umbrellas?

Ahhh MARGARITAS.

Mystery solved. (Leading Dawn to mention that an even greater mystery might have been solved. If these are the kind of anecdotes my child routinely drops into conversation it might explain a LOT about why I just can't get invited to serve on the School Superintendent's Parent Advisory Committee).

You might be country if ...

Your high school proudly hosts a "bring your tractor to school" day.

Real Moms

real moms sometimes have children you can’t see.

this meme goes out to all the mothers who don’t get tagged for
things like this. the ones who’ve given birth but had no baby to take
home. who sit on the sidelines of conversations about mucous plugs and
back labour, with stories to tell but no room to participate. who have
a little gravestone or an urn or just a memory in the place of a child.
who have adoption papers saying “relinquish all rights…” or ultrasound
photos but nothing more. or who have two smiling school photos on their
desk, but really, inside, count to three when you ask “how many kids do
you have?”

this is for all the real moms with children invisible to the eye.

~ cribchronicles.com

Of Satisfaction and Succulents.

So today's weekly column is all about how you have to learn to embrace what you have - the things that matter. Home, health, family. While I am not your "go to girl" for anything related to health (God forbid - I think gummy bears are a fruit-based food group in and of themselves) I am able to share how I keep my love of hearth and home alive on approximately seventy-six cents - per month.

I keep the fabulousness that is this falling-down-Old-House from reducing me to tears with the help of great web bloggers like Chatting at the Sky and The Nesting Place. Both provide real-life inspiration to work pleasure and happiness and warm feelings of fuzzy goodness into your home - without breaking the bank.

You know you want to go there. Really, you do.

The Nester is decorating with succulents today and really now? How can you not want more succulence in your life?

Bribery

Is it wrong of me, as a parent, to say I won't attempt to influence my child in any way, shape or form in her choice of extracurricular activities? To claim
that I won't allow my own hopes, dreams, and
dread-fear-of-rabid-pee-wee-football-types to influence my child's
choices? That I absolutely will not attempt to live vicariously through my child?

And then say "Mommy will buy you a car AND a pony if you promise me you won't cheer this year?"