Weekly Winners

A Pond's Eye View

Tiny Beauties




Accomplished

Head over to Lotus's blog for all the Weekly Winner photogs!

We do follow-ups to Wordless Wednesday's? Why yes we do

With my Wordless Wednesday post this week, I was asked if any of my grandfroggies made it in the pond move.

*ugh* This is so not what I wanted.









This sucks!

Top Momma

I DID IT ~ I DID IT!!

I'm finally on Top Momma! Can you believe it? I can't. I'm so excited, can you see me jumping? So now you need to head over to Top Momma and vote for me!

What are you waiting for....NOW!

Wordless Wednesday

This edition of Wordless Wednesday will have words.
I bring you Froggy Porn: Part II
You may have to read Part I

They finally DID IT!



And soon, I will be the froggy grandma *faints*



Yeah, those are tadpole eggs. Great huh?

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Haiku Friday

Haiku Friday: Theme - School Time

It's finally here
Last year for the memories
June brings diploma

You've made many friends
Many memories to share
Only ten months left

Can you believe it
You've made it this far along
It's almost over

Ladies as of Wednesday, I am officially the mother of a senior. I can't believe that the time has come. Where the hell has it gone? Seems like he just started pre-school. Congratulation oldest...you've come a long way!

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1. Write your own Haiku. You can do one or a few. Stick to the theme, or make Haiku what's on your mind. What's a Haiku? Click here to find out.

2. Leave a comment below with your URL to your Haiku. Not to your general blog (unless it's the last post). Need help with this? Contact me or Christina.

3. Pick up the Haiku button to display by clicking the button at the top.

Remember: Don't post your link unless you've Haiku'd.

Happy Friday All :)

Wordless Wednesday

For this week's edition of Wordless Wednesday, I'm going to give you a bit of a PSA. When you have some of these....



You will get plants that look like this...



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Happy Hump Day :)

Thank you again Mother Nature

I would just like to thank Mother Nature again for screwing up every thing that today was to offer.

You see, we have a little storm out there, Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay. Maybe you've read about it? Maybe you've seen it on the news. Was supposed to take the same path as our lovely Charlie did back in '04. And unless you were living under a rock, you know the damage that Charlie did.

So here we are on Sunday, waiting in anticipation to see what this storm is going to do once it passes Cuba. School was set to start today. Once again, Home Depot was the most popular place in the county and all I watched was the weather channel.

Monday comes. EOC plans a meeting at 1pm to determine whether or not the munchkins would start school. No way, they decided. To dangerous.

Whatever! Here I sit on Tuesday morning, the oldest home from school, not a drop of rain in the sky, maybe a few clouds. The Tampa Bay area is to get nothing. That's right...NOTHING! I called this yesterday. I called that we wouldn't get anything. I need to change my profession...really.

So thank you again Mother Nature for making the Floridians scramble like it's midnight on Christmas Eve.

It's happened...

The day we've all waited for. The day that we thought would never come. The opening of Daisy Fly Designs.

I'm so excited about this collaboration. Sharon is a wonderful person and has beautiful pieces. This has been a while in the making and finally...today is the day.

So make sure you stop by Daisy Fly Designs and see her beautiful pieces.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday for this lovely week is brought to you by the tackiest bathtub in all of Pinellas County Florida.





I know....you're jealous. You really don't need to be. For a small fee, I could come decorate your bathtub in the same colorful pattern.

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And don't forget...you have 2 days left to enter the Tree Frog Customs & Mommy Matter contest. Go to Mommy Matter to enter. All you have to do is leave a comment. Get to it!

Sarcastic Saturday Huh?

So my wonderful friend Christina, over at Mad Liberal Mommy decided that on Saturday's we were going to start his whole "tag~you're it" on our blogs. Saturday's being the given day and sarcasim at it's finest. I have a really hard time with sarcasm, I do but I'll give it a shot anyways.

This week I've been car shopping. Something that I'd rather do besides car shop? Poke my eyes out with ice pics. Really.

Every plaid~clad salesman within a 100 mile range knows that I have the littlest amount of money to buy a car with and they are going to try and suck every red cent out of me. See it all started when this lady from NJ decided to slam on her brakes in a millisecond. Did you know that 8000lb Buicks don't stop on a dime? I'm here to tell you they don't.

So I'm off to car shop, for a third day in a row. Did I mention that I have to move in the process of all this? Yeah, great fun. Ice pics please.

Next week's tag...Shirley with her Army of Five.

Haiku Friday - On Staurday

Confused? You should be. I'm lazy, I forgot. So here you go...Haiku Friday: Saturday Edition

Car shopping blows big chunks
Nothing I see seems to fit
The small pocketbook

The Buick lasted
I sent it to car heaven
Long live the Buick

SUV or car?
Which one should it be for me
Really, should go green

This week has been miserable. I totaled the car on the 30th. I really didn't total it but State Farm seems to think so. I sit here with hardly anything in the bank for what they gave me but it just isn't enough to get something reliable. Car payment? No thank you but I think that's where it's headed. I haven't had a car payment in 3 years. Not really where I want all my money going but I guess I'll have to.

Happy Saturday All! Sorry I'm late but then again...I'll probably be late for my own funeral :)

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Shameless Plus 43529876267

So I think I'm on shameless plug 653,454,543,543 but ya' know, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do right?

So I've teamed up with the wonderful Judith Shakespeare and her wonderful site Mommy Matter for the first give away of Tree Frog Customs. I'm ubber excited about it.

It's super easy to enter and no registration required. Now how simple is that? All you have to do is head over to Mommy Matter, click the contest at the top of the homepage, and leave a comment. See, how simple is that? Contest ends August 15th so head over and leave that comment. You can go over to Tree Frog Customs, check out all the designs we have to offer. You can pick from one of the pre-designed layouts, or we can create a custom design for you. This includes your envelopes. What's out of your pocket...nothing! Even better.

Whether it's a baby shower invite, birth announcement, or birthday invitation...doesn't matter. Hell, you can even hold on to it and use it for Christmas cards. Your choice!

Hurry up! Contest ends August 15th.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday & PSA Combined:
How NOT to cook ribs on the grill with a toddler




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Tree Frog Customs
Stationary for every occasion

A walk down memory lane

As I sit here this morning going through the 100's of pictures on Photobucket and Flickr, I realized something. My oldest will be 18 in six months. Please pick me up off the floor. I'm still trying to figure out where all the time has gone. It seems like yesterday that he was starting kindergarten with a broken thumb, getting stitches in the chin for the fifth time or even getting his heart broken by the "first" girlfriend.

He's mama's boy. We've been through so much over the years together and he's never doubted me once. It's amazing how the bond of a mother and son is so strong.

At one point in my life he was shorter than me. Am I shrinking? Because I know he's not growing up...he's not allowed. Kids aren't supposed to grow up. They are supposed to stay innocent, sweet, never talk back...who am I kidding.

He has to grow up. He's needs to take care of me when I'm old and decrepit right? That's why we have kids :)


Then he drove. I aged 10 years in the one sentence. "Here you go Mr. Matt, you are now a licensed driver." The car. Buying his first car was worse then a woman shopping for shoes. This is his baby, his pride and joy. Sometimes you would of thought he birthed this car himself.


So now I sit here, 6 months and I get to plan an 18th birthday party. Right after is graduation. I think that is where it's going to hit me the most. He'll be graduating. Done with school. No longer the little boy that needs mommy to walk him to class. No longer the little boy that needs to hold mommy's hand while crossing the street.

He has grown into a man. He's now my 6'4", 165lb little boy that still does want mommy when he doesn't feel good. I hope some things never change.

Haiku Friday

Haiku Friday: Theme ~ Your "must haves"

Funny this comes up
As the theme on this Friday
I now Plurk to much

It's a little odd
You can get lost really quick
But fun none the less

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Happy Friday!!