I saw something that took me down memory lane. What are your favorite memories of raising your children? Some of mine:
Pillow fights were quite common in our household. We had several a week, it seemed. While they were toddlers I had to be quite gentle, of course, and allow them to get some hits in on their Mommy. That is supposing they could lift the pillows adequately to swing one….
Shopping. I was known to toss cans in the aisle (if other shoppers were there I had to hold off) and the kids would catch the cans and put them in the basket for me.
Singing in the car.
There was a dip in a local road. I’d speed up so there’d be a small “zero g” moment. The kids loved that. Hands in the air and all.
Swerving the car. If I was alone in the road, I’d test the car’s stability and make the kids bump into each other in the back seat.
GARAGE SALE!
Talk radio. When I took them to and from school, talk radio was on and we’d listen and/or discuss. I was so proud when my 7 year old son – with his comprehension and language issues – demanded I turn the radio down during a discussion of the election campaign of Lee P. Brown and said: “Don’t they understand?! You vote for the PERSON, not the COLOR!” /beaming with pride
Decorating the Christmas tree.
Telling my daughter princess stories that I’d make up for her. Sometimes she’d ask me to repeat them, so I had to work hard at remembering the details.
Watching my daughter help Hubby wash his work truck. Those little circles she made were so cute.
Hubby wrestling with Handsome Son. That stopped one night when Hubby came out of the bedroom, red faced and breathing hard, admitting that Handsome was getting pretty strong. Hubby almost lost. The wrestling stopped after that! 😉
Vacations. I have two pictures that I love. The first is Hubby ever so gently cuddling Handsome Son, holding his bottle as Handsome fell asleep. The other is Hubby teaching Lovely Daughter how to ride a unicycle. She only had the one lesson…
On one vacation we rented a boat. I have a picture of Handsome, probably about 3 or 4 at the time, dead asleep in his life jacket. Hubby was holding him in his lap, and despite the wind in his face and the excitement of being in a boat on the water, the sandman got the upper hand.
One of my favorite memories is Lovely Daughter and I sitting on our front steps and having one of those mother/daughter moments, enjoying the gusty winds as a storm front made its way towards us.
Dancing in the front yard in a soft summer rain with my kids.
Walking into Handsome’s bedroom and seeing him in bed cuddling the teddy bear that was bigger than he was. Alternatively, there was the time I caught him sleeping with his hiney up in the air, knees tucked under him.
Lovely Daughter and I returned home from a trip one night, and found Hubby and Handsome totally passed out in the master bedroom. Handsome, a pre-teen, was sprawled across the bed, while Hubby was sitting on the floor with his head on the bed. Neither of them woke up as we came in and took pictures. Obviously, they wore each other out. This was pre-“stop wrestling,” obviously.
Comforting a sick child.
Baby cuddles. Baby kisses. Baby conversations.
Bunny jammies. Lovely had the cutest little bunny nose on her butt.
Of course, the cat story. I’ll never forget that poor cat and her panic… 😀
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What are your favorite memories?
O Canada
Not Limbaugh.
Target has figured out why people aren’t spending money in their stores any more. And it has nothing to do with their bathroom policies. You are not going to believe this: In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Target CEO Brian Cornell pegged the downturn in the company’s fortunes to the cold weather as opposed to anything the company itself… Read more »
The pentagon deals with identity issues:
http://fredoneverything.org/squids-and-the-inner-light-of-being/
#40 – According to the movie “The Loved One” Mr. Ed is buried in The Blessed Reverend’s pet cemetery, along with Trigger, Lassie, and other stars. You have to watch to the end for confirmation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWA1cWw6Xk
Kilgore Trout, sci-fi reference, but I’d hafta look it up to recall who wrote it and what it means.
Sarge
Speaking of Vonnegut, I’ve had a tab open for days with Harrison Bergeron on it and was going to post it here. I’ll do it tomorrow.
42 Shannon
You’re being too rough on Young. Lawrence Olivier would’ve been upstaged by Mister Ed.
Saddled with perhaps the most embarrassing role in television history, Alan Young still out-acted Chuck Norris.
Meanwhile, the communist Van Jones turns in his application for DNC Chair by body-slamming Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
He might even get the job.
It says here that Mr. Ed died in 1970 at the age of 21.
How worthless do you have to be to get kicked out of a hippie commune?
Alan Young from Mr. Ed dead at 96 years old. RIP.
Damn.
Mr. Ed’s Wilber died. At age 96.
27 Sarge Quote of The Day: Thought for the day: A critical part of the freedom of thought and expression is the freedom not to care about someone else’s bugaboos and fever dream fears — which is the very thing under assault by the Social Justice Warriors. They are attempting to criminalize not giving a sh!t about their myriad mental… Read more »
At the Rebecca Rogers Centennial Celebration reenactment, I think Tedtam should be given the starring role.
27 Sarge Quote of The Day: Thought for the day: A critical part of the freedom of thought and expression is the freedom not to care about someone else’s bugaboos and fever dream fears — which is the very thing under assault by the Social Justice Warriors. They are attempting to criminalize not giving a sh!t about their myriad mental… Read more »
#32 – While Yall are at it we “should” pursue a Santa Claus statue to commemorate the “Santa Claus Bank Heist” up in Cisco……………
31 Shannon
We only have 10 years left to get the money raised and the sculpture made and installed for the Rebecca Bradley Rogers centennial celebration of the Great Buda Bank Robbery and Round Rock Bonfire.
I think we should change the mascot from the Longhorns to the Bandit Flappers.
26 Shannon
Damned fine story. We should raise the money to have a lifesize sculpture of Rebecca Bradley Rogers installed in front of the Bullock Museum in Austin.
According to the Financial Times, 19May edition, Microsoft sold Nokia to Foxconn for $350 million. Microsoft bought Nokia in 2014 for 5.4 BILLION euros.
Ouch!
Nope, not gonna go there.
A guy live tweets his Diversity Training.
There just weren’t any openings at the Chicken Ranch.
https://myrahmcilvain.com/2016/05/06/flapper-bandit-2/
From TSRA; An Ode to the .30-06 Springfield. In my opinion, the ’06 represents one of the best balances of accuracy, velocity and manageable recoil in the history of firearms. While the .30-30 holds the mythical claim to fame of having killed more whitetails than any other cartridge, I think the .30-’06 has killed more game across the globe than… Read more »
When will enough really be enough??
Get the tissues out!
IF only it were true. . . Babs Boxer claims that she was in fear for her life from Bern-Outs at the Nevada Convention. “It was a scary situation,” said Boxer, a Clinton supporter. “It was frightening. I was on the stage. [COMMON] People were six feet away from me. If I didn’t have a lot of security, I don’t… Read more »
When the feds try to dictate what we eat, and those dictates are constantly “evolving”, it becomes self evident that we are in need of a revolution.
I just discovered that TruthRevolt.ORG has a daily dose of James Woods’ tweets.
Found this one:
Hoping this guy had lots of
cloneskids.#11 TP: I wonder if that ICE guy should stay out of Ft Marcy Park and/or dramatically increase his life insurance? He basically dropped JugEars in the grease with his testimony.
#14 TT: I had to take a picture first, THEN I sat on them after looking all through the 900 sq ft house while making lots of noise:>)
I used to hide in the bath tub with the shower curtain pulled just a foot or so from the wall; they never found me.
No guts and no glory.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/the_army_wont_try_bergdahl_on_obamas_watch.html
#12
I could see North Korea doing that, given the famine they’ve had there for years.
#8
Influenced by studies on gecko feet?
Bonecrusher
I’ll bet that was funny! Did you sit on the couch “accidentally”?
Yay, Senator Sessions.
Soylent Green?
The article says the claim is bogus, but we are talking about China here . . . .
Link for #9
I figured it was about people from New Jersey. But it was crocodiles.
Clever bunch. Micro-drones the size of a quarter. The banner story on Drudge.
re: O/C topic: Playing hide and go seek with my kids when they were sub six year old. One time they tried to hide under the sofa cushions :>)
#4 TexMo, How old is daughter now and how’s she doing? That must have been a rough time for you and your bride, I can’t imagine have a very young child in the hospital for an extended time. TCH, does perform miracles though.
Well it’s Flex Friday and I’m at work….. 🙁 Man it’s a ghost town here, dark in the lab, I had to hit the Green button to bring up the lights and they’ll only last for two hours before it has to be reset. We have umpteen tests backed up this summer and not enough qualified people to get them… Read more »
My oldest spent plenty of time as a patient at TCH because of her heart. For along time she had an NG tube for feeding and later a G-button for feeding. When she had the NG tube it initiated what the doctors called an over active gag reflex every time she was fed so my wife and I were intimately… Read more »
It is Friday… and I’m at work. :-(… but I get paid overtime 🙂
Good morning gang. No rain today, so outside I go. Not sure where to start, but I’ll know where to quit.
Judge Hanen’s order bench slapping the DOJ seems to be getting some play out there on the internet, so I’ll bring the linky forward for your reading pleasure”
https://www.scribd.com/doc/313205530/179125570172
TGIF! Didn’t think that we’d make it til Friday.
Mornin’ Gang