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I am linking up with with fellow bloggy friend Grumpy Grateful Mom for her Good News Friday meme.  This is a great idea to focus on what is good in our lives. So what is my good news?  In just three months our van will be paid off! Back when we first bought it in 06 We checked it out yesterday.  Imagine our surprise!  There is less than 50K miles on it.  And we even drove across the country in it!  That is most definitely good news! Do you have good news to share??

It's time for some proud mommy moments with Emmymom and Kmama ! I have one for each!  Like brag worthy!  How about them apples! Kristin...is growing up.  Shoot.  But it's fun.  She has quite a few talents.  One of which is photography.  She wishes she could draw.  Aren't we silly?  Why do we do that?  I digress.  She recently had a project for school and she used her brother and sister as models.  She had to demonstrate six different aspects of health.  Mental health was one of them.  And this is one she used for mental health. I am not sure I would have thought of this.  And even if I had, would it come out like this?  It's just sweet.  She took a bunch more, one of which I posted on my photoblog today! Emily.... I got an email from her teacher, and it said she had some unfinished classwork(not the brag part obviously!) and could I have her finish it over the holiday. ...

It's time for me to get random.  I love it.  My son gets so random that it makes my head hurt.  I will try not to do that to you. I want to start with a gripe so I can get it out of the way.  Why oh why do people think they are above the rules?  That they can do whatever the heck they want?  Example:  I dropped my son off at school today like normal.  And there was a long line of cars at the drop off.  He was already going to be late, so rather than wait to get to the closer gate, I chose the main gate.  I let him out, wished him a good day, and drove away.  Isn't that how it is supposed to be done!??  Except...the lady in front of me, parked.  Got out!  Walked her kids to class.  What!?  It wasn't 5 days ago that there was a phone message and email from the principal talking about this very problem.  It just IRKS me to no end that people do this! Ryan wanted to buy lunch today.  He is forev...

As if this needed anymore publicity.  As if I needed to ask the question at all.  But I just can't help myself.  Perhaps you haven't heard of the girl from Durango, Colorado who is now suing (With her MOTHER'S help) for her civil rights because her senior picture was deemed too racy for the school yearbook. She was quoted as saying, “I honestly think (the picture) describes who I am,” Sydney said on NBC’s “Today” on Monday, after being invited to New York to give her side of the argument.  Wow.  "Describes who you are"  Okay folks...go ahead...tell me who she is.  And if that picture in fact should be used as her senior picture.  She was given the opportunity to use it as her senior ad instead. 

I love Thursdays--I know it's Friday-- because it means I get to share my proud mommy moments of kids. And the really cool thing is there is still time to link up with EmmyMom and Kmama !    And it can be brag worthy, and who doesn't like to brag about their kids!? Or, it can be funny or hang your head in shame!   And you get to see who is hanging their head with shame or beaming with pride! We all do it. Mine is just funny.  And I only have myself to blame!  So here we go... When I was pregnant with Ryan, we asked our girls what they would teach their brother to be.... Kristin said, she would teach him how to be kind and how to share with others.  Emily said I am going to teach him how to BURP! Ryan is very kind, and he does a good job of sharing with...his friends. And....he is a most excellent burper!  Oh I tried really hard to capture this grand talent.  But Ryan wouldn't let me. Imagine that!  A kid with a c...

Have you ever heard of geocaching ?  Well, don't feel bad if you haven't.  Until I got to know my Hermit friend, neither did I.  Thanks to her, I blew my husband away.  When he asked me if I knew what geocaching was, I simply yes.  He just stared at me for about 30 seconds like he couldn't believe I knew about this.  It was quite amusing!  Like I have a secret life or something.  Well I do, but we won't tell right.  I kid. We went on our first geocahing adventure.  And guess what?  There's an app for that!  And if you have a Droid, you can go to your market and get the same thing.  We're all friends here.  It was a small find.  A find that wouldn't "Stump" us.  So we had to find a tree stump.  We were looking for smallish tree stumps.  Then I saw the sad remains of a fallen tree.  Well now, that is a bigger stump of a tree.  And then I saw something and pointed it out to Rich.  ...

<a href="http://itsalark.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad164/CAGirl1970/statusquote4.jpg" border="0" alt="CAGirl"></a>   The status is quote is back after a short leave of absence for the holidays.  Now remember this is just a monthly meme that Emmymom and I host.  The second Tuesday of every month to be exact.  It couldn't be easier.  Gather up the strange, funny, insightful or whatever type status up from Facebook to Twitter.  And for fun, you can add your own little commentary.   "Stop, drop and roll!" is excellent advice to give a friend. Better advice would be, "Never start yourself on fire."  Stop would be the first clue. That moment at 2:16 when you forgot that your class started at 2:00...oops... I have done this with picking up kids. The dogs think I've lost my mind completely!!!  I have a cat.  He thinks he is s...