It’s been a heck of a long week already, and I’m really feeling it mentally. So on that note, here’s another baby picture from this past weekend:
Here’s hoping I’m feeling a little more with it tomorrow. Have a great Tuesday, everybody! 🙂
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We had company this weekend in the form of an adorable baby. Seymour’s cousin and her family came for Miss Tadpole’s piano recital and stayed for the day. I got my baby fix, we played cards, there was good food and lots of fun – it was a perfect day.
The only thing that could have made it better is if Seymour hadn’t had such a nasty cold.
Meanwhile, Cricket is completely enamored of his new little godbrother, and was tickled pink at getting the chance to hold him. Very carefully. Under the watchful eyes of all parents in the house and a big sister to boot. 🙂
How did you spend your weekend?
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Once upon a time, I was quite adept at climbing trees. This tree was at my grandparents’ house and did a fantastic job of shading their driveway. I remember, quite vividly, perching in one of its many crotches and writing my first poem (a copy of which I still have somewhere in my office).
When Bubbles was born, I was disappointed that we didn’t have any good climbing trees in our yard. Then I moved to town, and each new place also lacked good climbing trees. At last we have a place with lots of trees for the kids to climb, and they’ve taken to it like ducks to water (the older ones, anyway). To me, there’s nothing quite like climbing a tree for fun and adventure.
Don’t forget to stop by Charnele’s blog and take a gander at her throwback post!
Did you climb trees when you were a kid? Do you let your kids climb them?
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Hard to believe this little tractor-lovin’ dude is so grown up.
Also? I can’t believe this picture is ten years old.
Don’t forget to stop by and check out Charnele’s post!
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This pretty much sums up how I’m feeling right now. This cold is still kicking my butt, but in the last twenty-four hours, I’ve managed to finish that story for Miss Tadpole (and she liked it so much, she took it to school to show off), fix a bunch of track changes issues in stories I’d submitted for an anthology (and learned how to use track changes correctly in the process), start reviewing a short story for someone (Oh, hello, track changes, how are you today?), and process two tax returns at work.
*scarfs chocolate miraculously left over from yesterday*
Of course, these are quite fitting for today’s mental state as well:
Our local coffee shop has the best décor. Of course, I probably only think that because it happens to be true.
On second thought, no I don’t. It’s awesome regardless of its truth.
*passes out*
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Some of my new pencils and my current WIP, an experiment in narrative poetry commissioned by Miss Tadpole:
I’m having a lot of fun with this project, though I suspect I’d be having more fun if I didn’t feel like my head was stuffed with cotton balls. Go away, cold! No one wants you!
Now, where did I put that VapoRub?
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Miss Tadpole and Bubbles had a 4-H meeting this afternoon and it was their turn to give the presentations. Naturally, they left them till the last minute, because who needs to prepare?
Since our ISP switch, though, we only have internet access on one computer – Seymour’s. It’s an inconvenience for sure, and when Miss Tadpole wanted to use the internet to look up information about the history of cats, we told her to look at the encyclopedia.
Her response?
“That doesn’t have history in it.”
*facepalm*
So I gave her a whirlwind introduction to the encyclopedia. Again. (Sadly, this is not the first time this conversation has happened in my house.) I showed her the index, explaining that it was “like Google, before Google was a thing.” Then I demonstrated how to use it to check out different keywords in her search (she wanted information on cats in ancient Egypt). Unfortunately, our encyclopedia was a bit lacking when it came to ancient Egyptian cats, but hopefully she learned that she doesn’t have to rely on the internet for everything.
And no, I’m not holding my breath that that particular lesson actually soaked in.
Still, it was a lot of fun looking through that old encyclopedia. Some of my most treasured memories involve summer afternoons at the library reading The World Book Encyclopedia.
Do you have any fun memories involving reference books of yore? Share ’em below – let’s reminisce! 🙂
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Today’s throwback picture goes back to Christmas 2007. It was the first Christmas after my divorce, and Bubbles’ grandparents had invited us to help them pick out their Christmas tree:
This picture singlehandedly destroyed my camera, the first digital one I’d ever owned. Not thirty seconds after I snapped this picture, I managed to drop the poor camera lens-first on the ice.
*sigh*
Curse you, butterfingers!
I took my Christmas bonus that year and bought another camera, which I subsequently bequeathed to Bubbles a couple of years ago. He’s used it all of twice, if I’m not mistaken. 🙂
Hope you all have a great weekend, and don’t forget to check out Charnele’s blog – she’s got a great post up today. Happy Friday! 🙂
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Much to Cricket’s chagrin, Thumper received a package in the mail yesterday. (For the record, Cricket was only annoyed because he didn’t get a package, too.) It was a late Christmas present from his godmother, and he was absolutely ecstatic:
I’ve seen this before, and somewhere (in my office, I think) I have one of those wall decals that says the same thing. We all love it, and the plan is to get it hung this weekend. Thumper loves it so much that I think he’d have slept with it last night if we’d have let him; he started crying when we wouldn’t let him carry it upstairs.
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Last night while I was cooking supper, I shot one of the pictures for yesterday’s post. Bubbles asked why I was taking a picture of toothpaste, so I told him about my photo-a-day-for-a-year project.
“Can you take my picture?” he asked.
I feel like I’ve covered this ground with him here already (Oh, that’s right – I have!), but oh well.
So I told him to do something, and I’d take his picture. He decided he wanted to scale the kitchen doorway. As that’s always entertaining, I told him I was waiting.
His first attempt (and mine) was a total failure. The next one was slightly better, but nearly ended with a smooshed Cricket. His third attempt went better (and Cricket – and Thumper, who refuses to be left out of the fun – got a lecture about not running under Bubbles when he was trying to climb the woodwork), but still sent him sliding back down to the floor. And since all those pictures turned out blurry (either in whole or in part), I’m declining to share, even though Bubbles and I got a pretty good laugh out of them.
At long last, though, he managed to climb to the top of the doorway. I got my picture, he got down, no one got hurt. Yay!
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 