Close Call
The Husband is fine! Really! He is talking to me! —but he was in a car wreck this morning, so we are off on a whirlwind of doctor’s visits and insurance calls so that is why we are out of touch. The little old lady in her plastic rain hat that could barely see over the steering wheel? She is okay too. Little work car we just spent 2 grand fixing? Not so much. The Husband just told me that all that was wrong with her truck was that her turn signal did not work. Maybe we need to get a work truck instead.
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See over there on the right hand side where it says Read it or Rant? That, my darlings, is the online book club you requested. If you have read any of the Twilight series, or want to read them and do not care about spoilers, you should just head right on over there and let me know what you think. The comments on that page will be open for quite awhile, so go start reading if you need to.
Filed under Read it or Rant | Comment (0)The Magic 2008 Ball, pee on everything, and the worst segue ever.
TheHuckablog was one year old yesterday. I did not start telling people about it until around the end of February, but have been writing it for a year now. I keep a file filled with ideas for posts on my laptop. It seems to be a black hole because I never seem to write anything from those ideas; maybe I should change the title of the folder to something I might open on a regular basis, like “How to take a shower when you have a two year old boy who insists on trying to injure himself or others when left unsupervised for more than 20 seconds,” or something similar. Anyway, in the folder which is now titled, “Ideas for Huckablog” there is a partially written post called, “The Magic 2008 Ball”. I was going to come up with some questions for what was going to happen in 2008 and use an Eight Ball to predict the future. It was going to be cute, and easy, and fun to follow up whether the ball had any right answers. I never did it. I got busy, I needed to write about other things, I never found the pictures I wanted to go along with the post, and then it just seemed weird to write about 2008 predictions in August.
I deleted the post from the folder today. Just in case you were wondering, none of the predictions were right (Hillary Clinton is not the president elect for example.)
I am sorry I have not bothered to write a real post in weeks. I have had a nice vacation and have been spending time traveling and with family and friends I rarely get to see, and while I am sad to see how low my hits dropped this month, I think I needed a little blog break.
I got to see CAT long enough to hug her and talk about The Office, I had a cheese pizza with Ang long enough for The Son to insure she may choose to never have children, and Shoeshe came to stay for a few days. While Shoeshe was here we took my teenage cousin and The Son to the best, cheesiest amusement park on earth where The Son rode a roller coaster which my BiL will not even ride, and I got nauseous on the teacups we had to ride twice (pictures to follow). She also stymied my panic attack in a laundromat at two AM as we washed bathmats and kitchen rugs that my OMFG why will you not just pee outside you whacked out little mutt new dog seems to have confused as her own personal lavatory. Shoeshe never even complained. Not even when I told her she could wash her feather pillow. Ooops.
We got to see all of our grandparents, some for longer than others, The Husband’s cousin from Texas whom we love and who I envy because she can wear boots without looking ridiculous, another cousin with a baby almost as cute as mine. We saw Gabs, my cousin who lives with my Ma (my grandma, her Great-Grandma), who is ENGAGED, which makes me feel really old because I was old enough to be holding her when her umbilical stump fell off (I screamed and handed her back to her mother.) We spent another great weekend at the elder (but not old) Huckablog’s Scenic Compound where I laid in the hammock even though it was 40 degrees outside. I am glad I did it then, because I may never be invited back because my OMFG why will you not just pee outside you whacked out little mutt new dog chose to pee on MMiL’s feather bed. All in all it has been a bad season for feather linens.
So that, in a nutshell, is what we have been up to around here, plus you know, like parenting and stuff. New Years resolution! Not to say like and stuff so much! Hey, how about some New Years’ resolutions? (did you like my segue?)
Here are my 2009 resolutions for TheHuckablog.
1. Add a pictures page. I have tons of pictures I would like to share, but cannot always come up with time to write about them. To relieve the stress, and make relatives happy, I will just post directly to a separate page and people who want to look at twelve pictures of The Son eating spaghettios can, while other’s can ignore them.
2. Add a book club page which other people write. Some of you miss the Read it or Rants, others want to start a book club, I want to read what other people think about books other than Thomas, the Tank Engine. First book for the book club is really a series. Twilight. I know, I know, that is so 2008. CAT told me not to waste my time, MMiL thought it was okay, others think it is the BEST.BOOK.EVAH!
3. Finally get around to doing what it takes to have ads. By someone other than an EVIL CORPORATION THAT I AM PRETTY SURE SLAUGHTERS KITTENS AND PROBABLY HATES THE SIMPSONS.
4. Do the leg work to have some cool give aways. Did you know lots of blogs get cool free stuff to give away? I want to do that!
5. Write a post at least every other day…unless I need a vacation…or want to read instead…or have time for a toddler free shower.
Happy 2009 everyone.
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Merry Christmas Internet! I hope you have a safe and wonderful Christmas, a peaceful and joyous New Year, and may your comment sections be plentiful.
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Hey Guys, guess what?! My blog is easier to use than mailing out invitations! I figure if you are not reading my blog then we don’t really want you there anyway. Just kidding. Not really. Maybe.
I know everyone is frantically trying to finish buying/wrapping/baking/traveling/stressing for Christmas, but New Year’s Eve is just around the corner. The Husband and I were thinking since so many of our friends have little kids, or are pregnant, or like to sit around more than go out to dance, we would have a very low-key New Year’s party(ish).
We are thinking DVDs on our notsohotbuttotallyworks TV, and pizza for the adults, and a pajama party for the kids. I will just lay out sleeping bags and pillows, or whatever else the kiddos need in The Son’s room, and hopefully they will sleep, and the grown-ups don’t have to worry about finding babysitters. Just in case some children (mine) will not sleep, the movies will fall somewhere in between Finding Nemo and Pulp Fiction.
We will provide cokes and whatnot, maybe everyone could chip in a couple of bucks so we do not have to eat Little Caesars craptastic pizza, and if you want some alcohol-BYOA. 8:30ish to 12:05 AM, feel free to wear your jammies.
Is that low key enough for everybody? Are we all getting old and boring, or is it just The Husband and I? Hope to see you then, let me know if you are coming, and most of all Merry Christmas!
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Shoeshe has been doing a series of bizarre Nativity scenes over at her blog, and I wanted to throw some that I like, not this, into the mix.
For the last few years I have been collecting Fontanini nativity pieces. I know it looks a little funny now, but in a few years this will be gorgeous. I have my fingers crossed that Santa is going to put a shepherd in my stocking this year. In case you were wondering where baby Jesus is, he does not appear until Christmas morning.
The Fontanini is very appealing to The Son, he kept pushing a chair over to the china cabinet and climbing up so he could play with “Baby Jesus Mama and Daddy!” To curtail this, I found this Fisher Price Little People set at Wal-Mart, if you push the angel it plays “Away in a Manger”. It my be inaccurate and cheesy, but he loves it, it has gotten him to talk about Jesus, and he has been leaving my Fontanini alone. Win-Win-Win.
Speaking of inaccurate Nativities, here is our church’s children’s Christmas Program. The Son started to cry when he realized I was not in the entryway of the church with him right before he was to walk in. He came straight to me, and sat in my lap refusing to sit with the other wise men. At the very end he grabbed the microphone to sing the last song, “Joy to the World.” In other words, here are some cute children, but the only part that has The Son in it is that flash of red cape and silver crown in the beginning, the edge of him holding the microphone at the almost end, and me carrying him out at the very end. We will try again next year. Also watch for the antics the microphone caused. Can you tell we did not rehearse with it?
Filed under faith | Comments (8)Explanation about the TV thing
I mentioned in a totally unrelated post that we do not have TV over on CAT’s blog. Let me clarify. We do have a TV, two of them in fact. What we do not have is cable or a dish or whatever else you have that lets you watch more than two channels. Sometimes we get three! On a clear day we can even get four! It works for the news and the occasional Scrubs rerun and that is about it.
We gave up cable for Lent almost two years ago, and could never justify turning it back on. We stuck pretty hard to the AAP recommended rule that children under two should watch NO TELEVISION whatsoever, although we did loosen up some over the summer. Not having cable just makes it easier not to cave to the temptation of plopping him down in front of Nick Jr., which would be so much easier a lot of days. I just do not have that much self-control I guess, it is better just to not have the option. Now he usually watches one DVD a day, lately it has been Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.
I also liked really bad TV. Like VH1 reality TV bad. After a particularly good Sunday School series about you are what you watch….again, it is better just not having the option.
We read more, play games together more, play one on one with The Son, read our favorite blogs more, and watch just our very favorite shows on the Internet (The Office, Big Bang Theory, Lost, Dirty Jobs). We also save a TON of money, really a lot. It is one of the reasons that I am able to be at home with The Son instead of at work. So there ya go, in this age of TiVo, we have rabbit ears that rarely work. We may be freaks but it works for us.
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