Shenanigans!

Shenanigan

she·nan·i·gan
(plural she·nan·i·gans)

noun
Definition:

1. questionable act: something that is deceitful, underhanded, or otherwise questionable ( usually used in the plural )

2. trick or prank: a playful trick, mischievous prank, or other display of high spirits

[Mid-19th century]

I love that word....Shenanigans!

It just rolls off the tongue....and it sounds like what it means...mischief. How fun! I love trouble, well good mischief anyway....

My husband and I love shenanigans, especially if we're pulling shenanigans on the kids...and our kids were born suckers. Unfortunately they're getting smarter, they're onto us now. We have to plan bigger and better, and be very flexible. There used to be a time when a simple fabrication could bring a days worth of giggles to the King and I.....

Like the time they were whining during a particularly long car ride and we started telling them about their older "brother" Bruce.

"Bruce used to chew bubble gum."

"Oh yeah Bruce was a huge vikings fan."

"Man could Bruce catch fish! He was a born fisherman I tell ya..."

"Bruce used to whine in the car too, that's why we left him at that truck stop...."

and then from the backseat...."Heeeeeyyyy you guys made Bruce up, didn't you?"
They were answered with gales of laughter from the front seat but now they've caught on...

They're doing it back to us now, and they're getting really good at it. Really good.

My mother sent them fake dog doo for Christmas, so it's a safe guess that this is genetic. She was the Queen of Shenanigans when I was a kid and I learned well....

I think as she hands the torch (or dog doo) down to the next generation, I can safely say that they too have learned well.

A Wee One......pt.2

So I said I'd tell you how the day went on Friday. Here ya go.

It was a blast! I haven't had a baby around in forever and honestly just knowing that he was going home to his mom took all the pressure off so that he and I could just play and have fun. I had forgotten how sweet baby giggles are. And it turns out that my pup, Minot, is a big baby loving fool too!

So all in all it was a good day. Only one hitch, I forgot how to make formula......so I turned to the Ladies at MommyMatter.com for help and sure enough my question got answered within minutes....Gawd, I LOVE those girls!!

Hope you all enjoyed the pics of the cutie bebe!!

I can't think up a snappy title, so here we go....

Check it out, I've "done been got" again!! My new friend Melisa over at Suburban Scrawl has tagged me for this Meme.....

Here are the instructions and my answers:

A) Each player answers the questions about themselves.

B) At the end of the post, the player then tags 2 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 years ago:

*I was almost 7 months pregnant with my second son.
*My first born was 8 1/2 months old and driving me nuts.
*We were living in married student housing on campus.
*I was getting ready for a trip home (California) to see my mom and my best friend.
*We were living in Tennessee

5 Things that were on my “to-do” list for today:
(I'll use last week's list since today I don't have anything I 'have' to do)

*Do laundry
*Go to the UPS store
*clean syrup out of basement carpet
*buy new rugs and towels for guest bath
*boys to basketball practice
*organize my closet (again)

I Enjoy:

*Reading
*Walking the dog (but haven't much in a couple of months: too cold and icy outside!)
*Eating/cooking with my hubby
*Being at home
*Travel
*Me time (I don't get it very often if ever)
*Watching my kids play

What would I do if I suddenly became a MILLIONAIRE?:
(We've actually talked about this before)

*We would set up college funds and trusts for the kids
*We would pay off the house so we could buy our dream home.
*We would invest a lot.
*We would share some with our families.
*We would pay of our parents' cars and homes.

5 Jobs that I have had:

*Cocktail waitress
*Waitress
*Management at a trendy "jewelry" store in the mall
*Nanny
*Noon Supervisor (Recess Monitor)

5 Things People Don’t know about me:

*I give A LOT to charity.
*I've never "broken" any of my bones.
*Although I seem organized, it is mostly an illusion
*I am very friendly and likeable but don't have many casual friends.
*I love to collect dishes (right now it's Fiesta Ware).


Tagged: Judith and Maria ....Have fun girls!!

Some Blog Love for The Qween's Corgi

The Corgi Legend

By Anne Biddlecombe

Would you know where corgis came from?

How they came to live with mortals?

On the mountains of the Welsh-land in its green and pleasant valleys,

Lived the peasant folk of old times,

Lived our fathers and grandfathers;

And they toiled and laboured greatly with their cattle and their

Ploughing, that their women might have plenty.

And their children journeyed daily with the kine upon the mountain,

Seeing that they did not wander,

Did not come to any mischief,

While their fathers ploughed the valley and their mothers made the cheeses.

'Til one day they found two puppies

Found them playing in a hollow, playing like a pair of fox-cubs.

Burnished gold their coat and colour,

Shining like a piece of satin -

Short and straight and thick their fore-legs, and their heads like a fox's

But their eyes were kind and gentle;

Long of body these dwarf-dogs and without a tail behind them.

Now the children stayed all day there,

And they learned to love the dwarf-dogs, shared their bread and water with them, took them home with them even.

Made a cosy basket for them,

Made them welcome in the kitchen,

Made them welcome in the homestead.

When the men came home at sunset, saw them lying in the basket,

Heard the tale the children told them, how they found them on the mountain, found them playing in the hollow -

They were filled with joy and wonder and said it was a fairy present,

Was a present from the wee folk, for their fathers told a legend

How the fairies kept some dwarf-dogs.

Called them Corgis - Fairy heelers:

Made them work the fairy cattle,

Made them pull the fairy coaches,Made them steeds for fairy riders,

Made them fairy children's playmates;

Kept them hidden in the mountains,

Kept them hidden in the mountains shadow,

Lest the eye of mortal see one.

Now the Corgis grew and prospered,

And the fairies' life was in them, in the lightness of their movement,

In the quickness of their turning,

In their badness and their goodness.

And they learnt to work for mortals,

Learnt to love their mortal masters,

Learnt to work their masters' cattle,

Learnt to play with mortal children.

Now in every vale and hamlet, in the valleys and the mountains,

From the little town of Tenby, by the Port of Milford Haven,

To St. David's Head and Fishguard, in the valley of the Cleddau,

On the mountains of Preselly,

Lives the Pembrokeshire Welsh Corgi,

Lives the Corgi with his master.

Should you doubt this ancient story,

Laugh and scoff and call it nonsense, look and see the saddle markings

where the fairy warriors rode them

(As they ride them still at midnight, on Midsummer's Eve at midnight,

When the mortals are all sleeping! )

This Monkey's Gone To Heaven......

I've realized recently that I am becoming my mother. This realization is not due to "sounding" like her or suddenly looking in the mirror and seeing that I look like her. I was driving home from grocery shopping (alone....WHOO!!) the other day listening to my mp3 player and one of my favorite Pixies songs came on...... I blasted the radio and sang at the top of my lungs.

As I was wailing away in my car I realized that all of my absolute favorite songs are from the 80s and 90s......much like my ma's favorites are from the late 60s, 70s and early 80s.

OMG, I am my mother....version 2.0.

Now don't get me wrong I love new music and do own a lot of it but my "singing in the car at the top of my lungs" music is all from my pre-mommy days, which suddenly made me feel like my mother.

What's really funny is that as I get older I appreciate my mothers music more and more as well......I've even gone so far as to tell my hubby that until he could pop off the names of the 4 members of Led Zeppelin, I wasn't sure we could last another 11 years!!

Call me crazy but I guess I really don't mind "becoming" my mother......there are worse people I could become.

More Blog VD from Dame Judy....

How to Play:

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random - The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. Click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 - The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. Visit http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4.Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result.

Forgive my ineptitude with graphics please as I have yet to play enough to figure things out.....

I'm going to go ahead and tag Fiesty, Holly, and Roxy.

Thanks Judy....now if I could just find that cream.........

One for the Road.....

Though I am sure that there will be more. It seems I have caught yet another "hoopla" type infection (LOL) from my dear friend Judith Shakespeare and since it is Christmas themed I figure I better get it done with a quickness so......

'Da Rules:
1. List 12 random things about yourself that have to do with Christmas
2. Please refer to it as a ‘hoopla’ and not the dreaded ‘m’-word
3. You have to specifically tag people when you’re done. None of this “if you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged” stuff is allowed…then nobody ends up actually doing it. The number of people who you tag is really up to you — but the more, the merrier to get this ‘hoopla’ circulating through the Blog-o-sphere.
4. Please try and do it as quickly as possible. The Christmas season will be over before we know it.

Okay so now......

1. I enjoy a white Christmas. I was born in southern California and lived there for many years, when I was 6 I moved to Lake Tahoe and since then I just doesn't seem like Christmas if there isn't snow on the ground.

2. I hate to cook, but I love to bake.....Christmas is the prime baking season so it's MY time in the kitchen.

3. I only put half my decorations up evey year.

4. When I was a kid it was tradition in our house to dress up and have lots of guests over for Christmas Eve, now I usually just hang out with my small family. I miss the party.

5. I grew up a military brat, my dad would sometimes bring home a kid (airmen) or two who couldn't go home for Christmas. Those were some of the most memorable holidays because it truly put the "spirit of Christmas" into perspective.

6. I hate fruitcake.

7. Last Christmas I got a sewing machine and while I am eager to learn how to use it, I have not used it once yet.

8. This year we never got our outside lights put up.

9. I never put my tree up before the 1st of December and it is almost always down by the 2nd of January.

10. My youngest son has a Nutcracker collection that we display at Christmas.

11. I love the smell of a live tree but because my husband is allergic we have a fake, but I buy a real wreath every year.

12. I HAVE to have Peppermint Mocha flavored coffee for Christmas morning or else it's just not Christmas!!

....okay that's it....now I tag Jeanie, Jewels, and Beth.

A Qweenie just has to have a lap dog right??

He likes to barrel through the snow with his nose......