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24 Mar 2012

Jet Lag

Last weekend we were able to sneak away to the zoo so that our kids could play with their favorite cousin . I wanted to air a blog a lot earlier on this. Forgive me, I have jet lag. Or so it feels like. It seems a I picked up a pesky stomach virus at the zoo that took root on the drive home. I was worthless for a few days. So friends and family and all others across land and sea, forgive me on this.

The first thing we ran into at the zoo was a nasty domestic dispute however. It seems these two couples had a disagreement and it just escalated! By the time we walked up on the scene there was already a small crowd watching. We got there just in time as the volume between the four just kept getting louder and louder. It wasn’t pretty, especially at a zoo on a beautiful Saturday morning.

It was hard to make out what all the yelling was about as they weren’t talking too clearly. You know how ugly domestic disputes can be! Just a bunch of uncontrollable, irrational yelling, crying and pointing of fingers. Where were the zoo personnel to break this up?

About the only things I got out of the whole argument was one party called the other a baboon.

“Oh yea, well you walk like an orangutang! hollers the other.

I thought it was going to be an all out war and free for all when the other finally compared the female to the “missing link”.

And then I remembered, I have a blog to fill. I should be getting all this on film! So, if you have a curiosity about the nasty underbelly of domestic quarrels check out this video. Its not pretty!

See? Did you see their chins blow out like a frogs? They were loud and upset!

So we made it past that disturbance took a look around and it was lunch time already. We grabbed a picnic lunch on the tropical March afternoon. The kids played hide and seek and the adults tried to envision themselves with that much energy.

The rest of the day was just your typical zoo outing. Lions and tigers and bears. Climbing on the sculptured art work….

Giddy-up lion cub!

Eating sweet, unhealthy snacks. Rides on the train through the enchanted forest. Riding horses.

Giddy up horsey. Wee-haa!

More junk food. More souvenir cups. More rides on the carousel….

Riding "Kung fu Panda"!

We saw the aquariums, the snakes, the alligators. The elephants were getting their elephant litter changed so no elephants. But we did see the giraffes with the four new baby giraffes. Birds, kangaroos, kolas, squirrels, flamingos, gorillas, and a silent stomach virus in disguise as zoo food.

I envied the Lions. They are the king of their domain!

If you want a quick run through the zoo, including the giraffes and a Brown Bear trying to cool of (its the first week of March!) you can follow Dylan in her run through the zoo video below. Get the kids! They may be talking ‘monkey’ the rest of the day!

This great weekend was actually a week before our great run of birthdays at our house. We call them birthday-weeks. But the birthday-week month got an early start that Saturday. Not only did the kids get a chance to go to the zoo and play with their favorite cousin, when we got home their was a huge box waiting on the doorstep for us.

I brought the box in and Dylan says, “Look Dad…D-Y-L-A-N. Dylan! is this box for me? Sure enough. One of our kids very thoughtful grandmothers absolutely filled a box of gifts for both our birthday girls. Their must have been 20 individually wrapped gifts inside this one box. Thanks grandma!We love you!

What a great ending to a great day! Or was it a great beginning to a long Birthday-week month? All I know, I had to stand by the sink fearing the girls might get yet another surprise!

Let the Birthday-Week month begin!

Daddy, I think this lion needs more batteries...

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17 Mar 2012

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Irish Blessing….

I wanted to offer all my friends and followers and those just passing through an Irish Blessing on St. Patrick’s Day. Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you have a ton of fun today and celebrate in your favorite way. ( Take pictures) And I hope to see you next week with fun stories to tell. Let your Green out!

If you have, or have not traveled to Ireland, this Blessing is worth watching just for the picturesque scenes of a beautiful country. This is the real Ireland

~ Happy St. Patrick’s Day!~

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16 Mar 2012

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Phriday Phunnies ~ That’s a really big number!

Its never too late for a Phunny:

A Blonde is watching the news with her husband when the newscaster says
‘Two Brazilian men die in a skydiving accident.’

The blonde starts crying to her husband, sobbing ‘That’s horrible!!! So
many men dying that way!’

Confused, he says, ‘Yes dear, it is sad, but they were skydiving, and
there is always that risk involved.’

After a few minutes, the blonde, still sobbing, says, ‘How many is a
Brazilian?’

Here's to you finding YOUR pot-o-gold Saturday!

Have a happy and safe St. Patrick’s Day! Or else ye be fulla blarney! We be goin’ to da zoo with the wee wittle wons to see da animals, don’t cha know. We shall trade some stories, pictures, and a wee bitta ale upon our return! Sláinte!

~ Andy O’ Malley

Sláinte!

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15 Mar 2012

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Happy Fathers Day!

This was a cute Fathers day gift last year from my oldest daughter and reprinted at Leanne Shirtliffe’s Ironic Mom site, “Stuff Kids Write“. It was cute to me, as I understand the reasons behind the answers. She is basically answering for herself and some of the things we shared together.

So here is the decoder ring:

1) She was three.

2) One thing her grandmother always said to her as she grew. (Guys kinda like it too)

3) She had the cutest little coat to wear to church and we didn’t mind showing it off!

4) It was the beginning of summer and I made this every week. And she loved it!

5) HER favorite song at the time was Margaritaville. She knew it, knew the words since she was a baby (Dying Day post). So I would always sing it in the car

6) We would give her Curious George gummy bears as a treat for her potty training success. And I would ask her, “Now what do you say?”

7) See #6 above (no more diapers!!)

8) I was always running to the store for milk with our two toddlers. It wasn’t that I liked it

9) We were making vacation plans to take her to the boardwalk at Ocean City, NJ that summer. I showed her the videos on youtube.

10) Dylan is the one that likes presents. I like ‘rest’.

11) Texas Roadhouse was the nearby restaurant we would eat lunch at every Saturday afternoon. They had the BEST manager there that would stop what she was doing and just adopt Dylan and then our youngest too for the afternoon. She took them everywhere…in the kitchen, behind the bar, etc and they would come back with either or both a bowlful of cherries or marshmallows. Tammy was awesome!

12) Dylan was going through a phase with lollipops, still is. But, if Mom holds up her little pinky finger (wrapped around…) every time Dylan asks for something and I jump the answer works well then also.

What were your favorite, most memorable Father’s Day or Mother’s Day gifts?

Stuff Kids Write

Last year, when Dylan was three, her nanny asked her questions about her daddy and recorded her answers. With Andy’s permission, we’ve annotated Dylan’s responses.

One thing is for sure: Dylan loves her Daddy.

Special thanks to Andy of Our Life in 3D for submitting this. He and Dylan’s Mommy have an entertaining daughter!

With both Mother’s and Father’s Day coming up, why not have your child fill in a questionnaire and send us the humorous results? Email us at stuffkidswrite(at)gmail.com.

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14 Mar 2012

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It was a dark and stormy night

It was a dark and stormy night. Rain bounced off the windows like dozens of Skittles hitting the floor. The aroma of the dinner I prepared hung in the air like a paper mill’s bouquet at daybreak. The house creaked eerily with the pounding of the rain and the wind. It was late. It was dark. As my eyes scanned all around, one could only wonder what would happen next.

Then ‘next’ happened. A mysterious message from a Goddess came across the phone lines proclaiming some good news. She told me…….she chose ME to receive her version of the Liebster award!

Yes, SWM, Domestic Goddess (or at least pretending to be), liked my stuff enough to offer her award to 3D! I was both honored and surprised. The Domestic Goddess was one of the very first blogs I signed on for when I joined WordPress. She was a stay at home parent, like I was. I hoped to learn from her ideas, routine, innovations and kid activities to survive in my new role. And, like many others I follow, was also involved in some fitness and health activities creating another area of mutual interest. I hope you are still doing great there as well SWM! I am so honored for her to have chosen me as she writes so much better than me. She creates a fun, easy read that I look forward to in hopes of gaining some of a ~~Goddess’s~~ Godly insight into my mortal ~~problems~~ issues with the raising the kids.

So thank you SWM, Domestic Goddess! I really appreciate it! And I want to say to you “keep up your good work.” Do yourself a favor and check her blog out if you haven’t already. It’s my first writing recognition…positive writing recognition that is! Thank goodness for this thing called ‘spell check’ and a wife that’s a English minor or else these blogs would make no sense!

So in going with the tradition of the Liebster Award I have to follow some rules:

The rules of the Liebster Award are:

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog

2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you

3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog

4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve to be noticed (see below!)

5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

Like SWM said, Rule # 4 is hard since I really don’t know how many readers the blogs I follow have. So I am going to name a few here. In genera,l I really don’t follow the high volume blogs. Don’t know why.

Another part to Rule 4 is that some of the blogs I would recommend at this point I have done so already in past week’s Tagged posts. While they are still some of my favorites, funny, creative, and motivating, I really don’t feel like I should embarrass Cafe 23, The Camel Life or The Healthy Fit Diva, again. Trust me, there stuff is good and I look forward to each new post. Give these ladies some applause!

So I have a wide variety in my family of blogs that I read and look forward to. A gothic seamtress, a pastor, a Mom with teenagers (capital M), a nomad, and another Mom with grown ones that I sometimes defer to for answers.I read several other fun, motivational blogs t be sure. However I just feel I have gotten to know these bloggers a little bit over the last few months from comments here and at there blog. They are all great people and I feel I have something in common with all of them, which is part of the draw

So here they are, my fav. five blogs worth a visit. Give them a big ‘hello’ at their blogs:

1) NoThrowaways, This blog is written by a Pastor. Now I can tell you I do not have the relationship with God as I should. Derek’s blogs can help a bit with those voids. He is also a Dad with four happy and amazing kids. I often think of him when my energy runs out. How could I ever handle four? He does a great job with four and a job and a blog and more. He does a great job, with some great stories and pictures of smiling happy kids.

2) Taking The World On With A Smile, I don’t know Karen as much as some others I blog with. But knowing her as much as I do I feel like she is so much like myself. Or someone I grew up with. She sounds like people at home. Her local pictures remind me of home. She has two great kids in their early teens and I hope mine turn out as level headed as hers. She blogs once a week (which is another thing I may have in common with her) , writes very inspiring and upbeat posts. Check her out!

3) Lazy Subcultural Girl, is possibly the most diverse blogger I follow. She’s a sewing addict, which I know nothing about. She has a great, yet sarcastic sense of humor, which I love. My favorite features of hers are…….’Headbanging Fridays’ (gotcha), which I love and ‘Sci-fi Sundays’, which I love. Quite possibly my WordPress soul mate here. She has a few kids but they are not much more than some speed bumps in her blogs and a husband which she lovingly refers to as “the Hubs”. Oh, and she currently has purple hair. Too cool!

4) Raw Emotional Writer, is a straight forward, honest writer. That is the best I can describe her as I am not quite sure who she is yet. I do know she is a bit a of a nomad that has lived in Jamaica, the US and Germany. She doesn’t paint rosey pictures all the time (life is not rosey all the time) but does speak her mind. She has very interesting posts and if you ever want a friend on WordPress she would be a good choice.

5) Jing Hu, is a new blog I follow. I find that she doesn’t post that often but when she does its really interesting things. Most recently I just stole a HITT running workout from her web site and loved it the next weekend in the gym. She has other interesting travel pics in a fun, easy to read blog. “加油!” (Go for it!)

and last but not least,

6) Worry Warts Guide to Sex, Weight, and Marriage, first of all, if the title to her blog doesn’t grab your interest from the start, her pen name will, Diary of a Wimpy Mom. But I don’t see this lady as wimpy. She talks about all topics, has some great travel ~~pictures~~ stories, and occasionally talks about her great kids and the road to getting them there. If there is a blog that I read to learn things or gain more knowledge, it would be hers. And yet, I still have not ~~learned~~ read about anything about Sex, Weight, and Marriage from this blog. Hmmmm?

Thanks again SWM for your consideration of my blog! I apologize for the length of time its taken me to acknowledge this wonderful award. You have inspired me to try to live up to your praise. Thanks!

Posted in Archives, The More Awards I Get The Worse I Look (awards and other surveys)