Archive for August, 2009

For those of you that read my Ask the eBay Queen articles every week you know about my Strange Item of the Week. I was browsing Etsy (my new favorite love) and found this:

I bet you’ve never seen anything like this before! How inventive! How unique!

How Green! If your interested in buying it go here: Stilleto Shoe Planter

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I totally missed my friend Lorna’s Birthday, (she has the Shotgun Mama Blog) because of this we thought we should throw her a little surprise party.

Here’s some photos of the event!

Here they come to put the sombero on Lorna’s head!

I think she might be a bit embarrassed!

Miguel got her with whip cream on her nose…

This is actually the second time she was wiping it off…

Happy Birthday Lorna! Even if it’s a bit late.

I took some photos from how I see my kids doing school… So here it is, our second week of school. They all look like they just woke up… but at least they are working..

#5 working hard on his preschool page.

See all Done!

Here’s #2 working hard.. I believe that kid needs a haircut.

WOW all these kids need their haircut.

Even my little Lefty #4 is writing his spelling words..

Who says they can’t concentrate? Maybe they could if I’d quit taking their photos and at least get the hair out of their eyes!

I need to tell you.. sometime last year I received a message through eBay about my dog. (Yes.. MY DOG) I’ve talked about Porky before. He’s a good dog, very protective of my children and our home…. but apparently he has a few secrets.

Here he is looking innocent..

So, the email (through eBay’s email system) was from my neighbor up the road. She was letting me know her dog was in a family way, and she felt my dog was the father. I was a little freaked out. We discussed our dogs, and I let her know that I wasn’t sure my dog (which is pretty tall) probably couldn’t get to her dog (which reminded me of a cross between a Welsh Corgi and a Labrador) pregnant. For those of you that don’t know what a Welsh Corgi is.. go here. She was pretty sure it was Porky, and not the other dogs that roam around the country out here.

After church today I saw the dogs on the way home. I’ll let you decided if they are Porky’s or not.

Porky is about about 5 to 6 inches taller than the tallest dog. But the shorter one looks

about the height of their mother.

So.. What do you think? Are these dogs part Dogue de Bordeaux AKA French Mastiff? If these are Porky’s puppies do I owe child support?