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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Lucky girl

Posted in Laughing
To understand this post you really have to have heard the way my MJ talks.  We live in Alabama (really hiding that one well with my sneaky screen name) and she talks like she's from Massachusetts.  She also loves Spongebob (the show, not the mountains of merchandise)- it's genetic; the whole family got that gene.  So her favorite expression of disappointment is, "Oh, toi-teh sauce!"  That "sauce" is pronounced just like my Cousin Trip says it when he talks like his Boston cousins.  Sort of like "soo-ess" but not like that. 

Anyhoo- to my point.  Last week we went to Walmart and Daddy took the children to the game room while I paid for the groceries.  He gladly let's them play all the free video games they want while I take my mini-vacation at the self-check-out.  When I got there MJ asked me if she could try for one of the Care Bear "figurines" in the quarter machine.  She's been sick so I gave in and put the quarters in and let her turn the knobs.  Lo and behold, out popped a plastic egg with a Care Bear in it.  She said, "I WON!!  I da wuckiest dorl in da woild!"  So stinking funny.

A few days later we were back and Keith enjoyed that scene so much that he coughed up another 50 cents for another go at the Care Bear game.  In went the quarters.  Round went the knobs.  Out came the bear.  "I'm still SO WUCKY!!" 

Today we went back.  What?  We needed, and I mean MEDICALLY needed lemons and garlic.  I couldn't resist.  We "played" it again and for the third time in a week she "won" a Care Bear.  What's really amazing is that all three are different.  I got to relive a piece of my childhood by looking up the bears' names on the internet.  Yes, she really is the "wuckiest dorl in da woild."  Or is that me??


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Friday, December 12, 2008 - Maybe She Is


Posted by HopefulHeart77
Maybe she is the luckiest girl in the world. I have never heard of winning three out of three in one of those machines! Reading your blog always brightens my day. It reminds me so much of when my adult ladies were little ladies. Sometime around the first of April, God willing, I will be having a newborn around again. No, I am not expecting, although I would really love to be. My sister is expecting. I live in Alabama too. It sure has been cold this year. I am not accustomed to that. Keep on enjoying those little ones. They will not be little forever. :)


***note from Lindsey- this is just a machine where you BUY a little care bear toy. It's not one of those claw machines :D She thinks she's really winning when all we're really doing is buying a toy for 50 cents.***

Edited by lindseyinal on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 09:01


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Preserving the Harvest 2008


~June 22nd~
*11 half-pints
honey-sweetened peach-strawberry jam
~June 27th~
*7 half-pints and 2 pints
honey-sweetened peach jam
~June 28th~
*24 home-grown chickens in the freezer
(7 whole, 17 cut up
plus feet and backs for stock!!)
~July 6th~
*8 pints and 14 half-pints
honey-sweetened peach jam
~July 16th~
*18 cups fresh green beans,
blanched and frozen (a gift from the boss)
*12 pounds ripe bananas,
cut into 1 inch chunks and frozen for smoothies
~July 22nd~
*32 ears home-grown corn
blanched and frozen in meal-sized packages
~July 27th~
*8 pints cream-style corn
(home grown)
~July~
about *8 cups blackberries
and *5 cups wild blueberries
from around our property,
in the freezer
~August 4th~
14 pints
4 half-pints
and 1 quart
hot and spicy tomato salsa
(that's 18 cups altogether)
~October29th~
13 quarts chunky applesauce
5 quart jars dried apple rings

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The Bible- currently in the books of Ezekial and 1 Corinithians

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Hobbit (on CD) by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Bondwoman's Tale by Hannah Crafts



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One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman

How To Be Good by Nick Hornby

The Book of Joby by Mark Ferrari

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

World Without End by Ken Follett

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (for the 12th time or so)


The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

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The Office

30 Rock

Doctor Who

Heroes

Eureka

Scrubs


2008 Crafty Stats


Yardage In:

13.5 yards

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3 yards

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$58.06

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