Girl parties are tricky...

Today Carson went to a girl birthday party. For the record, he only agreed to go because it was at a gymnastics studio and he knew that there would be trampoline time and time to swing on a rope into a huge pit of giant foam blocks. The girl in question is a nice little girl who adores Carson and therein lies the problem - he does not adore being adored. One day that will be funny.
Anywho - I bought the present, card and wrapping on my own since Carson could not be bothered to look at boring girl stuff. I picked out a nice present and a nice little card that said something about a sweet girl having a great birthday. The "incident" happened as the birthday girl was opening her presents. They had all the kids in a semi-circle around her and she decided to read each card out loud before opening the presents. All the parents were standing behind the kids watching as the room got quiet so they could all hear who the present was from and what the card said. When she got to Carson's present, she read the card about a sweet girl having a great birthday, at which point, Carson turned to me and yelled "What kind of card did you BUY?!?!?!"
All the parents burst into laughter as I tried to reassure him that it was just a nice card and that there wasn't anything weird in it - his ears were so red and he was truly upset with me for that card. I was trying not to laugh but I couldn't help it and he yelled, "I DO NOT think she is sweet!" One day he will see how funny this was - but for now, I've learned my lesson and from this point on, all girl's birthday cards will simply say Happy Birthday and nothing more! Seeing as how there were lots of girls at this party who witnessed this -- I may never have to buy another girl's birthday card anyway. That boy just cracks me up!

We have PROPER ducks!!

That is what I woke to this morning... two very excited little guys hopping up and down and gleefully yelling that I had to come look at the ducks in our swimming pool. Apparently, a lovely pair of wild mallards had decided to take a little vacation in our pool and the boys were thrilled. There they were, just swimming about, happy as you please while our 140 lb dog laid in the yard and watched. He's getting older and I guess the thrill is gone from chasing stuff that shouldn't be in the yard. Carson, who can always be counted on to find the wonder in the smallest things, proudly told me that these weren't just any ducks, they were PROPER ducks because they used the steps to get out of the pool instead of just flying. And lo and behold, while he was telling me that - they did use the steps to get out to his delight. They hung around long enough to keep them entertained for a couple of hours and then they were on their way again. I hope they come back - its amazing how happy a couple of random ducks can make a couple of random boys!

My Sweet Boys of JOY!

Well, here it is!

I cannot believe that I let my sister talk me into this. Ok, she didn't so much TALK me into it as much as she just went on and on about her own blog and how great it is and how much everyone was enjoying it and THEN she stopped telling me things about her life on purpose so that when I heard them from someone else she could say "Well, if you read my blog you would know that". So I guess in a way this is kind of a grudge thing. I can't let her have a whole world that I know nothing about so here I am just plunging in. Let's just get a couple of things out of the way right now: 1) I am really, really, really busy so I may not be too regular about the posting. 2) Any post that I manage to get done will very likely not be interesting in any way to the great majority of the world so you have been warned. 3) I like to talk in really long run-on sentences that use a lot of descriptive words and adjectives and sometimes I don't always use punctuation -- it's how I talk and how I type. If that is going to bother you, erase the link to my blog now or our friendship won't survive. 4) if you are my friend or my family, you will more than likely show up here from time to time. You all know what your relationship is with me and therefore I don't think I should have to get signed release forms from you. Again, if this bothers you, delete the link now.
I hope that in some way this gets me closer to some of you... I have a lot on my plate and I dont always have the time to call everyone and check in -- even though I would like to. Please feel free to leave comments or suggestions but don't get your feelings hurt if I ignore them. I've never had a blog before and I want to try it my way first -so let's just agree to ride along together for a while and see where this takes us. If I get us lost, you can take over.