Happy Mother's Day

25 things our Mothers taught us

1. Our mothers taught us TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. Our mothers taught us RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. Our mothers taught us about TIME TRAVEL .
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle
of next week!"

4. Our mothers taught us LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. Our mothers taught us MORE LOGIC.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going
to the store with me.."

6. Our mothers taught us FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. Our mothers taught us IRONY
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. Our mothers taught us about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. Our mothers taught us about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. Our mothers taught us about STAMINA..
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. Our mothers taught us about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. Our mothers taught us about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. Our mothers taught us the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. Our mothers taught us about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. Our mothers taught us about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this
world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

16. Our mothers taught us about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

17. Our mothers taught us about RECEIVING .
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. Our mothers taught us MEDICAL SCIENCE..
"If you don't stop making a face, it's going to freeze that way."

19. Our mothers taught us ESP.
"Put your sweater on -- don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. Our mothers taught us HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. Our mothers taught us HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. Our mothers taught us GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. Our mothers taught us about our ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?

24. Our mothers taught us WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. Our mothers taught us about JUSTICE
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you."

Kids Fest

The big moose (the boys loved all the mascots walking around)...

The choo-choo train (Mitchell cried when I took him off)...

Cameron is helping read the story and Mitchell is listening intently...


Cameron dancing with the bird.....


Mitchell and the bunnies...



Cameron and the goat....



Here you go, are you hungry?

Happy Easter!

Award

I received this from Cheryl, Ruby's Mom. Thank you so much Cheryl.

"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find friends and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships will be propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly- written text into the body of their award.

I am sending this award on to:


Amy at The Fledge Farm
Kristen at Faulkner Family
Kim at Charlie & Calvin's Up To
Brigitte at Van Nice Family Journey
Julie at The Adventures of Cap'n Jack 'n Crew
Emma (CJ) at Little Miss E
Angela (Leah) at Its My Life Mom!
Braska (RK) at Braska Bear

I love reading your blogs, thanks for writing.

What's Barbie Been Up To?

It's Magic!

Life Is Grand

I won my first bloggy award! Thank you to my friend Karyn at Quinn's Crusaders.

Karyn and I met when her daughter, Quinn, was still blossoming in the womb. Karyn received a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome and was brave enough to come to a Mom's Night Out dinner to meet other moms of children with a little somethin' extra. I offered for Karyn and her family to meet Cameron (I wanted them to see how much more typical he was than not). I'm pretty sure he charmed the pants off of them!


Thank you Karyn, this award means a lot to me.

For The Life is Grand Award I must give five reasons why I think life is grand and then tag five more people.

My Life Is Grand because of:

1. My children. I suffered for years before having my boys, trying one procedure, surgery, medication after another - all unsuccessful. The Lord finally answered our prayers and gave us not one miracle, but two. They mean the World to me and I know that I would be lost and miserable without them.

2. My husband. I am completely blessed to have such a wonderful man in my life. I know that I don't tell him or show him often enough how much he means to me. I would be lost and miserable without him as well.

3. The Lord. I have always believed in and prayed to the Lord. It's been within the last few years that I have really seen what is possible when you put all your faith in Him.

4. My health. I have seen too many people suffer and die too early from cancer. I thank the Lord every day that my family and I are healthy. I will NEVER take this for granted.

5. My family & friends. They love, understand and support me regardless of my faults.

I am now awarding the following:

1. Sunflower Stories
2. Larkin's Place
3. Pocket Lint
4. The Baeten Family
5. Class of 2008

I really enjoy reading your blogs and because of you as well, my life is grand!

Always check your child's homework

(Here's the reply the teacher received the following day)

Dear Mrs. Jones,
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Smith

Win an iPod Touch

The retail value is $300.00. However, you can win it for FREE and help Bring Jacob Home all at the same time.

My friend, Brigitte, and her family are adopting an adorable little guy from Reeces Rainbow. Adoption is extremely expensive, but with our help we can help them raise enough money to bring Jacob home to his forever family.

So, for every $10 that is donated towards Jacob's adoption, your name is put in for the final drawing for the iPod Touch.

For everyone that donates AND posts about this on their blog, linking back to their fundraiser (please leave Brigitte a comment with the link that you have done so), will get an additional entry.

Or, if you donate AND send an email to 10 of your friends (Brigitte being the 11th) you can get an additional entry.

Brigitte's beautiful daughter, Josie, will be drawing a name on Friday, March 20th at 7:00 p.m. CST so get your donations in before that!!

WHY GOD MADE MOMS

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house
3. To help us out when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to be cause dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mom . You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms & dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you go to if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Mom s have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3 I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

T21 Traveling Afghan

Chandos (mom of Little Miss E) is making a T21 afghan to travel the world! The afghan travels from one family to another, along with a journal.

Each family, upon receiving the afghan, takes a picture of their family member (with Down syndrome) with the afghan and the picture will be posted on a "T21 Travelling Afghan" page. After having the afghan for bit, the family writes a note in the journal and sends it off to the next family.

Click the button below to find out all the specifics.



Please post about this on your blogs, FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. with a link back to this page. That way we can spread the the word out as far and wide as possible.

Please stay tuned if you would like to follow the journeys of the Traveling Afghan. I will follow-up with the links to the page so you can see all the adorable pics and read the journal entries - how fun!

Bloggy Makeover

My blog finally has a new look.

I entered to win a bloggy makeover from RK, a/k/a Braska's mom and I WON!! Thank you RK, I really do appreciate it.

This is the second time I won something just by posting a comment on a friend's blog.

The first time I won a copy of Roadmap To Holland which is an absolutely awesome book written by my online, DownSyn, bloggy friend, Jennifer. This wonderful prize was given to me by Deborah - thanks again Deborah, I loved the book and quickly read it and borrowed it on to another mom and promised it to another mom after that.

My 10 Names

I just got this in an e-mail and thought it was too funny not to share. Let me know your 10 names (okay, it's actually 11, but I am just following the e-mail).

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Terri Hust

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: Terizzle
(first 3 letters of real na me plus -izzle)

3. YOUR SPY NAME: blue cat
(favorite color and favorite animal)

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: Ann Arthur
(your middle name and street you live on)

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: Huste
(the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)

6. YOUR SUPERHERO/CRIMINAL NAME: Pink Miller Lite
(Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink)

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: Eshelty
(2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your last name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of your dads name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms first name)

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: Jean Allan
(parents' middle names)

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: Black Tampa or Black Junior
(black, and the name of one of your pets):

10. Your ghetto girl name: Teriqua
(first 3 letters of your first name and add -iqua)

11.Porn Star name: Tabby Peck
(Name of your first pet and your mother's maiden name):

PRICELESS

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company's party.

He didn't even remember how he got home from the party.

As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did something wrong.

Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a
couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to
them, a single red rose!!

Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.

He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly
clean. So is the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at
him in the bathroom mirror.

Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red
with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick: "Honey,
breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make you your
favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! Love, Jillian"

He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast, steaming
hot coffee and the morning newspaper.

His 16 year old son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, "Son, what
happened last night?"

"Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and out of your mind you fell over
the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got
that black eye when you ran into the door."

Confused, he asked his son, "So, why is everything in such perfect order and
so clean? And I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me,"

His son replies, "Oh THAT... Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she
tried to take your pants off, you screamed, 'Leave me alone I'm married!!' "

Broken Coffee Table $239.99 Hot Breakfast $4.20 Two Aspirins $.38 Saying the right thing, at the right time: PRICELESS

Wisconsin

Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's 'too pricey,' you might live in Wisconsin.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin...

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have either a pet or a child named 'Brett,' you might live in Wisconsin.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Lac Courte Oreilles, Waukesha, Menomonie, Manitowoc, Shawano, Gillett, Lac Vieux Desert, and DePere you might live in Wisconsin.

If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, '…from the land of sky-blue waters,'....you might live in Wisconsin.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:

1. 'Vacation' means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.

2. You measure distance in hours.

3. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

4. You often switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again.

5. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.

6. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

7. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals).

8. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
9. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

10. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.

11. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.

12. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

13. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

14. You refer to the Packers as 'we.'

15. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

16. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

17. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.

18. You consider Minneapolis exotic.

19. You know how to polka.

20. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

21. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

22. Down South to you means Illinois.

23. A brat is something you eat.

24. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

25. Your answer to every neighbors’ crisis is a casserole.

26. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

29. You find minus twenty degrees 'a little chilly.'

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my niece Hailey! We celebrated at the roller rink. I forgot how much fun roller skating was. I did biff (only once though)!

Happy New Year!

We rang in the new year at our friend's house. Here's a pic of the boys and Cameron's future wife, Taylor. Do you like Cameron's cheesey smile? Me too!

Bath Time Fun

Black Friday

I love shopping and I love a great deal. I also happen to be sort of a morning person. Therefore,



After eating too much food, I veg out on the couch and dive into the sale ads. I get a paper and pen and I make out a "game plan" of which stores we need to be at and when for the best deals. This year I discovered that you can look at the sale ads online ahead of time (yeah, I know, I'm a little behind in the times). I am extremely excited about this deal specifically.



We have been discussing getting these for awhile now. I will be getting to Target bright and early!

I'm so excited.

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