Because I’m funny like this:

The boys were making up the 12 Days of Christmas for their Papa and I decided to help. Sarge thought it was funny so I thought I’d share. Here goes:

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a Remington 223.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me a 2 X 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven millimeter rifle, six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 8 arrow broadheads, seven millimeter rifle, six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Glock 9 mil pistol, 8 arrow broadheads, seven millimeter rifle, six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 10 compound bows, Glock 9 mil pistol, 8 arrow broadheads, seven millimeter rifle, six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me 11 grand slam bow hunts, 10 compound bows, Glock 9 mil pistol, 8 arrow broadheads, seven millimeter rifle, six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me twelve turkeys clucking, 11 grand slam bow hunts, 10 compound bows, Glock 9 mil pistol, 8 arrow broadheads, seven millimeter rifle, six fun safaris, Five GUN Cases! Four big buck tags, three hollow points, 2 x 10 power scope and a Remington 223.

And if that doesn’t convince you that I’m a closet heathen redneck, perhaps this will:

Our Brett Favre, who art at Lambeau
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy pass thrown, thy game be won
At home as it is away.
Give us this day a victory
and forgive us our penalties as we forgive those who penalize against us.
Lead us not to defeat and deliver us from sadness
For thine is the MVP, the Super Bowl Ring and the Hall of Fame.
Now and Forever
GO PACK!

Truth be known, I love to make my family laugh. Do you think this worked?

Hug Me Now. Hate Me Later.

This monumental announcement I promised? Yeah. I could make it, but after a lot of consideration, I just, well, I can’t. It’s stressing me out too much right now. I will say this:

No Adoption
House didn’t sell
Nothing else major like that. We are all healthy and (for the most part) happy. Okay?

One of my blog readers knows but I’d ask her not to say anything. It’s important for the moment, k? Tal, I’ll e-mail you.

Big Bad Blogger Book Club

After this meme a few weeks ago, two really smart people and me decided that we’d give a book club a try. We’d agree to read the same book at the same time and blog about it. If you’d like to sign up, leave me a comment. Remember, a facebook or myspazz blog is fine too.

Because someone needs to make a decision, we’ll begin with A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry).

After that’s finished, we’ll select by group consensus from the following list:

A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
Shogun (James Clavell)
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
Not Wanted on the Voyage (Timothy Findley)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
In The Skin of a Lion (Ondaatje)
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
Ulysses (James Joyce)

Leave a comment (with a blog link preferably) if you’d like to take part. I’m going to start reading it one week from today. Hopefully Ian and Tal will too.

I. NEED. A. LIFE.

I did not intend for this baby to become a knitting blog. I mean, I like knitting. I’m a bit fidgety by nature so knitting and its ability to keep my hands busy really suits me. However, you, my six loyal readers (yes, I fear I’ve lost a few and I may have gained some but the lurkers won’t reveal themselves – leave a comment! It won’t hurt. I promise!) are probably growing tired of my yarns about knitting. It’s finals week now and sitting in my classroom for two hours while the students write exams is so damn boring! I almost brought knitting today. I regret not doing so.

But I did say that this is not a knitting blog so I’m done talking about that for the moment. I mean we could talk about the house, right? But that’s hardly a feel good story (unless losing $30 – 45 Grand makes you feel good) now is it? No. So we won’t talk about it. I mean the good news is that we haven’t lost the money yet because it still hasn’t sold. The bad news is we know its coming and it will hurt. At this point, I look at our house as a zit. It is growing uglier and uglier and soon it will pop! It will ooze all over as our hearts break (again) over the financial devastation and then, it will heal, our hearts will heal and we’ll eventually (hopefully) recover from the damage. I just want it over so we can begin to move on.

I could update you on my Seven in ’07 but that’s an easy one. We accomplished none of them. I will roll them over and add one for the Eight in ’08. At least I’m not so foolish as to attempt a Forty before 40 list. It is already depressing me that this milestone birthday looms large in the coming year. I really thought it’d be different but its not, it’s my own fault and I’ll be moving on through it.

Stay tuned. I may have a monumental announcement on Thursday. Good news? Bad news? Both! Neither. Curious? Stop back later.

Meanwhile, more gratuitous kid stuff as they provide fodder and I take pictures of it. I hope you are liking that part at least!

Fin!


Finished Keyhole Scarf!
Originally uploaded by lisamarie51

Well, it’s finally done! Actually this is my fastest knitting project ever so I’m quite pleased with myself. Do you like it? I think that after I’ve used up the rest of my pink yarn and the blue and the rest of my voluminous stash I may make a Redskin colored one and a Packer colored one and a Badger colored one and….

Love Them or Hate Them?

Sometimes, I just can’t decide. After this post the other day, La Reina and Bratticus do this during some “bonding time” yesterday afternoon:They are OUT of the will, I tell you OUT!

On the other hand, his majesty The Khan, took some time to give us a science lesson this morning:

“See Mom!? There are babies in here!”

He’s so cute I may let his sisters live for the sole reason that they babysit.

Friday WIP Update – Pink Scarf

Nearly done! Super easy and I figured out how to make the edges a little neater. Do you think La Reina will like it? I’ve got lots of this yarn left. Who’s interested?

No, I didn’t do this myself

See what I mean? Sometimes, they really are good kids.

Sappy….

Since it’s Love Thursday, even though I don’t normally partake, I’m going to tell you about this crazy family of mine. It occurred to me the other day that it’s a pretty great family all things considered.

Now, mind you, I’m not talking extended family. I’m talking about Sarge and I and the six creatures/heathens that have both, one or the other’s names on their birth certificates, our mangy mutts and the damn cat. Bratticus and I think the cat’s claustrophobic because she always wants in Brat’s room, but the minute Brat shuts the door the cat wants back out. I digress…

Our extended family (I’ve four siblings and Sarge has twelve) is all basically nuts. We’re not exceptionally close to any of them. Sad, yes, but true and; since it’s been that way for years, not likely to change.

But our family… We’re funny! Most of us have this dry, sarcastic sense of humor that allows us to crack jokes that some people just don’t get but we find hilarious. We can all hunker down over Shrek, Dogma, The Princess Bride or any similar movie. Four of us (at least) are huge fans of The Daily Show and Colbert Report. Yes, since you were wondering, we do own America: The Book as well as I Am America and So Can You. What? You weren’t wondering? Well, sorry then.

Because I don’t and never did, I think it’s pretty cool that the older kids actually hang out together. Yes, even when Brat and Crunchy skip school together to have a Star Wars Festival. Yes, an entire day. To their credit, they also went toy shopping for their little brothers. Crunchy’s awesome at that.

We can finish one another’s sentences, we like the same movies, books (well we share a common pool even if we don’t all like exactly the same things – Sarge, Crunchy and Brat like Fantasy more than I, but Crunchy, Brat and I like Gaiman, La Reina and I have books we both love… you get the idea), games… Because I have virtually nothing in common with my siblings, I think this is really neat. You should get to know us and see it for yourself!

Amazing


Big bubble
Originally uploaded by lisamarie51

This guy never ceases to amaze me. Last night was bath night and he entertained both himself and his brother by blowing bubbles. Evidently this is what happens when you get your hands nice and soapy, pucker your lips and blow!

Too cute and too fun!