Apr 21 2008
Coming (this week) to a Monitor Near You!
Hell y’all.
- I have a post to write that is the most serious writing you’ll ever get from me about me (once I get my pictures edited).
- I have a book review to write for my friend Goddess (I want to re-read the book first, so I can really do it justice).
- I have to pack for yet another trip to Chicago tomorrow - a trip where I get to meet her and go to his retirement party (I also have to go shopping first, and I’m not thrilled about that because it’s not for anything fun - it’s tied to the first bullet in this list.).
- 24 delayed moving in until tomorrow. I hope, with the three of them here alone all week, that I have a house to come back to on Friday.
But first, I want to show you something:
January 1, 2008:
April 21, 2008:
Isn’t that beautiful?
And how about this?
and this:
and
So, so pretty. And it’s nice and warm!
And then, I wanted to tell you that even moms of teenagers have poop stories (and I’m so apologizing in advance).
I listened, as Shortman (who ‘fessed up on Friday that he has never, ever, ‘went number 2′ at school - he’s in 11th.freakin’.grade!) plunged the toilet AGAIN today after he got home from school.
I asked, when he walked by, “Hey, why do you have to plunge the toilet every day?”
He came into my office and sat down next to me. “Mom, I don’t know how to tell you this, so I’m just going to pretend I’m a doctor and say it.”
I DREADED what was coming next.
“When I poop…”
And that was as far as we got without laughing hysterically.
—- Neither one of us has matured past third grade poop jokes. —-
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Remember when you told me that I couldn’t ever stay over? How about just in that little red shed in the back? If I burn it up, it’ll be confined and it’s raining here still and my house flooded and I don’t have any giiiiinnnnn (insert lucy ricardo wail here).
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Awww, I think we’re done with tulips and daffodils here! And you’re just getting started!
barbra’s last blog post..while reading blogs today…
I’m very intrigued by your serious post.
Have a good time in Chicago!
witchypoo’s last blog post..Free Stuff!
I am SOOOOOOO GLAD it’s Spring Time! And your yard IS beautiful!
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Those daffodils are gorgeous. Any idea what variety they are?
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Beautiful pics and a priceless conversation with your boy!
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You mean to tell me….. the potty humor DOESN’T go away as they grow older?
I mean, I don’t mind the odd potty joke (passing gas is pretty funny after all)… but really??!!
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HA! We haven’t matured past the poop jokes in my family either. In fact, poop is a fairly regular topic of conversation between my dad and I.
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A serious post? Uh-oh
Michael C’s last blog post..Wait Until They See What I Hid In My Fake Arm…
Well I, personally, can’t wait for these thing, specifically #2, to happen :).
I am so jealous of your snow picture! I miss snow! But only for a minute, then I enjoy our Spring/Summer weather!
We are a poop family. Granted, my kids are only 10 and 6, but the best yelps are: “Mama, I have a BLUE poop!” after the very rare instances of blue icies.
Enjoy those beautiful signs of rebirth :)…
Goddess in the Groove’s last blog post..Wordless Sunday
Love your images, winter and spring! The tulips make me homesick! You know why…
Hey, you need to buy a new, high-efficiency toilet! Then buy me a plane ticket and I’ll come up and install it for you; I do that kind of stuff down here quite often; yah, wax seals and the whole shabbang! We have clients dumping all kinds of things down there; you would be amazed at what we pull out of there! Of course, we don’t see what we punch through; and it’s probably just as well… When you get right down to it, it’s kind of a crappy job, but yah, someone has to do it. Stay safe in The Windy!
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What beautiful pictures. I love all of the green.
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Is it a baseball story? I can so relate.
You have great Daffys!!
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Tulips! My favourite. Apparently I should have started planting them now. Hmmm, wonder if the ones moulding in my fridge since LAST Autumn will be OK???
I am so not a gardener.
I am loving your yard! So uncluttered with trampolines, swings, toys, cubby house and general kid shit.
Sigh.
I long for the time…
Kelley’s last blog post..Do. Not. Want.
hee hee.
My little brother has a pooping problem where it gets REALLY HARD and won’t flush or plunge. Really. It was funny at first… but then when you’re plunging for 30 minutes and NOTHING IS MOVING, it just gets plain shitty. (hee hee)
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Hooray spring!! Those photos are gorgeous!
Laurel’s last blog post..Weekend Thoughts
I love the snow picture!!
Poop jokes are always funny!!
Bunny Bunster’s last blog post..SPANX for the mammories
LOL my “17″ has never done ANYTHING while at school… which isn’t such a big deal now that he only spends 2.5 hours a couple days a week in the lab for school. But when he was in school all day he would come in the door and hit the bathroom for a good 20 minutes. There are freaky scary kids in high school bathrooms.
Anytime a kid says ” Mom, I don’t know how to tell you this… ” it just cannot be good.
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The pics are gorgeous!!! I saw something on a commercial this morning re: gardening and made a note to tell you about it and, dontcha know, I can’t remember the gardening item for the life of me.
Have a fabulous time in Chicago and looking forward to the seriousness post.
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That is so pretty. In every season.
I laughed so hard because I think my family is the exact same way when it comes to poop.
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LOL…We only get stopped up here when my cousing and her three daughters come to visit..they use half a roll of toilet paper each time they wipe…afraid of anything touching thier fingers…
My oldest son sat on the toilet when he was three and yelled out..Mom! I yelled back, What? He grunts and says..I think I am concentrated! LOL I laughed so hard…close enough and it almost means the same thing!
My youngest son could never go # two with out yelling out..I love you to me..lol He finally out grew it about 4 years ago..12 next month. I have no idea why he would do that..I think seperation anxiety..me, or the poop..I don’t know.
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I don’t poop in public. I’m with him. Totally with him.
imhelendt’s last blog post..Sick day. But not like you think.
One good thing about snow and rain is nice green grass.
Poop is funny. Always will be…..
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Wait…when he poops….WHAT HAPPENS????
If he’s like my kid, he uses an entire wad of toilet paper, equal to half the roll, lest a smidgen of poo get on her fingers. Because then water and soap would be required. God forbid.
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Snow makes everything look so pretty doesn’t it?
I worked for an organisation for 13 years, 9-5pm and never once did a poop at work. I’m not making this up….I just can’t do it in a public toilet.
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Wow!!! He is the *dead ringer* for my second favourite nephew… Farking W.O.W..
I am totally stunned..
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