Awards,fights and comments oh my.....

The difference between a boy mom and a girl mom :

Picture it , Antelope Valley ,about 20 years ago. My friend Poodles (Desert dirt diva) and I lived next door to each other way out in the mojave desert. We hadn't known each other long but were well on our way to becoming great friends.

My boys were 6 ,8 and 10 . Poodles only had one kid back then ,a daughter Wendi ,8 years old.

Between our houses was an old half fallen down shack .

One day Poodles and I had just returned from the grocery store.

Right as we're both unloading groceries out of the car ,Wendi comes running out of this shack. All of a sudden she begins shreiking ,and screaming .

Apparently she had just stepped on a nail. Me, being an experienced "boy mom" carry on unloading my groceries. Stepping on a nail is no big deal ,right? It's not like it was poking out the top of her foot or anything.

Meanwhile ,Poodles (girl mom) Drops everything and panics like it's the end of the world.

A little while later she comes to my door all mad as a wet hen because "I " did not find it panic worthy. I stop her in the middle of her tirade and say " wait a minute I will go call an ambulance right now!"

(Sarcasm, just part of my charm)

This was our first fight as freinds. Poodles now has 5 kids (including twins) and I hope that I trained her well to "keep calm and carry on" :)

Wendi is now a boy mom. I hope she has given up shreiking and screaming. :)

(Love you guys)

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Val from http://goldentosilver.blogspot.com/ has given me this wonderful friendship award. Thanks Val! Here are the rules that accompany this little award:

First, you post about your award, advising who gave it to you and create a link back to their blog.

Then you list five things that make you happy.

Last, pass along this award to five bloggers who make you smile.

Five (more) things that make me happy:

1. Walking 10 feet out my front door to my big white chariot and being able to go any place I want.
2. My dryer baby!
3. Being out in the boat with Nickelback on the stereo.
4. going out to eat
5. The fact that I’ll be reunited with these things in 5 more weeks !

I shall pass this along to.

http://soulmange.blogspot.com/,my real life little sister.And a great writer in case you're not familiar with her blog.

http://desertdirtdiva2.blogspot.com/,My real life BFF. A terrible speller with dial up.LOL The kindest hearted BFF ever!

http://shammascorner.blogspot.com/,My other little sister .I've known her since she was 3 . She's a grandma now and an inspirational go getter of a gal.

http://kubotofarm.blogspot.com/, He's a goat herder who spends all his time on facebook.My bloggy brutha' whom I hope to meet in real life some day cuz he's totally my homey.

http://helpskeletor.blogspot.com/,Skeletor is everyone's friend. He's the epitome of a happy go lucky dog in spite of his tragic past.

Of course this means some of you (Audrey and Bradley) will have to update your flippen' blogs.

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Comments to comments :

Mary said...

I am a BOY mom, too, and can identify with everything in your post. Our "really biggie" was when the boys decided to build a tree platform on the edge of a swamp. One dropped a hatchet from about 20 feet up and it hit another on top of the head. They had an Army surplus first aid kit with them. Kid climbed down and sewed up the damage caused by the hatchet. Result: Infection, big time $$$, and other sundry complications.

NOTE: Most women survive being a BOY mom but not without developing a couple of "ticks" along the way.

Mary ,I didn’t know that you were a boy mom. You still retain such femininity. Aren’t your grandkids all boys too? Lol

I think my kids would have been to wimpy to stitch up each others heads with no pain killer .That’s a good one. How old were they when that happened?

SOUL said...

OMG -- this is THE best video you have EVER produced ! i loved every second of it-- and the song too. of course.

Thank you.

they age me, in fact just last night i realized that wes will be 30 this year. good lawd. i was just a pup when he came along-- and in the earlier shots of him in the video- i remembered-- i was his temporary mamma, and also telling kids at school that he was MINE. hmmmm. thank God i was there tho-- gran gran -- oh man. that poor baby wouldn't have made it out alive if he were to solely depend on her. -- remember i had to get out of school on a hardship-- to take care of him?

She is speaking of when I was in Army boot camp. My oldest son was 14 months old and stayed with her and out mom.(Gran gran)

and you did a fantastic job with these boys--- no one else on this planet coulda done what you did under the circumstances to make them the wonderful young men that they are today.

Awww. Thank you :)

midwesttomidlands said...

You should be proud. So many accidents that you all survived. It was hard to read ( thinking of the pain) but also amazing you all made it through and it sounds like in a good way. Having your computer on the blink then is just a small glitch:)Take care!

Being a boy mom will toughen you up pretty early on. Lol

Wesley said...

Nice post ma. Love you too!
A shame you can't go to the keys. You can Kim can share a pity pot.

Some day I WILL get to go to the KEYS! Maybe next year :)

desert dirt diva said...

soul could not have said it better....I too remebers things these wonderful boys have done...and yes they all have have grown into fine young men!Pat yourself on the back ....you deserve to. jumper cables on the pee-pee...priceless....and wes is gonna be 30? shocking! ..I love ya call me...

Thanks poops. Can you guess which kid put the jumper cables on his wee wee?

Anonymous said...

I can still remember when Wes was born .... I was thirty. I told my co-workers, when I was growing up all my great aunts were OLD. I didn't feel old! But, Mother was right at 40 when I was born. So, her siblings WERE old when I was growing up! Aj

Holy crap, does that mean you’re 60? LOL

Blissed-Out Grandma said...

Wow, you went through a lot of boy drama! Clearly, my four brothers just never tried hard enough! One broken arm, some chicken pox...very mundane!

LOL ,My kids did everything in a big way. When they had chicken pox they also had a nice raging case of head lice at the same time. It was awesome. (NOT!)

Kalli P. said :

Lena, you should have your own TV show, that was hilarious!

Thanks J

My daughter in law said:

P.S your last blog is my favorite of all times!!! haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Glad you liked it honey J

Brad said...

Who was on the phone?

I get some odd/obscene phone calls occasionally - Sounded like some she-male with a glandular problem.

Very funny smart ass. lol

Wesley said...

It sounds like you were planning on eatin curry for 5 days whether or not he was there?

NO! If he’d been home all week I would have been cooking something different each night. I’d have frozen the curry.

Golden To Silver Val said...

Oh no you don't! I see you tryin' to sneak out the back way without taking the award I gave you. You're my buddy and in my circle of friends....so TAKE it...dammnit! Bwhahahahahaha If you don't take it, I'll haunt you...I KNOW where you live. (well, kinda anyway). Anyhow....PLEEEEEEASE accept it....and pass it on. Hardly no work...only have to do FIVE things!!!!! And this time you don't have to dance naked on the roof of a Studebaker. I loved the remark about eating the cake and hiding the evidence. I have soooooo been down that road many times. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

I’m on that today! Thanks for the award Val.

SOUL said...

isn't that cake hard as a rock by now? :)) wish i was there for it on day one. looks yummay-

No. the damn thing is still moist and delicious!

Anonymous said...

If someone asks for Mr. Smocha, you tell them he cannot come to the phone right now - you don't tell the ax murderer that your hub is out of the country! I posted yesterday on your Boy Mom blog about the cat vid - cat was trying to bury that empty plate in a pretend litter box. I wondered what had been for dinner that the cat treated like cat poop and wanted to bury it. Now I know - curry. Gahhh!! First time I ate a curry dish was in Jimmy's Restaurant in Hong Kong, China. I never went near curry again for 20 years. Now I kinda like it - but that first time I burped up curry for 2 weeks. G5

Hey G5 ,your post on the other one did not show up.

The guy on the phone had told me who he was. lol

O’Rielly tries to bury anything that does not belong. He likes to keep things clean.

I think I’m curried out for quite some time now. Hopefully it won’t take me 20 years to get over it. :)

Have a great weekend ya'll!

Luv me

Bedhogs and blueberries......

Ola Ya'll,




Well, Remember that my spouse was sick? Last night in the middle of the night I realized that I had caught it too. (and I didn't even do anything fun to catch it, just breathing his damn air ) bleah!




He's still sick as well AND working from home for the last 2 days. (can we say oh the Joy?)





My style is cramped and even if I wasn't sick ,it's too cold to go any where.







This bunny is cramping my style too. Note keyboard directly behind relaxed cat.








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Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe

Cooking Light published this in their book, Five Star Recipes--The Best of 10 Years, and their staff voted this as one of their top five recipes from the first 10 years. It is very, very good, either for breakfast, brunch, or as dessert, warm out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

by GaylaJ

1¼ hours | 15 min prep

SERVES 10

• 1/4 cup stick margarine, softened (I used real butter)
• 1/2 (8 ounce) package fat free cream cheese
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups huckleberries or blueberries (fresh or frozen, unthawed(I used blueberries)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1. Beat margarine and cream cheese at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually 1 cup sugar, beating well. Add egg, and beat well.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into margarine mixture. Stir in vanilla, then fold in berries.
3. Pour batter into a 9-inch round cake pan coated with cooking spray (I also lined bottom with parchment).
4. Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter.
5. Bake at 350F for 1 hour; cool on a wire rack.
6. 
   

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Last night I decided to make this cake .It looked easy and I had all the ingredients. About 10 minutes after I put it in the oven I asked hubby "What's that smell? Do you smell something burning?"



We're too sick to really smell much. But I knew I smelled something burning. I opened the oven and the entire kitchen filled with smoke. What do I see ? My blueberry cake ,black as tar . The stupid oven had been on broil. (I didn't even know it had a broiler!)






Mmmmm, black goodness. Uh, NOT!


I scraped the top off ,re-sprinkled it with the cinnamon /sugar mix and threw it back in the oven (now set on bake)











Amazingly ,it came out thinner but with no harm done.



I thought it was pretty damn yummy.
My expressive husband said "It's ok"









Any Brits or expats care to tell me :Why does my oven have that fan and how do I turn the fan off?



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Still life called :Bed hogs







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You may have noticed that picture over on the right that says "Secret post club" If you click on it ,it will tell you all the details. The short version is :It is a bloggy gift exchange. Once a month you send a blogger any little gift ,and some random blogger sends one to you.The idea came from

Notes from Lapland

She will let you know who to send a gift to and she'll notify the blogger who's sending one to you.
This morning I received my first random gift. Woo hoo!





I got this Thai cookbook from Geriatric Mummy.




Thanks Geriatric Mummy! I'll be making the hottest thing in there as soon as my pepper wimp husband goes out of town. :)

http://musingsofageriatricmummy.blogspot.com/


Any bloggers can join. It looks like it's going to be a fun way to break up the winter doldrums.

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How we all feel about winter about now.



Have a happy Saturday peeps!


If you're snowed in ,what do you do to entertain yourself?





P.s. Apparently the ex-husband is going to be ok.

Stuff stew.....................

Well today's the big day .Hubby goes back to England without me :(

The other day we took the boat out and stayed out there until wayyy past dark. Floozie2 and Lake Farmer came out on their boat as well. I finally took my camera out.









Lake Farmer and Floozie2
















This dog was playing fetch and then climbing back up the ladder into this boat. She made all of us wish that we had a dog.
















Hubby sporting my snazzy lady hat.

















Beautiful sunset.











"I'm too sexy for this boat"




This sadly makes me realize that summer is nearly over. I'm not sure how often I'll be taking the boat out for the rest of my time here. I 'll have tons of work to do to get ready to leave.I'm positive that Cavuto will be no help at all.



Speaking of the little rotten stinker,he has become more spoiled than EVER! He begs for his walk in the stroller day and night. Hubby has even walked him a few times ,in the cover of darkness of course. I wish I had a picture of that.












Too bad we can't take his stroller with us . I could fold it and get it on the plane but our house is so dinky over there ,there would be no where to put the humongous thing.
I'm probably going to find a regular baby stroller at the thrift store (over there) and he'll never know the difference. Won't my British neighbors think I'm the crazy American , walking my cat?


Monday is my birthday . My friend Eva's is the next day so we are planning a hen/pity party for ourselves. Yes, I know ,we're sooo exciting.


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You MUST try these coconut M & M's!!!!

Buy lots of them so they keep making them.






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Mamie the talking cat........



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I never heard of this girl...but I LOVE this song!!!





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I'm out!

Have a great day Peeps ,

Luv me