Heat Wave + Bored Teen Girls = Katy Perry Movie

I love the movies.
Always have.
Always will.

And I love it even more than usual when we're smack-dab in the middle of a blinkin' heat wave.

So yesterday, I took my girls (and niece Amanda) to see the Katy Perry movie.

I like Katy Perry, I do. But if I'd had my druthers, I would have chosen a different flick.

You Moms know, I don't need to tell you: we rarely get our druthers.

Anyway, I went, and I have to say...

I LIKED it.

I have my problems with Katy Perry where role models for young girls are concerned. But she saves herself in my eyes with her song "Firework", as that's about as inspirational a song for my daughters as a Mom could hope for.

Anyway, I actually found myself crying at the sad parts. Can you say dipping hormone levels? Crying. At a Katy Perry movie.

That's unheard of, right? Tell me that's unheard of.










Anyway, I'm over it now. I pretended I got some popcorn salt in my eye, amd I wiped a tear and pulled up my big girl britches and moved on.





Now if you'll excuse me, Fred got me an iPod for our anniversary, and I need to go download a few tunes.....





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I'm joining up yesterday's post "Farm Friday - If You Give A Mouse To Granny C" with two blog hops today:

1)Country Momma Cooks

and 2)The Saturday Pet Blogger Hop over at Life With Dogs. Check it out!
















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Farm Friday - If You Give a Mouse to Granny C...

As you may remember, I've been training Bella's Rat Terrier, Cindy Lou Who, to hunt rats, which are the scourge of our barn.





And not so long ago, she caught her first....

The night before, she was hell-bent on getting at something in the heat baseboards. She was going at it, scratching and clawing and just going nuts, but to no avail.

The next morning, my Dad and stepmother (Granny C) were sitting at the dinner table, talking over a cup of coffee. They were visiting with us from Kentucky, a wonderful treat that doesn't happen often enough.

Granny C is an accountant by trade, and is a very mannerly, button-down gentlewoman.

I'm sure you can tell where this is going.

Yeah. Cindy Lou once again started going berserk over something in the baseboards. Only this time? She got it. A mouse. Or maybe a small rat? It was in that in-between place that it's hard to tell.

But she got it out from under the baseboards and carried it with head held high and legs a-prancing, making a bee-line for you-know-who.

She walked right under the table with it and dropped it at her feet. Granny C was a model of deportment. She shut her eyes and tensed up, but remained where she was with an "I never did mind about the little things" smile on her face.

As I was getting a paper towel to scoop the rodent up with, my youngest child, 12 year old Daniel, began a running commentary on the events:

"Look, Cindy dropped the rat right next to Granny C's feet!"
"Awesome, there's blood on the floor!"
"Oh my gosh, it's still moving!"

With each exclamation, Granny C's body tensed tighter and tighter, her eyes squeezed closed just a little more, and her smile grew slightly wider across her face. But never once did she yelp, never once did she jump up onto her chair and scream in holy terror, never once did she race across the room like the hounds of hell were on her heels.






I don't know if Miss Manners has ever handled the question:

How does one behave if one's host's dog drops a partially dead rodent at one's feet?

But I just know she would have been proud of Granny C's reaction.



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I'm linking up today's post with the barn hop at Deborah Jean's Dandelion House. Come check it out!















(Vintage Apron patterns)

Looky What I Got!

I got a new car!

Out with the old (222,000+ miles)...

And in with the new (55 miles).

It's a Subaru Forester, and I love it!

I'm actually keeping the old one (my Yukon) for the kids to learn to drive in, and to use when I'm taking all the kids somewhere. But the new one I'll use when I'm just driving one or two kids around, or for running errands or what-have-you.

Yay me!


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I'm linking my post "Farm Friday - Floating" with A Rural Journal Blog hop today. Come on over and join in the fun!


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Wordless Wednesday

Pictures by Rosie.

Happy 4th of July!!!

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I'm linking up my post "Grooming Your Cockatiel" with Finding the Funny on My Life and Kids. Come join the fun!

Also joining the Big Family 4th of July Blog Hop on SixSuitcase Travel. Check it out!




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Attachment Tuesday - A Link to Learn From!

I am so very grateful to my network of friends, both cyber and irl (in real life), from whom I receive knowledge and support when it comes to the world of raising kids of trauma.

My friend Denise from Fostering a Blessing wrote this post about attachment last week.

This is a wealth of information. Seriously, it's like a mini course on attachment, go check it out.

Great job, Denise!



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By the way, my apologies for yesterday. I had a guest post link up, but the hosting site didn't have my post up till today. You can check it out now, if you missed it yesterday. I'm at Gadget Girl Tips.


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I'm linking up today's post with Heavenly Homemakers "Gratituesday". Come join!



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Mirth Monday Becomes (for today) Guest Posting on Gadget Girl

Today I'm guest-posting over on Holan Kerrick's blog Gadget Girl Tips.

I know what you're thinking...

Why is a gal who doesn't know an IP from a URL guest-posting on a technology blog?

Well, it's true, I don't know much (cough - anything - cough) about technology, but I DO know kids. I'm kinda like an expert in that department, though I'm still waiting for any awards that would verify that claim.

Anyway, my post is called "Why I'm Not Friends With My Teen," so it's more about Facebook, and age appropriateness, and when to allow independence, than about anything technical, but Ms Kerrick, in her infinite graciousness, thought it fit the bill of somehow discussing technology and she let me guest post.

She is all kinds of awesome.

So. Gadget Girl Tips. Go check it out.



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PS: Must have gotten our wires crossed, b/c the post went up today, 7/3. If you click the link now, it will take you to my guest post. Thanks for your patience!



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Oh, and one more thing. I'm linking up my post "Farm Friday - Floating" on the Barn Hop over at Homestead Revival today. Come join the fun!

Inspiration Sunday Becomes (for today) Guest Posting With Meena Rose

Today I am guest-posting over on the blog "Through the Eyes of Meena Rose".

Some of you may be familiar with my story about meeting my daughter Bella? That would be the guest post Meena is hosting.

Go check it out!



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There was a delay, initially, but it's up now. Click on over!




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