What the?

Curses!

I missed the chalkboard drawing today!

High noon?

Oops!

Have you ever had one day blend into the next and fall a day behind without even realizing it? That's what happened to me.

Yesterday, I spent all day (7:30-4:30) at the church helping with a funeral.

Naturally, all day today it felt like Monday.

Then my good friend, Teresa, called me and as we chatted she slyly asked, "Who won the chalkboard drawing?"

Oh man!

So, as a reward for my forgetfulness...at high noon tomorrow...I'll do TWO drawings for chalkboards {they will each be unique in their own special way}.

Stayed tuned until tomorrow...at high noon.

Happy Pioneer Day

Shout out to Purple Pleasure

{pictured here with the love of her life, Barney}

Just wanted to give a shout out to our trusty, old van...Purple Pleasure.

Didya know its old purps birthday today?

Yup, 11 years old and still kicking. Who would've ever believed it?

{Surely, not El Jefe, who is STILL driving Purps to work every day.}

Stupid Pet Tricks

Pictures courtesy of my children. I think we have more stinkin' pictures of Elvis on my hard drive than any member of our family...except maybe Jordyn..she is kind of a camera hog.

You know I have a love-hate relationship with our cat, Elvis.

It all started when "Santa" surprised us on Christmas morning a couple of years ago...only Santa didn't realize I grew up in a family of cat haters.

With that being said, I hope you will read the following experience with the knowledge that I am not going to turn this into a cat-lady blog.

But, I just have to share.

The other day the kids were in the front yard weeding. It was a cool morning, so the windows were open. I could hear them yelling at each other to hurry up kindly talking to each other and bonding while they learned the value of work.

Apparently, Elvis could hear them too--because he kept going to the front door and meowing like crazy.

Now, Elvis is an indoor cat. I know this seems like a crime against nature..but so does me owning a cat...so whatev.

I was in the kitchen doing my best to tune out the arguing listen to the kind words being spoken amongst my children, when I heard the front door open.

No wars or rumors of wars followed the opening of the door--so I assumed it was one of the kids trying to pull the old 'sneak in and hide from work' trick.

I walked to the front door and noticed it was ajar. Not a child was in sight.

I also noticed the meowing had stopped.

I walked out onto the porch and said, "Elvis?"

He came skulking around the corner and ran in the house.

At first I thought one of the kids were playing a trick on me, but nope, they were still arguing over who had pulled more weeds.

I shut the door and Elvis started to meow and meow again. Then he started running towards the door and with a leap into the air he tried to open the door. I have a latch type of door knob..and the dang cat almost got it open again!

Are you kidding me?

This explains a lot of things the kids have been blamed for...like leaving doors open, letting Elvis out of his room, and drinking all of my diet coke..{okay so that last one was all me}.

So, what's the best stupid pet
trick you've ever witnessed?

What's Your Favorite Paint Color and a Giveaway

We had tons of rain last month and my neighbor across the street emailed me this cool picture of my house with the message, "Looks like your house is at the end of the rainbow".

I emailed her back and said we were still looking for that pot of gold.

On most days, I really do feel like the end of the rainbow does end in my backyard...{except those times when it looks like a bomb went off inside my house...on those days its more like a tornado warning.}

Now, I'm not saying we live in a mansion...because trust me we have some serious fancies in our neighborhood...we're definitely not one of them. But, our house is perfect for our needs {although the AC and laundry room do leave something to be desired}.

Come this 24th of July weekend we will have lived in our house for four years.

And I've decided four years is a long time to live with boring tan walls. I am sick of it. I need a change! A sprucing up.

So, sometime over the next couple of weeks I am planning on painting a wall in my family room and my kitchen {hopefully El Jefe will be on board}.

This is where the giveaway comes into play...my dear cuz, Jenny, suggested in her last comment that I do a chalkboard giveaway. I thought it was a great idea.

All you have to do to enter to win a chalkboard is tell me YOUR all-time-favorite-never-fail paint color {brand and name of the paint color}.

So, come on! Even if you've never commented before--I'd love to hear your favorite paint color.

*The drawing will take place Tuesday, July 28th at high noon.

Dinner Tonight? Tangy Cats and Mice

One of the fun crafts I made with my BFF, Mary last month were some cute chalkboards out of plates. It was quite easy and they turned out darling.

The only problem was we used a chalkboard spray paint...and since I was too lazy to go outside...I decided to cover my table with newspaper and stay inside to paint.

Did you know there is such a thing as over spray?

So, even though we sprayed very carefully just the one taped off small area...it floated everywhere. Like on the kitchen floor...the chairs, my bench, even the back of the couch.

I'm talking a film of oily, black dust, people. Not fun. Not easy to clean up either.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I bought a cute plate rack to put my new chalkboard on and set it up in my kitchen.

Now, fancy Miss Mary writes the meals for the whole week on hers...cause that's the kind of organized gal she is.

Eventually I'll start that up...when I actually get around to planning a menu before I shop {that new Harmon's on the corner will be the death of me...it is far too easy to just run there for a "few things" and never get all the things I need}.

So, until then everyday I just write down the {dinner} meal of the day. {don't be too impressed sometimes it says "Git yer Own"}.

And almost every day a little elf (we'll call her Savvy), changes the menu to a 'funny joke'.

The other day I wrote "Tangy Pork and Rice" -- an hour later I noticed it said, "Tangy Cats and Mice".

On a "Git yer Own" night she changed it to "Dad on a Stick".

Before we left for a reunion in Idaho this past weekend she wrote, "Idaho Potatoes."

I keep telling her to stop it--because it's MY chalkboard after all.

{Apparently, she hasn't been listening..or more likely she just doesn't care.}

Last night, I finally had my camera handy and took a picture of her latest Dinner Creation. She changed my delicious "Chicken Pot Pie" to "Chicken Pot Fly--with real Flies!"

Appetizin' ain't it?

I think I'll be making that clever girl of mine her own chalkboard.

It's Been THAT Long?

Seriously? It's been so long since I last blogged that I had to sign into my account? Took me three times to remember my password!

Sheesh!

And I thought with school being out I'd have more time for such pleasures.

What I have had more time for is:

cleaning the house with my Cinderella mice,
hanging out with my sis,
crafting with my Bff, having fun
summer visitors, going to
Family Reunions, chasing kids around
from activity to activity...
...especially swim meets, having sleepovers,
cleaning up messes, Facebook,
trying to stay caught up on things of an RS nature,
reading all of YOUR blogs on my google reader,
almost getting murdered at the apt's
the other day ...truly another story for another day,
drinking lots of diet coke,
holding my cute nephews,
watching Jay qualify for state swim in 4 events,
perfected painting sparkle toes on Jay and her BFF,
waiting for my new nephew to be born,
injured my back {at the temple no less},
went to Webelos scout camp, tried to
write the great American novel,
ate a new favorite dessert,
witnessed a miracle.


So what have you been
up to this summer?