Blog awards #B (part of the first one)

This is part B of the Blog Award I received from MENOPAUSAL NEW MOM! She made my day yesterday! So I am passing along to some more blogs I love:

Pearl, Why you little...

Olive Juice

How to become a Cat Lady. ..without the cats

Sassy Britches

Sex and the Suburbs

The Pregnant Housewife

The Road to Here

Thunder from a Quiet Storm

The World According to the Donut Girl

A View from the Edge

There are more that I really really like but now I've got to  go find these folks and the Phillies REALLY REALLY need to me right now! Bottom of the 7th  and we are behind.

All  of  you are soo wonderful! I have had such fun reading all of your pages!

YOU made me kackle today!!

Hugs to all!!

AWARDS #2!!!

Ya know, I'm thinking I could be doin' these awards for the next THREE weeks!! I go scrolling through the ones I read and think: OOH!! This one needs an award!! OOH!! Here's another one!! And since MENOPAUSAL NEW MOM awarded me with THREE!! OH MAN OH MAN!! I could go on Forever!!
So here is another batch.

The Honest Scrap Award comes with some rules too. In order to accept it you must list 10 honest things about yourself and then pass the award along to seven other bloggers.

Ten things about me. hmmmmm. .

1. I am the mother of 5 kids. 2 boys, oldest 33, youngest 23. 3 girls, oldest would be 31, middle 26, youngest, 25.
2. I am the MiMi of 4 grands. 2 by blood, twin boys from my middle daughter, 1 girl by marriage from youngest daughter and 1 girl from a young man that I "adopted' many years ago.
3. I have 4 of those 'adopted' boys. Ranging in age from 22 to 28. One is in Iraq, one is a papa, one is roaming the country and one is working nights so I don't see him much at all. All of good friends of my youngest.
4. I love animals. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, rabbits, all animals. Weeeeell, not snakes, rats or mice.
5. Music. I love country music. 'Specially Trace Adkins. OHHH YUMMMMMY! Someone had me a napkin! I like classical, oldies, listening to bluegrass a little more. Working on having a variety of music in my house.
6. I draw sometimes dabble in paints. Maybe I"ll post some one day.
7. I love to read books. Murder mystery, romance, but not ewwwy ones, funny books, etc.
8. I have a temper. Flashes pretty good, pretty fast. Working on not letting me take control.
9. I am a 53 year old college student that totally loves going to school.
10. I love to make people laugh. I never ever want to make someone feel bad because of something I have said or done. I am working on making everyone around me feel better which is the reason for this blog. Lookign for the good. Though this morning I totally missed the mark. I apologize.

Now I have to look for 7 writers that I want to send this to. Hmmm. Here I go a thinkin' . .

Pearl, why you little. .

Olive Juice

How to become a cat lady. . .without the cats

Sassy Britches

Sex and the Suburbs

The Pregnant Housewife who I found through her Not so Glamorous Housewife page

The Road to Here
I love all of these and so many more! I feel like I have new friends!

Hugs!!

My heart hurts today.

Today, I am a whiner, a crybaby and my heart hurts. No kacklin today.

In case you didn't know, I went back to college, for reals, not just a class or two, last January (1/2008). I had raised my kids and had helped my oldest daughter, Chere, with her boys, twins, Marshal and Gabriel, almost 9, through the summer of '07 as she worked nights for the last three years. I took a little ceramics class that got me hooked. So I decided to take classes and get my Accounting degree. (I've been doing bookkeeping stuff since I was a teen. My parents had their own business and Mom taught me how to do accounting then.)

I have made all A's except 2 B's. 3 classes of Algebra didn't count because they were remedial (since I graduated in '74, I was rusty.)So finally this semester I qualified for enough time and grade point average to be invited to join Phi Theta Kappa, The Honor Society of Two year colleges. It was soo cool! I wasn't an Honor Student in HS, except, for maybe in partying. (I honestly could out drink most anyone there. What a feat, right?) I was the rebel that thumbed my nose at my parents. I was nice to everyone else. Well, except maybe Baby Bro. Now Baby Bro is 6-2 and towers over me. (I HAVE to be nice to him now..Or he will take me for a ride in his car. .SCARY!)

So anyways, last night was induction into this Fraternity. I invited a total of 7 people. 5 of which was family. No one came. NOT ONE. My youngest daughter called as I was on the way home. She had already told me she wouldn't be coming but I was hoping anyway. My youngest son was even off yesterday. But no, he didn't come either. My oldest son lives in another town so he couldn't come. My middle daughter wishes me dead. So today, I am crying. My heart hurts. Tomorrow, I will be better but today, not so much.

Hugs to all,