Turkey day coming soon

Well this is indeed going to be an interesting turkey day. Just about everybody is mad at everybody else and nobody seems to want to compromise so I told big daddy last night that maybe I just wouldn't cook for turkey day this year. The man almost fell over crying. My family has always looked forward to the big food day. I begin at about 5am - put the turkey in. Make the cornbread, make the mac and cheese, green beans, swwet potato casserole, dressing, pecan pie, pumpkin pie and for some reason my mom always has to make sure that we do fruit salad and ambrosia. I could really do without the last two because they are just a pain to fix right at the end. So after about 7 hours of straight cooking, eating and cleaning up I collapse on the sofa only to have someone tell me that they need something else. Maybe this year I will just tell everybody that we are working for Hosea's homeless and serve somebody who really appreciates it.

The Duck bit me

Gisaner comes home from daycare. Into the tub before dinner and i notice a huge red spot on her leg. What happened? "The duck bit me at the park" Oh my gosh, duck bite? do ducks have teeth? rabies? Call the vet - duck bite should not be fatal. Call daycare. "Does anybody know how gisaner got bitten by a duck and nobody told mom? One hour later, call from doretta at daycare. The only duck she was around at the park was a little metal duck on a bouncy spring, the duck bit her by catching her leg in the spring. Four year olds - gotta love em.

Why did you quit your job as a doctor?

Mama yang and big daddy go for the first big school conference when beano is in kindergarden. We are given all the test results, told that beano should probably be held back at the end of the year and then big daddy is presented with the question. Why did you quit your job as a doctor to go to work for the railroad?(says Ms. Smith). Huh? will have to ask beano about that one. Evidently beano has seen the picture from when he was born and had seen dad in scrubs and assumed that dad had been a doctor in his earlier life but loved the railroad so much that he quit to be a railroader. What happens when you assume?

Family time - Big Daddy and I went to help gissaner do some exterior housework yesterday in A-town. Big Daddy taught gis how to use the pressure washer - they were fighting over the pressuer washer by the end of the day. Got alot of stuff and great sense of accomplishment for everyone. It was a good day. We love our daughter very much and are very proud of her.

You look like a tiger

So, living with the three stooges over the years has created quite a long list of family stories. So I will attempt to chronicle these in no particular order until I get them all in.



Beano age 14, gisaner age 15. Beano wants to be the cool guy and dye his hair blonde like all the other guys on the 9th grade baseball team. Gissaner dyes hair for him. Big Daddy comes home and all hell breaks lose. "You look like a frickin leopard with all those spots on your head" Mom sent to kroger for brown hair dye to cover the leopards spots. Gissaner never had figured out why she got grounded for this one......................

Laugh out loud - YOU CAN LIVE THROUGH JOBLESS!

So, unemployment is just what it says - un-employed. It does not say underachieved, big loser, or hopeless. The un-employed girls went to a free seminar today for re-employment. Well the speaker was, at his best, lost in yesterday. He tried hard but was completely in 1990. Get yourself to linkedin, twitter, rumcjobnetworking.com - and LAUGH. LAUGH at the people in your car, laugh with the people in your car, laugh at yourself and realize that all of this will work itself out and until then...... Do something nice for somebody today, compliment, joke, kid around, and have fun. Cause you know what (can you tell i am from the south) it isn't going to do you any good to be an old crabby unemployed person. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you have imagined"(Henry David Thoreau).

Volunteer - It's good for the soul not the sole

So, I spent last thursday cleaning drawers, and drawers, and drawers. I had been contacted by soldiers angels that I could help out on friday at the VA hospital. So, I arrived at 8am sharp. We were to put up valentines decorations and decor for hospitalized veterans day. We could not use tape on the walls so we needed "stickies" that for some reason had not arrived. We had a few so we got started. For four hours we put up handmade cards and posters from the local elementary schools. I had so much fun. I got to talk to people and do something for somebody else. We had so many people thank us for doing so little. I had one triple amputee come up to me in her wheel chair and thank, thank, thank me. I felt so humbled that all these people were going through their thing but they thanked me. So, in return I would like to say thank you to liz, denise, beth, janet, and mary beth for letting me be a part of last friday. You guys were wonderful, thanks again! (I will admit my feet hurt a little from standing for so long but it was great!)