I just love, that they love each other!
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Take Me Back Tuesday ~1998 Not Our Best Year
Do you ever wonder why you have a blog? Because sometimes I do. I look back at the fact that I got dragged in for the giveaway entries! I mean you get extra entries for blogging about a giveaway and posting buttons…oh and don’t even get me started about twitter.
I think what I am trying to say is hey, it is so easy when you blog to show what a perfect life you have. It is so easy isn’t it? To post picture of your perfect children, and your perfect life. You have time for everything when you have a blog right?
Today, in Take Me Back Tuesday I give you a down side of our life. The year 1998. We didn’t have children then, but we had each other, and God decided to give us a true test, the biggest test of our lives.
Once upon a time my husband’s hands shook, I mean like all the time, and we didn’t know why. So he went to the doctor and they said it was because his cholesterol was to high, or something basic like that! We asked to see a Neurologist. They gave us the reference (had to have that for the insurance company don’t you know).
The Neurologist did an MRI, and they found a tumor, yes I just said tumor, at the base of his brain. That is why his hands shook. They were shocked that he wasn’t dizzy all the time, that he wasn’t blacking out!
Four days later we were at the hospital for brain surgery. The tumor was benign, we knew that all along. But my friends, Brain Surgery was well….brain surgery. The doctor (one of the best if the field we would come to find out later) cut into the top of my husband’s head, went down between the 2 lobes of his brain, and cut out the tumor.
What followed was a very quick physical recovery, and a very long short term memory loss recovery. I hate to leave anyone hanging, but just writing about the short term memory lost stage would take about 3 post’s in it’s self, and this one is getting way to long as it is!!
The pictures I give you are from the night before surgery. We knew that for the doctor to do what she had to do, they would shave Hubby’s head in 20 different places, so we saved her the trouble and our friend B came down with his razor and shaved him the night before:
Hey, if you have to have your head shaved, you may as well play around right?? Hence the Mohawk!
A true friend in life, is one that will shave his head when he knows you are going to be shaving yours too right?
“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”
Sunday, July 25, 2010
A Day For Quotes ~Housework
So yesterday I spent quite a bit of time cleaning, and organizing 2 things I don’t really enjoy (but who does right?) So I give you some quotes on housework before I get back to my self assigned cleaning chores for today!
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~Erma Bombeck
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. ~Author Unknown
Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy. ~Author Unknown
I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. ~Nancie J. Carmody
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. ~Robert Brault
If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Little Van
Take me back to June of 2008, my Cutie Bug was just barely 2, and my Angel just barely 4. Cutie Bug had a love affair with the little Cozy Coupe at his daycare, so we found this sweet little Step 2 Van on our local Craigslist!
His Daycare provided warned us that he felt that the little coupe at daycare was his, and even though he was good at sharing, this little car was one thing he wouldn’t share!
But ours has a back seat!!
But Brother still wouldn’t let her drive!
“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”
Sunday, July 18, 2010
A Day For Quotes
Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you are having a great weekend! For us I can sum it up in one word: HOT. I am not quoting about heat today because I am tired of thinking about it. So I give you, Be Yourself.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e. e. cummings
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ~ Lao Tzu
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. ~ James Leo Herlihy
Be yourself, that’s all there is of you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. ~Dave Pelzer
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ~Bruce Lee
If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Where in the World, and not so Wordless Wednesday
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away. Oh wait, I have already started a post like that in the last month!!
So the long and the short story is….I haven’t been anywhere this week!! So Where In the World Wednesday comes to you from our own living room! Please ignore the mess, because well…housekeeping is just not my forte so to speak (now you know one of my dirty little secrets, I pretty much suck at housekeeping)!
If you are here for Wordless Wednesday, well, this is so not going to be wordless, because I just have to give a few shout outs to people!
I won an absolutely awesome MLB (Major League Baseball for those who don’t deal with acronyms) chair from a wonderful blogger Mommy Goggles ! This win was from Guidecraft!
I think she likes that chair!!
Well, it must have been a Guidecraft month for me, because just a few weeks later we won this awesome GUIDECRAFT Train Toy Box! Can you even believe it?? One of my favorite Review/Giveaway blogs, and just a great blog in general Night Owl Mama had a huge giveaway party and I (and my kids) were the luck winners of this awesome toy box! Hey Tricia, I think the kids love it…what do you think???
To join in on Where in the World Wednesday please visit Lemon Drop Pie.
A few of my very favorite Wordless Wednesdays are: Jolly Mom, Go Graham Go, The Mommy-Files and Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Take Me Back Tuesday ~Portraits
Looking back on this portrait of the kids I just have to laugh at the memory. You have a new baby who is just about 4 weeks old, so you make an appointment to get their portraits done. What I didn’t count on was my usually picture happy 2 year old wanting to have no part of the whole thing! After many failed attempts to get her to smile, the photographer and I just had to give up. I had to get just one print of that day for the memories alone!
June 2006
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About 4 weeks later in July 2006 we got a different story and my Angel behaved as I knew she could!
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And then we have this little Cutie Bug, who had found his smile by the time these portraits were taken!! I still just want to pinch those cheeks!!
“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”
Sunday, July 11, 2010
A Day For Quotes ~Books
There is nothing quite like a good book! Being an avid reader myself, it is a joy I am trying very hard to pass on to my children! It seems as if we have books falling out of every available corner in my house. We read, my daughter is finally getting old enough to read by herself too!
Today I give you quotes about books!
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. ~ Paula Fox
It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time. ~ Louis L'Amour
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles William Eliot
Nothing like falling asleep with your best friend, and a good book!
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island... and the best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ~ Walt Disney
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important — that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them. ~ Laura Bush
If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Where in the World Wednesday ~Puerto Vallarta
Once upon a time, in a land far far away…O.K. just before we had kids, we visited Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Can I just tell you what a joy it was to look back on these photos? This was our honeymoon in May 1995!
Remember the panoramic photos? I have these big 8 inch long photographs, the only time I ever took them was in Puerto Vallarta.
A few things I remember; all the Mexican-seafood restaurants! Our favorite was called the Seafarer I think. And shopping downtown in the open air market where everyone thought my husband spoke Spanish, he doesn’t. Buying Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts from a vendor on the beach, those shirts lasted us for many years!
Where in the World have you been?? Go link up at Lemon Drop Pie!
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Take Me Back Tuesday ~Grandparents
Take me back to November of 2004! This was probably Thanksgiving that year. At family gatherings I am always bad at remembering to take pictures, just get to busy with all the preparations I guess! This year it looks like my Mom and Dad remembered to get the camera out and then sent me pictures when they got them developed.
My parents bugged my brother and I for years about having Grandkids, we managed finally between the 2 of us to give them 6 Grandkids in about 7 years. My kids fit in nicely with their cousins at number 3 and number 5!
“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”
Sunday, July 04, 2010
A Day For Quotes ~America
Happy July 4th everyone! I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating America’s Independence and spending time with your family if you are able too!! Today I give you America!
If you have quotes on your blog, feel free to link up below!
E pluribus unum--out of many, one. ~ Great Seal of the United States
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall ~John Dickinson
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” ~Robert J. McCracken
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Pssst…..I’m Over Here
Want to see my first ever feature and interview??
Jump on over to Lemon Drop Pie, because Ginny featured little ole me and my Meme "A Day For Quotes” on her Meme’s the Word!!
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