"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." Dr. Seuss
Each of the babies has been taking turns snuggling with me during my naps each day since I got out of the hospital. This day it was Lady Mia's turn. She is Nano's mama and the second doggie we adopted. She is really attached to Bill, but makes sure I am OK every day. Gotta love my puppies.....
If you'd like to participate in Mommy and Me Monday, here is all you need to do Per Krystyn's blog:
"Pop out from behind that camera and capture yourself in action with your kids. Grab the button and link up. Make some new friends and visit some old ones, too. There really is only one requirement here, a picture of you and your baby or babies; your children, your “baby” (i.e. significant other) or even your fur babies."
So head on over, link up, visit the other participants, and don't forget to LEAVE A COMMENT, you love them so you know that other people will too!
My friend Maria over at Maria's Space started this meme to get us out from BEHIND the camera and showcase our own lovely faces on our blogs.... We don't want to have a blog full of our family, friends and children and when we go back years later and wonder.... where the heck were we and what did we look like? Well, I used to participate every Sunday, but life happens and I got distracted - I'm so sorry Maria - then Maria got sick and I got sick, yada, yada, yada.....
Anyway, here we go... I'm going to try and remember to participate every week again to help Maria keep her meme going, plus to make sure I've got photos of myself on my blog. This week it doesn't really look very good because the only photo I have is the one from the hospital... HaHa. Oh, well, I said I'd participate, so here goes... my self-portrait for Feb. 27th, 2011 (a day late):
Don't I look so purdy??? Now how about you participate... join Maria by posting your own beautiful face and linking up with Maria over at Maria's Space and visiting the other participants and leaving them a nice comment. You HAVE to look better than I do... TeeHee
WELCOME TO MONDAY'S MUSIC MOVES ME AND SINCE TO IS THE LAST MONDAY IN FEBRUARY TODAY IS "FIND A NEW NEIGHBOR DAY" ~ THEN LEAVE A LOVING COMMENT!!
***Whoever finds the most new neighbors (receives the most comments from new visitors) will have our number one spot next week in the linky ~ Yes, No. 1- Just let Our Mistress of Hugs and Head Cupid, XmasDolly know how many new visitors you receive this week and you'll be Numero Uno!! Our Spotlight Dancers will be No.'s 2 & 3*** YooHoo!!!!
So as your Queen of Hugs (that would be ME), here are my songs for this week.... This first one is such a wonderful song (sung by one of the ugliest men in the world) and I have been lucky enough to see him in concert with my darling hubby who sang it in my ear at the same time. I get goose bumps just thinking about it.
You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker
Here is another beautiful song by an artist that my fabulous husband has taken me to see twice, and it's just so romantic to be swaying in each others arms, looking into each other eyes and singng (or the facimile of singing) with thousands of others doing the exact same thing. Such an amazing experience, here's.....
Have I Told You Lately by Rod Stewart
This last song also has special meaning for me and Bill... unfortunately, I have never had the chance to see him in concert - but BOY would I LOVE too, and so would Bill. But, this is the first song that we ever danced to together... it was in the living room and we had the stereo on, it was no big deal and at no fancy function, it was just spur of the moment and we were looking into each others eyes and singing to each other. I remember it like it was yesterday... it was 15 years ago. Even now, when this song comes on the radio and we are the same room, we will still "dance" - such as it is - together, look into each others eyes, and sing to each other.... I love him more today than I did those 15 years ago, and I am SO lucky to have found him and that he stuck with me through all the thick and thin. Here is.....
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
Let us know what songs have put you in the mood for love - write up a post and link it up with us... here is all that you need to do:
First step: Head on over to You Tube, or anywhere you get your music videos and post them on your blog! Upcoming themes are to you LOWER RIGHT of XmasDolly's blog.
Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" Button, mine is on my right sidebar, or off of any of the hosts' sites.
Third step: SIGN THE LINKY - Follow your hosts, grab their buttons too when you visit them and show them some love by leaving a comment.. (mine is on my right sidebar above the 4M button)
Final step: Go visit the other Rockers on our Linky and PLEASE show them some love by leaving them a comment, you know you like comments, they do too!
Once you write up your post, link up with us (on any of the host's blog - they are all connected) and you may be chosen as our SPOTLIGHT DANCERS like this week's lucky couple..... Drum roll, please:
Now, don't forget to sign the linky, visit the participants, and leave a comment - you know you like them, so does everyone else. For more Monday music fun, visit Amanda, Run DMT plus Adventures in Estrogen.
Keep on rocking, my friends!
We're very sorry to say there has been some people not playing along, and just signing our linky so other people will stop by their blogs for giveaways or whatever! Unfortunately, these bloggers will have to be deleted from our linky. Leave a comment, grab our button, or follow us. If you don't want to post a video, you can post a link to a video, or post some lyrics, but please - at least attempt to make it music related. Thank you for your understanding.
*** Just one thing to note... We are family friendly blogs and while we don't want to censor anyone, we do ask that you keep your songs rated PG13 or less.
Thanks very much!***
~~ Sorry to mention, but we are having problems with the Linky (as I think many people are) and I can't seem to get it to post here on my blog. Soooo -- please either put your URL in your comment or head on over to Dolly's blog where the Linky should be working..... Sorry for the problem. HUGGLES!! ~~
"Welcome to Monday Mingle! Each week three questions are asked, and you can answer via a written post, or a vlog post. If you have always wanted to try vlogging, Monday Mingle vlog meme is a fun way to try vlogging. If you’d like to join in the fun, answer the 3 weekly questions in short vlog on your blog, or a written blog post, then link up over on Eighty MPH Mom in the linky. Please post the above button within your post and link to Eighty MPH Mom, so readers can easily find other participants. Visit the other participants, learn about them and have fun! It’s not too late you can link up anytime during the week."
Here are the questions for this weeks mingle: February 28, 2011:
1. Do you have Spring flowers (or any flowers) blooming in your yard right now? Show us! 2. Are you watching American Idol this season? What do you think about the new judges? 3. Tell us something that happened to you last week!
Hope you enjoyed my vlog, my flowers and the visit of Mandie, now it's time for you to get out and join us.... I was really nervous at first, too... but don't worry, we're all you're friends. Come on, want to get to know you better.... we won't bite. :) Don't forget to link up with Jen at EightyMPH Mom.
I'm so excited.... today I woke up to find out this morning to find out that I now have 1000 Twitter followers... WooHoo!! Thank you to all of you wonderful people who care enough to listen to the drivel that I say on Twitter or even here on my blog. I love you all... HUGGLES!!
Alicia from More Than Words says she started Friday Photo Flashback because "I have so many pictures from my PRE-digital camera days. I thought it would be fun to scan them and share them here with you.. I'm having so much fun doing this, that I would love for you to join me, too! So dig out the photo albums and put your scanner to good use! Don't forget to link up so we can all visit and comment on each others blogs!"
My friend Dolly has been playing every week for months and I have loved seeing all her old photos and so this week I have decided to start playing along. I posted some old photos of my boys earlier in the week because of their birthdays and that also got me thinking about posting flashback photos.
These are photos of my baby Nano from 2008 when he was just a baby. Isn't he so cute? Look how little he was - just about the size of the water bottle. That is how he got his name, when he was born, he fit into the palm of my hand and we didn't think he would get much bigger... so he got the name Nano Bytes Shewbridge... Now he is about 10 pounds, and sometimes we call him Mega Bytes.....
If you'd like to play along, dig out the old photo albums, scan in some photos and write a post to tell us all about what's going on in the photos. Then link up with Alicia at More Than Words, visit the other participants and leave a nice comment. See you next week, hope remember... :)
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For more Wordless Wednesday posts, check out theWW Hub, leave your link, check out the other participants, and don't forget to leave a nice comment - you know you like comments, they do too!!
"Welcome to Monday Mingle! Each week three questions are asked, and you can answer via a written post, or a vlog post. If you have always wanted to try vlogging, Monday Mingle vlog meme is a fun way to try vlogging. If you’d like to join in the fun, answer the 3 weekly questions in short vlog on your blog, or a written blog post, thenlink up over on Eighty MPH Mom in the linky. Please post the above button within your post and link to Eighty MPH Mom, so readers can easily find other participants. Visit the other participants, learn about them and have fun! It’s not too late you can link up anytime during the week."
Here are the Current questions for the week of 2/21/11:
1. How do you compile grocery list – by an inventory, or writing things as you run out?
2. At what age do you plan on retiring (or your spouse retiring)? 3. What do you plan on doing when you retire?
Hope you enjoyed my vlog... and the appearance of my little one, now it's time for you to get out and join us.... I was really nervous at first, too... but don't worry, everyone is your friend. Come on, we want to get to know you better.... we won't bite. :) Don't forget to link up with Jen at Eighty MPH Mom.
Welcome to Monday's Music Moves Me... the rockin' meme hosted by me, Marie of XmasDolly, Larry of Cakeblast and Collette of Jamerican Spice that showcases YOUR music choices! We want to know what kind of music gets you movin and groovin!
This is the last week of February our "Love Month" :( - so I decided to post three songs this week. The first song Bill says he always thinks of me when he hears it... "bright eyes."
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
I also love Bryan Adams and have been to see him two or three times in concert with my dearest hubby and LOVE when he sings this next song. I also love the movie it is from because it stars my favorite young actors... the adorable Johnny Depp, mmmmm. Unfortunately, I can't find a copy of the video to embed here so you'll have to go over to Youtube to watch....
My next song is by another singer that I have been lucky enough to have seen in concert, and let me tell you... what a show he puts on. I have NO idea where he gets the energy, but he is AWESOME!! Here is....
I Would Do Anything For Love by Meat Loaf
Let us know what songs have put you in the mood for love - write up a post and link it up with us... here is all that you need to do:
First step:Head on over to You Tube, or anywhere you get your music videos and post them on your blog! Upcoming themes are to you LOWER RIGHT ofXmasDolly's blog.
Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" Button, below or off of any of the hosts' sites.
Third step: SIGN THE LINKY - Follow your hosts, grab their buttons too when you visit them and show them some love by leaving a comment.. (mine is on my right sidebar)
Final step: Venture Out by clicking on Fellow Rockin' bloggers on our Linky and PLEASE show them some love to by leaving them a comment, you know you like comments, they do too!
Once you write up your post, link up with us and you may be chosen as our SPOTLIGHT DANCERS like this week's lucky couple..... Drum roll, please:
Now, don't forget to sign the linky, visit the participants, and leave a comment - you know you like them, so does everyone else. For more Monday music fun, visit Amanda and Run DMT.
Keep on rocking, my friends!!
We're very sorry to say there has been some people not playing along, and just signing our linky so other people will stop by their blogs for giveaways or whatever! Unfortunately, these bloggers will have to be deleted from our linky. Leave a comment, grab our button, or follow us. If you don't want to post a video, you can post a link to a video, or post some lyrics, but please - at least attempt to make it music related. Thank you for your understanding.
*** Just one thing to note... We are family friendly blogs and while we don't want to censor anyone, we do ask that you keep your songs rated PG13 or less.
Today I want to wish my baby boy Alexander a very happy 20th birthday... I just can't believe it has been that long since I held my "little" 9 lb. 10 oz. baby boy in my arms... Yep, I gained 50 pounds during my pregnancy and he was a big baby... I'm still trying to lose those last 30 lbs of baby weight. :-)
Boy do they grow up so fast:
One of my favorite photos of Alex
And then all of a sudden they are all grown up and singing in a rock band.....
Pretty hot stuff, huh? He is really artistic musically and with paper, pen, pencil and paint.
The tattoo he has is one he drew himself. He is AWESOME!
Happy birthday, my little man, I am so proud of who you have become and how wonderful you are to others... you know that "As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be!" I love you with all my heart, TTM&B.
These two books I used to read to the boys when they were little - I still tell them that all the time, that no matter how old they get, they will always be my babies and that I love them to the moon and back (TTM&B). They are both truly lovely books
and that need to be in every child's library.
I also have to wish my oldest son Nikolaus a belated happy 23rd birthday... his birthday was on the 9th of February, but I was in the hospital then and recovering right after and just didn't have the strength to get a post done for him properly. So, I know that the boys don't mind sharing their birthdays (too, much) as they would often share parties when they were younger (the joys of shared parenting in divorced families) because they had a lot of the same friends.
So anyway... Here are a few photos of my little man then and now.....
We have always loved Disney!!
{L-Alex; R-Nik}
{L-Alex; R-Nik}
And here is the proud soldier he has become..... Look how strong and handsome he is:
Here is me and my wonderful young man... boy do I feel SO old. When did I become the mother to MEN??
I just have little boys... They are both such generous, loving and helpful men who have a very deep respect for women and a love for family and country. I am so proud of them and love them both dearly.
Happy birthday, my boys.... Love you forever with my whole heart.... TTM&B!! xoxox
A doctor made it his regular habit to stop off at a bar for a hazelnut daiquiri on his way home. The bartender knew of his habit, and would always have the drink waiting at precisely 5:03 p.m.
One afternoon, as the end of the work day approached, the bartender was dismayed to find that he was out of hazelnut extract. Thinking quickly, he threw together a daiquiri made with hickory nuts and set it on the bar.
The doctor came in at his regular time, took one sip of the drink and exclaimed, "This isn't a hazelnut daiquiri!"
"No, I'm sorry," replied the bartender......... "It's a hickory daiquiri, Doc."
Cindy over at Mom Maven had this absolutely fabulous idea for those of us attending the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration March 17th - 20th. She has set up a linky so all of us can write up a post about who we are, who is going with us, whether it will be our first time at the event, etc. This way, we will all ready "know" some people when we get there and have begun our social media networking.
My husband and I live in Celebration, Florida which is just 5 minutes outside the Disney World main gate and we go there quite often using our annual passes. We also were VERY privileged to be invited last year to the Disney Conference last year and had an outstanding, unforgettable time. Which is why we were so thrilled to be able to attend this year as well. This year, however, we WILL be staying on property because I have always wanted to stay at the Grand Floridian - one of the MOST majestic hotels anywhere, let alone Disney World. We are hoping that our two sons who live in Connecticut will be able to come down to spend the vacation with us - if they can both get the time off from work (they are age 20 & 23) ; they love Disney World and I know they will adore the special features of the convention.
If you'd like to see the recaps from last year's conference, just check out my posts here and here.
We are so looking forward to meeting all of the wonderful bloggers and their families and cannot wait to learn as much, if not more from the fabulous speakers (like Chris Brogan, who Cindy just informed me is going to be there again - WooHoo!!!). It is getting closer every minute.... and I'm getting more and more excited!
Write up your post and link up with Cindy over at Mom Maven so I can get to know you. HUGGLES!!
For more Wordless Wednesday posts, check out the WW Hub, leave your link, check out the other participants, and don't forget to leave a nice comment - you know you like comments, they do too!!
