Jean’s blog

Well, the boys are almost three now, and have developed the dreaded 'Sonic Scream.' You know the one, when they hit that note that can not only make your ears bleed, but can peel paint. Of course, having older children, I've had experience with said screech, but never imagined how truly disabling  it could be when in stereo...  

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Just a quick picture of Pop reading "Hop on Pop" by Dr. Seuss! Couldn't help it, it was just too cute NOT to post!

I think it's official, I need an intervention. I mean who wouldn't be drawn in by the allure of free stuff, the promise of keeping things out of landfills, and the sense of helping your community? I think the eye opener for me was when I went to pick up a Halloween costume for my honey this past Saturday. Sure, he'll be able to use it this coming Halloween, but seriously that's months away, and where am I going to put it until then? I just gave away two and a half bags of just my clothing on Friday, and immediately started looking for other things to list. Even my children have been terrorized of late by a wild eyed banshee instructing them to clean their rooms and put anything they no longer want in the Freecycle pile. I'm so isane I've even offered to help my neighbors list items to give away... Sigh, I think I'll turn to my old freind chocolate for solace.

Okay, it wasn't my first car per se, but it was my first car that was only mine. After I divorced I was selling cars, (yeah I know, but I really needed the paycheck,) and someone traded in an older Jeep Cherokee. Because I was working there it was only $500 over cost, which turned out to be something could afford. I must say, I truly loved that car and did most of the maintenance myself. I ended up giving it to my mother and buying another when her car broke down. I still miss that car. Sigh. Now I'm part of the minivan brigade...

While looking through my pics on my computer, I happened upon these... It's been a couple years, but Logan spotted this while we were on the highway heading for an errand. Luckily I was exiting the turnpike anyway, so we went looking for it to see it up close. It was pretty neat, and not something you see everyday.

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Well I was tagged by Stevie so here goes...

The rules:

1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
   
2. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
   
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
   
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them they’ve been tagged, and to come back and read your blog for the whole story.

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1. My favorite color is royal blue

2. I desperately want to take my kids back to Disney World

3. I still have problems thinking of myself as a 'grown up'

4. Everyone of my five kids seems to have a different favorite color

5. I'm a compulsive hot tea drinker

6. One day last week I didn't get out of my pj's, even to pick up my kids, and noone noticed

7. I love to create, sew, knit, crochet, cook, anything, but don't have the time I'd like to do that

8. I miss Bit-O-Honey candy. I'm having trouble finding it, especially fresh ones

Well, everyone on my list has already been tagged... So I guess the buck stops here!

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Today was just wonderful! You should have seen the clan... Blinking myopically as we emerged from our winter dwelling. It's around 75 degrees right now so it was the perfect day to parade down to the park, well everyone except Logan, and fly a kite. (Yes that's our kite!) We even stopped on the way and grabbed some neighbor kids to go with us. The kids got to fly the kite, climb trees, and basically run off some steam. Man I love this time of year!

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All right so here's the scoop. Yesterday my daughter and I went to the local Veteran's Museum as her class was receiving an academic award from Best Buy. They had done a rather large project on WWII survivors here in our home state. As we were there having donuts and juice one of the other parents, noting I had a camera, asked me if I could please photograph this gentleman and send him the photos. After just a few moments I found out he was the only remaining survivor of the USS Indianapolis here in Colorado. I was floored. What do you say to someone like that? Me, the person in the room that's usually told to be quiet, was at a loss for words. I guess he was a part of the recent documentary on the Discovery channel, but I'm not sure in what capacity. I do know he's lined up to speak at my kids' school, so hopefully I can think of some intelligent questions between now and then.

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Well, Frank's B-day was yesterday and we crammed so much stuff into our day! He had school of course, and then he had to get as much last minute piano practice as he could. At about fiveish Kev took him across town for his first piano competition as the rest of the troops and I frantically decorated and hid all of Frank's presents. (For those that don't know we like to hide everyone's presents on their birthdays and give them clues as to where to find them. It's a lot of fun and draws out the whole gift thing because we tend to hide the clues to the next present inside the wrappings of the previous!) Even the twins helped put up some decorations. As soon as the guys returned from the competition we went to Souper Salad for dinner, (embarrased him publicly by singing Happy Birthday loudly and off key!) and finally came home to do the present hunt. All of this was followed by dark chocolate cake with triple chocolate chunk frosting, (yum!) I actually got pictures of him smiling and having fun with it all, (even though parents aren't cool at this stage of the game...) :-)