A FAVORITE THING

About 4 years has passed since I posted this but it was such a well received post I wanted to bring it around again. One thing I noticed in the comments is that so many of you love the flannel pajamas for yourselves as much as for your kids. Now you just need to have someone tuck you in and read you a story.

Do you know what one of my most favorite things in the whole wide world, ever, ever, ever is? No, of course you don't.
My fondest memory is of my sons when they were little. You take two little boys and dip them in the bathtub for a while until they are pink and soft and smelling of soap. You wrap those little guys up in a big warm towel and dry them off and then here comes the best part...flannel pajamas. With their wet hair combed neatly, the flannel jammies tucked in and their cheeks still pink from the bath.
This is the best thing in the whole world. A clean, warm, cuddly, loved child.One who will be cuddled and hugged and tucked into bed with a story and a kiss goodnight.

My sons are grown (my eldest turning 27 next week) yet I can still smell and feel the way this felt. I hope they can too. 

What are some of your favorite things?

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THE MOST AMAZING TRIO

I have never heard anything so beautiful in my life. These 3 are amazing. I actually had shivers running down my arms.
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WHAT WERE THE PARENTS THINKING?

There is a video clip of a dance troupe who are performing Beyonce's song Single Ladies. You can see it HERE on Anderson Cooper, CNN.  They are really good dancers. They have worked hard to learn this routine I am sure. There were probably many rehearsals. I am sure many of their parents were involved in the process. Involved in the costumes. So here is my question...

WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?

These little girls are 7 years old and they are gyrating in skimpy costumes. This has been filmed and put on YouTube.  I am just stunned that none of the parents put a stop to this. 

Hip Hop dancing is a great style and can be age appropriate. There are many songs they could have chosen that would not be so sexual. 

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME

ON THE PARENTS, THE DANCE INSTRUCTOR(S) AND THE

DANCE STUDIO.

SHAME ON THE PERSON WHO RECORDED THIS AND POSTED IT 

ON THE INTERNET. 

Now I know I have put up a link for you to see this. I could have put the actual YouTube clip on here but chose not to but thought you could see it at CNN's site along with the conversation that goes with this issue.What is your opinion on this? Have you ever come across a situation that required you to step in and put a stop to it? Have you ever pulled your kids out of something because of the inappropriate things going on? 

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A MOUSE TALE OR TAIL - YOU DECIDE - 3 OR MORE TUESDAYS

I am joining in with Tam at The Gypsy's Corner for Three or More Tuesday.

Join us for many interesting posts.

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While I was visiting over at The Boogie Man Is My Friend her post reminded me of a story from a long time ago.

One of my sons wanted to have some pet mice. I am only afraid of snakes so a couple rodents were not going to bother me at all. I think they are cute. I just told him that they had to both be females. No problem he assured me.

There we were with a little cage, a water bottle, a food dish and some bedding for them. Funny thing about mice. The more you clean their cages the more they pee and smell it up again. Marking their territory I guess.
Apparently my son was not very adept at finding out the sex of mice. Granted the genitals of a mouse must have been pretty small but really son....there is a difference.

So of course the non-male of the two ended up pregnant very quickly. I was pretty annoyed but just like with our kids we had to deal with it. They would be given up to the pet shop for adoption. All 8 of the little jelly bean shaped babies.

I knew we would have to move the daddy mouse out of the cage into his own abode because they will eat the babies. Plus I was pretty sure that he would be back up to his antics with the Missus pretty quickly. A quick call to the pet shop to find out roughly how long we had before she was in a family way again.

I was sooooo delighted to find out that she could be pregnant as little as 4 or 5 hours after she gave birth. She was once again pregnant with her little jelly bean babies this time producing 10 babies.

The race was on. Get the older babies away from the younger babies before they kill them. Keep the brothers and sisters separated before they become pregnant. Keep those older babies away from the daddy mouse before he kills them or impregnates them and someone calls mouse CPS. I think we were up to 4 cages by then.

Finally the first babies were old enough to go to the pet store. Bye, bye. Have a good life (yes I know who they feed them to). A couple weeks later it was time for the next batch to go. I was in the car waiting and my son ran in to get the babies in a box. 
"Did you get them all?" 
"Yup"
"10 of them right"
"Yup" 

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Off we go to the pet store with Mommy mouse and Daddy mouse too. No more mice for us. 
Fast forward to the following week when we came in one evening. Why is the cat acting so strangely? Why is the cat trying to get under the chair? Of course one of the jelly bean babies managed to squeeze through the bars of the cage at a very young age and also managed to live undetected in our home with a big old cat for almost a week. He would have come up two flights of stairs. 

The chase was on. We cornered him in one of the bedrooms after taking chase all over the house. I grabbed him finally and he bit me good and hard. I don't let go when I am being bitten...that is another story...so into the cage the somewhat bigger mouse went.

The next day my son let him go into the greenbelt next door to us. Finally free of mice we turn to go into the house when the cat ran by us into the house with the mouse in his mouth. Back up a few sentences here to where we are chasing a mouse through the house...this time we took him to the pet store. At least I think it was a "him" but you know how hard it is to tell what sex a mouse is.

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KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

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Every family has their share of cute family words or sayings that have come from the mouths of babes.
When our boys were little they often cracked us up with the words they used for everyday things.
Here are a few I remember.
"Mom, we saw a morado" (motorcycle)
"Mom, we went in the moutonda" (sauna)
"Gopacos" (Ghostbusters) Okay this one had my mother in law pulling her hair out for days while we were away and our youngest wanted to watch Ghostbusters on TV. We didn't know what it was either when we got back but he showed us at home with the remote control.
Our friends had some interesting ones too.
Did you know that fafoos were waffles. To this day 27 years later we all still call them fafoos.
Or there was the time we were camping with our good friends. The dad asked his daughter to go to their motorhome and ask her mom for his Jim Bowie knife. Of course the mom had no idea what she was asking for when she said "Dad wants his Jimooey knife". Once again we all still call it that.

So how about you? What gems have your children added to the Family Dictionary?

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