So I guess I am raising a bunch of Linus'

Nothing should come between a child and their blanket....

My oldest Mackenzie was given a Scooby Doo blanket as a baby shower present. For the first year or year and a half of his life he always had his blanket. My now 12 year old Skylar was given a quilt the day she was born at Gordon Hospital when she was in the NICU. My 5 year old William has many blankets. His baby blanket is blue camo with his name on it but he prefers his other ones...

I belong to a group on Facebook and her 11 year old's blanket was basically in threads and she wondered what should she do with it? I told her that's nothing my 12 year old has had hers since the days she was born and won't let it go. I don't have pacifier babies or thumb suckers I have blanket babies. Pacifiers you can usually find an easy replacement and of course your thumb is always connected to your hand but I think those habits are harder to break.

There was a time when Skylar would take her "B" everywhere with her and we went to Kroger. I was putting Skylar in the car and my significant (or Insignificant) other was putting away the groceries in the trunk.. Well he took the cart the cart corral and didn't notice Skylar's blanket was still in the cart! We got home and Skylar was asking for her "B" and it was gone. We rushed back to Kroger and it wasn't in lost and found. One of the employees said he just threw it away... REALLY? a homemade quilt? So we had no choice but to dumpster dive for her precious B and have it washed well.  After that we made a rule that has very little exceptions.. B doesn't leave the house LOL.
Here are pictures of Skylar and her B. Yes the cat has grown with her tooo.




William and his blankets. My friend Erica was PCSing and she left some stuff at my house until she returned from a trip to Washington. Two of the items which were blankets. I guess there was some misunderstanding about the blankets and they got left behind... I am kinda grateful but feel bad at the same time. These are just average Target blankets I am guessing half is silky and the other half is softy minky fabric... William loves them. We have them in two colors blue and red. Sometimes he wants one more than the other and I am trying to wash them enough to keep them clean but the minky is loosing its softness and becoming matted down. There was also this pink pillow he couldn't do without until it got so bad it just HAD to go LOL.. Those blankets aren't even his baby blanket!

I was talking with the receptionist at the school about it and she said her son used to rub the blanket between his fingers. William does this too since both sides have a different fabric he's been known to do it to my hair as well. She said her son now rubs his belt loops on his pants till they break LOL.

I had this blanket made with his name on it blue camo minky dot to match his crib bedding. 

and he came home from the hospital with this blanket and this outfit..

and when they don't have their respective blankets that don't mind sleeping with my oldest son's Scooby doo blanket that I mentioned earlier in the story...believe it or not Mackenzie's blanket has only needed one small fix. If all velour blankets were made this way... It is one of the warmest softest blankets ever as well.. Just not quite long enough to keep my feet warm.. You can find it on my bed most days.

Wednesday November 19, 2014: No, seriously. I saw it on the news.

People that follow one of my Facebook profiles I do post news links quite a bit.. they could be silly, gruesome, and weird. Hell I even posted the link of Kim Karatrashian trying to break the internet when it obviously didn't break it just made my eyes see something that can't be unseen and completely unnecessary. At least a few times a week I post a link about news in my local news with the phrase-- we gotta hit our weird quota. You remember that guy, Hide yo kids- hide yo wife guy? Yeah that guy... that's the town closest to me err we are like a suburb of that town. We just seem to get a bunch of odd ducks in this town. I am from Los Angeles and Atlanta before moving here and I just don't recall the magnitude of weird that we have. Perhaps there was so much odd stuff there that it would be too much to report on? There has been reports like Antoine Dodson's 5 minutes of fame... oh but his story just keeps getting better!

There is the guy who is building a fence around his beautiful old house to protect HIMSELF while he repairs that beautiful old house. The city said wrong fence its a hazard (frankly an eye source and it doesn't do the beautiful house justice) because he wants to build it a fortress. So then he said fine I will sell the house off shingle by shingle- heartbreaking. My question to the crazy ole coot that owns the house if you fear for your safety enough to not repair the house 1) how are you building the fence? 2) How do you plan on pulling the shingles off the roof? Its an historic house in the bad part of town so its not profitable to save according to the city's historical society. Its truly my favorite house here. Just two crazy coots that own it!

Then of course the pictures that are occasionally posted by someone with their recent hunting trophy tied to the front of their truck while going through drive thru at Taco Bell. The person driving around town with a lazy boy in the back just encase someone needs tail gate seating maybe? You don't understand these people and their SEC. This place has news for the weird!


 

Girl Talk Tuesday..

I don't know about you but getting a teenage daughter is nerve racking for me! I think I want to start a new meme of sorts... Girl talk? I ask questions (hopefully not too inappropriate?) and you can provide some feedback. Some questions are about my teenager and some may be more geared toward me. 

What is the best advice you were given when your daughter started to blossom into a teen? I don't have a mom in my life presently so I am doing this pretty much all alone! EEK!

When did you start wearing make up? How about your daughter?

What are some of the rules and guidelines you have for your teen? Dating? Make up? Short sorts? Specific dresses? Wearing certain clothing? What are your rules?