Odd Ramblings.

Odd ramblings.

Not too bad of a morning. Kids didn't fight. Got dressed by themselves. It's 9 am and I am sitting at dining room table, laptop going. (this is MY dining room table. I LOVE it)

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DH still in bed, not sleeping, but doing his morning routine which includes sitting/laying in the bed for a couple of hours, doing nothing.

Floors are clean because I got a burst of energy last night and ran the sweeper in self defense..they looked rather like a grubby two year old. Basically clean? But with area for small improvments. LOL

Today is Baby's 19^th Birthday.

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When she was little, I called her “princess maniac”. It fit LOL.

She has been known to do some pretty weird things. Once, she hit her brother over the head with the little wooden hammer that comes with those stupid colored pegs that you hammer down and then turn the wooden thingy over and hammer them again? And she said...

Ah, honey, did THAT hurt?

ROFLMAO

she was 4. And the youngest of four kids. I quit worrying long about then (smiles). This little tiny girl could take care of herself!!

She is the favorite Auntie. There is no one on the earth more loved than Auntie Ween. I also called her the 'little Ween thing” when she was little, she was so tiny and petite (still is) and the nickname stuck. So to family ONLY, she is Ween !!

She is a bit irresponsible, and gets away with it totally. She leaves a mess whenever she comes over, and gets away with it.

Once, during a sleepover at age 11, with several friends, she actually got me to GET OUT OF BED at 2 AM, and go outside the kitchen door with a flashlight to pick tomatoes so she could have a tomato sandwich.

Now, THAT is loved. And, a bit spoiled. LOL.

I used to sing her to sleep every night. A very old song, sung by Lady Jane somebody or other, called Scarlet Ribbons. To this day, if I sing it, she will get teary eyed. I love that in her. She is very sentimental, or at least mental.

Her very first concert ever was me taking her to Pittsburgh to see Peter Paul and Mary LOL. Her BF didn't even know who they were, and she was APPALLED !! the other songs I sang her to sleep to, as with all the kids, were any song I could remember. And, since I was a hippie from the sixties, it consisted of PPM, Beatles, old english folk songs etc.

The favorites were of course, Puff the Magic Dragon, Lemon Tree, Blowin in the Wind, Stewball was a racehorse......they each had their favorites. Hers was Blowin in the Wind. She still listens to it today when she is down.

When I finally got to old hymns, they knew I was at my wit's end.. Amazing Grace will immediately put any of my children to sleep, because they know the NEXT thing is that I am gonna start saying the Rosary!!

I don't feel particularly old today. Funny, cause I thought I would. I think it was much rougher when Nursey (the oldest) turned 18. I sat and played 'Wild World' over and over all day long and cried and cried and cried. What a SAP !!

Nursey texted me the other night and asked (it was a FWD text) What song do you think of when you associate a song with me?

I immediately texted back Wild World, Cat Stevens.

She texted back.....”I KNEW you were going to say that!!” LOL.

I am complimented. She texted me and said that MY song is Let it Be. I can live with that.

I have been truly, TRULY blessed in my life.

That's what I am today!! Maudlin, LOL. Memories.

A weird thing happened. Another blog I read, by endoftheearth , a guy who works on a cruise ship and posts really cool blogs, well, anyway, he did a thing where he asked all his readers to identify where they lived? So, I did. And being bored last night, I was scrolling through the pages...(he has a lot of readers) and found a post from someone who lives in the town I grew up (well, anyway, where my MOTHER grew up LOL) in. So, I messaged her and said “Wow, you are from my home town, how weird that I noticed your comment.

She posted back and so on and so on, and turns out she went to school with my cousin, and knew my Aunt and Uncle !! Small world. So I made a new friend !! I have very good memories of that town, even though most of it was a blurr.............(it WAS the seventies).

This is where I spent most of that time, we called it the Upper Park, and we cut school and bought a 10 dollar bag of weed and a $.99 cent bottle of Red Mountain Wine and well, just spent the days up there doing things we shouldn't have been doing......

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I still graduated with a 4.0 though ::smile::

I'd best get off my butt and go do something constructive, or at least something!! Otherwise, there are too many memories and I will get caught up in them.

Tonight is the big REHERSAL dinner for the BIGGER wedding tomorrow for Mr. And soon to be Mrs. Kung Fu. You know, the one where ½ Pint is the flower girl.

I promise to take lots and lots of pics of ½ Pint in her fairy princess dress and also of her sister Pint, who will be wearing either her Easter dress or another dress in her closet she is trying to talk me into.

Good Day all.