I See You

I hear you calling.

Beckoning me to come and sit.

Bring a cup of tea and a good book you say.

I feel your sunny rays.

Warm and inviting.

Everyday I walk past and dream of days spent with you.

But it is not meant to be little sun porch.

While you are inviting you are are far from warm.

You will have to wait.

I will have to wait.

They will have to wait.

Our time is coming though.

It won't be long.

The Things They Say

OK, first off. Just to prove I still have them and haven't sold them to some traveling circus. Here are a couple of pictures of the wee ones.

Looking at those now I realize they kind of look like pictures on the side of milk cartons. But really I still have them.
BTW, the circus is coming to town. This next week. And we are going. I could not be more excited.
Now a story.
Last night Mark got himself sent to time out. It wasn't a major infraction. Just the usual three year old boy behavior. About 3 minute later her asked if he could get up. To which I replied No. Then that very sheltered, never hears naughty words, watches no television, boy of mine said, Mommy, you got to let me get up off of my ass. I almost fell down.
I have no idea where he heard it from.

Now you know your children are better behaved than mine. Have a nice day!

An Award

I won something. Flea over at Flea's World gave me this little beauty. Thanks so much Flea. I am honored. Like so many thing in this life though, it is conditional. I must offer 10 juicy facts about myself in order to accept and display it.
Then at the end I will pass it on to some others with the same condition.

So here goes:
1. When I was a child I was terrified of our house burning down. It used to keep up nights planning what I would do if our house did catch on fire.

2. I got a perm when I was twelve. It was so bad. My hair is baby fine and thin. So it just looked like a frizzy mess all the time. My mom told me it would be bad. I think it was the only time she was right the whole time I was growing up.

3. I did some really stupid things in the Air Force. I partied way too hard. Drank way too much and may even gotten behind the wheel when I shouldn't have. Stupid, I know.

4. I love the circus. Love it.

5. I am considering going back to school again. I am about half way through an associate degree. I have started college twice at two different schools. Life always seems to get in the way though. Deployments and pesky children. But I think I may finally be grown up enough and settled enough to make the commitment to finish this time. Now if I could just find the time.

6. Related to 5. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

7. I met my husband because I was trying to be stationed near a boyfriend I had at the time.

8. I got a stuffed raccoon when I was two from my grandmother. It became The One among my stuff animals. His name was Rocky. I still have him. He sits on my night stand. See.

9. I am a pack rat. I never throw any thing away. Ever. What if I need it someday is a mantra that runs through my head often. Here is how bad it is. See those parrot earrings in the above picture. I still have them. I never really even liked them. But I kept them all the same. It's a sickness.

10. Actual fish is still alive. I realize this isn't a very juicy tid bit. But it may be a new record for me in the fish world. I almost feel bad mentioning it. It's like a death sentence for fish.

Oh that was fun. Kind of a clearing of the air. Are you still here? Heeeeelllllo. It was the Rocky one, right. Come on you know you still have one special thing from when you were a child. Admit it.
OK. On the the best part. Looking through my blog roll. This is tough. I read some really good blogs.

First off Belle at Life Of A Southern Belle. I can't wait to hear what juicy things happen down south.

Lacy over at Razor Family Farms. They are a military family living the simple life. I would love to hear some juicy tales from the country.

Trannyhead over at Law School Suck and So Do Lawyers.. I am not sure what other juicy facts there are to know about Trannyhead. I can't wait to see what she comes up with.

Brandy over at Life In The Woods With No Where To Hide. I just started reading this blog last week. I don't know a lot about her. So any thing she gives us would be juicy to me.

And finally head over to Dlynzsite today. She is giving away one of her beautiful photos.

OK. Finally, finally I am going stop in just a minute. But just have to add one more thing. We are experiencing a few technical issues here in Diaperville this week. My blog roll and my computer are acting completely wacky. Nothing is updating the way it should. Tons of error messages. I hope to remedy there issues today. I promise to be around for my visits very soon.

Game Night

We have a pretty strict rule in our house about eating as a family around the table. So any deviation from that norm is a huge treat. We like most Americans last night watched the game. We decided to make it extra special with a carpet picnic. Mark loves picnics and we do them often in the summer. So when he heard about an indoor picnic he was pretty thrilled. We gathered our supplies. Homemade Stromboli, chips and dip and cookies (Oh yes it was healthy here last night) and gathered round the blue tube. (There may have been a glass or two of that tan elixir of life around too.) It was so fun. Mark asked if we can do it again tonight. I think it was a hit.

Me thinks a family movie night might be instituted in this slice of heaven.

Some one forgot to tell Jason which teams made it to the Superbowl this year.


On another note: My favorite part of the Superbowl is the commercials. But I found them to be lacking this year. Only one made me laugh. The Dorito one with the snowglobe near the beginning was funny. I love me some slapstick humor. What about you? Did you think any of them were any good?