I am the Mum. If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.
I am the Writer. I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.
I am the Hero. Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.
Buzz is the Superhero who saves my day. He is a faithful friend and brother, willing to lead his sidekicks into intergalactic adventures ... to infinity and beyond.
Jessie is a feisty cowgirl who knows her mind and is willing to give anyone a piece of it. She is wild and spirited, she loves large animals but is terrified of small harmless critters. Jessie would rather find a rattlesnake in her boot than have her hair washed and brushed.
Woody loves rounding up his gang and charming the crowd. He's not keen on the war-whoops of the other varmints or on being smothered with too much affection, but he loves seeing the lay of the land while riding high in the arms of his Sheriffs.
Rex is the much-awaited newest member of our outfit. He joined us in July 2012, and is therefore too young to have much said about him. He drinks a lot of milk and all he can say is "Rarr!"
"No, Buzz, I AM your father."
Mr de Elba is dark and handsome with a loud laugh. He is a fun and loving father who enjoys spending time with his children. He's great at computers - this means I have my own personal IT Guy, but also that he often falls asleep in front of computer games at night. He makes great coffee, does the best Chicken Tikka Masala, cooks a mean barbecue and plays guitar frightfully well. He is, however, no good at doing accents.
Bullseye has been contributing to Blue-Tongue Lizard and Bandicoot Attrition Rates since we moved in to a new house which backs onto some forest. She either moves in quantum motion or possesses the power of ubiquity. She can often be seen, apparently simultaneously, at both the side door and the back door. Her arch-nemeses include dogs and other animals smaller than her. She harbours a deep envy of aeroplanes and birds who possess what she so desperately craves: Altitude.
not dumb! Resourceful woman who not only had enough brains to take a photo to blog about later but also somehow managed to get out of the scrap to get back to laptop and blog said photo.
Heh, I've done similar Genius Parking Maneuvers, and never with the excuse of temporary girth of a cooking Thingamababy, either! Just plain old, ate too many bowls of ice cream girth.... :P
So wait, do you drive on the "wrong" side of the road as do the British or are you on the "right" side of the road, as we Americans do (therefore *obviously* making it the "right" side)?
Also, did you have to employ a Dukes of Hazzardian slide across the roof of the car to get out, or did you simply do the sensible and boring thing and re-park? :D
Definitely not Dumb. The hospital should have thought of pregnant women when they designed the carpark. It's hard enough fitting through those gaps at the best of times anyway!
My first thought had to do with the Dukes of Hazzard, too, until I realised that you must have simply put your gymnastics background to good use and climbed the pole.
I remember being pregnant the first time, and hubby parked way too close to another car. It took him awhile to figure out why I wasn't getting out of the car.
Some of my posts are sad, lots are funny and sometimes I subject you to my pondering. We have our celebrations, when I write a decent poem I share it with you and when I'm held hostage, I do the occasional meme.
I am a part-time speech pathologist, and try to cook, keep a garden alive and take photos that don’t make us look like we are pharmaceutically affected or dangerously homicidal.
I often suffer from Mumfail but I keep hanging on to the One who picks me up when I fall. If you email me, I’ll answer.
And if all that is too much, just read my “Best Of."
I know. It seems crazy to go back to pseudonyms now that Mister Internet knows our real (first) names. I blogged for 8 months with real names because I love the names that I gave my children, and I wanted my friends to know us better! Now that you do, I'm ready to go back to my original blog genre using pseudonyms, so here we go.
This does mean that "Jessie" is onto her fourth Blog Name. What can I say? I've never found the perfect one.
No, they didn't.
They called me Katherine.
I go by Kate.
I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'
In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.
Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.
"Er, sweetheart, killing a fly with a ukulele is probably the wrong thing to do ..."
I thought it sounded like something I'd say; something that summed up the parenting experience quite well. A bizarre yet offhand, languid suggestion that pest control was best achieved without the use of musical instruments.
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not dumb! Resourceful woman who not only had enough brains to take a photo to blog about later but also somehow managed to get out of the scrap to get back to laptop and blog said photo.
Hugs!!! I hope your appointment went well....when you figured out how to get there, lol!
Heh, I've done similar Genius Parking Maneuvers, and never with the excuse of temporary girth of a cooking Thingamababy, either! Just plain old, ate too many bowls of ice cream girth.... :P
So wait, do you drive on the "wrong" side of the road as do the British or are you on the "right" side of the road, as we Americans do (therefore *obviously* making it the "right" side)?
Also, did you have to employ a Dukes of Hazzardian slide across the roof of the car to get out, or did you simply do the sensible and boring thing and re-park? :D
I just can't stop laughing. You my dear totally crack me up. And I LOVE that you stopped to take a picture of it.
So funny!
Hey, you did well even to get your CAR into a park with a post in that particular car park - let alone with room for a Heavily Pregnant One.
What - no photos of you doing a Wet'N'Wild Fun Park slide across the bonnet? I'm disappointed!
Definitely not Dumb. The hospital should have thought of pregnant women when they designed the carpark. It's hard enough fitting through those gaps at the best of times anyway!
My first thought had to do with the Dukes of Hazzard, too, until I realised that you must have simply put your gymnastics background to good use and climbed the pole.
Well done.
Yikes!!!
At least you're in the lines, which is more than my apartment's tenants can do.
I remember being pregnant the first time, and hubby parked way too close to another car. It took him awhile to figure out why I wasn't getting out of the car.
poor you!
Ohhhh, noooooooo. Did you slip-n-slide across the bonnet, climb the pole, or squeeze back in and across the passenger seat? How did it turn out?
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