Photo Shoot at Grandma Karen's

My mom has got this great looking wall on the side of her corral. It's bumpy, and rusty and dinged up with peely paint. Time to take some pics there, right?


My Hunter Boy.

He's almost a Webelo, almost in need of a new scout shirt. Have you ever bought one? Those things are expensive. When we bought his blue cub scout shirt at the scout store, it cost me $30+ for the shirt, neckerchief (sp?), the slider, the numbers for the shoulder, etc.

Then he lost it. Really, he did.

Heidi replaced it with an extra one she had.

Then he found it. Well, actually HE didn't find it. I didn't find it either.

Aunt Heather did... at her house. Right in the place where he left it weeks before.

He swears he doesn't even remember wearing it there, lol. Kids. Ha, Ha, Guess I'm no better because I didn't remember either!

So, then he had two shirts for a while. It was nice having a backup shirt.

Then we gave the extra to someone who needed one.

And I had to keep track of that once was lost, now is found shirt. I gave up sewing any of the patches he'd earned on it. Pulled out the trusty glue gun and hot glued those suckers on. They even lasted through the wash!

So, now that the patches are finally on the blue shirt, it's nearly time for him to move up and wear a khaki tan colored one.

Maybe I will get lucky and find one at DI. We love that store.



Little Miss Carly.

She just recently lost a tooth up top. She can't stop putting her tongue in the space and has discovered that a straw fits perfectly in there too. Thinks she's pretty tricky. See how long her pigtails are getting? She swears that if I hadn't cut her hair when she was little that they would be down to her bumb by now. That girl loves her long hair.


My Fisher Man.

He turned 4 a few weeks ago. He has said some pretty funny things recently:

F: "I am the boss of you mom!:
M: "No you're not." (While wagging my finger at him)
F: "Yes I am!! Put yo fingoh down!"

"I have a lot of gas. That means I have a lot of poop."

"It hurts my cut from my church tree."

Lonely blogs

I honestly think I'm the only one who reads this thing anymore. After being MIA for a year, people forget about you. Or maybe they already thought you were boring and decided not to drop in and read anymore. Or maybe Facebook has become their favorite way to keep up with other people Or maybe it's because my blog is private and doesn't climb to the top of the list when I update.

Blogger should work on that.

There should be some way I can still appear up there when I post something new, so people know I am still alive.

People don't remember to look at your private blog.

So your name sits there all lonely, somewhere in the bottom of their blog list, just waiting to be clicked.

C'mon friends,

Click on my name, see the photos, maybe even read boring stuff.

Would make me feel better.

Ha ha ha. What is wrong with me, lol. Oh well.

Whatever the case, it's kinda lonely over here. That long list of blogs on the right hand side? I love reading about their families. It makes me feel that even though we don't get to talk a lot, we've kept in touch. And there have been a lot of blogs that have inspired me in the past years that sadly, they have not seen an update in a while.

Maybe the answer is just "life". Life just gets busy and life gets in the way and life goes on, I guess.

Weird email addresses

Today Dan told me he doesn't even know what my email address is.

It's been the same for 13 years.

schwaanky@hotmail.com

I don't think schwaanky is forgettable.

Maybe difficult to spell/remember, but not forgettable

And unique.

Maybe unique like me.

I'd like to think so :)