It's a Wonderful Life: Fun and Games

Party Time! 5 Minutes style!

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:51:36 GMT

Lots of you already visit 5 Minutes For Mom and know what a great community these ladies have started! If not, this is the perfect time to start combing through all the stuff they have to offer... it's party time! They've set up these next few days just for mom bloggers to get to know each other and make some new blog-friends. And if you post their nifty party badge and sign their Mr. Linky, you can be entered to win one of the gajillion prizes other moms just like us have offeed through the party! Cool! Now I've got to go introduce myself to all of my attendees... excuse me, but make yourself at home!

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My name is Tammy :) :) :) and this blog is my connection to adult "conversation", a way to work on my writing skills and my release valve when homeschooling my 3 children and life in general becomes funny "in so many ways". I haven't had my personal blog for long... since December 06. I did do some background research, snooping around a bit on some other blogs, before I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). I don't have a huge readership, I think I might be fibbing a bit if I try to convince myself that it doesn't matter... I do like to be heard.

One thing I try to do to promote the "link-love", community thing is to blog-tip. Curious? Want to know more? Meet some folks who think outside the "space"? Check some out! I'm also looking at a blog-move to WordPress, also tipped!

I have picked up a few memes, since finding time to put my thoughts in order to write is sometimes hard to do! A couple of Friday Feasts for you to sink your teeth into, and a Wordless Wednesday to peek at. If you don't participate in a meme, you might want to check out two spots to find one that will fit just right for you!

Most people who meet me personally like me... I'm pretty easy going. When training for my Kindermusik license my personality type was "bubbley"... that should tell you something! But I can get up on a pedestal if I've got something to say. We can agree to disagree, huh? :)

So, make yourself at home... look around, tell me what you think! It's my wonderful life, and I'm happy to share!

And since it's a party, here's a link to a recipe I previously posted on, Crab Dip.

My personality, time... to clean?, putting out hors-de... appetizers

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:18:37 GMT

This personaity test thing is neat... I think I've taken a much more complicated version of it (my Heart had taken it one time when he was interviewing for a job.) I think it said bsically the same thing with the further distinction that I had a "teacher" personality... hmmm, go figure! :) Thanks to Meg's Garden for the link!

http://images.blogthings.com/howrareisyourpersonalityquiz/personality.jpg

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISFP)

Your personality type is caring, peaceful, artistic, and calm.

Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 8% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.

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These next two images are funny! And since I want to clean up around here for my "party", I'll let you in on my cleaning style! Click on "My Blog Photos" in the photo box to view them properly. A dear friend of mine sent them to me... she has high school age triplets. Not coincidently, she has a wonderful sense of humor! Here's the poem that goes with them:

Cleaning Poem

I asked the Lord to tell me
Why my house is such a mess.
He asked if I'd been 'computering',
And I had to answer "yes."

He told me to get off my fanny
And tidy up the house.
And so I started cleaning up...
The smudges off my mouse.

I wiped and shined the topside.
That really did the trick...
I was just admiring my work...
I didn't mean to 'click.'

But click, I did, and oops I found
A real absorbing site
That I got SO way into...
I was into it all night.<<Sigh>>

Nothing's changed except my mouse
It's very, very shiny.
I guess my house will stay a mess...
While I sit here on my hiney.

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Friday, March 02, 2007

Feast One Hundred & Thirty Three

Appetizer
What does the color pink make you think of?

My beautiful daughters... with my first, who just happened to be born with a twin brother, I swore up and down that I wouldn't always be putting her in pink just so folks could identify her (so red became her color when she was little). Flash forward 10 years later and to the arrival of my new jewel, and most everything she has is pink. I must congratulate myself here, though... I still have not caved to the "everything lacey and ruffled" mindset... no, Ms. Sue, she will NOT be a girly girl!

After that, I think of my own sweet Granny, who herself was a twin (her brother died soon after birth... it was 1918, so I guess the mortality rate was up there for multiples). Her parents did dress her in everything pink, or so the stroy goes. She fervently despises anything even hinting of the color pink... her favorite flower is a yellow rose ~ pink roses should not even exist!

Soup
Name something you thought you had lost, but later found.

A diamond ring my parents gave me for my 16th birthday... it was lost down the cracks of a camp cabin, to be found a year or two later (if memory serves). Do I still have this ring? No, have no idea what happened to it after that, and it kind of bums me out to think abut it.

Salad
In 3 words, describe this past week.

Grandparent sleep-over & Fieldtrips ( & doesn't count, right?)

Main Course
What are you obsessed with?

Maintaining perspective in my life. This often times ends up looking like I've completely forgotten every other obligation in my life except for the feeding and clothing of my children... oh well! Not that everything I do is directly related to them... my philosophy is that if mom's happy, everybodies' happy!

Dessert
What kind of perfume or cologne do you like to wear?

I don't usually wear it, because suffering from allergies makes me aware that others may be super sensitive to the added odors. However, when I go out on the town (read * once in a blue moon*) I like to wear a vanilla musk or "sunflowers".

Friday Feast #132

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:01:09 GMT

Since Amy is taking a leave from blah, blah, blogging... and since it looked like fun, I thought I might try a new meme. Bon Apetite!

Appetizer
Where on your body do you have a scar, and what caused it?

I have 4 scars... one on my head, one on my right hand, one from a c-section and one on the bottom of my right foot. Going from head to toe... the first was received when I was about 9 or so... I was attempting a back flip off of the side of the public pool and didn't quite clear the concrete edge (did I swoon from the head trauma or the handsome lifeguard?). The one on my hand is fading, but it is the one that I am reminded of most often because I see it all of the time... I put my hand in a hot oven to snatch something out, my mom caught me, I was startled ~ my hand went up and touched the heating element. The c-section scar is pretty self-explanatory, and is the one that means the most to me... some scars you just have to earn, and that one I did! The last one is the oldest... I was maybe 5 and running through a neighbors backyard when I stepped on a can lid... left a mountain shaped scar on my instep.

Soup
What is something that has happened to you that you would consider a miracle?

Well, I just mentioned a post or two ago that I don't hear God talking to me through bushes or anything. There was this one time, though, that I had been praying for some time over a possibility. I felt as if I heard my name. Just like God saying, " I hear you, Tammy." And if a sound can remind you of something tangible, that one reminded me of metal... or a metallic sound.

However, Albert Einstein said "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." I agree 110%... which is probably why I get such joy out of "shiny nickels".

Salad
Name a television personality who really gets on your nerves.

Bill Mahr

Main Course
What was a funny word you said as a child (such as "pasketti" for "spaghetti")?

kife for knife... you see, I knew *one* of those letters was silent!

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I have always thought children are amazing.

To share the meal, go to http://fridaysfeast.blogspot.com/ .

Fun, Fun, Fun!

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:12:32 GMT

5 Minutes For Mom contest:

It's another contest over at 5 Minutes For Mom. What better way to encourage folks to come to your party (see the big button down below) than to send them a chance for a pre-party favour? The prize is a game called Rhyme-Time, supposedly for children over 8 (but the web masters had a ball "discovering" who was the smarter of the 2... they're twins, that competitive thing comes with the territory). Follow th link and sign the Mr. Linky for a chance to win.

Speaking of Mr. Linky... any of my blogger friends a little more savy on this? Will it allow folks who aren't Live Spaces people to leave me messages? No... thinking about it again, I don't believe it will... so what CAN I use it for? Hope you all have a geat day! We've got a few morning things to do, maybe a trip to Kmart and the YMCA activities this afternoon. Fun, fun, fun!

What fun for Mommy!

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:51:46 GMT

If Your Momma is a Lama..

Over at Adventures In Babywearing, Stephanie has decided to get us all in trouble with our moms by having a little photo-tag of mom game... Your Mom looks like a hoot, Steph... adding my pics to my photo album down below! Check out the hair through the years! And, as an added bonus, snaps of Momma's Momma's Momma... she's not a lama either.

Story Earns third place honors... film at 11.

My son got his "foot in the door" and I win because of it! Well, Ok... so I already won when they were born (awww), but now I won QTPies third place honors for the story, too! HeHaw! Go check out the rest of the stories. Thanks again, QTPie, for hosting this... it was just the kick in the pants I needed to get my birth stories online and therefore, down for the annals of time!

Are You a Slacker Mom?

Well, what do you know... what I see in me as totally slacker, someone else (at least the automated, couldn't care less quiz at chatterbean) sees as "zen". Kinda cool! I don't know if I would recommend taking the quiz, though... that's why I'm not putting a link here... you end up submitting your e-mail address to get the results (and what are, I'm sure, very useful education and product endorsements) plus you end up clicking through a whole list of university ads. But hey, it was a fun little encouragement (in a slacker- I'm spending way too much time on the computer-kind of way) and it would seem there is a way to create your own quiz. Hmmm, THAT looks like fun , all you have to do is "become a member... it's free and easy". Uh, huh.

Your quiz score makes you: Zen Mom

How do you do it? Even when explosions are all around, you are able to take a deep cleansing breath and chant your mantra "this too shall pass." You are a calming influence on your kids in a hectic world.