Things that gave me a good laugh this morning:
All I want is a library full of books and a prince telling me to pick one*…
*Book, that is. Not monks.
Also:
TC: Mommy, can we go outside to play?
Me: No, it’s all mucky and gross outside.
TP: Can we sit on the porch?
Me: No, you really don’t need to be out there.Both give me their best pout.
Me: If you really want to go outside, one of you can get the diaper bag and the other can get my computer bag and you can take them out to the van for me.
TC & TP: Okay!
Oh, kids. 🙂
Speaking of kids, Cricket’s new favorite word is book. If all we did all day long was read Clifford’s First Halloween, I think he’d be in heaven. I, on the other hand, have grown quite tired of reading yet again about Clifford going trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost, getting a bath after eating a candy apple, and traipsing around a haunted house stuck in a glove. But this, too, shall pass, and I know from experience that once these days are gone, I’ll miss them terribly. Cricket’s a boy after my own heart. I’ve got a couple of pictures from story time a few days ago that I’ve been meaning to post on Facebook, but I haven’t done it yet. Maybe I’ll get to it over the weekend, if I’m not buried under a mountain of laundry. *sigh*
In other book news, you can now pre-order White Mountain, Book 1 of the Darkling Chronicles by Sophie E. Tallis. The book is set to come out in September from Safkhet Publishing. I predict it’ll sell faster than hot chocolate in a blizzard. 🙂
Also, I think I might have fixed a major plot problem in The Lokana Chronicles. Some more detail was needed in one place and hopefully I’ve fixed it now. I’ve tried twice already; I hope the third time’s the charm. But if it’s not, well, then I’ll just have to put my stubborn nature to good use and make it bend to my will. The Great and Powerful Seymour will yet be pleased. 🙂 I say that only because I think his crit made a lot of sense and I’m determined to tackle the problem head-on. As it says over at der Wendighaus, “Time to load the guns, brew the ink, and get to work because I am a writer and I am done fucking around.”
I think that’s about all I’ve got this gray Friday afternoon. Have a happy weekend!
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 
Sounds like you’ve got your hands full! I remember those days very well. Pull out your old books, if you still have them, Cricket will be in heaven (and a sea of books). My daughter would empty her bookcase and park herself in the middle with the books surrounding her. When I would find her, I would act upset at the mess she’d made…which only resulted in a huge grin on her face. Leaving the room, I would listen, and she’d ‘read to herself’, inflection and all, long before she knew her ABC’s. Yes, enjoy this time, it is very fleeting. 🙂
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Oh, I still have them. I think all my kids’ books are still in boxes from our last move (it was only the ones I read now that I was anxious to get out of the boxes). We’re still working on unpacking them all as they fill up two closets. But the books Tomcat had as a baby/toddler are all unpacked and I’ve been trying to get Cricket into them. He insists on Clifford. But that’s okay – I read Five Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed to Tomcat when he was younger that I still have it memorized. 🙂
It’s like the Trace Adkins song says:
You’re gonna miss this.
You’re gonna want this back.
You’re gonna wish these days
Hadn’t gone by so fast.
These are some good times
So take a good look around.
You may not know it now
But you’re gonna miss this.
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LOL, don’t know the song, I’m not a Country fan. And the “Five Little Monkeys’, I know that well, found a video of it on YouTube, and my grandson watched it over and over until he had it memorized. My daughter, Chelsea, loved Clifford too, as well and Curious George. 🙂
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Not a country fan? Girl, you don’t know what you’re missing! I grew up on country music. Most of the stuff they play now is basically pop music about tractors, but I love the stuff from when I was growing up. I also love the moldy oldies – Hank Williams, Sr., Red Sovine, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, etc.
I loved Clifford and Curious George myself, though I don’t think I ever had any Clifford books that didn’t come home with me from the library. I did have a couple Curious George books growing up, though, and I hope Cricket and Thumper will like them when they get a bit older.
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No dear, I’m classic ’60’s rock all the way. Listened into the 70’s and early 80’s, but after that, I just plug into my Windows Media Player and pull up something I know by heart.
I think the video of Five Little Monkeys was on YouTube. I may even have video I took of my grandson Jack singing along with it, I’ll have to look. If I put it up on YouTube, I’ll have to do it private. My daughter-in-law would KILL me if she saw her son in a video that is really hilarious. I’ll look for it and see if I can find it and let you know.
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The ’50s and ’60s had so much good music. We listen to oldies music at work every now and then, but it’s not really oldies because so much of it is from the ’80s. There’s one oldies station that even plays stuff from the ’90s – the late ’90s. That stuff is most definitely not old enough to be classified as oldies, but they play it all the same. The funny part about it, though, is that the station played all those same songs back when they were new. They switched to playing oldies back around 1998 and now they’re playing the same music they were before they changed their format.
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What’s funny is how much of the music today’s kids are listening to will last long enough to be considered classics? Not much of it I’m afraid. The ‘oldies’ or ‘classics’, whichever you want to call them are remembered for one simple reason, they were good music to begin with.
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You know, it’s funny you mention that. Back in the day (you know, ten, twelve years ago, when I was young :p), I read an interview with the Backstreet Boys and they said they wanted to be like Aerosmith or some other band that had been around for decades and was still going strong (I forget which band exactly they said) and I thought then that it would probably never happen. So many musicians these days are one-hit wonders or burn brightly for a little while and then flame out. The Backstreet Boys are still together (minus Kevin), but they broke up at one point. Still, they’re not nearly as popular as they were twelve or fifteen years ago and they probably never will be again, though they’ll always have a special place in my heart. 🙂
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Went to see them twice with my daughter, who is still a huge fan…my favorite was always A.J., the attitude I guess 😉
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I was never lucky enough to see them in person. Nick and Brian were always my favorites, though, and I still love them as much as I ever did. 🙂
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Me: If you really want to go outside, one of you can get the diaper bag and the other can get my computer bag and you can take them out to the van for me.
TC & TP: Okay!
LOL! Oh man, this made me laugh so hard.
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Oh, Tara, my Tara! I’m so glad I made you laugh. They really were quite funny this morning.
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