Super Snapshot Saturday

Again it is Saturday and Angel at http://www.emilymakes3.blogspot.com/ is hosting Super Snapshot Saturday. This weeks theme is FUNNY.

Sometimes it is an advantage being older.

And sometimes you get what is coming to you!

Drat.

This is Slash.

Slash has had a run in with the new bully cat in the neighborhood.

Slash is usually pretty tough.

Bully Cat has also gotten to AJ. Swelling his eyes shut and biting the heck out of his face.

Bully cat has cost me about $500.

At last sighting, Julian noticed that bully cat (great....now I am singing 'Smelly Cat' from FRIENDS, but adding bully instead) had a bad cut on his leg. My vet is the best. She has agreed to vaccinate and neuter bully cat out of the goodness of her heart. Then I can release him at Steve's work where he will be a shop cat, and live off the millions of mice who love to eat grass seed. Bully cat has NO IDEA how good he has it. My vet lent us a "have-a-heart-trap". Easy peasy. Put food in it, set it, gotcha a cat. Can I just say how disappointed I am in my animal catching skills? I can find animals abandoned on roadways, in fields, and in the woods. I will stop my car to move dead cats and dogs out of the road (drives my husband CRAZY). But I can't catch a cat living in my own damn yard?? The other night, he sat out there mocking me. NEXT to the trap. I have tried dry cat food, wet cat food, tuna and ham. So far I have caught AJ...

And two of these.

Sigh.

Super Snapshot Saturday

Angel at http://emilymakes3.blogspot.com/ is hosting yet another SuperSnapshotSaturday.
I forgot the last two Saturdays, but in my defense, I have only 4 brain cells left, and they do not work well with each other! This weeks theme was "YOUR CHOICE". Ahhh. This is like asking me to choose my favorite KID. A near impossibility. I have so many pictures I love for many different reasons. Some are sentimental. Some are funny. Some tell a great story. This one I chose as kind of a joke to my OHIH friends.
This is my daughter Janey's first hamster. She begged and begged for one, and after finally relenting we went to pick one out. There is a mom-and-pop pet store near us, and we have been lucky enough to get all our small critters from there. The owner handles the babies as soon as possible, and all her hamsters are so sweet. Well........ with the exception of this one. He is a nasty bully. He likes to attack unprovoked and he has quite the temper. We have had him for about three years, and his disposition has improved NOT AT ALL.

His name is PRINCE CHARMING.

Trick-Or-Treat

A Beautiful Flower Fairy

A Ghoulish Dead Bride

Happy Halloween 2009

Pouring down rain.

Still.....a good night!

Lemonade and Piggies

Some days are good. And some days just suck. Today was a kinda suck day. Horrible time sleeping, nightmares, and feeling like a zombie all day. Trying to be productive. Looking like a crazy person being productive, walking around talking to myself trying to stay on task! And then an accidental dropping of my brand new not-even-one-week-old Ipod, and a subsequent breaking of the touch screen. Suck. But my dear friend Dawn (who had a heart ablation TWO DAYS AGO) called with some lemonade from my lemons.

She made this for me.

There are six little baby piglets too.

And I love, love, love them.

The mama piggy has little teats ( almost said boobies) ...

.....and the little piggies attach onto her.

I shall name them Teddy, Tucker, Julian, Janey, Chloe, and Lily.

After our sweet little lifesucking babies!!!

Thank you my friend. You are the BESTEST.

Little Cooker Girl

A few weeks ago I co-chaired the bookfair at the girls school. In the days that have followed the germ filled kids, classes from hell, EARLY mornings,and shoplifting beasts have almost managed to leave my mind. Almost. The good (and bad. And EXPENSIVE) thing about working at the bookfair each day, was that I got to look at all the books. A lot. And buy the books that I wanted. A lot. I bought two great recipe books (to add to my collection of ten million). I SWEAR I am going to try to work my way through them. I am most optimistic about the children's cookbook. It is called 'Cooking for Kids: Winning Recipes'.

Both my girls LOVE to help us cook. Both Julian and Tucker eat almost anything. Teddy is the world's pickiest eater. And, Janey?? Well, she puts Teddy to shame. So while she does enjoy cooking, she will very rarely eat what she has made.

The cookbook has an easy recipe for chocolate chip pancakes, and since this is one of the very FEW things she WILL actually eat, we gave it a try.

My Janey is NOTHING if not totally independent. (Stubborn. Like her dad).

"I can do it by myself", is not so much a declaration as it is a mission statement!

While she was at school I measured everything out so she could "make it herself", with no help.

She loves to break the eggs, and has, after many failed attemps, become quite good at it.


Add milk...

Chocolate chips....

Put them on the griddle......

Enjoy!!!

Mini Morsel Pancakes

2 1/2 cups flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 cup mini chocolate chips

1/2 tsp. salt

1 3/4 cup milk

2 large eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/3 cup packed brown sugar

Powdered sugar

COMBINE flour, chocolate chips, baking powder and salt in large bowl

COMBINE milk, eggs, oil, and brown sugar in medium bowl

ADD to flour mixture. STIR until moistened (batter will be lumpy)

POUR 1/4 cup batter onto griddle/skillet, flip when bubbly, and cook 1 minute more. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. ENJOY!

Sports Center

From the time Teddy was a baby, he made it perfectly clear he did not need much sleep. He made it abundantly clear that he had energy, and LOTS of it. He didn't sleep through the night until he was almost 18 months old. Climbed out of the crib at 15 months, and gave up napping well before he was two. The minute his eyes opened-he was wide awake. A trait he shares with his father. A trait that, as a non-morning person, I do not find amusing. Teddy would sneak downstairs in the early hours of the morning to watch tv. What two year old does this? Well, maybe a lot of them do, but how many of them sneak down to watch ESPN'S SPORTS CENTER??

He memorized facts, stats, players and anything else related to sports.

He was the kid happy to be out in the backyard with a ball-any type of ball. Keeping a running documentary to himself, including the cheering of the crowd!

One of his greatest injuries came while playing ball by himself. Toss and catch with a football, and falling onto the broken septic tank cover. An ambulance ride to the emergency room with his knee flayed open.

A broken jaw from baseball, and a broken ankle playing football his sophomore year.

And now he is a senior in high school. Playing football this season, and, of course, keeping track of his stats!!

Never a huge football fan my boys have certainly turned me into one! My sweet, blonde haired baby boy on the field. Wow...he's kinda scary!