Jo's Boys

Birthday Fun

I am a no-fun mom.

What this means is that I allow NO, I repeat, NO mainstream sugary breakfast cereals in my home.  My poor husband found this out upon our marriage ~ it was quite a shock to him, for he grew up eating Captain Crunch-n-Berries and other such "hell no, you won't ever find that in MY house" sorts of foods. 

But once a year, I relent.  When it is their birthday, I let each child pick out a box of whatever NASTY, sugar-laden, non-nutritive breakfast cereal they want for their Birthday breakfast. 

Well, my little one's birthday is tomorrow.  So we went shopping yesterday:

 

We had LOTS to choose from  since, like, 99% of the cereal aisle is normally off-limits to us. 

In the end, Captain Jack Sparrow won our hearts and minds.   We will be chowing down on "naturally sweetened chocolate pearl-shaped cereal with pirate-shaped marshmallows" tomorrow morning!

Pirate cereal makes us feel all snarly and pirate-y

to the point where we even feel like using a permanent marker as a makeshift sword during our photo session.  And look!  The back of the box even has a (very, very badly drawn) maze on the back for our entertainment!

Food helps us find our Happy Place.

More Cell Phone Pictures...

Sorry, my day is so taken up with activities of daily living (one of the three of us has literally been sick for four weeks SOLID; in over two weeks neither of my boys have left the house in the car and I've only gone to the grocery store) that all I have to offer you, my dear blog readers, are more cell phone pictures. 

This first one I just LOVE!  It's now the wallpaper on my cell phone... They were actually just fighting over the computer immediately prior to my taking this picture and I forced them both to smile for the camera...

 

Most every evening I try to walk my sweet dog through the subdivision.  It really helps just to walk around outside the four walls of my house.  Nature is very uplifting, you know?  There's a little footbridge on a little nature path near my home that is a very lovely spot. 

Oldest is sick right now with a cold.  A couple of days ago he was sick with the flu and he was throwing up all over the place.  Don't ask me how a 12 year old boy can't make it to the sink or toilet or bathtub to throw up and instead pukes on his carpet, his walls, his door, the cabinets in his bathroom.... I cannot fathom.  But while the pukey flu was wearing down, a horrible cold was picking up and so he's been a miserable little guy for over a week now. 

Here he was this morning, entertaining himself by laying on the floor and playing with the cat under the bedroom door.

It entertained both of them for quite a while.  See the black kitty paw under the door??

This HAS to be one of the most pathetic pictures of all time.

This is Oldest, before he was sick, waiting for the phone to ring. 

THIS PICTURE WAS NOT STAGED.

He knew that all of the neighborhood kids were gathered at a next-door neighbor's house and they had told him that they were going to call him to play and They. Never. Did. 

So he sat at the counter in the kitchen and waited for the phone to ring.  And waited.  And waited.  And waited....

 

Couldn't that just break your heart?? 

Other peoples' children are beasts...

**Whining**

Don't WANNA wash the dog and clean the house.

Don't WANNA!!!!!!!!!

Don't WANNa...

Don't WANna...

Don't WAnna...

Don't Wanna...

Don't wanna...

don't wanna...

*whimper*

Pictures off my cell phone

It's amazingly convenient to have a cell phone!! 

My Wonderful Husband and I had NO and I mean NO way of talking to each other (other than pay phones with a phone card, and that gets OLD ladies and gentlemen, since the stupid phone card takes 23 minutes every single time you place a phone call, even if nobody answers!) and so we broke down and bought cell phones.

What a MAJOR and I mean MAJOR morale booster!! I used to not even be able to talk to my husband much at all, ever, and now I can talk to him for hours every day (with the family plan or whatever it is, it doesn't count as minutes if we talk to each other) AND send him text messages whenever I want AND get text messages back from him AND send pictures on the cell phone AND get pictures back from him AND send video clips to him AND get video clips back from him and all of this together has been SUCH a HUGE morale booster that it's difficult to even describe. 

So, of course, I text message him/send him picture messages/send him video messages All.  Day.  Long.  Because I love my husband and miss my husband so much and it's communication.  It doesn't matter if I take a picture of a bare wall and send it to him; I feel like I'm communicating with him and I can do so whenever I want  and that's half the battle right there, in my female mind.  Right??

So now I'm pulling said pictures off the cell phone and I'm thinking that it's better to post cell phone pictures than it is to post nothing, right?  Because Oldest threw up today and threw up two days ago and still feels sick and I haven't left the house in almost TWO WEEKS, AT ALL except for ONCE for a HALF HOUR because we had literally no food in the house, because I've been sick and then Youngest was sick and now Oldest is sick.  So I'm sort of slap-happy at this point....

You probably *think* you know what this is but, actually, you have no clue.  Because you probably *think* this is a Lego pumpkin but ~ WRONG!!!  It's actually Dracula.  See the fangs? 

This is my dog and my foot.  My dog is a Wonderful Dog.  She's so patient and kind and wonderful.  But she has Issues (don't we all?) and one of her issues is armadillo. 

This is NOT my house.  This is a house we walk by on our evening walks.  And she smelled armadillo in the bushes.  Which is why she's at full Armadillo Alert.  See the tail?  See the fur raised up all over her back?  See the ears in full Armadillo Alert mode?  Probably not, so just take my word for it.  She knew it was in there but darn it the stupid thing shot into its hole in the middle of the bushes and she's too ladylike to dig the bushes up and go diving in after it, though I'm sure she would be happy to do such if I asked her to.   :)

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Bad Blogger

My DEAR friend Kate of the Beautiful and Sweet Fabulous Daughters and Totally Gorgeous Sunday Church Hairstyle has (had?) a Birthday Today!!!!! 

And she has been bugging me mercilessly because not only have I not blogged recently, I have left photos of my cat (she calls the photos pictures of my cat dressed up in "gang attire") up WAY too long for her taste. 

So, since it is her Birthday and since she is Queen of the World on her birthday, she gets new pictures. 

I know!!!  I'll post pictures of her future son-in-law!!  Because I will marry Youngest to one of her daughters (she has four.  He will CERTAINLY be able to get at LEAST ONE of them to fall in love with him!) or die trying. 

He's actually a total cutie:

And my only hope for grandchildren as Oldest is very vocal in telling everyone who will listen that he is NEVER getting married and NEVER giving me grandchildren...

 

Youngest is quite cute when he is asleep, also

ohmygosh that one above is my FAVORITE. 

And so as to not be totally boring, I will also throw in gratuitous pet photos, neither of which make my pets look like members of a gang:

This would be my dog.  She is a VERY good dog. 

And this is my cat.  She is a VERY good cat. 

Sorry for the lame post. 

I am lonely for my husband. 

The end.