Sunday Social - Alice and Minnie

Next one down on my siggy line...

Anne,
Wife of Fred for 23 years
Mom of:
Patrick (17)
James (17)
Rosie (14)
Bella(14)
Julie (13)
Daniel (12)
My children around the world:
Milly in Taiwan
Eun Hae in South Korea
Felice in Hong Kong
Nadya in Germany
Obrin in New York
And our critters Blue, Sunny, Cindy-Lou, Annabelle, Fiona, and Sophie; Mamfy, Mali, Milky and Punkin; Nick; Frog 1; Charlie and Dizzy; Minnie and Alice; Elfie, Frex, Crope, Tibbit and Ozzy; Genevieve, Pippin and Finnegan; and a dozen or so chooks.

I'd like to ask God why He allows
hunger, poverty, and injustice
in the world,but I'd be afraid
He'd ask me the same thing ...

Is Minnie and Alice.






















Minnie is the daughter of two bunnies we bought many years ago that have since passed on. I don't have a picture of her, but she's white with black spots, and has a notch out of one ear. She's kind of skittish.

Alice is a Flemish Giant that the kids got as an Easter gift about two or three years ago.

She is roughly the size of a Bulldog.

She's awesome. She's friendly. She's soft. She's awesome.

Our bunnies don't live in hutches, but in a big walk-in enclosure in the barn. So it's kind of cool because we can just walk in to pet and cuddle.

And feed and water and clean up after.

So, yeah, that kind of stinks.

But have I mentioned they're soft and cuddly?

And awesome?





Also awesome? How much you all have moved me up in the ranks on TMB already. Amazing. Keep it up! Just a click of this button every day. Thank you!



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A Shoppin' We Will Go

I took a few kids shoppin' yesterday. To the mall.

A few meaning four teenaged girls and two teenaged boys.

















And here's what they had to say:

The boys:
Where's the Game Stop?
Can we eat now?
Can we leave yet?

The Girls:
Can we go to Tilly's now?
We're going to Pac-Sun.
I just got the cutest romper at Forever 21!
I got this necklace? And it was on sale? And it was only SIX DOLLARS!
Did you you see what she updated her Facebook status to? Un. Believable.
Delete that picture of me. NOW! I look HORRible!
Aero's is having a SALE!
Did she break up with David?
Do you like this dress?
They had the CUTEST boots!
They're going out. Yes they are. Yes they are.
Send me that picture.
They all think you're hot. Yes they do. yes they do.
They have NO good bathing suits. None.
I don't know. What do you think about this one?
Did you see what Brittany wrote on his wall?
Can you take a picture of me in this dress?
Can I please get this? p-l-e-a-s-e? I will die if I can't get this.
What??!! We're leaving? No, not yet!

Shoppping. It's a girl thng.









Image courtesy: shutterstock.com

Farm Friday - The Funny Farm

So for a while now I've been leading a double life:


I've kept 2 blogs.







Bringing Borya Home was public, and meant to keep readers abreast of adoption-related topics, where Life on the Funny Farm was private, and intended for inside stories only those in my inner circle would find interesting in the slightest.

But somehow things evolved and I got lazy and time passed and now here I am writing about anything and everything on an adoption blog while Funny Farm sits in a corner all lonely.

And I'm switching things.

I know I'll probably lose a lot of readers, but from now on, Funny Farm will be open to the public, and I will be posting there daily (just like I had been doing on BBH). I will still keep Bringing Borya Home open, but will probably only post there if it's an adoption-related topic.

For a good long while, I will post a link on BBH that will take you to the new post on Funny Farm, but to make it easier on yourself, consider adding Funny Farm to your blogroll, or subscribing in whatever way works for you (RSS feed, email, FB, Twitter, etc).

With your help and support, I'm sure we can build Funny Farm up to where you all have taken BBH in no time flat. I added the new blog onto TMB not so long ago, and though it started out in the 900s, it's now in the 200s and moving up every day. Will it ever get to the front page like BBH? I know with your help, it most certainly can.

Consider it a barn-raising.















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There's Just No Stoppin' This Girl.

My sister Mary Birdsong has been at it again.

As you know, she was recently seen on the big screen in The Descendants.

Tues night she was on Raising Hope.

But she's also going to be in the upcoming movie (still in production) Percy Jackson 2




AND,


we just found out she got cast in a new sitcom produced by Roseann Barr! It's called Downwardly Mobile and they'll start shooting next month.



Please form an orderly line for autographs.


Thanks for your vote!

Wordless Wednesday - Mud Auction

Passed by an auction on the way home from Lancaster last w/e, and decided to have a look-see. These things are called mud auctions. For a reason.

We saw buggies.
And wagons.
And throngs of black jackets and straw hats.
And mud.
Lots of mud.
And cuteness so sticky sweet I needed a root canal.




































Thanks for voting!

A Tip For Tuesday - March

Because it's March,
in like a lion, out like a lamb

I bring you two tips.

One for the lion-like weather:


No-sew firewood carrier made from a cloth grocery bag.













And one for the lamb-like weather that awaits us:



Keep the bugs out of your drinks with cupcake liners!













Thanks, Pinterest.


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Sunday Social - Charlie and Dizzy

Next one down on my siggy line...

Anne,
Wife of Fred for 23 years
Mom of:
Patrick (17)
James (16)
Rosie (14)
Bella(14)
Julie (13)
Daniel (12)
My children around the world:
Milly in Taiwan
Eun Hae in South Korea
Felice in Hong Kong
Nadya in Germany
Obrin in New York
And our critters Blue, Sunny, Cindy-Lou, Annabelle, Fiona, and Sophie; Mamfy, Mali, Milky and Punkin; Nick; Frog 1; Charlie and Dizzy; Minnie and Alice; Elfie, Frex, Crope, Tibbit and Ozzy; Genevieve, Pippin and Finnegan; and a dozen or so chooks.

I'd like to ask God why He allows
hunger, poverty, and injustice
in the world,but I'd be afraid
He'd ask me the same thing ...



Once again, please allow me to do a repost as a way of introducing our hamsters Charlie and Dizzy....


It began innocently enough on Friday afternoon. I took the girls and James out on a few shopping errands. We had a nice dinner out at Boston Market and then went by the pet store for our last errand: buying some small goldfish for our ponds.

As luck would have it, they were out of goldfish.

As luck would also have it, we had to walk past the warm furry pets to get to the cold scaly pets.

And of course, we walked right past a cage with little black and white hamsters sitting up on their hind legs looking for all the world like prairie dogs scoping their surroundings.

Adorable?

We asked the nice man to take one out.

We asked the nice man to put her back so we ould talk things over.

Three of the four kids wanted one. As in each. To be kept in their rooms.

I did my best to talk them down.

I told them to forget the 3 - 5 years life expectancy the nice man mentioned. More like 2 for a hamster. They were setting themselves up for more heartbreak.

I told them they would need to clean the cages themselves. They would need to fill the food and water dishes. They would need to handle them with care. The cute little hamsters could possibly bite if they were handled too roughly or not with enough frequency or if the mood struck them.

They would have to pay for them themselves. This little prerequisite knocked one of the kids out of the running as she had just blown through about half her allowance on junk at Five Below.

But the other two, James and Julie, still had cash burning a hole in their pockets from the nice people who gave them gifts for completing their church sacraments.

So much so that Julie even decided to spring for a new cage, though our attic probably has enough critter cages to start a small zoo.

So we grabbed a cart and started loading it up. How much stuff could two pocket rodents possibly need? The cage, 2 bags of bedding (b/c James wanted blue and Julie wanted confetti), food, water bottles, wood chews, little houses, treats,hay, and an exercise ball.

There was no room left in the cart for the actual hamsters.

But somehow we managed, and we got our new pets home and settled into their new digs.

The kids were disappointed when I told them they had to wait till the next day before they could handle their new pets so they could have some time to acclimate, but they made it. And last night they took them downstairs to hold and love and cuddle. And in the process of so doing, they lost one.

Yeah. Someone was holding one of them and she got freaked out when she started climbing up her arm and then she dropped her and then she was on the sofa and then behind the sofa and then under the sofa and the kids were frantically running around searching for their new lost pet and plugging up the air conditioning vents and in general just freaking out.

Oh the joy of being a small critter in our household.

And of course I was blissfully unaware of any of this b/c I was on the road picking up one of the other kids from a party.

But they found her and returned her to her cage before I got home and all was well with the world.

I don't hold out much hope for them. Better start saving the shoeboxes now.


Meet Charlie. Julie's hamster. Got cute?







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