Thousand Word Thursday

I almost forgot that today is my favorite blog picture day - gasp!! You should join in too, just click the clicky...you know you want to. All the cool kids are doing it. ;)

I'm on my laptop today, so limited pics on here, but I did find this!

They went there for the wings.

Riiiight.

What? Don't you believe him too??

"The Dangers Of Letting Your Single Brother In Law Babysit"

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~OR~

"The Day Mama Thumped Uncle Billy On The Head, HARD"

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A Thousand Words Thursday (x2)

I love this Thursday thing. Have you checked out The Mom Jen over at Cheaper Than Therapy yet to get the details on how to join in the fun? What are you waiting for?? Hop to it silly! Well, right after you look at mine, that is...

I really love wandering back & browsing all my zillions of pictures...so hard to pick just one! Today I chose the one(s) that made me laugh out loud, really loud, and brought back memories of sweet satisfaction. Forgive me for doubling my fun today, but sometimes it takes two pictures to give you one BIG picture.


~Office Halloween party, circa 2007~

To be honest, I am a kid at heart and not at all opposed to dressing up for the Halloween, it's just that with 3 boys I hadn't done so in many years due to making all my kids costumes. But there at the ol' fish factory, it was literally demanded by our psycho department head. We were told to stick with a 70's theme...and keep our costumes a secret until the big day

So...ever the trouble maker, I rounded up 3 other partners in crime, er CO-WORKERS, and convinced them that dressing up like KISS would be an awesome kick in the britches. Us little pee-ons were surrounded by the stuffy-white-shirt important-in-their-own-mind types and we took immense pleasure in wandering the corporate office halls that day, in KISS wigs and KISS boots. Hiding behind our painted KISS faces, we delighted in asking:

"Sir, do you...Rock & Roll all night...and Party Every Day?"


Our director? Mortified.

The bosses? LOVED it.

It was not a requirement in 2008. HA

Sweet Mama Jones as Paul Stanley

Elvis (insert catty bad word here) was the enforcer - who also ended up a little irked that we ROCKED just a little more than her. We suspect that she did not anticipate her spotlight being stolen and her ego could not take it two years in a row.

A Thousand Words Thursday

This is my 92 year old great-grandmother. We call her Bobby & she's still rockin & rollin. (Please don't tell her I posted a picture of her in her "night clothes", she'll pitch a fit!). I don't know why we call her Bobby instead of Grandma or GrandMaMaw (like on Bewitched)...but its been that way since before I came along & who am I to mess with perfection?

This woman is my rock, my true north, my heart & soul. I spent many, many a weekends with her & my great-granddaddy growing up and would say I am closer to her than my own mom.

A few years ago when we made the decision to move to Virginia, I thought it would kill her. Or she would kill me. I'd lived within a block of her since my oldest son was a year old. Because of her, my children never saw the inside of a daycare. There was no "taking advantage" going on - she INSISTED. In fact, she had a key to my house and would get there of a morning before I was even out of bed. Thats just the kind of woman she was. Is.

Since my husband had to start work before we could officially make the move, it was up to me to haul my brood across the country - from Northern California to Southern Virginia. He was set to return to make the trip with us, but Bobby wanted to go with me, so against his will, he relented. Can I just say she never shut up until we got to Nashville? Lordy but this ol' lady can talk! My grandpa always said WD40 replaced her toothpaste a looooong time ago!

So with my Suburban loaded down (Gramps outfitted me with a CB radio for the roadtrip!!), pulling a U-Haul trailer (when I'd never so much as hauled a Radio Flyer wagon), 3 sad boys, 1 unruly cat, and a then-88 year old woman, we hit the highway. We had "a long way to go and a short time to git' there" we were gonna do what my hubby thought couldn't be done without him. HA! In yo' face! Whoops, sorry.

Three days after setting foot in VA, we put Bobby back on a plane to California. She had NEVER flown in her entire life before! Can you imagine?? At 88 taking a cross country road trip and then flying home - proof you are never too old for firsts. Since then, she's become a regular. She visits for 3 weeks every year, and thats three years in a row now. No one else in my family has made the trip even once yet. So yeah, she RAWKS!

A Thousand Words Thursday

I've been waiting all week so I could hop on this blogwagon of sweetness. If you click on the icon above it will take you to the site where I discovered this little bit of picture fun, I hope you decide to hop on too!

So...here's mine, its actually from 2006 but it remains a favorite...