for goodness snakes!

My son has been learning about debate in school. One of his recent tasks was to write a convincing letter to mom and dad convincing us the pros of getting him a snake for a pet. My son is a smart cookie though and knows that his mother is a tad bit freaked out by snakes. So he told the teacher "SNAKE was a bad word in his house" and could he instead try to debate with us the pros of getting another dog.---- boy do I love that kid!!
If you could see me you would see that I am smiling from ear to ear:)

chicks

We live in an old farmhouse that has been a labor of love. What our little farmhouse has been lacking though is the creatures that make it a farm. Well I am happy to say that this week we took a small step and got some baby chickens. I am so excited! I know nothing about raising chickens, so my nose has been buried in books learning all that I can. Right now the little peepers are in the house keeping warm, I love wakeing up to their little "peep,peeps"! Soon as they are strong and big enough we will move them outside. My husband and son are getting in some father son bonding over building the coup and you cant argue with that! I do think they have had about enough of me though, all week I have been going around the house sing "green acres" or yelling "I don't know nothing about raising chickens" (basically mocking the line from Gone with the wind "I don't know nothing about birthing no babies" ). Oh well, stay tuned for updates in our adventures in raising chickens!

The conversations of boys and Their Mom Troubles

This week by chance I had the fortunate experience of overhearing one of my sons conversations with a friend. It was by accident, my intention was not to eavesdrop but alas I had the joy of overhearing one of the funniest conversations..
This week my son had a concert at school, he had to arrive an hour early so I took him into school, I went to hug and kiss him goodbye in a room full of kids and he instantly got embarrassed. I left him, but realized I forgot to tell him where to meet me after the concert, I went to go back to the music room and I overheard him with his friend.
Friend: "Hey friend, you got 'MOM TROUBLES" dont you"
Son: "You said it dude"
Friend: "Boy, you don't have to tell me about mom troubles, I got the worst mom
troubles there ever was, my mom made me wear this tie"
Son: "Yikes!, mine is not that bad, I just think she loves to embarrass me"
Friend: "Yeah, I think they are all like that"

I still laugh about it it. "Live to embarrass him"! He just better wait until his next baseball gave, I'll give the boy "MOM TROUBLES".

"singing in the rain"

Its cold, damp and raining today, however My heart is warm and I'm smiling at watching my little one put on his fathers galoshes and raincoat to take the puppy out. There is something so wonderful and whimsical about seeing little ones in bright "sunshine" yellow raincoats on the grayest days. I'm channeling Gene Kelly and thinking about joining my little one and go "singing in the rain"

Wordless Wednesday

Holy Cannoli

Spring, Spring, Spring! Love spring, if I made a list separating my likes and dislikes of spring my likes would run on for pages and pages, but... there would be a few dislikes. Number 1 being ROAD CONSTRUCTION. Currently the road I live on is under going a 2 year road expansion thanks to the governments great stimulus Package. I am happy for the jobs it creates and the money/revenue it generates into the local economy, but good golly do I hate the tie up in traffic. Let me explain, I work locally and often between clients I use my home as an office, so I am in and out all day long. I travel anywhere from 50-100 miles a day. So when I approach a construction site and the flagger turns that slow sign to a STOP, I cringe thinking about the precious time. I have for the last month thought there was a conspiracy (yes I know that make me sound like I have a big ego), that every time they see my vehicle approach they get a good laugh at making me stop. I stop and I wait, and I wait and I wait. If the flagger was a lip reader I'm sure he/she would not be impressed with what I am saying in the privacy of my car. This week the construction tripled with three different work sites set up along the road. I would get through one ,and was convinced that the flagger I had just left called the one a mile down the road to alert "she is coming turn the sign to stop". Sometimes I have to laugh at my paranoia, Im sure its all coincidence that every time my kia approaches they make me stop, but yesterday as a good faith gesture I tried my hand at bribery...
A busy day in store, schedule tight, I approached the first site and bam.. the dreaded flagger Stops me. I laugh thinking "oh yeah this is how its going to be", then I look over at the seat next to me, ah a box of cannolis. Thats when I did it, in good humor, I rolled down the window and offered my "enemy" (the flagger) a cannoli, surprised and impressed he took the bait, but alas the sign stayed on stop, and every time that day I approached it turned to ... STOP. So the lesson of the story is "Don't waste a good cannoli on bribing construction flaggers" :(

almost spring!

This weekend has been a perfect weekend! We got a small sampling of whats to come with spring. Everyone has spring fever including my old lazy dog Oreo who has traded in her warm seat next to the wood stove for sunbathing in the warm sun. The TV has been left off, traded in for bike riding and tossing the baseball back and forth in the backyard. Winter coats and boots remain in the hall traded in for fleece hoodies and sneakers. My husband is even considering firing up the grill, I believe burgers are on the menu. Next week we spring ahead and I cant wait!