Sad day at Day Life In

We had to let our little swimmy go today. 

 He is a full flagged frog now.  So cute.  The last couple of days he was climbing the walls.  Time for him to go.

 Trying to be brave.

Bye bye..... what else can we do out here?

 

Poor kid.  I am sure that he will be OK.

Now on to the next adventure:

Baby bunnies anyone?  

just cute

Swimmy

Here is our little Frog. It is amazing how fast he changed from a tadpole to a frog. One night he had no front legs, just little buds where they would be and the next day he had these great legs! same with the tail. Oh how sad it will be to give him to Kari tomorrow and watch him leave. Oh well on to the next pet adventure.....hummm maybe we could find some leaches (heeheeheee).

five for me

This weekend I found a workout machine. (it is a cheap thing that has no computer and was only 5 bucks, but I needed some sort of change that would help me out of a funk I am in. So I have decided that I am going to workout on it for 5 min everyday (not sure about weekends yet). I know this does not sound like a lot to most people, but I wanted a goal that I could do. While I was doing my 5 mins today I decided that I would try and do 5 things a day that would help me out of my funk. So far today I have:

1. work out
2. I left the groceries in the kitchen and made lunch (if fact I left them there for a while while I did other things)
3. Sewing on my quilt (all the little blocks are done and I sewed them all into big blocks!!!)
4. 3 blogs today (that has to count right?)
5. ......... man who knew it would be so hard to find 5 things that would help me out of a funk in a day.... good thing it is only 4 so I have lots of time to find one more thing:)

OK that is all for now, but it is just 9am so I have time for the rest. What 5 things are you going to do for your self today?

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

This just in....... Swimmy (that is what the kids named our tadpole) has front legs!!!! Last night at dinner he did not and today he does!!!!

You can even see them in the photo.  Some days I wish I could grow a couple of extra limbs heeheehee.

We have a busy day of fun: beaches, friends, art stuff,  MickyD's, last day of soccer camp, and many things that we do not know yet.  Hope you all have a great day.

Not much to say today.  We have had a very slow week.  I was feeling OK, but did not feel like doing ANYTHING.  I had wanted to work on my quilt, but have been cuddling with Ada while Elijah is in camp and have been reading to Elijah while Ada sleeps.  Oh well it has been great to spend time with the kids, even if it means I am not doing very much else.  Today my back started hurting again (bad). I am hoping that by tomorrow it will be down to a very dull pain and not such a sharp one.

I will write more tomorrow if I can find time to stop cuddling and reading:)

Different kinda pet.

In my house growing up we where kinda known for having strange "pets".  We had cats of course and maybe even a dog for 30 sec or so, but the strange pets are the ones that people remember the most. 

There where the chickens, they lived under our porch.  This seemed like a good place, lots of air, lots of space (it was a large porch), easy for us to get in and out to collect all the eggs.  We where going to get LOTS of eggs, after all there was lots of chickens and one REALLY mean roaster (we did not know you did not need a roaster).  We never got any eggs, but it was my job to go in and see (everyday) and the roaster would bite me (everyday!!!).  One day we wake up and all the chickens where gone.  I am pretty sure I was not sorry that I did not have to face that roaster anymore:)  Note: you need to dig down in the ground and put the chicken wire under ground or the fox/something will come in and eat all your chickens. 

There was the mouse we caught in our flour bin.  It was a big drawer that came out at an angle so it was deep and shaped like a triangle.  One day a mouse fell in the bin and could not get out.  I think was put food in for it until the day that we left it open and walked out of the room the cat did not waste any time she just jumped in and had a nice yummy dinner. Note: cats like to eat mice.

Of course there was the leaches. They where fun.  They stayed in a large pickle jar.  We caught them at the lake that we would go swimming at (when you went swimming you always had to check to make sure you did not have any on you.)  I do not think that we gave them any food I think we just kept them for a while and then let them go back in the lake.

Then of course there was the snakes, turtles (we saved them from China town from being eaten), newts, mudpuppies, and of course the tarantula that Mom got after I left the house.  I am sure that there where lots of other animals that I am forgetting (Mom, Dad, Sister if you remember any you can comment or send me an e-mail and I will update this blog:)

So why this long story you ask?  Well we just got a tadpole.  It is so cute with little legs already.  We are going to let it go when it has 4 legs and no tail.  No name yet but is is photo of him/her.

See him in the corner there?  You can almost even see his legs.   

Have a hoppy day.