Happy Easter

The great thing about Holidays and writing something is that you can skate and actually get away with a simple:

HAPPY EASTER to Family, Friends and Strangers that stop by from time to time!

Now if you have been following the bouncing ball all along, you probably have figured out that skating isn't in theses fingers yet... I'll save the one sentence blogs for the midnight feeding, where I have to pick between typing away or holding Dot just right...

Day was 180 degrees away from yesterday... Little guy snuck into our bed around 7 am, Toots was already up and putting her clothes on... command center says eyes.... Little Guy and I hung out while we waited for Big Sis to arise... Low and behold the princess was up before the lunch wagon pulled into to town... Kiddos and I, had a nice breakfast while Toots was off doing something with her eyes... Yes Little Guy and I watched Spongebob...

After lunch, Toots and Big Sis headed to the mall... All I got from Toots is it is getting harder to shop with Big Sis... She is like you in a store... Big Sis let me know that no matter what I picked out Mom said.. .No.... Probably a good thing, I have seen what Big Sis will buy when left to her own devices or when shopping with me...

Little Guy hung with a friend all afternoon... Me I had the fun job of cleaning out, rearranging, straightening up... the garage... Looks pretty good... At least I thought.. On the Nester's return from shopping, she didn't say great, didn't say about time... I got, you missed something under your tool chest... 36 more days and than she won't care if I have an engine block from a 69 Chevy sitting in my garage bay.... as long as she can get the beast in on her side...

Evening was filled with the sounds of Easter carols... OK it wasn't, cause there aren't any such thing... The evening was spent thick in the smells of vinegar and colored fingers... .I mean eggs... Some serious sibling rivalry was in play, Big Sis reverted to designing eggs and dyeing in secrecy.. Little Guy did the next best thing... waited until Sis put her eggs in the holder to see what interesting design.... On the subject of Dyeing eggs, I have always thought and assumed that the only egg coloring product out there was Paas... Toots didn't get Paas, she got something else... Maybe I am wrong but why has it taken all these years for someone to come out with a competing food color pill that is dropped in vinegar and water... Stuff the kids used tonight seems to have worked OK.. I will let you know if in the morning the color is faded or chipping...

Best line of the day.. Big Sis said.. you know one of the cool things about Dot coming.. Christmas and Santa Clause, Easter and the Bunny, the tooth fairy and other traditions will continue.. that means we (Little Guy and Big Sis) will get to enjoy the benefits of Santa, Easter and Tooth fairy for more years... I told her to do the math and asked if she planned on still enjoying Santa, you need to realize that you will be almost 20 and sitting on his lap in a store... That your tooth fairy money won't be coming due to you losing your baby teeth but instead from pulled molars.. She was fine with it....

Second best line of the Day... Little guy and his friend tell me they are hungry... I get some cookies and other very nutritious foods for them... an hour goes by and I notice the cookies still on the counter... I ask if they are going to eat them.. and to my surprise Little Guy did a dead on impression of Toots.. Saying to his friend, you know my Dad works real hard to put food on the table.. you better eat those cookies... I was honestly waiting for.. you know there are kids in China that don't know what cookies are...

Counter chatter... got some odd looks about my counter talk last night... O' well can't please every one all the time... If I had to explain everything I type, that would take the fun out of typing it... Tonight a more traditional counter review... O' Sh*T, 36 days... Way I see it, I have 6 more days before the full court press is on, so much could happen in those last 30 days... the biggest being that my counter is wrong and Dot decides to come early... So in the grand scheme of things it is 36 bottle of beer on the wall.. one falls down.. we ....

Honestly, it is coming fast.. my one wish is that when the counter starts going north ( Counting up) that the days drag on and on, cause I don't want to miss a single day.. I want to enjoy and savor each second with Dot, Little Guy and Big Sis... Cause that timer is going to be at 20 plus years faster than I know it...

Discovered something about this blog.. the ads that are on the side and bottom actually are based on the content of what I write... all you have to do is click on the topic and the sidebar ads reflect what I have written... last night, I mentioned Johnny Cash, so the adds on the side were for Johnny Cash memorabilia... this makes a new challenge for me.. I want to be as sublime as possible in references and see if the ad monster picks it up.. if and when it works I will let you know..

Enjoy your Easter... Thanks for stopping by and keep those cards and letters coming in...