Orphans. Do you see these two sweet children?
Brett still needs a mama. Iris finally has a family committed to her and they are compiling their dossier to send to her country.
Click on their names to see their Reece’s Rainbow pages.
eScapegoat. Do you need to atone for your sins? You’re in luck! In Biblical times, the high priest would attach the sins of Israel to a goat and set it free in the wilderness. These days, you can do it all online!
A note to my black cat. Edda, I love you very much. You are a wonderful house panther with a coat made of satin. Having said that, you are very difficult to see at 1 a.m. when I’m staggering to the bathroom and it means that I might accidentally step on your tail. I’m sorry if I do but you should have let me put that glow-in-the-dark collar on you so I could know where you are.
Snuggles,
Mommy
Hiccups. I’ve got pretty bad hiccups right now. Sometimes, I’ll get them pretty badly and I guess this is one of those times. Want to leave me your favorite hiccup cures in the comment section? Please and thank you. 🙂
Word, Kelly. Kelly at This Ain’t The Lyceum has a wonderful post on the problems with Halloween costume companies. Seriously? A zombie sock monkey costume? A bat fairy? Sexy “Oscar the Grouch”? I am so not looking forward to picking out Daniel’s Halloween costume.
Book Club. (No, I’m not part of one.) I’m currently reading Sundays in America by Suzanne Strempek Shea and I still want to smack her every time she brings up how gays and lesbians would not be welcome at the churches. Princess, you don’t know that! Of course, next on Mount TBR is Pastorix by Nadia Bolz-Weber who has a habit of not being safe for work… or admitting I know in the presence of parishioners. (If you don’t know who she is and why this might be controversial, the website for the book is here.) I don’t necessarily agree with her on many things but she has a habit of saying things that I think the Church at large needs to hear about grace.
Sigh. The Giants are playing the Dodgers and the Dodgers are ahead by a run. It’s going to be a rather irritating night if they win. (For those who are new, I grew up rooting for the Giants and my husband Jon is a fan of the Other Team.) Then again, the Giants could pull this out of the bag but I’m not holding my breath given their current season and place in the standings.
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HAHAHA I have totally done that to Milo and Pierre and they aren’t BLACK..Pierre kind of us but he just likes to get in your way.
I love the eScapegoat! My sister finds it slightly offensive, because the goat is not without blemish. 😀
Also, #5 makes me happy that halloween is not celebrated here. I find fun and creative costumes for my kids each year. Provided, we hardly ever buy the pre-made, plastic stuff, but use our own creativity… but yeah, the sexy minions are more than I can take.
I have a constant fear that I will step on Buttercup, not on her tail, but like on her BODY in the middle of the night. I try to look and make sure she’s not around, but it makes me so panicky because she’s so tiny and I’m so… not tiny. I went so far as to bookmark the nearest 24 vet in case lol. I am thinking that glow in the dark collar might be a wise investment!
*24 hr
Chris has stepped on Sammy. In the day light. At our old place, the stairs were covered in this brownish-grey industrial carpet (rental!) and she blended in well with it. She loved to hang out on the stairs. Chris was going down the stairs, and Sammy did NOT move. He felt horrible, but she’s OK 🙂
Glow in the dark collar on a black cat = seemingly glowing lines darting back and forth in the middle of the night. Warn the entire family (and any overnight guest) as to not alarm anyone.
I have a dog, not a cat, but when we moved this summer I got a glow-in-the-dark tag instead of the regular one (same cost!) and now I am much less likely to step on her when she randomly decides to sleep in the bathroom on the bath mat.
Hiccups cure — breathe in slowly for a count of seven, hold breath for another count of seven, slowly exhale for yet another count of seven. Repeat. Sometimes it takes a few minutes but it’s the only cure which works for me (I’ll get extremely painful hiccups, so I get desperate for a cure.)
Thankfully Halloween always falls during our camping season. The kids trick or treat around the camper and no costume required!