And The Winner Is:
The winner of this weeks Freebie Friday is Amber Isom. Congratulations, Amber. Email me at scoobys1971@gmail.com to claim your prize. Thank you everyone that commented.
Tags: Giveaways
Freebie Friday
Today’s freebie Friday is a collection of scrapbook supplies donated from Just Scrap It on Kiehl Avenue in Sherwood. We have a BoBunny collection valued at around $40. Included in the collection is a 20″ flex ruler, a pink long reach mini stapler with 1000 silver staples, an extra set of silver staples, a journal acrylic stamp set, a package of iCandy brads, a package of Wrapped in Ribboon green, a package of Wrapped in Ribbon red and two packages of rub-ons, one in black and the other in a goldish brown. I love to scrapbook. I started when Mallory was a baby. It is a great way to preserve your memories and favorite photos. She loves to look at her books and see what she did when she was a baby and read what we write about her.
To win this collection, please leave a comment below today through Monday, February 21st. A winner will announced on Tuesday.
Tags: Freebie Friday, Giveaways
Wordless Wednesday
Mallory's shopping spree at Toys R Us
Mallory got a total of $100 in gift cards to Toys R Us between her birthday and Christmas presents. This is what she got. She did a great job making her selections. Thank you, MeeMaw & Daddy Joe and Nana & Poppa!
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Wordless Wednesday
Mallory and Baker napping on the couch.
Looking so peaceful.
They look so sweet when they are sleeping.
Tags: Family Dog, mallory, Wordless Wednesday
If 8 Year Olds Could Text
Mallory is on the dance competition team this year with NLR School of Dance. The first competition was this weekend. Mallory was not competing this weekend, but we went to watch and support our dance school. We invited our friends Cindy and Tori.
Mallory and Tori were getting restless so they started playing games on our cell phones. This led to the girls texting each other. They told us they were texting and not to read their texts. Well, we just couldn’t resist. Here is what they were texting each other:
Mallory: A string of random letters.
Tori: A string of random letters.
Tori: Hey girl
Tori: I just got a job.
Mallory: I love to go to my friends house.
Mallory: No you are not getting a job.
Tori: The hottest boy at school is my boyfriend.
Mallory: I see a hotdog stand by the mall. I will see you at school.
Tori: Saus
We cracked up! Tori deleted the boyfriend one off of her mom’s phone. I guess she didn’t think about it being on my phone.
P.S. – Freebie Friday this week is Opposite Ways. Go here for your chance to win.
Bye, Bye Bluie
Mallory got a betta fish from Santa for Christmas this year. She was so happy! She named him, Bluie. Bluie loves to swim and sometimes he loves to just float like he is hovering. She checks him everyday. Sometimes he is so still he appears to be dead. I told her that the way to tell if a fish is dead is if he is floating on top. He hardly ever goes near the top.
So Wednesday afternoon when she got home from school she went to check on Bluie. She comes running into the living room saying that Bluie was dead. I asked if he was floating, and she said no. Ok, he is not dead.
She made me come check. He was floating in the bottom of the tank and he was not moving. My heart sank. I think she saw the look on my face and she cried and cried and cried! Man, why did the stupid fish have to die after just one month? I told her we would get another one. She doesn’t want another one. So, ok.
Now we have to dispose of the fish. I don’t know that I have the heart to tell her that we need to flush it down the toilet. That is the next step. I’ll let you know how that turns out. I bet it won’t be pretty.
P.S. – Freebie Friday this week is Opposite Ways. Go here for your chance to win.
Wordless Wednesday
One of the rights of passage of childhood: Learning to blow a bubble!
Just learned to blow a bubble for the first time.
Cousin Lexie showed Mallory how to do it.
Double Bubble
Wow! Big bubble!
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Confessions From The Laundry Room
I have a confession to make. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but here it goes. I actually like doing laundry. I know, crazy right? I have not told my husband this, so I may regret posting this. I like doing laundry!
I love the smell of clean laundry! I like the smell of downy. I like folding warm clothes straight from the dryer. I even like ironing a litte bit. I like getting a wrinkled shirt and making it all pressed.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to do everyone’s laundry. I have a family of 3. So we don’t have just an obscene amount of laundry. I would NOT want to do the Duggar’s laundry, but I don’t mind doing Billy’s and Mallory’s.
I know I am not the only one out there that feels this way. I am not the only crazy one in this world that enjoys doing laundry. I hope.
Tags: Laundry
Hormone Induced Irrational Feelings
I can usually tell when this time is coming. I usually notice when everything around me starts getting on my nerves and I want to bite every one’s head off. This time it snuck up on me. I am at work this morning in my cubicle doing my work and looking at my pictures of my husband and my daughter that surround me.
I soon decide that my husband must be mad at me. I had to do something to make him mad. Now, I haven’t seen him this morning. We barely even spoke at 5:30 this morning as I woke him to tell him that I am leaving for work, yet I think I did something to piss him off.
I then decide that my child must hate me. I wouldn’t let her have ice cream at 8:00 on Sunday night and I wouldn’t let her jump on the trampoline in 25 degree weather the other day without a coat on. I am sure, this morning, that she will be on Oprah in just a few years because she was so miss treated as a child.
As I am sitting at my desk thinking all of these strange things, I decide to take a break and clear my head. I go to text my husband. Here is my text:
Me: Hello! I need you to tell me I’m ok. I think I am PMSing and I am having irrational feelings. I hate hormones!
I don’t get a text back I get a phone call!
Billy: What are you talking about? Are you ok?
Me: I think you are mad at me and Mallory must hate me:-(
Billy: How can I be mad? I haven’t seen you at all today. I am not mad at you and Mallory loves you very much. You are ok, you may be nuts, but you are ok.
I begin to feel better. At least my family doesn’t hate me. I go back to my desk to finish my morning. I begin thinking how much I hate these feelings, and how I wish that they would go away forever!
I know PMS has plagued women for years and the men that love them, but I have a new symptom to add to the list:
Hormone Induced Irrational Feelings!
I am sure it will take off and their will be a pill available. I know in a couple of days all will be right in the world of Blessed Mom. I will stick it out until then. My husband usually makes it out in one piece. He is sending me to bed currently, because on top of all that I am getting the cold that he had last week.
Please tell me that I am not the only one that feels like this for at least 2 days a month!
Billy’s P.S.: i would like to add to this commentary one , hmm minor discrepancy. i didn’t say ,”its o.k. you may be nuts” i said ” you are nuts” as many of the other husbands can attest. This is not a statement out of meanness its just a fact, although lovable and darling, well,,,,, she just nuts!
Tags: PMS, The Husband
Our First Vacation of 2011!
Ok, my husband finally got some vacation this year. He had to take a week before the end of January. We talked about what we would do with some of his time off. I had taken some time at Christmas so I couldn’t take off too much time. We decided to take a weekend so that I wouldn’t have to use to many days. Since he had to work over Christmas we couldn’t see any of my family during the holidays. So we decided to go to Texas to see my sister and her family.
We left Friday morning and set out for Aunt Debbie’s. Mallory, of course, had to pack tons of toys for our trip. She took about 4 stuffed animals plus her pillow pet. They took up most of the back seat.
Mal's Build A Bear's, monkey, horse and her dolphin pillow pets took up one whole side of the backseat.
It is about 4 1/2 hours to my sister’s in East Texas. Mallory had her DS, coloring books, books and CD player to keep her busy in the back. She started getting a little bored so we plugged in my iPod for some music that we all liked. We rocked out to Miranda Lambert.
Singing to "Only Prettier", my favorite song!
We made it toAunt Debbie’s about 4 o’clock on Friday. My niece Kirsti plays basketball for the Whitehouse Wildcats. We got to catch her game Friday night. It was a good game. They lost in the last few seconds of the game, but it was a good game to watch.
On Saturday, my sister had a get together for us. She had friend’s and family over for barbecue. My aunt and her husband and one of their daughter’s Jaiden came. Mallory loves playing with Jaiden. They had a blast dressing up in Kirsti’s shoes and jewelry.
Mallory, Kirsti and Jaiden all in their high heels.
My best childhood buddy, Cynthia, came from Fort Worth to visit. We meet in elementary school when I would visit my dad for the weekends and holidays. We had a great time catching up on our kids, husband’s and the old neighborhood.
Cynthia and I.
It was a great day! On Sunday, we hung out, went to checkout my nephew Kody’s new apartment, ate at Mal’s favorite, Taco Bell, and went shopping. Aunt Debbie took Mallory to do the spider jump at their mall. She loved it. She even did a couple of flips. It rained everyday we were there so we tried to stay warm and dry and do as many indoor activities as possible.
Monday, Aunt Debbie had to work, so we did some running around on our own. We went to Cavendar’s Boot City to look at some Billy was looking for. Mallory found some boots she liked as well. She got upset that we didn’t get them for her. We went back to Aunt Debbie’s and made her dinner since she worked all day. She wanted to try our Blackened Tilapia. I think it was a little spicy for her, but she enjoyed it.
We finished our evening off with some Just Dance on the Wii. Man, that was so much fun. I was so sore the next day. I am adding that into my workout regime. Here are some more pictures from our weekend!
Mallory and Aunt Debbie's bird, Peter.
Jaiden and Peter
Peter on my shoulder. I am a little nervous! Can you tell?
Aunt Debbie's baby, Okie!
P.S. – In The Family Way is hosting Freebie Friday this week. Go here to post a comment for a chance to win some great Valentine’s Day books.
Tags: Family, Family Dog, Friends, mallory, The Husband
Destiny knocked on Amy Thompson’s door in 2002 when little Mallory was placed in her arms. In 2003, Mallory’s adoption was finalized, thus allowing Amy and her husband to embark on a blessed journey into parenthood.
