Why boys need parents...

This is for those mother's of boys, sisters of boys, and boys that have grown older. And anyone else who needs a laugh. And you also find out interesting things when you have sons, like...

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.
2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. 3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.
5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words 'uh oh', it's already too late.
8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36- year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.
10.) Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.
11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.
12.) Super glue is forever.
13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.
14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
15.) VCR's do not eject 'PB & J' sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.
19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.
20.) The fire department in Austin , TX has a 5-minute response time.
21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.
22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.
23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

Peanut Butter Recall

Several major food distributors are recalling peanut butter products due to salmonella poisoning that may be linked to the deaths of 6 people! The company at the center of the peanut butter recall case, Peanut Corporation of America, had said that it had been informed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that some samples of its products had tested positive for a salmonella strain that may have originated in a Blakely, Georgia, peanut processing plant. The recall came amid a salmonella outbreak that as of Monday had killed at least six people and sickened more than 470 others in 43 states, according to an Associated Press story. At least 90 people have been hospitalized. Hershey and Con Agra have not affected by this recall and niether have Girl Scout cookies.

Here are some of the products being recalled:

•General Mills, which also makes Cheerios cereal and Yoplait yogurt, said the products recalled were Larabar Peanut Butter Cookie flavor snack bars and JamFrakas Peanut Butter Blisscrisp flavor snack bars.

•Austin, Keebler and Lofthouse peanut-butter cookies.

•The Kellog product was identified as Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter. Kellog products recalled last week include Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies, Famous Amos Peanut Butter Cookies and Keebler Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers.

•Midwestern grocer and retailer Meijer Inc. said it was recalling crackers and ice cream: Meijer-brand Cheese and Peanut Butter and Toasty Peanut Butter sandwich crackers, and Peanut Butter and Jelly and Peanut Butter Cup ice cream, according to the FDA.

•Little Debbie Peanut Butter Toasty and Peanut Butter Cheese Sandwich

That is all the products I could find but if you're still not sure try googling peanut butter recalls!

Things I Have Learned From Living in Missouri .....

Just to lighten the mood of my blog to a more positive state:

• Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
• There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Missouri.
• There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Missouri plus a couple no one's seen before.
• If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
• Onced and Twiced are words.
• It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
• Houses have 'Winders' and 'Windas', never has a window been seen South of I-70.
• People actually grow and eat okra.
• 'Fixinto' is one word.
• There is no such thing as 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then there is supper.
• Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two.
• Backards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'
• Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'.
• You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
• You measure distance in minutes.
• You've had to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
• You know who/which store has the best deal on cases of Bud Light beer.
• 'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixinto go to the store.'
• All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
• You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
• You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.
• There are only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
• The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
• The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
• 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
• We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
• Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to 'Wally World.'
• A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
• Fried catfish is the other white meat.
• We dont need no stinking driver's ed . . .. if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.

If you understand these jokes you are from Missouri!

EVERYONE can't be from Missouri ; it takes talent. You might say it's an art form or a gift from God!

More about Obama

Here are some interesting tidbits I found online that further support my previous claims that America is setting itself up for an EPIC FAIL!!!!

•Barack Obama voted four times to allow criminal charges against homeowners who defend their person and home with a gun. Despite Obama's propensity to say and do anything to get elected, Obama's record does not match his rhetoric. In fact, Barack Obama specifically voted four times in the Illinois Legislature to allow criminal charges against a homeowner who used a firearm in self-defense of their person and home -- specifically what the Supreme Court says is a constitutional right. Obama may say he supports it, but his record says exactly the opposite.

•Obama said this during an April 17th debate: "I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."

•Barack Obama was born of Communist activists, mentored by a communist writer and activist, spent his college days hanging around radical activists, worked as a radical community organizer learning the radical tactics of Alinsky, kept contact with radicals through the years, attends a radical church, and today lends his political skill to the international goals of radical activists, and has radicals working on his campaign.

•Almost one year has passed since Obama made his vow to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration."The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," Obama said in his July, 2007, speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level. The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion.

• A piece of Michelle Obama's college thesis: "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before," the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.""[My experience] will likely lead to my further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant." "It is possible that Black individuals either chose to or felt pressured to come together . . . because of the belief that Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White oppressor."

and the list goes on and on but quite frankly just these few tidbits I have listed here are enough to make my stomach turn. I am fearful for our great country's future and that of my children. I wonder if someone can get impeached for incompetance, ya think?!

Rant about Obama

I love my country, but it is full of idiots!! I think that most (if not all) of the "love" for Obama stems from the fact that he has made history! In case you can't tell I am not an Obama fan and as bad as America is under Bush's command, I believe we have just taken an epic turn for the worse.

I think it is awesome that America finally voted for a black president but what I think is crap is that they voted him in there because he's black!

Why did we vote a man into office to become the "leader" of our country when he was photographed and quoted that he refused to place his hand over his heart when the flag was raised and the national anthem sung? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that he is against the 2nd amendment! That is so not cool!

I hope that Obama does well because, as I've said, I love this country and I want to see it come out of the crisis that is now bigger than ever. However, I am afraid Obama's platform of "Change" was really just a way of describing a larger government that is supposed to take care of the needs of every American citizen through irresponsible taxation to support bloated bureaucracy. He is not taking the responsibility of the office personally. That is not what this country has stood for in its 232 years of history, and I am upset to see it change simply because people have figured out that they can vote in the party that promises the least individual responsibility!

I apologize for getting a bit personal here, but I cannot get excited about a man who was so dishonest with the American people about what he would change and he ran his campaign with the foundation upon which his opponent had built a 26-year reputation. I have a hard time understanding the man who is so lacking in his own convictions that he feels he must include a homosexual minister in the inaugural program (really, I understand tolerance, but conforming to a standard is cowardice).

Obama is not just the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate. He is an ex-Marxist who, if he gets his way, will enlarge the entitlement programs and put the burden on the taxpayers. That's just what we all need, isn't it!?! As it is, he is giving $500 income tax rebates to people who did not pay income tax, making the rebate, whaddaya know: A HANDOUT. As well, he is all for giving driver licenses to illegals, and against a southern border wall.... which tells me that he is all for allowing illegals in and probably giving them citizenship. This, of course, is to enlarge the voting base of the Democrat party. Now doesn't that sound like true hope for American childrens futures nationwide!

Thank you for allowing me to vent, now I'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject....

New Blog for Me!

I liked blogging so much I decided to make another one! Go check it out at http://whatlittlegirlsaremadeof.blogspot.com/ or click the starry painting in the side bar! This blog is dedicated to my poetry and those of which I have found inspiring, helpful or just plain cute! And serves as a display case for my art. If you like poetry or want to see my art...comments are welcome :D

Love Bug project - Just in time for ♥-day!

Create a cute Love Bug with a big heart. It makes a great gift or a darling Valentine's Day decoration.

1. Find pictures of bugs or read a book about insects. Then use your imagination to create your own unique Love Bug.

2. Draw a large heart on red paper with erasable colored pencils and cut it out. Decorate the heart with markers, crayons or whatever you'd like. You can write loving messages.

3. On dark construction paper draw a big bug with the head and body attached, but the legs separate. Decorate the bug parts with any way you'd like. Let dry.

4. Cut out a small strip of construction paper, about 1 inch by 3 inches. Fold the strip accordion-style ,there should be 5 folds. Press down on the folds to crease them. This will be a spring that makes the heart bounce on the bug's belly.

5. Cut out the bug and its legs. Glue one of the spring's end flaps to the center of the bug's body. Glue the heart onto the other end flap, so the spring stands on end between the bug's body and the heart.

6. Before attaching the legs, fold them in half. Glue one end of each leg to the bug and the other end to the heart, so it looks like the bug is holding onto the heart. Dry. The hugging heart will bounce once the bug is put together and the glue dries.

Very cute V-day project, I'm going to try this one out with the kiddos soon!

Stuff you never knew; until you had kids!

Here are a few of the things that I have learned since becoming a Mom that I don't know that I ever would have known if not for them! :

• automobile CD player slots are the perfect size for change to slip through.
• peanut butter and jelly sandwiches fit nicely in the slot of your VCR. In case you want to save it for later!
• canned cheese will squirt clear up to (& stick to) the ceiling!
• make-up makes good finger paint.
• a small child can fit inside of a pull out couch bed when it is put away!
• even the bathroom doorway is comfy when you're really tired!
• Cheerios can fit into a small childs nose. Not so much fun getting those back out!
• Dryer lint tastes good!
• You can fit ANYthing into Mommy's purse, including live frogs!
• and last but not least; Daddy's boots are a good storage spot for anything from little cars & forks to last night's meatloaf!

Remember to count your blessings; for the joys of having children are endless!!

Childhood Asthma

This is a great site for any of you Moms who have children with asthma like I do!

http://www.pulmicortrespules.com

hope you find it as useful as I did.

We live in a rural area of Missouri where some favorite past times in this area might include riding four wheelers, target shooting, hunting or fishing.

This past summer my husband and I decided to load up the kids, the poles, some soda and head for the lake to try our luck! Sounds like a fun summer day, right?! Well little did we know that this particular fishing trip would turn out to be one of the funniest ones we've taken!

My son (Austin) had just turned 4 a couple months before said trip, so needless to say he didn't really have much experience with the whole fishing "thing". At first he thought the idea of putting wiggly worms on a hook and tossing them in with his awesome Lightning McQueen pole sounded like great fun. Then I (literally) opened the can of worms!!! He was not liking that idea very much anymore and refused to touch the worms or to bait his hook. His big sisters by the way already had their hooks baited and in the water!

So, I bait his hook, help him cast in and go about setting my own pole up. Well what do you know? Austin has a bite, Alright! So, he jerks the pole and starts reeling as hard as he could and after a few seconds of this he catches a glimpse of the fish and gets super excited because He Caught A Fish Mommy!!!! So he jerks the pole again. He has maybe a foot and a half of line still out on his pole, the fish lands at his feet.

He freaks!!!

He takes off running towards the road (don't worry there was no traffic.) trying to get away from this fish. (He didn't make it very far, his Dad caught him before he made it to the road.) And he's watching back over his shoulder to see if the fish is following him; it was! You see he forgot to drop the pole when he took off running so the fish was right behind him the whole way!

We have managed to get him to go back fishing but he still refuses to touch the fish or the worms!