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Monthly Archives: March 2009

If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny

I was recently given the chance to read a very unique and entertaining book, If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny.  This is a book collection of tales from a Southern Mom, Lucy Adams, about life as a mom, wife, and overall community member that will make you laugh so hard, you’ll have tears in your eyes. I’m not sure I’ve ever laughed so hard while reading a book.

Want to read more about my feelings about If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny and enter for a  chance to win a hat from Lucy Adams?  Check out my Grand Opening post at A Novel Mind.

Oh And Another Thing – Cameron Update

Have you noticed the hidden spy camera commercials for restaurants? Cameron notices the camera in Ihop this morning and is convinced we’ll be on television so we are thinking, do we act super excited over our food?  It was fun!

I bought her a Build A Bear monkey in Austin – She hasn’t put it down. (yea mom for picking the right thinking of youg gift). It has gone in the car everywhere, on her 4 wheeler, watched her play in the yard – EVERYWHERE!

She’s decided she wants glasses thanks to mine and Becka’s eye appointments this morning so I have to keep her far from the eye doctor’s office for a while. LOL

An Online Break

Do you ever take 100% online breaks?  I took an unexpected one this week. It wasn’t meant to happen, but somehow it did, and I think it might have been just what the doctor ordered. I’ll pay now as I’ve made no progress on my to do list for Spring Break, but I really feel so much more energized and focused.

I left Sunday for Austin for the CX State Debate Meet with my students.  We ate at Red Lobster, and I was happy to get lobster.  I’d been craving it. And better yet I paid for it with a gift card I received from MyPoints.  We also spent a couple hours at the mall and it was fun to just unwind and relax with a fellow teacher for adult time.  :)  I checked in online briefly Sunday night, but I knew we had a long day ahead so I turned in early.

Monday the debate tournament at UT took from 8 that morning until 9 that night. We were exhausted!  We finished the night off at Chili’s where I had the worst Chili’s experience I’ve ever had (one of my top awful restaurant experiences ever).  When we got back to the hotel, the kids piled up in our room, and we played Uno. By the time we quit and sent them to their rooms, I couldn’t hold my eyes open – so no online time.

Tuesday we slept in a little and then went and played tourist.  I took the kids to the capital and such, and then they wanted to hit another mall.  This was Spring Break so we headed across Austin (thank you Garmin) and hit another mall.  It was much better than the one Sunday night so we spent more time there than we should.  It was after 4 when we left so I hit rush hour.  Ugh!  

I finally got home at 10 last night.  After visiting with Cameron a little because I missed her SOOOOO much, I went to bed again without checking in online.

This morning we met a new friend of mine and her mom at Ihop for breakfast. It was nice. Then Becka and I both had eye appointments.  It’s been a busy few days, and I’ve missed my online world, but I feel so much better than I have in weeks.  Hoping now to get lots of new content out and get some other blogs officially going.

Sunday Smile #19

Sunday Smile

Sunday Smile is a meme to share something about your week that brought a smile to your face (and will bring one to your readers). For me this is usually a forwarded message I got….the best one I received that week – the one that made me laugh out loud. So check out my Sunday Smile today and then go back to your blog and post something to make your reader’s smile – a forwarded like message, a story about something that happened to you, or even a photo of a funny moment….Then come back and sign Mr. Linky below so that we can all enjoy each other’s smiles as the week progresses and we get busy.

Those Mississippi Girls

Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties. The first man had married a Woman from Iowa and had told her that she was going to do dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple days, but on the third day he came home to a clean house and dishes washed and put away.

The second man had married a woman from Illinois . He had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking. The first day he didn’t see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done, and there was a huge dinner on the table.

The third man had married a girl from Mississippi . He told her that her duties were to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn’t see anything, and the second day he didn’t see anything, but by the third day some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, enough to fix himself a bite to eat and load the dishwasher.