Girl Scouting at its finest...

As I was leaving work one day last week I had a brief conversation with Michelle. It went something like this.

Michelle: “You’re leaving just in time. The rain just started.”
Me: “Oh, great.” (sarcastically)
Michelle: “Don’t you have your umbrella with you?”
Me: “Yes, I do. It’s right here in my purse.” : )
Michelle: “You’re like a freakin’ girl scout…always prepared.”

We both chuckled as I walked out the front doors, and popped my automatic umbrella open for the walk to my car. I was pleased that I had remembered to bring my umbrella in after hearing a weather report on my way to work stating, “Rain and possible thunderstorms expected this afternoon.”

Later that evening, I went tanning. Right as I walked in the door to the tanning place, my left flip-flop flipped its last flop. In other words, it broke and my foot went sliding out the front of my sandal. I scooted my foot back into the broken sandal and shuffled my feet across the floor to the check-in desk. Luckily no one saw my "flip-flop malfunction". After the girl behind the desk checked me in, she walked away and I picked up my shoe and hurried into my tanning bed room. When I lay down in the bed I started thinking, “how am I going to get out of here with a broken shoe?” (Keep in mind that it had been raining so the ground outside was wet and puddley.) Walking out barefoot was not an option in my mind. Then the light bulb went on. “I can use the rubber band from my ponytail to hold my foot and shoe together to make it to the car!” As soon as I was done tanning, I took my hair out of the ponytail to free up the rubber band for a greater purpose…instant shoe repair! Viola! It worked perfectly. Michelle would say that it was another “girl scout” moment : ) If I hit you up to buy cookies from me next spring, now you’ll know why…

Self Portrait Challenge

This month's theme is "your self portrait with someone else." Since I was having trouble accessing blogger earlier in the month I got a little bit behind on my photos. I've got one for this week though! Yippee! It's nothing creative, but it's one of my new favorite pictures of the hubby and me. This picture was taken at the 25th Anniversary party that Aaron, Nick, Jen and I had for my parents in August.

Adorable, as always

I've noticed that almost all of my pictures of baby Derek have Aaron and Derek in them, but I'm hidden behind the camera taking the pictures. I guess that's just a little sample of motherhood because if you look back through the pictures of me as a child you'll notice that most of the pictures were taken by my mom. Moms, or Aunts in my case, seem to be under-represented in pictures. Case in point: Uncle Aaron is feeding Derek a bottle. How cute is it that Derek is trying to "help" Aaron:)

My Bad "Biker" Husband

We had a family Labor Day party at my Grandma and Grandpa Connors' house and at the party Grandpa got the Aero Scooter out to take his younger grandkids (Rachel, Sarah, and Grant) for scooter rides. After the kids had their turn on the scooter, Aaron took the scooter out for a ride... After feeling the wind blow through his hair for a few minutes he came back into the yard and posed for some knarly "biker" pictures. Just look at that studlly man riding the motorscooter...swoon. That basket on the front is so sexy. He could bring groceries home in it...
Then my family, namely my Mom and Uncle Dale, got involved with the photo shoot. They said that no "bad biker" photo shoot is complete without the American flag draped around the "biker" or hanging galantly in the background...

Wow, these pictures are so good. They look like something right off the cover of Redneck Bikers Magazine (if there was such a thing).

Carol and Jerry, the real bikers in the family will be so proud...lol.

Blog problems...

I was having problems with my blogger account so this is the first time I've even been able to get on my account to write since Sept.1st! Enjoy:)

Grandboomers

My mom found the definition below on the www.wordspy.com site that I blogged about a few weeks ago and sent it to me. Good stuff! I have now decided that my future kids will call their grandparents, Grandbooma and Grandboompa Connors, and Grandbooma and Grandboompa Parkins…LOL.

P.S. To the future grandparents of my future children: I don’t like the idea of grandparents being called by their first name (as highlighted below) so I hope you don’t fit that part of the definition : ) AND, you better find time to bake cookies with our future kiddos because I like cookies and they’ll have to share with their mommy : ) (Cakes, breads, or candies would be acceptable items to make also.)


grandboomer (GRAND.boo.mur) n. A grandparent who is a part of the baby boom generation.
Example Citation:
Given the "boom" in baby boom, by the year 2006, there will be 80 million grandparents in the U.S. Nearly half of them will be boomers — the youngest, best educated and most active generation of grandparents in history. Already, the average age of first-time grandparents is a spritely [sic] 47. And these "grandboomers" are giving a whole new look to the role.—Karen von Hahn, "Grandspending," The Globe and Mail, November 30, 2002

Earliest Citation:
First it was grey hair and bifocals. Now baby boomers are adjusting to another sign of middle age: grandchildren.
But these neophyte grandboomers are bringing a new, informal style to grandparenting. Today's grandmother wears jeans and a T-shirt, wants to be called something other than Grandma (first names are getting the nod), probably works outside the home and is short on time to bake cookies.—Dorothy Lipovenko, "Boomers' next hurdle: grandchildren," The Globe and Mail, August 7, 1996

Notes:
The leading edge of the baby boom turns 57 this year, so it's not surprising that a good chunk of them are grandparents. In fact, more than a quarter of the cohort — around 20 million of the 78 million boomers in the U.S. — now have grandkids to dote on. Boomers-as-grandparents stories have been around since at least 1996, the year the oldest boomers turned 50 (and the same year the word grandboomer first appeared). As this first wave of boomers approaches 60, expect to see many more such articles and, since these are baby boomers we're talking about, expect most of these stories to talk about how these boomers are revolutionizing grandparenthood (as, so we've been told, they already revolutionized dating, marriage, and parenthood in previous stages of the boomer era).