Jail vs. Time Out

Today, Wolfgang asked me "Is jail just like a really looong time out?"
It is indeed.

Dog Days of Summer

We're on the countdown. Allegedly, we are getting a dog today. After many, many years of pleading, begging, nagging, whatever, by Hubster and the children, we are supposed to be getting a dog today. They wore me down, folks, that's all there is to it.

The dog is coming to us through our next door neighbor. Her neice had the dog but is no longer able to care for it due to some life circumstance changes. Her kids love the dog though so I'm still not 100% convinced this is going through. I'll post more if there's an update later.

UPDATE: We finally got the dog at around 7:30 tonight. The kids were over the top excited and Maggie (who is a Westie-Poodle mix) seems to like our house. She's a real sweetheart. So, without further ado, meet Maggie:

By the way, I think she's already found 'her' spot in the house:

Curiosity Killed the Platypus

I love that I have curious children. But, it is an unusual way to start the day when one of the first things you do is look up "platypus" on Google. Why? Because they had questions about them. Because of the show Phineas and Ferb on Disney. Because I let them watch their allotted 1 1/2 hours of tv throughout the day yesterday. Because that's the kind of mom I am. Because, wait, why did I do this?! Well, at least we got something educational from Disney.
Now we're off to learn more about duck billed platypuseseses (apparently to include how to make them plural 'cause I really don't think this is correct). Did you know that they are a mammal who lays eggs? Yeah, before today, me neither. Let the Summer Learning commence.
p.s. They're weird looking and ugly. Just sayin.

Should Have Been Here Yesterday

Too bad, so sad, sorry you didn't get to see it!

Perusing the Web

In my quest to find more and varied recipes online, I ran across this website: www.recipesofacheapskate.blogspot.com. There's some tasty ones on there, but I make no claims as to how healthy they are. I must say the author sure does like her cheese though.

In other food related news, I have found that I really pared down my cookbooks. Why? Because I found that I did a lot of searching online. My other favorite recipe blogs are these:
www.mykitchencafe.blogspot.com
www.realmomkitchen.blogspot.com
www.reluctantentertainer.com (this is just a fun website in general and it has tasty recipes too)
Sometimes I just search for the main ingredients I have for dinner that night. Let me tell you, there are some, well let's just say, interesting recipes out there!
What are your favorite recipe sites?

Arm hurting...heart warming

The kiddos had their annual dr appointments today. Poor Princess had 3 shots to get. She was quite nervous about it but Wolfgang assured her that it wouldn't be too bad. "You're brave and you can do it" he told her. Princess asked if she could sit on his lap when she got her shots. "Of course. I'll hold your hand too so you won't be too scared". Well, she couldn't sit on his lap, but he snuggled up next to her before her shots, took her by the hand (I had the other one) and stroked her face while the tears came. He told her "Don't look, it's better that way. You're doing really well, does it help when I rub your cheek? I want you to feel better. You can do it!"
It was really something to see the caring come out. Princess declared to him at the end "I couldn't have done it without you!" With hugs and stickers and a tissue for the tears, we headed out the door. Carissa was still wincing, Simon was beaming and Mom, well, she had a tear in her eye too. Heart warming indeed.

Pinky...who knew?

Who knew there was such a thing as a pink dolphin??? No, really, there is, no foolin'. Check out this website for more info: http://www.seawayblog.blogspot.com. It's under Pinky, the shockingly pink albino dolphin.
Short story is that it's an albino bottlenosed dolphin and they speculate that the dolphin next to it is the mama. Nature is so amazing, isn't it?!