Tink sent me a link that was very cool… check out how to make Heart cookies for valentines HERE AT THIS POST.

Tags: cookies

While reading over at What’s that Smell… she wanted everyone to go nominate her blog at the Mommy Blogger Award given by Scholastic. You can even add a few others along the way. I think that is a great idea. Go nominate Kim’s blog, but don’t forget the other blog mommies you read before Feb 13th. Then don’t forget to back and vote Feb 23rd… don’t worry, I’ll remind you.

Tags: scholastic

I finally get some fruits and vegies growing in my garden and blammo… we are suppose to have a cold snap come through that will bring it down to the low 30s. As in freezing. Sigh…

Bananas:

Strawberries:

and Broccoli:

Where do you think this stuff comes from in winter? Australia? It was fun growing it. Maybe next year or just maybe it’ll survive the cold.

Tags: florida, fruit, vegetables

It has been a busy couple of weeks. Visitors, meetings, deadlines… yaa… I’m ready for a break… so now Tater has bronchitis and Tot has an ear infection. No wonder I haven’t gotten any sleep in 3 nights. GRIN.

With all the insanity, I missed getting pictures out of the fun run. I’m showing Tater’s back because it is cute how they marked the laps. See the track? Every time they went around, they would mark one of the ’squares’ in the lap.

Tater loved the fact that Dad showed up.

It was fun, the company that did it was terrific. One lap the kids had to ’swim’ while they ran, another they had to play air guitar, then every so often they had the kids walk, and so on. I thought it was neat that instead of selling candy, the kids had to run. I like that kind of fundraiser.

The bugger got mom and dad on the money end of it. There was a limit of 35 laps… but the laps were 1/16th of a mile. We really figured Tater might make 20 laps. So we both gave him a dollar a lap. He really enjoyed all the different ways to run and he did 31 laps. Sigh… $62… not quite what I was expecting… Next time it will be a flat $30.

Ok, I have to finish reading a book and get something out about it and a calendar and and and and… later!

Tags: boy, fundraiser

A Redneck doctor wanted to go to the drag racing in next county…

… so he said to his good friend and town skeet champion, “Listen, bubba, I want to go the drags tomorrow, an’ I caint afford to close the clinic. I reckon you’d be all right lookin’ after them folks as come in, don’t you?”

“Sure ‘nough”, was the reply, “I’ll be just might glad to help y’ out. You go an’ enjoy isself.”

The following night the doc returned, woke up his friend and said, “Well, Bubba, how’d it go? See anyone?”

“Man, you sure didn’t tell me how busy this here practice was! The first guy to come in said he had a headache, an’ I sure knew why, ’cause he spent all day at the saloon. Anyways, I give him some Panadol and he went off real happy. Next one in said his stomach was burnin’ up like hell, so’s I give him Mylanta, always works for me.

Next in was this redheaded chick, an I could see she no spring one either, but anyways she don’t say nothin’, just walks right into the surgery, strips off her clothes right there, lies down on the couch, looks at me and yells “help me! For five years I aint seen no man, no man at all.”

“Oh, Bubba, that’s some strange thing happen to you. I don’t think you’d better tell me what you all did.”

Bubba just looked disappointed. After a minute the doctor said, “So, OK, tell me then. What happened?”

“Man, I looked real hard at that cute gal, but in the end I did the only thing possible. I just put eye-drops in her eyes. What else I goin’ to do?”

Tags: Humor

Bubba walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had.

Bubba said, “Shingles.”

So she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.

Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aid came out and asked Bubba what he had.

Bubba said, “Shingles.”

So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told Bubba to wait in the examining room.

A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he had.

Bubba said, “Shingles.”

So the nurse gave Bubba a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.

An hour later the doctor came in and asked Bubba what he had.

Bubba said, “Shingles.”

The doctor asked, “Where?”

Bubba said, “Outside on the truck. Where do you want them?”

Tags: Humor

I am trying to get a spanish teacher for Tot. I started on it last year and finally heard from her last night. She has been in the process of moving. It brought back memories. One of which is that if I ever move again… even 2 houses down… I’m using moving trucks. One or more… whatever it takes. I will NOT allow my family and friends to pack and move for me again. Unless some really strange thing happens. I just can’t do it.

But beyond that. Looks like Tot might start spanish next week. I’m thrilled. He asked me a few nights ago what was 21 in spanish. Someone shoot me. I will get to sit through his lessons and hopefully pick some of it up. I told him he could then teach it to his brother. That cheered him up immensely. Phew…

Then again, the two of them being able to speak another language that I don’t know, can be dangerous. Guess that will give me incentive to learn it as well. Wish us all luck! Oh, she offered to do it for free… I said would bring her lunch. Now I wonder what she likes to eat… guess I better find out!

Tags: spanish

I found a site of quotes and poems and this one fit the message I wish to send to Morrigan’s new addition to the family:

From morning till night
May your birthday be bright
And nicer than ever before……
And as years come and go
May your happiness grow
And your dreams be fulfilled
Even more

Happy Birthday to you!

Go on over to Bou’s POST HERE and see the pictures and get the information. What a beautiful girl.

Tags: birthday

Particularly since I had a doctor’s appt just last week…

A New Drink

A guy walks into a bar, sits down, and asks, ‘Bartender, got any specials today?’

Bartender answers, ‘Yes, as a matter of fact we have a new drink, invented by a gynecologist patron of ours.

It’s a mix of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Smirnoff Vodka.’

The guy asks, ‘Good grief, what do you call that?’

The bartender replied, ‘It’s a ‘Pabst Smir.’

Tags: Humor