Test: Are You Ready for Parenthood?
This is a reblog from Lady Lovely Blogger who reblogged it from Uwana. This is probably one of the most hilarious take-offs on parenthood I have ever read! Get ready to laugh OUT LOUD!
14 steps to follow before you have children…
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With Halloween approaching, stories of ghosts, goblins and ghouls monopolize the setting as the movie makers try to outdo one another with scenes of blood and gore.
A Step Back in Time
Awakening a few cobwebs with pictures from a night in the 80s. Oh, such a night! What a night it was, what a night it really was! What are your fondest memories of Halloween – laughter or shivers? Who did you profess to be? (Don’t answer these until you have visited Awakenings!)
Repinned from for the heart by Barbara Eastlick
There are many who say, “I married my best friend.” Perhaps they grew up in the same neighborhood, attended the same church or school, or simply met somewhere along life’s highway. Whatever the situation, they bonded. . .a bond that remained taut through good times and bad, happiness and heartache. None of these times went lacking for humor.
Smiles and laughter keep the mind active, fill the heart with joy and supply food for the soul. ~ catnipoflife
When I encountered this post (quite by chance I might add), I knew it had to become a part of catnip. I do hope you enjoy and laugh until your sides hurt. . .I did!
On a lighter tone, I laughed at these sleeping positions: anywhere is a good place. The Frogman posted these pictures 3 months ago.
1. The Full Situp
To achieve the full situp, you must begin with the genuine intention of exercising your abs and promptly fall asleep midway through the task. This position is extremely advanced and not recommended for amateur sleepers.
2. The Awkward Spoon
The goal here is not so much intimacy as it is the socially uncomfortable sharing of a physical space with someone. Bonus points if your arm falls asleep but you’re too embarrassed to move it.
3. The Semicircle
Tuck your tail between your legs and imagine that you are an omelet.
4. The Sunbather
The trick is to look like someone who is acting comfortable whilst also appearing extremely uncomfortable. Let’s…
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Remember blowing bubbles. . .blowing bubbles as a kid or like a kid as you grew older? Summer wasn’t summer without the chance to blow bubbles. . .an experience unbeatable at the time, totally priceless.
Watching bubbles became somewhat invigorating as each floated effortlessly through the air disappating slowly ’til no more. BUT, wait! That was not all to the view: there was always a rainbow show!
With the performance of the tiny bubbles sometimes one bubble would stike another knocking it out of its way as it continued to soar onward and outward. Sometimes one bubble clinged to another bubble as though locked in time and space. Then, of course, there would always be this one bubble that became so big it appeared to have swallowed others whole! That was the one sought after the most as you looked toward the sky and blew and blew and blew.
Thanks again, to my friend, Don in Massachusetts, this memory was recently challenged by the largest bubble I have ever seen.
Have you ever seen one this BIG-G-G-G-G?
What are your memories of blowing bubbles?
#FWF Free Write Friday: Word Bank
OK! I know today is Wednesday, not Friday. BUT, according to Kellie Elmore’s Free Write Friday, the ‘rules’ say, “No deadline. No word limit.” With the happenings of the weekend and the week’s beginning, time has not permitted thoughts to gather around free writing. So, with a break this afternoon, I decided to check out the prompt. Oh, dear! It is a doozy. She has provided a word bank and what a strange conglomeration of words.
I looked at the words, remembered Kellie’s guidelines: Just write. Whatever comes to mind. Just write. Being the poetess, of course, the lines must rhyme. Whether the rhyme and reason go together in this one is yet to be seen by the comments hopefully it will receive. Here goes:
This week’s prompt:
Try to use all of the words. Let’s see what’s inspired…
Homeward bound
That’s what I say
As I listen to the 8-track
Along the way
Memories abound
As thoughts quickly shift
To bygone days
Of rivalry not rift. . .
. . .the coarse, stiff broom
Across the floor
Readying the room
For what’s in store
Candles were lit
As part of the show
Like a light-emitting diode
With a soft glow
Hustle and bustle
Throughout the kitchen
Ranted and raved
Good ol’ fried chicken
Salacious homemade pies
An all-time tradition
Made one froth at the mouth
Hailing its elocution
No rancid odor there
As fillings did coagulate
Only succulent aromas
This affair did permeate
My favorite, the peas
With pot liquor too
Inviting the spoon
For a helping or two
A family fling
Of cravings and itch
All came about
With nary a hitch
©2012
catnipoflife
Whaddya say? Did it meet the challenge?
How time does fly! Hard to believe it has already been two weeks since I posted the first Touch of Catnip. What is so cool about blogging is the massiveness of the blogosphere. Even word searches can sometimes lead you to information, quips, quotes, antidotes, tales of passion and woe, short stories, pictures, video clips and the list goes on. Today’s touch of catnip is two video clips located via an Internet search for ‘cats on catnip’ images. Hope you enjoy the cat antics!
Catnip Facts
Did you know. . .
~ catnip is a herb in the mint family?
~ a cat’s response to catnip is genetically determined, a magic gene?
~ catnip is a native of Europe?
~ catnip stops termites in their tracks, even kills them?
~ even some of the ‘big cats’ react to catnip?
Any catnip trivia of your own?
What are your thoughts?
xxx
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[This is the original poem published in Remembering, 2009. An adaptation is presented in slideshow video format at the end.]
Foxie, The Cat
Independent, full of curiosity
Agile, former creature of the wild
Foxie shares our home taking over the place
Demanding attention like a child
Curious by nature, held in awe
Cuddlesome, yet loving all the while
She expectantly meows for ‘tasty’ treats
At times leaving her prizes behind in style
Behind the settee, under the bed
Foxie scampers constantly without a care
Mysterious, perplexing, aggravating
Preferring to curl up in Daddy’s chair
Going from indoor to outdoor
Never looking for a new home
She emits confidence, strong will
Unhappy only when left alone
Distant and aloof, yet cherished
Quiet as though in simple meditation
Foxie resonates a soothing purr-r-r
Inviting soft cuddles and loving adoration
Finicky, picky about her food
Moody and sometimes remote
She prissily swishs her fluffy fox tail
Like a tiny, little woman in a fine fur coat!
©2009 Remembering
Sharla Lee Shults
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OOPS! I dropped a stitch!
Knit one, pearl two, knit one, pearl two. . . brings to mind the ol’ nursery rhyme “He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not” because of its repetition. The Decision of the Flower results in either “yea” or “nay” with perhaps dropping an un-named petal along the way to alter its destined outcome. The knitter faces a similar fate, “keep it” or “leave it”, dependent upon whether too many stitches have been dropped in the process.
Every “petal plucker” and “kicker knitter” drops stitches. C’st la vie! The stitches of each rely on the rhythm of the moment. If you stop paying attention, even for a second, suddenly you’ve lost track of whether it is true love or not, OR a loop has slipped off the needle going unnoticed. Too much delay and you might end up completely fumbling the nursey rhyme or in the case of the knitter, continuing to knit several rows before you see the tell-tale ladders of yarn filling the gap where the stitch initially dropped.
Are you in sync? What is your Rhythm of the Day?
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