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I never do anything by the book. Sometimes that’s good and refreshing but mostly it just drives people crazy.

Well, I’m at it again. My mind has woke me up at EVIL O’clock in the morning with ideas and ah-ha moments about this blog of mine. Most know that I’m in the middle of a redesign…but did you know I’m trying to learn the backend coding myself? Yessirree Bob!  I haven’t done this kind of stuff since the 90’s. It’s actually kind of fun…I’m learning about hooks and em padding, blah, blah, blah.

All that to say, I won’t be writing another post until Monday…when this blog will be completely transformed into shock and awe, baby…shock and awe.

I will never say this again…stay away from this blog..until Monday. If you come over here before then, you might get scared…or hurt. If you’re just that nosy (like me!) then be sure to wear a hardhat because code will be flying.

Wish me luck!

Image by ooh_food via Flickr

Confession: I was horrible at reading to my children when they were tiny guys. I couldn’t get them to sit still on my lap so why fight it? Once they got to about 4, they were ready and so was I. I started reading to them every night before going to bed. My youngest son deals with nightmares a lot but I noticed when I would read exciting stories to him before he fell asleep, the nightmares stayed away.

So now they’re 6 and 10 and we still read almost every night before they drift off to sleep. We’ve moved from cute little books to adventure series. Some of our favorites – heavy on the ‘our’ because my husband and I are pretty much immature like that:

Artemis Fowl
H.I.V.E
39 clues
The Keys to the Kingdom

This list is obviously for kiddos who are very much into super cool fights, saving the day and all that jazz.

What series would you add to this list? We’re always looking for something new.

This week Works For Me Wednesday is over at Rocks In My Dryer.

[This is a writing assignment that was first prompted in our Writers Workshop with some incredible Hallmark writers at Blissdom and Casey from Moosh In Indy and Stephanie from Adventures in Babywearing. The key is that you write with pen and paper for 3 minutes about a couch from your lifetime. You're supposed to write in present tense, but I just couldn't with this couch. It took me back...I was instantly 8 years old...]

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I hate having chicken pox! It’s everywhere and I can’t stop itching!

…sigh…

That’s it…I need another body scratch. I just knew this turquoise shag carpet would come in handy!  Oh…yeaaaaahhhh….

I’m burning now…hot, hot, hot! Back on the couch…back on the couch!!!

Ahhhhh….it’s so cool and soothing to my chicken disease. Good thing, it’s burnt orange…hopefully my bleeding scabs won’t show up so bad.

Good grief…I’m so bored.

If I watch Electric Company one more time, I’m gonna start screaming, “HEY, YOU GUUUUUYS!”.

Man, this couch is awesome. It’s just puffy enough. I can rest my head on the arm and it doesn’t make my neck stiff. Maybe I should just drift off for a bit before the itching comes back.

Heh…I love it how if I push the velveteen threads this way, the couch is one color and another color if I push it that way. But it’s hard to spell my name just right.

Oh shoot! A thread just came out…oh look…I can pull another one out.

Hee, hee…it’s kind of soothing… just picking and picking.

Should I scratch or pick?

[pick, pull, pick, pull]

Oh no…there’s a big patch missing! How did that happen?

Maybe I can blame Hulkman…that won’t work, she’ll know I’m lying. Dang it.

I need to distract her…”Mooom! I don’t feel so good…*whimper*…can you pray for me?”

*Wink*