cat day planner

Jump off couch when I hear the alarm clock go off. Sit in the hallway. Staring. Waiting on movement.

Maybe get on bed and beg for rubs. Or maybe not. Depends.

Hop on bathroom counter. Waiting on the faucet to be turned on.  Hope he turns on the water. If so, take a drink.

Run into living room. Plop down on the floor in front of the big guy. Waiting on neck rubs. Get mad as he tends to move his hand like he’s rubbing my neck but I have to get up and get under his hand to get rubbed. Roll around and act cute, hoping he will change his mind. Roll around some more. Either give in and go under the hand or get mad and walk away. Depends.

Sit in front of bowl waiting on her to feed me.

 

It doesn’t matter if there is food there; keep waiting for fresh stuff. Meow a little if she doesn’t get a move on. Rub up against table legs and act cute if she still doesn’t get a move on. But don’t let her pet me.

Finally eat breakfast. Take care of business. And then lay in wait for the other people to eat breakfast.

Get excited if the mom eats toast. Beg for the crust. Touch it with nose and swat it out of the saucer. If she’s having cereal, have a cow until she lets me lick some of the almond milk left in the bottom of the bowl. Then, move on.

Wait on the kid to get moving. See what she’s having for breakfast. I like to let her pet me on the head while she eats. Cuz I’m nice like that.

Go to the bathroom counter again and wait for the mom to turn on the water. Glare at her if she only turns it on for herself. How selfish.

Take a nap. 

And another one.

Lay on a piece of tissue paper they’ve left on the floor for me. 

Or maybe crawl in a box some new shoes just came in. I think they’re keeping it around just for me.

Take another nap. And another one.

Wake up long enough to play with a gnat or tiny toy for about 5 seconds.

Take another nap.

Stare out a window for a while.

Or sleep hide under the bed.

Lay on the couch with the big guy while he watches tv. Sometimes he’ll pet me without me begging.

Stare a hole through him because he’s not petting right away.

Beg for midnight snack.

Go to bed on the couch. But not on the blanket they provide for me. On the couch. The red chenille looks much prettier against my white fur.

Wait for the alarm to go off so I can do it all again.

Yes, she is a very predictable cat. And yes, she does these things every single day. Funny kitty! : )

thinking cool thoughts

It’s hot. I know I’ve said that one or twenty times of late.

So today I went looking through pictures of vacations and the like to find some pictures taken in cooler weather. I thought it might make me and all my hot weather buddies feel a little better. So here goes…

These are taken out the window of the cog train as we rode up Pikes Peak.

The first pic is Boo’s cute little giraffe she got at the zoo. He seems to be enjoying the ride.

 

Snow!!!

We made it to the top….aaaand then felt light headed and couldn’t wait to ride back down. : )

It was so pretty as we rode up…and down. And nice and cool at the top. Loved seeing the snow in the middle of summer!

And then there is me…playing outside in the snow, sporting a lovely car coat, as my mother always called it. The yellow “fur” around the face really adds that classy touch, don’t you think?! I must have been just 5 or 6 when this was taken. (This is one of my slides that I took a picture of.)  The snow looks pretty deep… for Texas.

I say it’s hot, but it rained a little bit last night and right now (middle of the afternoon), it is only 90 degrees out.

And that’s not too bad… for Texas.

summer is…

Summer is kind of lazy. And a lot of HOT. 

The girl got her braces and she’s pretty much gotten used to having a mouth full of metal. We had to go in today to have a bracket removed. It fell off but was hanging by a wire.

Sometimes I feel like that. LOL

We went to an amusement park a week or so ago. She’s not much of a coaster girl and has managed to avoid them. But we thought she needed to be initiated so we got the girl on one of those loop-tee-loop roller coasters. She waited through the line hunting for a place to turn around and actually walked across the seats to the other side when she was supposed to be getting on and we had to put her in the ride chair. We are such loving parents. *smiling sweetly*

I’ve been making a lot of these too.

Smoothies!  Chocolate ones. YUM.

Excuse the fancy cups. She has a fun one and I use a Spring Creek BBQ kiddie cup. It’s the perfect size. : ) 

They’re so good, I’m thinking about just calling them milk shakes, but then again, that doesn’t have the healthy ring to it, does it?!

But they are pretty healthy, see?!

2 cups unsweetened almond milk (that’s 4 carbs total), handful of frozen mango and strawberries, 2 frozen bananas, a splash of vanilla, couple spoons of unsweetened cocoa powder and 3 packets of Sun Crystals.

And then put the spurs to it!

Deee-lish! Serve almost daily.

braces are thuper **edited**

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We’re sliding into an easy rhythm of summer. I like it.

I took the girl to the ortho a little over a week ago and her day had finally come. She got her braces. She spent several days getting used to having a mouthful of brackets and wires. And all the new rules about eating and cleaning.

She’s about to get there, though.

We decided to make a quick run to see hub’s family. Had a nice time. The weather was mild and much more enjoyable than it’s been for almost a month.

The driving to and from is never fun though. We are talking one looong day in the car.

And now we have this new little twist.

We’ve perfected using a bottle of water and an empty cup and the vanity mirror on my side in the van to get her teeth brushed after eating a meal on the road. That’s all I’m gonna say.

Two words: Not. fun.

The thought of using a public sink somewhere to brush her teeth just about gags me to death. So we made do and even though it wasn’t fun, we got it just about figured out by the time we got home.

Braces are thuper fun. Especially on the road.

reading

I read…

Angie Smith at Bring the Rain advertised that it was a free download for a limited time, so I got to read it for free. It was a good thing I was reading on my Touch that glows in the dark, because I read late into one night to finish it. Loved it. Very precious story.

Made me cry in multiple places. One of which was when she knew her pregnancy was in trouble and that unless God intervened, she would not be bringing home a baby. Strangers would ask seemingly benign questions that broke her heart because to answer truthfully, she would have to tell the story. I remember times like that during Bub’s treatment. On the outside, everything looked ‘normal’ but what we were living was anything but. I so relate!

And right now I’m taking my own sweet time reading Laura Bush’s book, Spoken From the Heart. I’ve taken it to appointments and what not. I haven’t stayed up all night to read it…yet! : )  I’m still in the early section of the book that talks about her childhood. Since she grew up in a small town, it is interesting how many things I can relate to. We moved to ‘the big city’ when I was a baby, but we still regularly visited grandparents and other relatives that lived in Small Town. Many of the things she experienced as a young girl, I had a taste of growing up as well. She is a very articulate writer and it’s easy to see she is very well read.

So it’s been fun to read two such different books that I can relate to on some level.

What are you reading? 

the telemarketer

The phone rang yesterday and it was a 1-800 number. I should have just let it ring. I know better.

But sitting there with a ringing phone and then having to push all the buttons on the answering machine to clear ‘the message’ when whoever-it-is leaves the inevitable pause on the machine, well, that’s just too much for me. So..

Hello?

It was the electric company.

Trying to sell me a new thermostat so I can “save money on my electric bill”.

Saving money on my electric bill really is just code for “turning up the stat and keeping it hotter in the house”. Who are we kidding here.

But I was a nice girl. I know these people need jobs, so I let him make his points and I listened intently. Until…

He asked me if my husband had a job. Yes, thankfully. And he also figured out during this conversation that I am a stay-at-homer. So things are toodling along with this boring convo until he began to make one last point.

That my husband can control the thermostat from his OFFICE.

Excuse me? HE can turn the air up from work without my knowledge while I sit sweltering in the house with 100-plus temps outside?

Click.

That guy must not be married.

camp and a little puddin’

Well, the girl lived through camp. She loved it, although she was more than exhausted when she got home. As were we. Picking up a kid at 1:30 AM is a bit late even for us. But we had the whole weekend to rest, unwind and hear all her stories. Here’s the condensed version…

• Beach open, ocean closed. Oil.
• Pool open.
• Condos rock.
• Delicious food.
• Great worship times and great teaching.
• Made a few new friends. (She is the new girl.)
• Came home tired and unsure about whether she wants to go next year.
• I’m sure she’ll change her mind by next year, though.

Then we had Father’s Day. It was pretty low key. I couldn’t think of anything he needed, so we decided to make a banana pudding for him.

And it’s easy peazy to make.

Banana Pudding:

Make a small box of instant banana pudding with the two cups of milk in a large bowl. Add in one can of sweetened condensed milk and one regular sized tub of cool whip. Mix with a whisk until it’s all combined. Layer vanilla wafers in the bottom of the bowl. Slice bananas on top of the cookies. Pour on a layer of pudding. Repeat with the cookies, more banana and the rest of the pudding. Crumble a few wafer cookies on top, just for pretties.

Tada!

And he got it all to himself since the girl and I can’t eat dairy.

But it sure smelled good!