Entries from September 2008

September 28, 2008

Sunday Mutterings

Hearing :: Impaired
Aggression :: Built up, frustration, acting 
Charged :: Super, excited
Traveler :: Blues, world, frequent
Hydrate :: your body, Olay, Gatorade
Detox :: a friends husband, Intervention on A&E
Qualify :: Olympics, job hunt
Prison :: Locked up, criminal, personal
Frontal :: nudity, lobe
Pep talk :: coaching, encouraging, father and son

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September 28, 2008

September 28th, 1999

Today is the day that my baby was born. September 28th, 1999. He turns 9 years old today.  His picture is in the paper with a caption that reads: “Collin C—– turns 9 years old today. He enjoys computers, art, baseball and football and also reading.”  There is so much more, but I had to [...]

September 21, 2008

Sunday Unconcious Mutterings

1. Heist :: Diamonds
2. Hack :: Computer, Sarah Palin, hacking cough, smokers, cold
3. Dane :: Great, Taylor, Danish
4. Stings :: The Police, Bee
5. Monkey :: Business
6. Junkie :: Intervention, sad, addiction
7. Pumped :: Excited, air mattress, tire
8. Brass :: Monkey, that funky monkey!
9. Fight! :: Club
10. Vouch :: “I’ll vouch for you.”
Sunday Mutterings

September 21, 2008

Are you ready for some football?

We have always been a baseball family.  Mr. T has played baseball since childhood (and he watches A LOT OF IT!) and coaches our boys all summer and fall. Our boys have been asking to play football for about 2 years now.  We finally gave in and thought it might be a good idea to [...]

September 21, 2008

One word!

Just a fun little game with words, sent by my sister in law.  The object is to come up with one word answers. Here are mine!  
1. Where is your cell phone? PURSE
2. Your significant other? COUCH
3. Your hair? GROSS

4. Your mother? FAR
5. Your father? NORTH
6. Your favorite thing? FAMILY
7. Your dream last night? PUZZLED
8. Your favorite drink? COFFEE
9. Your dream/goal? [...]

September 17, 2008

Here we go!

I often hear other parents talk about what it is like to raise a teenager, or a pre-teen, a “tween”. Often times parents joke about  how they get a one word answer to a question, a sullen look, a moody attitude.  I guess I am starting to approach those years. Normally, boy #1 is OK [...]

September 15, 2008

What is in a “name?”

Once I decided to actually go through with starting a blog, I needed to come up with a “name” for it. I struggled with it for a few weeks, even asking advice of others. Some names with “Teenie” in it kept coming to me.  I figured it must have been right, if it kept popping into my head.  I [...]

September 14, 2008

Flowers!

September 14, 2008

Perspective

Sometimes, life has a cosmic way of straightening out our thought process and showing us a lesson that may need to be learned. I know many people, me included, can sit and feel sorry for themselves when things don’t go their way.  And usually, it is some sort of materialistic way.  I just saw some [...]

September 12, 2008

This is one of the reasons….

For those of you that have never met my husband, Let me give you a little back round.  Mr. T is a teacher, but he was not always.  He went to college right after high school and got a degree in political science, which means he had no idea what he wanted to do with [...]