Happy Mother's Day! ... & Alphabet Challenge - Letter K
Mother's Day has never been one of my favorite days of the year. Some of you know that my mom and I did not have a very good relationship... so I never
felt those feelings that I was
supposed to feel. As a small child it was sort of torture to have to celebrate it... and when I got older, I just didn't.
But then my own children came along, and Mother's Day took on a whole new light! Even though I was a
stay-at-home Mom... or a
in-school-with-them Mom, I still enjoyed spending the day with them and having it be special. I remember one year when asked what I wanted to do for Mother's Day, I said I wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese! My husband thought I had LOST MY MIND... and by that time I probably had! But that's where we went! And I LOVED it!
But THIS year, Mother's Day is very VERY special to me. This year my firstborn celebrates HER first Mother's Day... and I have to tell ya, I think I'm more excited about THIS Mother's Day than I have ever been before in my life!!! There is finally a mother in my life that I honestly want to HONOR ... just for being a terrific mom!
Watching MY daughter
become a mother
has just been the greatest gift of all!
I love to watch them play together!
... and snuggle together...
And I LOVE that even though Amanda needs Luz to look like a little Barbie Doll every time she walks out the door... it's okay for HER to have green paint on her butt when she's goes out to play with her daughter!
I don't always agree with EVERYthing Amanda does in raising Luz... but I agree with enough of it that I can say I LOVE the parent that my daughter has become! And I love watching the two of them blossom together!!!
Happy Mother's Day, Babe!
I LOVE YOU!!!
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Quilly at Quilly's Pacific Paradise.
"K" is for ... Kilt!
Yea... since I just attended the Celtic Festival 2 weeks ago...
I couldn't let this gent with the lovely Knees be left out of the challenge!
Besides... I think he looks pretty snazzy!
Hmmm... I wonder how Dennis would look in a kilt?
ahh ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Alphabet Challenge - Letter J / Saturday Photo Hunt
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"J" is for ... Jelly Toast!
(okay... I was desperate! What can I say?)
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The Alphabet Photo Challenge ... FOLLOWED by Thursday 13!
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Thursday 13...
13 Things Having To Do With MelliBeginning With Letter
1. OPINIONATED. -- Thankfully I don't have a child named Oscar or Olivia so that the proper word can be placed in the number 1 spot! LOL! I wouldn't want to give ANYone the wrong idea! Sadly, it is true... I do actually have an opinion about just about EVERYthing. I am, however, learning to SOMEtimes keep my O's to myself!!! Not often enough YET - but I'm workin' on it!
2. Orange. -- My naturally curly orange hair speaks for itself! All of my life people have told me it's red... but my eyes know that it's orange... and when I was just a weeee little thing, I would actually correct people! My mother told me many a times that I told (even adult) people "my haya is NOT wed... it's OWANGE!" (and apparently I got away with it!)
3. Obese. -- I believe in calling a spade a spade. Okay... sometimes I call it a shovel. But the fact is that I am STILL at least 100 pounds from my desired weight and I need to change that! So whether I am "buxom" or "curvaceous" or "full figured"... the point is that I am clinging tightly to my extensive collection of fat cells ... and I really should let go!
4. Oysters! -- Boy! I LOVE them! And if I ate more of them... and less cake... I might get over my problem with numero 3!
5. Original. -- Almost every person I know guarantees me that I AM an original! (For better or worse!)
6. Optimistic. -- If I am nothing ELSE this one IS me! Lazy Daisy has even been reminding me of this fact the past week! I forever and forever think the BEST things are going to happen, and Life is ALWAYS going to be good! Everything is always going to work out okay and nothing is ever going to go horribly wrong! And for the MOST part I'm right! But boy, when I'm wrong... It'sa HARD FALL!!!
7. Once Again -- This is one of my absolute favorite Matt Redman songs! I sing this one at the top of my lungs while cruising down the road. It's not really meant to be sung at the top of ones lungs but I do it anyway... just cuz I can! And I was absolutely THRILLED TO TEARS when our awesome new music director at church actually brought this song to the table one Sunday!
8. Ocean. -- How in the world did this one fall so far down on the list? (i never realized how important letter "o" was in my life!) I am sO totally "at one" with the ocean... I just LOVE it madly! It soothes my heart and my soul ... I think because it is SO majestic, sO awe-inspiring, sO AMAZING... so BIG, so frightening, sO dangerous... so peaceful, so calming, so serene... and I know deep within me that only GOD could possibly create such an awesome thing. Something like that could not JUST HAPPEN! (and I know this about all of nature -- but the ocean screams it!)
9. Obnoxious. -- I was going to go with Old... as Mar so eloquently pointed out yesterday... but Amanda really does get insulted when I say I'm old... she really does FORBID me to ever get old! (guess she'd rather I die young!) Sooooo... when I asked my darling Derek for an "O" word for his Momma, he gave me Obnoxious! He's right! I can be! I reallllllllly can be! 'Specially when I'm trying!!! Specially when I'm askin' him really dumb questions... like "if you were going to photograph something that begins with "H" what would it be?" and "give me a word that describes me that starts with "o"... *grin*
10. Oak Ridge Boys. -- So, while we're talking about Derek, that reminds me of another one of my absolute FAVORITE songs and it's BY the Oak Ridge Boys -- and it is Thank God For Kids!
11. Obedient. -- *ahem*... NOT! Wellllllllll...everyone else does it! They say "this is about me - it's what I'm not!" So... we can put a big ol' DIS in front of it if you'd like. It's not that I don't WANNA be obedient... well... okay. Yes it is! Cuz I'm perfectly obedient - except when I don't wanna be! So you gotta know, God and me knock heads about stuff all the time! Cuz frankly... I'm just not as broken as He would LIKE me to be!!! But I'm prayin' on it. Welllllllll... I don't wanna LIE by sayin' I'm WORKIN' on it! God KNOWS I'm headstrong! HE's workin' on it! I'M prayin' on it... You can pray too if ya want to!
12. Outgoing. -- *nods*... Yes! 'Nuff said!
13. Oh! -- Bet ya didn't expect THAT one! Didja? But honestly... do I over use this word or what??? I am all about Oh! Oh, this ... and Oh! that... and sometimes just O! Oh is one of my favorite words! "Well" is another one. And that's really perfect because they go sO well together --- as in *shrug* Oh well! Labels: Alphabet Challenge
*Whew!* I'm Pooped! ... and Alphabet Challenge - Letter G
**Disclaimer**... this rant should be read entirely Tongue In Cheek!!!
Glory be! Babysitting Luz every Tuesday & Thursday is ONE thing... having that darlin' baby girl spend the night for even ONE night is a whooooooole 'nuther story! I'm beginning to wonder how in the WORLD I raised 4 of them, when I can't keep up with JUST ONE now! WHAT happened? I'll tell ya what happened! I FORGOT that when you tell a "3" that tomorrow morning your going to get up and eat breakfast and work on Mommy's Mother's Day present...
(which I will NOT post photos of because it would be just my luck that Amanda would actually read my blog if I did!) that she EXPECTS things to happen in just that EXACT order! She doesn't mean we'll eat breakfast AFTER we brush our teeth and get dressed. She doesn't mean we'll wait for Nana's coffee to brew.
(and maybe for Nana to actually drink a cup or two...) She doesn't MEAN we'll wait until Nana helps Memaw get dressed for the 3rd time... and she certainly doesn't think we should WAIT until Tammy comes to take Memaw out for the day!!! Nope. SHE thinks it means we will open our eyes, and POP out of bed,
(she does not think we should snuggle in Nana's waterbed for a bit...), and run right down stairs to eat a weally weally QUICK bowl of Froot Loops and then start painting! And when Nana says ... "in a MINUTE Luz"... Luz thinks that means REALLY in a minute! She doesn't think that means in a minute AFTER I load the dishwasher or put a load of clothes in the wash! NO! We have a little problem with MIScommunication here! THAT's what's happening! I need to learn to verbalize in MUCH more detail our immediate future plans! But when I saaaaay "Luz, I'm going to make you a hot dog and a pear for lunch and if you eat all that then you can have some chips and when lunch is done, after I clean up the dishes, we can put on your bathing suit and then we'll go water Nana's gardens, and then we can swing for a little while until Tammy & Memaw get back with my car, and then we will go to the beach"... then she says "huh?" and I'm asked to repeat everything I just said... 17 times. And then I ask her if her name is Memaw?!
(and she looks at ME like I have six heads...) I'm learning that 3 year olds and 77 year olds are OFTEN much more alike than I EVER thought!!! And I'm pooped! But I did learn something yesterday! I learned that on the EVERY day when I think my house is SO cluttered and filthy, that really it's only mildly cluttered and a bit dirty! REALLY cluttered and FILTHY doesn't happen until Miss "3" is here for two consecutive days and I help her make LOTS of messes but she doesn't give me ANY minutes to clean them up! And on top of that she tracks sand in everywhere! ... Ya know what? I loooooooooooooooooove bein' a Nana! I wouldn't trade it for a million Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae's... with whip & a cherry!
So... what did YOU do while I was busy? Huh?
Oh, and by the way... Wordless Wednesday's will ONLY be done on this blog if I have
nothing to say! Today I had too much to say! Wordless would totally not qualify! So go on below for my "G" photo -- it's almost as good as a WW!
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Come on and PLAY! It's fun!
G is for...
Greasy
Grill... with
Grass in the background!
(okay... not terribly creative... but accurate!)
I was Bizzy! Gimme a break!
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Alphabet Challenge - Letter F... and stuff...
F is for... Ferret
This is Krysti's little buddy, Sammy.
I call him "Critter".
He is THE nosiest critter that God ever made! He is forever getting IN to my change jar... and then finds himself unable to get back out! However... he's also very smart! He knows when Krysti is ready to put him back in his cage... and he hides under the bookcase where she can't reach him and goes to sleep! More than once I've had to "babysit" him until he wakes up and decides to come out! And she wonders why I think he's a little nuisance! A cute nuisance... but a nuisance just the same! Maybe I should have saved him for "N"... *smile*
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Luz spent the day yesterdat and the night last night and we are working on her mommy's Mother's Day present today, so I won't be around until this evening! Have a GREAT day everyone!
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Found this one over at Floozie's!
Couldn't resist!
What Your Flip Flops Say About You
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You are a warm, friendly person who simply enjoys life.
You don't complicate things for yourself. Life is too short!
You have a super optimistic attitude, and you have figured out how to be happy.
Everyone wants to know your secret... and it's a lot more simple than they might think.
Your ideal warm weather place: San Diego
(definitely NOT!!!)
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Mother's Day has never been one of my favorite days of the year. Some of you know that my mom and I did not have a very good relationship... so I never felt those feelings that I was supposed to feel. As a small child it was sort of torture to have to celebrate it... and when I got older, I just didn't.
Watching MY daughter become a mother
I love to watch them play together!
... and snuggle together...
And I LOVE that even though Amanda needs Luz to look like a little Barbie Doll every time she walks out the door... it's okay for HER to have green paint on her butt when she's goes out to play with her daughter!
Happy Mother's Day, Babe!
