Memorial Day.....madness.

OK, it's a three day weekend, extra time to get stuff done right? wrong?

My kids have been out of my hair for most of the weekend and instead of getting a 

jump on all the chores around here I've been ....wait for it... relaxing!!!!! 

Yeah, the queen of making the most of situations and squeezing everything into the 

time without kids has been chilling and procrastinating all over the place. 

I have taken a lot of pics this weekend which has been so much fun but then having

to edit them is a chore... a chore!  Although I have to say most of them don't really

need much more than a little crop here and there... cool. 

I snoozed through the Indy 500 yesterday, yep, snoozed on the couch with my

little shih tzu laying on my lap with me. How indulgent is that???

Peace and quiet... it's totally what I needed. I feel ready to take on the 

preps for our camping trip today. There's still a ton of laundry to do before we 

pack but I can do it, because I'm feeling good people, feeling good! 

The girls are SO excited and are ready to help pack up, I'm so happy

they are finally at an age to REALLY help with packing! So my friends, it's out

into the wilderness crowded campground we go. Hubby is worried we may

need a gun in case we come across a bear, hmmmm now he's got me thinking.

Just when was the last known bear attack in Chatanooga? anybody? no, 

didn't think so. 

We do have wifi at the cabin (I know) so I may post from there at some point this 

week, no I haven't had the forethought to prepare and schedule posts. I'm not

that good a blogger!!!! but you know that already. 

Have a great Holiday Monday and if you see a service man or woman today

hug them hard!!!! tell them I sent you!!!!! 

All the Randomonium I can stand.....

hmmm don't know how this got in here... and those are not my feet... this is what happens when you leave your phone lying around!!!




Its been too long since I did a randomonium.....here goes.....

My new little photography business is slow, I know its early days and it takes work but I can't help having anxiety attacks about it being a complete bomb... why do I doubt myself all the time? If you are a marketing wizz and want to work for nothing please apply within.....serious applicants only...no time wasters or weirdos.

There is a little place in my hometown (in England) where people have walked their dogs and cycled and exercised for a million years; apparently some woman has closed off access to it and a friend of mine is rallying the townsfolk into having it reopened....it warms the cockles of my heart! You go Martin!!!!!!

Seven year old kids have their own brand of comedy that can make me pee my pants. I wish we could all be seven again.

If you leave a fan on all night the white noise is very soothing and will help you sleep, really, then you realize one is just a bitch and the lack of sleep has nothing to do with ones own personality flaws.

Leaving a fan on all night will not stop a whiney ass shih tzu from waking you up! Only placing the kennel three blocks from your home will do that.....you're welcome neighbor!

His gorgeousness and I had lunch together this week and witnessed something so hideous we were stopped in our tracks, a "lady" in the diner was wearing a tank top with the slogan "biggest breasts in town" blazened across the front. (She was a complete moose by the way). My lovely hubby commented it wouldn't be socially acceptable for him to get a shirt that said "biggest dick in town"....there's just no equality these days. And no....neither slogan appears to be completely accurate....although how would one really know? Or more to the point care?

The "I have to have the last word" brigade are irritating the shit out of me lately and I think fb is to blame. Just say something and move on, don't pollute the atmosphere with your meaningless quips and mindless cliches....not to mention that thing they do when giving a compliment...pause....then add a zinger! You look great today.........for a change. Eff you, zingerman...its all Karma.

And finally if you must talk about karma, learn to spell it correctly. That is all.

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Summertime......

I think that for most of the my friends and family it's Spring, but for us here in the deep south it feels distinctly summerish.

The girls finished up school last Friday and have spent three days at summer camp, yes three days, and this is how Syd looks already. Blonde highlights, tanned skin and a lovely relaxed glow about her. They spend the days playing games, getting lots of exercise and swimming.... bliss. The past couple of years we had teens coming to the house to take care of them in the summer but this year decided to send them to camp at the local YMCA instead. My reasoning for this was that it cost about the same, they would get plenty of exercise and have a routine and mostly because for the last two summers they ate us out of house and freakin' home!!!!!! It was quite astonishing to see how much food a couple of kids and a teenage sitter could get through in a day never mind nine weeks. I think they had to have eaten at least the equivalent of three baby hippos every day quite happily. Unfreakin' believable.

The emphasis this summer is exercise and the great outdoors; activity, activity after wonderful activity. Tonight we took a walk around our local lake, at lease we thought we were taking a walk at the lake. It's been a few weeks since we have been over there and obviously they are doing some maintenance drainage type stuff. Where the waters edge used to be now there's nothing but mud flats, and yes, despite the warning signs we did see a group of young boys playing in the mud, and it made me nervous. What the heck do you do as a responsible adult... do you shout "Oi, you little shits get outta there or I'll call your mothers"... not knowing who their mother's are... actually we did know one of the little boys and I know his mother quite well. I wished I had taken my Droid with me but alas I had planned an unplugged walk with the girls and left it at home. I worried for a moment that they would get stuck in quick sand or something, do you think there is quick sand in the middle of a little town in GA with a dredged pond? I don't know, I guess anything is possible. Well I think they got out alive and all is well apart from some muddy clothes and maybe a lost tennis shoe or three. Why do boys have to give us mothers such trouble? even when they don't belong to us? Thank God I have two girls and although I have to worry about the youngest being a little too inquisitive and courageous at times I don't have too many occasions to get all fearful hense pissy because she's doing something potentially dangerous. This could be the excuse I need to get out of all this physical torture "sorry kids, it's just too dangerous to be outside in the summer!".... cough, cough... "yes there's mud and sun and nasty little boys, not to mention gnats and killer Canada geese"..... "prolly should stay home and let me take pictures of you all summer!!" Hmmm now that sounds better. Tune in next week when I'll be blogging from the mountains of Tennessee, yes you know that means more activity and more creative excuses from me!!!!

Silent Sunday

ok..can't be silent... just have to add that his look of disdain is because of the crap hair cut we gave him, yes a homemade do. sorry mac, it will grow, and we DO love you!!!

Her Third Eye.......

When I first started blogging I "met" several bloggers online who seem to 

have stuck with me and I with them over the past couple of years.

So much so that we've exchanged little gifts and cards etc in the mail and 

kept up with each others lives here and there. 

One such blogger is Mari Mansourian who you can find here. 

She's a very talented EVERYTHING!!! 

She writes, take fabulous pictures, cooks, raises her boys, blogs, 

runs her own business and now is setting about changing the lives of

any unfortunate soul that she happens to run across when she next visits 

her home country of Armenia. 

This is where you come in, Mari has made some of her fabulous prints

into greetings cards and is selling them for her project... you can read 

about it here....Postcards for Smiles.

Please check out her work, I promise you'll love it! 

Good Luck Mari. xxxxx

Awards, Honors and all around Congrats....

it's been very busy around here this week. 

the kids have been getting awards and honors left and right and i'm as proud as

can be. honestly i love how well they have done this year and it's

all to do with the teachers they have had this year and the 

support of everyone in the schools. 

i am in awe of these people who do so much to help the kids

and they genuinely love what they do. i feel so humbled

when they tell me how much they love my girls and they are 

happy to have taught them and want them to stay in touch 

as they move on in the school system. 

the principals know the kids by name (for a good reason) which shows they are out 

there, being involved in the school and really making an effort to enrich the lives

of each student. i am so thankful for our little town, the fact that i have such

great people rooting for my girls and helping us raise well rounded,

intelligent, happy people. 

Thank you Thomas County School System... YOU ROCK!!!! 

Feeling like a new Mom again...

You know the feeling of complete and utter exhaustion when you're a brand new parent?? well that's how I'm feeling right now. Urggghhhhh if I don't get some serious quality sleep soon I swear I'm going to fall off the deep end. I'm not sure what's causing it other then I will hear every tiny itty bitty sound, or the fact that I just have so much to do I'm in bed later than I like to be and up before I like to be. I'm just one of those people who do not function well on less than nine hours a night.

Yes you heard me... nine hours!!!! of good quality shut eye... not just laying there thinking, thinking, thinking or listening to the damn dog licking themselves.. eeewwww!!! I NEED it... I can't think straight without it, I'm grouchy and miserable to be around. Sleep is very important to our wellbeing and completely underrated by modern society as a whole, particularly in the US (in my humble opinion).  I have been telling his Gorgeousness that for years now, he's one of those aggravating asses who can just fall asleep wherever, get four hours and be good to go for the next sixteen or so and then do it all again. He doesn't understand why I am so tired or why I need more sleep than he does; I would say that if you take four times per week and multiply it by 52 weeks in the year then times that by the 14 years we've been married, it seems we've had the same argument conversation over 2912 times with no resolution. After almost three thousand times of being told "I need more effin' sleep than you do!!" you'd think he'd stop asking why I'm so tired in the mornings. Dang it we've had that convo more times than we've well you know.......done the wild thing!!!! There's something just sad about that!!

So recently he had to take a defensive driving course and there was a whole segment in there about driving your vehicle while fatigued... I think it made him sit up and listen. He's now completely impressed with the Spanish who have "got it down" with the common practice of taking a siesta, you see the body has a natural tendency toward fatigue during the noon hour of the day and that is why there are so many traffic accidents in the middle of the day (apparently). We should all be heads under wings and beaks under blankets at that time instead of out there narrowly avoiding death and destruction on the highways. I am wholeheartedly in agreement with that suggestion.... can we get a lobby on this please???  Also he actually conceded that I may have a point about the amount of sleep we need and that you can't catch up on lost sleep overnight... yeah you know what I mean. It takes a few good nights of a little extra sleep to catch up on that wild weekend of burning the proverbial at both ends. It's far better to have a regular sleep pattern, go to bed at the same time every night and wake up at the same time in the morning. Is this ever going to happen in my house????? Doubtful, one can but dream, if one could get some damn SLEEP!!!!!!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I took this afternoon off to be with my children following their recent successes at the respective school honors days, we are about to cuddle up, and take a nap!!!! Yep, they love to snooze as much as their Mama does and it won't be long before they won't want to nap with me so I'm making the most of it while I can, doux rêves mes enfants!!!!