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Yes, this is the stray cat Moose found in our shed about 9 months ago. He is the most sweet, funny, purr-y, and most handsome cat ever. Every morning when I let him in from the garage, he stretches up my leg for me to pick him up like a toddler. That cat LOVES me even though I’ve accidentally run him over with my van AND squished him under the garage door. Thank goodness cats have nine lives. Doesn’t he look just like a little baby tiger?! Oooh, I want to just eat him up! Oh, and the little boy is cute too! HA
This morning I was making the kids eggs and toast before school and as I cracked the second egg into the pan, only whites came out of the shell. There was no yolk. Seriously. Not even a small one. Not even a speck of a yolk. I should have taken a picture, because I doubt I’ll ever see anything like it again. I tried to google it, but I didn’t find anything. Has anyone heard of this before? Weird! And creepy! It didn’t stop Luke from eating though.
Funny: We heard the song “Escape”, better known as “The Pina Colada Song” on the radio. The part that goes, “If you like pina coladas, gettin’ caught in the rain…” is a completely different song to a 6 year old. Since I suppose Luke wouldn’t know what a pina colada is, this is how he sings it, “If you like meat enchiladas, gettin’ caught in the rain...”
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I’m not even going to TRY to update you, I’ll just start over. Surprisingly, it takes a lot of time and energy to keep a blog up to date.
First of all, you need to have something to say that might be of interest to someone else in the world. I could write about anything (perhaps staplers or maybe even bra straps) and there would probably be at least be one person on earth who would get it. However, I like to write about things that many people would enjoy and perhaps get a good chuckle out of.
Which brings me to my second point. Pictures. Isn’t it nice to look at great pictures? I can’t say I always take great pictures, but I do enjoy the structure, color and dynamics of a well-taken photo and I enjoy posting them for all to see when I have one to share.
The third thing is time. Not only do you need to have something somewhat-interesting to say and maybe a picture or two to back up your story, but you also need the time to implement these two things. Not only that, but I personally need structure-time in my head as to how I’ll put the two together, as well as the actual sitting-down time to get it on the blog.
Which brings me to the second point of time. Whenever I sit down to post on my blog, I end up doing a thousand other things online and it ends up taking 3 hours of my time just being on the computer. You know what I’m talking about, I know you do.
The other reason I haven’t posted is that my memory card reader in my computer hasn’t been working and I’ve been way too lazy and cheap to unplug the whole thing and drive 30 minutes to take it to the repair shop. What a pain! I put it off for months and months until I was on a deadline to get my Christmas cards done (and I wanted the kind with the pictures on them) and I needed to upload pictures to Snapfish (the place I planned on getting them done). Although instead of taking my computer in to get fixed, I took some online tutorials and fixed it myself. I KNOW, I’m a total genius!
So I fixed my memory card reader, uploaded my pictures, made my Christmas cards, placed the order, received my cards in the mail, showed them to Eric, my mother-in-law, and the kids and now I can’t find them. Anywhere. I’ve had them for one week and they’re lost forever. I’ve cleaned out a closet, my office, and kitchen drawers. I’ve looked in the van, the kids rooms, under the couch, etc. This is the first time I’ve ever made those picture-type cards and what do I promptly do? I go and lose them. Who does that?! Goodbye $14.95 and my pride and glory! So if you are a friend or a family member reading this right now, consider this your Christmas card with good intentions.
This is the part where I upload a picture for your viewing pleasure. Of course it won’t be related to anything I’ve talked about today since I’ve only been rambling endlessly, but enjoy anyway.
Here are the kids in their Halloween costumes this year. I made them into a Happy Meal, hahaha! Do you want a coke with that?
Here’s some stuff to get you up to speed over the last few weeks. I’ll have to do a separate Christmas post. At the rate I’m going, that will probably happen sometime in July.
Look at this adorable purse my grandma made me! I LOVE this thing. I hear it was a real pain in the chicken neck (haha!) to make and she’ll probably never make another one. She made a smaller version for Emily. Look at the detail on this thing; the comb, wattle and tail are so blanking cute! Do you see where I get my craftiness from? Do you see?
Here is Eric’s latest finished project. I’ve been asking for a place to put my ugly trash can for ages. He’s not only handsome, but he’s also handy! (Eric, that is) He even tiled the top; isn’t it perdy?
Luke and Peanut Butter (the kitten): These two really love each other. Luke says he wants to be a cat because they don’t have to do any chores and they get loved up all day. (only if it’s our cat!) Here are the two lovebirds:
That’s it for now, I have more pictures coming!
To my Housewife ladies, here is one of the many cupcake bouquets I did last year for Mother’s Day. Yes, these are real cupcakes. 
Click on the picture for a bigger view.
I bet you thought I was going to talk about Luke, ha! No, no, I’m talking about one of my baby chickens, of course! Apparently, I’m a cross-breeding chicken wizard; I think I just made up my own chicken cross. In case you are not wise to the chicken world, there are tons of different breeds of chickens. I have Silver Dorkings, Top Hats, Easter Eggers, a couple other breeds that I’m forgetting right now, and of course, our lovely Princess the Naked Neck.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Princess is a new mother as of Thanksgiving Day (only she doesn’t know it because another hen hatched out the chicks and then I proceeded to steal them because she wasn’t being a good mother; that’s what she gets.) Anyhoo, I’ll post the picture of Princess, then the picture of the baby-daddy and then Little Prince. By the way, we have about 5 roosters, so I didn’t know who the baby-daddy was until last week and now it’s undeniable. So if he tries to deny his paternity, we have the proof in these pictures. Princess is a Naked Neck and the baby-daddy is a Polish Top Hat (these aren’t my Top Hats, I found the picture on a chicken website-they run like roadrunners, so it’s hard to get a decent picture). So I’m wondering what we call our new breed…Naked Top Hat? In case you’re wondering, Yes, I have this chick wrapped in a blanket on the couch in the living room. Usually, I carry them around the house in my fleece jacket pockets. What? Is that weird?
Poor Emily
Last night Emily made up a game for her and Luke to play before bed. It’s set up like a cake walk–you walk around in a circle stepping on a sheet of paper with a number on it. Someone plays and stops the music and then draws a number to see if anyone landed on that number. She also set up a little toy box for the winner to choose a prize. So Emily said they would play four times before they had to take a bath and get ready for bed. Luke won all four times. She was a little disappointed, but wanted to have a race to see who could get their pajamas on the fastest after their bath. So they’re in the tub and I hear, “Ready, Set, GO!” Well, Luke is a little on the competitive side, so he got his pajamas on in record time and I followed him into Emily’s room. Emily was crying her eyes out saying “I can’t get my big socks (tights) on! My legs are all wet!” Why she wanted to wear tights to bed, I do not know.
Poor Emily, she went through all that work and didn’t win a thing. It was funny though.
Today I went to Emily’s school for some gingerbread house decorating. It was fun. Emily is little miss creative; the mom at the table next to us asked me if Emily has decorated gingerbread houses before. She made a little cobblestone sidewalk and a roof made of Smarties that was super-cute! Every house was different and unique, with everyone having a good time. The house has since been dismantled piece by piece from four grubby and sticky little hands.
The strangest thing has been going on around here. Our CATS have been sleeping under the heat lamp with the baby CHICKS in our garage! Don’t the cats know they have four really good meals that would be no work at all hunting/catching-wise? Here are two of the goofballs, Lilo is the gray cat in the no-so-great picture, and Peanut Butter The New Kitty is looking nice and cozy. My how those chicks have grown, huh?
And lastly, this is a picture of a tree in our backyard from the other day. It was a Winter Wonderland indeed! I took the picture through a dirty window, so don’t look too closely!
Is anyone getting tired of reading about soap yet? Sorry if I’m boring you! I’m having such a fun time experimenting and people seem to really like it, so I guess I’ll keep doing it.
Yesterday I made Orange Spice and it is really lovely. I know I say that about all my soap, but I really mean it this time! Actually, I made a Wild Strawberry soap that smells exactly like playdough. I can’t really bring myself to wash with it, but maybe it would be a good one for kids, haha!
This batch has coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, castor oil, apricot kernel oil, freshly ground orange peel, ground cinnamon and cloves and sweet orange essential oil. It’s a perfect scent for the holidays. It reminds me of those clove-studded oranges.
Here’s the soap all dressed up:
