My Son, the Doctor!

“Mom, what is this?” My 4 year old son asked while squeezing behind his knee.

“That is a tendon”, I said, “It connects the muscle to the bone”. He then proceeded to ask about his forearm bones and because he was game I pointed out his ear cartilage, and leg muscles. He walked away doing his silly strong man act. But I got the message loud and clear. Not a future engineer as formally predicted. With this kind of anatomical curiosity he is most certainly a future doctor! Continue reading

Old Timey Words

My neighbors often have a table of free stuff on their front lawn. Sometimes bigger things too including furniture but they are usually old MDF pieces that are close to the end of their life cycle therefore not worth taking. No matter what they have, my daughter wants it. Sometime I will take the long way in order to not have to pass it because I hate saying no.

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Red Star Balloon

Star Balloon (pen & ink on marker paper, colorized in Gimp)

The other day I saw a star shaped red star balloon escaping in the sky.  Later I drove by an open house with the same red balloons out front.  Even so I couldn’t help but be reminded of one of childhood’s biggest disappointments.

Along with your ice cream scoop toppling off its cone and onto the ground, accidentally letting go of a balloon is right up there with the major tragic events of childhood!

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Top 10 favorite vehicles

There are certain vehicles I love to bump into when out on the road (not literally)!  The other day I saw the most amazing shine new cement truck.  It looked like a giant toy truck and filled me with child like excitement!  So without further ado, the list…

1. Cement truck

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Poem

I am very excited to be participating in NaBloPoMo again this month with Blogher!  The theme this month is poetry and while in general I do not plan to follow the writing promps, I do like poetry, so I might sprinkle it in to my mix of good stuff.  This one is called “Poem”.

Bow ‘em

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