Freud, I need a diagnosis please

Am I the only person that doesn't really enjoy looking at photographs? And of course the ones that I might be in are totally off limits. But I really have this bizarre aversion to looking at photos. Honestly, I like my kids a lot but I see them everyday. I don't need to sit next to them looking at pictures of them. Even baby pictures. I was there.

And then there are home movies. I am like the scrooge of home movies. The kids beg and plead. Mom, Puleeeeze come and see how funny it is when we are throwing the ball, playing in the sand, picking our noses, well, you get the idea. They love it. They could sit and watch themselves for hours. And they do. I actually get uncomfortable when they are watching home movies. I have to move to another room.

So all of my 3 readers, what psychological problem do I have? Is it a phobia? Please, give it a name. I like to take pictures sometimes. And then post them here. I even enjoy doing the posts. But once I am done, I am done. I don't go back and look at old posts. I like looking at everyone Else's pictures and seeing what you are up to.

I am a strange person, I know.

This is really only the tip of the iceberg. I will probably not share the really bizarre stuff. My husband should have a blog and he could just tell my craziness. He could call it, "My psycho non pioneer wife."

Kinda catchy. Okay, not really at all. I am kind of a little giddy tonight. I spent way too much time outside tonight watching the kids kayak.

I will post pics soon.

Because I took lots of pictures. Why did I take lots of pictures? I have no idea, I will post 3 or 4 of them and delete the rest.

Summer Sassy Apron Is Fab

I recieved the YUMMIEST apron from Debbie at Studio Bee Creations. It is so fabulous. She also added in a vintage tea towel and a button made by her daughter. Are you jelous? You should be. I ahve been wearing it non stop. I took a nap today and when I got up Rachel had done the dishes (yea!) and made rice crispy treats that she had iced and they said DAD. ANd of course, she had on this apron! Do you want one? Debbie has them for sale at her ETSY shop. How much do I heart ETSY?? I HEART ETSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO go and visit her shop and get your own cutest apron in the world!

Pioneer Woman and Liberal Freaks

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Okay, when did we become strictly a republic? Voters in California voted NO to same sex marriage. But now a few LIBERAL FREAK judges decided that voters don't really get to make decisions?

It is a sad, sad day for our little democracy experiment here in the US. Sad because it seems to be a failed experiment.

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On a completely different note....

I know Marlboro Man's real name. I also know all about the history of his family in Oklahoma.

Google is a beautiful thing.

Or a wicked thing, depending on how you look at it.

I learned that his Great great grandfather was one of the first white men in Osage County right after the Civil War.

Okay, his family is a dynasty in the Cattle raising industry.


Anyway, his name is













Ladd Drummond














Here are some fun articles about her and Ladd. Haha I just said Ladd! Oh, I know the punks names. too. Ready?

Alex
Paige
Todd
Bryce

Here are the articles:
This one is funny
http://www.tulsaworld.com/common/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleID=070729_1_A1_hFour01672

This one is all about Ree
http://newsok.com/article/3184718/1198585644

Storytime

I've been meaning to tell you this thing that happened a few years ago.


Do you want to hear it?








So, my father in law had a flat tire a few years back. He was driving up the mountain to Spencer at the time. He got out to change it and decided that it would be wise to put a rock behind the back tire since he was on a pretty steep spot. It was dark, but the moon was out so he looked around and spotted a good size rock. It was kind of glowing white from the moon. You can probably picture how a whitish rock would look out under a big moon.


So he picked it up.



Here is when he discovered he had a small problem. See the rock turned out to not be a rock.



His fingers went right through it.





It was a dead and decaying opossum.



Yeah, there is my gross story for your Saturday night. Or Sunday morning to my friends on the other side of the Atlantic. Aren't you glad that you read this one through to the end?

Now go and do your thing. I will be back later.

Super Chicks

These are the leaders doing a little show for the girls at camp. The camp theme was "Superheroes". While much of our discussion was centered on how the girls could be like the superheroes in the scriptures, we did have some silly time. Here is a prime example. They called themselves the "Superchicks"

Tagged

Tenara tagged me and since I am really egocentric, I am excited to play along!!!!!



This is the SEVEN THINGS tag, so here goes:



1. I am really conservative. REALLY CONSERVATIVE!

2. I love pudding

3. I like opera

4. I think country music is straight from the mouth of SATAN

5. I am not afraid to say what I think. My husband says it is because I am a Yankee.

6. I have a secret fantasy life in which I am a mild mannered, middle aged Welsh woman who seems to be always solving mysterious murders of people in the small seaside village in which she lives.

7. If I had an attention span of longer than 5 minutes I would write a book about that mild mannered Welsh woman who seems to always be solving a murder mystery and it would be full of heinous run on sentences.


Now I am supposed to tag 7 people. Some people take offence and say they don't like tags. Here is what I have to say to you people. I DO NOT CARE! If you don't want to do a tag, just don't do it. don't whine about it! Sometimes I get tags and even awards and for whatever reason I am unable to do anything about it. Just relax and chill, it is just a blog, and just a tag....

Does everyone feel better now? Now I am going to pick 7 of you from my sidebar and if you are into yourself like I am and want an excuse to randomly talk about yourself, GO FOR IT.

1. FlowerLKD (my new young camp friend)
2. Haley (cause she has twins and one of them is named William Hale!!!)
3. Ben and Mandy (cause he used to live here)
4. Joanna (she is a Kiwi living in NH. Is Kiwi derogatory? )
5. Kim (she is pregnant!)
6. Sherry (she bragged on my girls on her blog!!)
7. Adrian. No, he doesn't have a blog but he has an awfully good time reading mine. And YOURS. So he can just leave his in the comments!

piano recital

Ella and Rachel had a piano recital last month. It was held in the sanctuary of the Methodist Church. Isn't Ella cute with her glasses?


Here is Lucy fixing Molly's hair while Molly chats with her best buddy R.

Fun Monday

Molly is hosting Fun Monday this week. I decided I had to play since I have a sweet Molly at my house and wanted to play with a grown up Molly for a change. The assignment this week is to tell a happy childhood memory.

HMMMM.... Why is it when someone asks you a specific question, your mind goes blank? I am sure that I sit and daydream about this kind of thing all the time and now that I am trying to think of something to write about it is like I slept through my childhood.

I can think of some goofy times and some boring things. I guess one interesting thing is when my dad would go to China. My dad used to go on buying trips twice a year. He would be there for 3 or 4 weeks.( I think. Sometimes childhood memories are a little hazy) He would always bring home the greatest stuff. Big silk kites shaped like dragons and butterflies, cloissenie jewelry and jewelry boxes. It all seemed so exciting and exotic when I was 5 years old. Little did I realize that when I was 15 I would actually be living in Hong Kong and the exotic would turn into the annoying!

I remember one time when I went to Boise and visited my grandparents. They had decided to buy a small ranch after they retired. I would pick raspberries and ride motorcycles. I also went several times and visited my ohter grandparents in California. When I was little they lived near Palm Springs and then later they moved down to Seal Beach. I remember that they had a waffle maker and we would make waffles for dinner. That was the bomb as far as I was concerned cause we didn't have a waffle maker at home. Yummy! I also always loved travelling alone. I like to just sit and chill and flying from Illinois to California was a nice time to do that.

From the time I was 7 until I was 14 I lived in a small town named Naperville. Now, probably some of you have heard of Naperville and would argue with my description of a small town. But trust me. in 1979, when we moved there, it was a small town. I used to ride my bike EVERYWHERE. My friends and I just did whatever, ride to the pool, go shopping downtown, the library, the river. It was great fun. Once we got a little older we would ride the train downtown to Chicago and treat Chicago the way we treated Naperville. Hanging out in record stores (remember records? Our favorite was Waxx Traxx. Maybe it just had one x, that looks a little weird) and goofing off in general. Yeah, I had goofing off down to a science.

Well anyway, go and visit the grown up Molly's site and see what all the other kids are doing!

Sewing is contagious

Ella decided that she wanted to make an apron for her teacher. She sent an e-mail to Mrs. L and asked her a bunch of favorites type of questions. Ella ended up with a list that included:

Color: Royal Blue
Animal: Dog
Collection: Boyd's Bears
Season: Fall
Hobbies: Sewing and cooking

So Ella decided that she wanted to incorporate as many of these elements into the apron as she could. At first she tried to embroider a dog, but we decided that this bear would look better. We found the bear on an online coloring sheet and then I minimized it on our scanner. Ella did an excellent job.


After she had embroidered the bear for the pocket she was ready to start sewing the apron. She picked a bear fabric that looked like some of Mrs. L's Boyd's Bears.

She decided to make a gathered half apron, since she likes the ones that I have. We used the pattern in Bend the Rules Sewing.
And she picked a blue fabric for the waistband and ties. It isn't exactly Royal Blue, kind of more of a chambray. It matches the bear fabric just perfect. Ella was very happy with the finished product.

Here is a closeup of the pocket.