LOVE this song! and the “official” video has the embed option disabled.
but this one isn’t official so you can hear the song!
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When he was a wee one.
Whittaker Woman posted a picture of her precious son in something that my son wore all the time when he was small.
Small meaning still to young to fight back!
This was his easter outfit when he was about 16 months old.
Isn’t he cute!
and this next one he wore to a wedding AND to the race track (yes, I took my baby son to the race track-my dad has horses so….and heck, this kid knows how to pick them!)
I looked through the rest of this scrapbook and THIS is the last time he wore one of these outfits.
It seems (but I could be mistaken) that he told my mama that he was NOT wearing baby clothes anymore!
Yes, he is still strong willed and I love that about him.
And for today, I am going to pretend that my kid is still 4 years old and NOT 14 heading on this first vacation with out his mama.
No, really, I am ok.
Sure I am.
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oh, that may be a bit of a fib, because I am a full fledged magazine addict, however, this one IS one of my newest favorites; and when several of my other all time favorites are dropping like flies, I need some magazine love!
have you seen it?
Every page is seriously drool worthy, even the ads.
Seriously.
Organic, Certified, Home-grown, Handmade….
It goes on and on.
For those of us who wanted to live in Walnut Grove growing up and be Laura or Mary’s best friend-you will LOVE this bi-monthly bundle of country love.
Now, excuse me while I check out the city-farm girl blog
I love google reader for always suggesting new items for me to subscribe and read.
Today, I found 4 new ones, and I am feeling generous in spirit, so I am gonna share!
Jenny Doh from Somerset Studios has a beautiful blog-Crescendo!
I am not sure why I haven’t found it before, but there is it, in all its artsy glory!
Secret Agent Mama-photography that makes me seriously jealous. Awesome stuff!
Jeff @A View from the Cloud has some great stories and pictures and general dad stuff. I liked the picture of all the shoes, that did it for me!
Cote De Texas-I don’t even know what that means, but who cares, there are some awesome remodeling projects pictured on this site-great ideas and rich colors. I am sold!
What are your top three new favorite blogs?
Don’t be shy, share!
There is something just not right about leaving the house for a soccer game at 5:30 AM.
I am not sure which is worse, it being dark when you leave or…
Dark when you get there (20 minutes before warm ups start).
The game started @8:00AM and woo doggie was it COLD!
During the first game it was 40 degress…by the end of our second game it was in the 60’s.
Wow the different 20 degrees can make!
Please visit Amy @ Sign’s Miracles and Wonder for all her hardwork on this carnival and to find other great blogs with music!
Around here, when someone asks “Where you from?” (and that is how they say it in this area-even the metropolitan south). They are really askin’ “You from around here?” and that means has your family lived in this area for the past 70 years at least or are you from some where else, may as well be another planet if you didn’t grow up here. I have a feeling it is like that in most southern small towns.
It could be argued that Louisville and the surrounding areas are not “REALLY” the south, but we do have some of those quirky behaviors.
I will say we are getting better or maybe we were forced to change because we did such a good job with our local schools people who move in the area with their jobs aren’t from ’round here and if they had a choice wouldn’t have picked HERE, but they don’t and because our school system rocks, so here they are. Some of them like it and stick around and I guess after about 15 years (instead of the standard 100) they are from ’round here.
But something that I have only discovered in Kentucky and is even listed on those “You know you are from {insert area here} when lists”-our “Where you from” goes one step further. Where did you go to school and honey, we don’t mean college. Not because most of us didn’t head off to university, we did, we just can glean more information off your high school. And out here, I can tell not only about where you grew up but MAYBE even how old you may or may not be because until the early 90’s there was only one high school out here, now there are 3.
If this question gets favorable results or someone says, I didn’t grow up HERE, but my mom and dad met in college and moved back here, you get to say “Oh really, who’ is your daddy? or your mama?” and chances are that your daddy and their daddy played basketball or football together and you recognize the name like it were your own. In some unfortunate cases you discover that their mama and your daddy dated and your mama isn’t a big fan of their mama, in which case, you really don’t run off and call your mama and daddy to tell them who you just met in the parking lot of Kroger.
Just keep that one to yourself.
I have discovered that I do this with my son’s friends, just like my daddy used to do it with mine, because you see, my daddy grew up here and my mama did not. I would have friends come over and my dad would say “Claypot…well, I don’t know any claypots, where you from?” and they would reply well my dad isn’t from around here but my mama was….
“Awww, what’s your mama’s name?”
“Jones, sir”
“Sally Jones?”
“Yes sir.”
“Oh, I know your mama, she used to be a cheerleader and was the nicest thing, how’s she doin’?”
IF he knew them, but if he didn’t he would say…
“Sally Jones, aw yes, she used to come over to my house to eat chicken…’(and then he would say shit, under his breath) he would die laughing! I can honestly tell you that I was in my mid-20’s before I understood that my dad was telling these kids that their parents ate chicken poo at his house.
I have promised my son that I will not use the eating chicken line, but I will and do ask the other questions everytime a new kid comes over. Because some traditions are just worth preserving-child embarassment!
So, where you from? where did you go to school?
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I am looking forward to the day that the 14 yr old plays soccer on the beach like this guy, now THAT is the way to watch soccer, on the beach!
Wow, I haven’t even started my post and I already got off topic-but that is exactly how I have been feeling the past couple of weeks (so perfect illustration of a point)
The Season of the S…
Sure thing!
This is what has me running around like a headless chicken in the barnyard! Sure there are only 5 things on that list, but they are so much more involved than just the little bullet points, let me break it down for you, my sisters:
Did I mention that the middle school soccer games were on Tuesday and Thursday in April and that I am the team mom? I have to feed the boys before every game. Oh yeah. Oh and one more “S”, the Schedule-concessions for all the soccer games, I have to have parental volunteers-some of these parents would rather die than work the concession stand during a game, so I also get to herd cats.
And, that my dear friend, is why I haven’t been posting much.
I miss my blog.
What have you been doing in preparation for spring?
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for an old chair.
This project was a lot easier than I thought it would be!
If you have an old ratty office chair laying around and a shirt that you don’t wear much anymore…you can have this chair!
You will also need:
(there are pictures that explain some of the steps in the slide show above)
What is the coolest thing you made?
I have been working on this purse for months.
I thought I did a blog post on it, but I can not seem to find it anywhere (this is the problem with having more than one blog!)
And, It appears that I dreamed it.
Instead of getting a how too, you get a glimpse of the finished product!
and
and the interior with out stuff
and finally, the inside, the blackberry and my camera fit in the outside “front” pockets!
YES! The inside lining IS made out of old shirts, and thems the pockets!
I got the handle at Joann’s, not exactly what I was looking for, but I really didn’t plan making this thing, it was an afternoon impulse over 7 months ago!
What have you crafted lately?
