1st Annual Card Buffet

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Where is he anyway?

Here I am at another birthday party.
This time for Levi. We celebrated him turning two. Megan put on a fabulous party, as usual, this one with a Mickey Mouse theme. She goes all out and always does such a great job.  The decorations are fabulous and even the food always matches the theme. For this party for instance, we had things like Hot Diggity Dogs, "Club" Sandwiches, Goofy's Grapes, etc. She made cupcakes that had Oreo cookie ears, Oreo cookies dipped halfway in red and with added white buttons, and my personal favorite, Rice Krispy treats cut out with a Mickey cookie cutter. I could go on and on and will be posting a few pictures later. I told her today that I hope she knows that she is giving those boys an awesome childhood. They are truly blessed to have her as a mom.

Anyway, once again I thought I'd take a moment while I'm here to write my post for the day.

My prompt asks me what I need, and I will tell you.....I need my new rich boyfriend to hurry up and find me.
Some of you may have no idea what I'm talking about. Well, whenever I really want something (something that is pretty much a pipe dream for me) I have a habit of telling everyone that my new rich boyfriend is going to get it for me. I have been saying it for years now, and he still hasn't shown his face. :(  I'm tellin you, his list is very long and it just keeps on growing, so he really needs to get a move on! If any of you run into him out there, please send him my way. Im getting rather impatient!

I was at a scrapbooking weekend with my friend Tamra a while back and she made this little guy for me.

Since I figure that realistically, he's probably going to be the only one I get, I'd better hang on to him. He now sits on my desk and keeps me company while I work, but I can't say he's done too well at fulfilling my wish list. I really do need him to start emptying those pockets!

Hmmmm

Well, I know this will probably make you all really, really jealous, but I have the pleasure of being at my grand daughter's 10th birthday party. There are 40, yes I said 40, kids of that age here for the event, most of whom are screaming girls. Shoot me, shoot me now! Why don't I exit the mayhem you might ask? I have to give Mike and Landon a ride home. I'm seriously thinking about going home and having them call me when they're ready. If that's not pretty soon, I think I may.

Anyway, I thought I'd take this down time (Down time?) to write a post.

So what prompt do I come up with?
I'm told to describe my best qualities.

Are you kidding me? If you know me at all you might know that this is not an easy task for me. Now my failings or worst qualities...I could write a small novel. Well, at least a short story.
I'm thinking....Hmmmm...
Insert the Jeopardy sound here. You know. The one they play while they're writing their final answers. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just insert some snoring.

1/I guess I'm mildly creative.
2/I can often figure out how to recreate something by looking at the picture.
3/I think I'm a pretty good grandma.
4/I have a decent decorating sense. I worked as an assistant to a very talented interior designer once, and she thought I was pretty good. She said I had a great sense of balance.
5/Do I really have to do anymore?
   This is really hard!
Let's say this is enough.
   Maybe you should ask someone else.

I'll tell you something that does not go on this list.
Patience with vast amounts of running, screaming, yelling girls.

Is it time to go home yet?  Pleeeease

And yes...it is a slumber party.

You couldn't pay me to stay here tonight. 

Well, it would have to be a lot...a whole lot. 

Let's try a million. 

A million dollars. 

The Most Frightening Thing

Well, I'm finally sitting down to relax after a very long day and I find I'm actually in the mood to write a little something.

The prompt for this post tells me to write about something that frightened me.

I think one of the most frightening things of all is when you can't find your kids.
I've gotten a little jolt a few times when you turn around and they just aren't there briefly, but I was truly in a panic once when Megan was in grade school. I had my business at the time and it was right up the street from her school, so she would just walk there. I was always aware of the time and when she should be there. Once though, I was trying to wait on a customer, and getting more nervous by the minute cause it was past time. Eventually I just told her I had to go, completely abandoned my store and took off down the street to search. No Megan. There was a house on the way of someone she knew, so I knocked to see if she were there. No Megan. I was in a panic. Finally in the end when I got back to the little mall where my store was, I heard someone say there was a little girl crying in the bathroom. I was so relieved. There she was. She'd been there all along, but believe me she was told to never do that again. Come to mommy first. No matter what.

Megan has since had a fright of her own. We were on a camping trip. Landon always sleeps in my tent with me. One morning quite early I woke up and no Landon. I stuck my head out of the tent and hollered over to their tent asking if he were in there. He was not. Begin frantic search. All of us were heading in different directions calling out his name. It wasn't too long thank goodness, before I found him walking along down the middle of one of the campground roads in his footie pajamas. He was gathering sticks and having a marvelous time. He had just unzipped the tent and went on his way. Megan was in tears and hugged him so tightly.

He really wasn't quite sure why she was so upset.

He was able to come along with me on my church's camping trip this year and we for sure had a talk with him about waking grandma up before leaving the tent. I even joked that I was going to attach a leash to him and hold on to the other end. The very first morning I was awakened by "Grandma, I'm awake!" It was so cute.
I love him to pieces!

Okay, time for a little TV and some relaxation. 

Ready for fall

I'm ready for fall. How about all of you?

I'm welcoming it in with this scarecrow card. It was originally designed by Rae Harper-Burnet, but many, many of us have borrowed the idea.

Isn't he too cute? Thanks Rae!

Two-year Cuteness

Okay, I know I haven't been keeping up very well with daily blog posts.
I have a lot in my plate at the moment.

I had to take a quick moment though and share the cutest two year old in the whole wide world. Yes, that's right, the whole wide world. Just ask his grandma.
Levi turned two yesterday and is at the doc for his two year check up this morning.

Adorable....Absolutely Adoreable!!

Dream Job

Today I am challenged to write about my dream job.

Well I've already had mine. I've mentioned it before, but for a little over 2 years I owned my own business. It was in Arlington Gardens Mall. I loved it and it broke my heart to close it. I guess I was really supposed to make a profit and bring some money home as if I had a job with a paycheck. Who knew?

 After closing the store I had my own bookkeeping service called Pencil Pusher Bookkeeping. Later I was the manager of a scrapbook store, and now I'm a Stampin Up demonstrator and so far have two girls under me.
 (Anyone else interested?)
Something tells me I like to be in charge. Good heavens! When I had jury duty, I was even the jury foreman! Sometimes writing things down like this can give you insights into your own personality.

Okay then. Follow me and let's charge on over to my first annual Card Buffet.
The flyer will be posted later today. I've got to charge on over to Staples and get some printed.

I hope you'll join us!