My Kids Are The Bomb-Diggity!

My kids so rock! They are so awesome! I’m not biased or anything, I swear! Frealz! They made this treehugger SO HAPPY this morning! It’s my birthday today – yes, my 27th – and they bought me the most – no, the MOST perfect gifts!!! Wow – they just rock! Totally.

They know me, they listen to me, they understand me. They may turn their hormonal noses up at me, they may laugh at my ‘different’ ways, they may sometimes mock me. But under all that teenage angsty goofiness – they are hearing my messages loud and clear. What I’m about, what I believe, what I want for them – and the world. *cue high, prissy voice*

“I wish for world peace.”

Yes, that’s me – Miss America. Bwahahahahahahaha! Not. even. close. But I am out there, eccentric, and foofy. No, not foofy. Who knows – I am what I am – whatever that is. And it seems that my kids ‘get it’. Cool.

So check it out, lemme tell ya all the cool stuff they got for me.


~*~Sammie~*~ got me a gorgeous dragonfly necklace that she and I had seen at the store a few weeks ago. She remembered how much I liked it. I’ve been obsessed with dragonflies since the movie, Dragonfly, which I am also obsessed with – I don’t think I will ever get sick of watching that movie! Sammie likes to watch it with me some, but, she really likes to watch the end of it with me, because, she knows that no matter what – I’m going to bawl like a baby! As hard as I try not to – I just can’t help it. She thinks it’s hysterical. Rotten kid. Heh.

She also got me a dry erase calendar with extra dry erase markers. She knows I’m always looking for a better calendar to keep track of all of the millions of things the three of them have going on. And she said, “Mom, so you can save the trees.” Love that girl!

(Aside: You know, I never blogged about the awesome coffee table book about trees Mark bought me several years ago – I will definitely have to do that!)

~*~Shawn~*~ got me a really cool plant to have on my desk. We both had trouble pronouncing the name of it – it was funny. But I’m so happy to have one right on my desk – that is awesome! I have one other one in here – but, it’s huge, so it’s on the floor in front of the window. It’s my “Rosco/Tracy plant” – it’s very special to me, too. What a thoughtful gift from Shawn, though – love it!

The other thing Shawn got me is totally awesome and I have to say I’m rather surprised that one could be found for purchase in a small town in Alabama! It is a new squirrel feeder! Yea!!! I’m so excited! I love squirrels and I love having feeders for them! This will be my third one. I still have the other two, but, the first one is actually pretty eaten up by the squirrels themselves! LOL And the other one is a handmade one that is cool because a neighbor made it for me (he was a squirrel-lover, too) and that was sweet, but, it’s pretty ….uh….bland, you could say. This one Shawn bought is made from cedar and it is so nice. I’m hoping Mark will build a doohickey-post-thing on which I could put it right outside my office window. That would be very cool.

(And I just know the first time the family comes over, I’m gonna catch crap for it. I don’t care – let them spout off all they want. I like squirrels and they are very cool creatures.)

~*~Patrick~*~ made me a homemade card with a big butterfly inside it – I love butterflies! He also got me a keychain, not just any keychain – nope. It is a heart with a peace sign in the middle of it! Awesome! And I swear to you, just yesterday I was thinking that I would like a new keychain to add to my mess of keys and stuff! How cool is that?!

He also got me the most incredibly awesome antique hummingbird feeder that was ever made!!!! It is so cool! It’s made out of this green glass – like a soda bottle hanging upside down and it is so pretty!! I told him it’s so pretty that I almost don’t want to put it outside, because, I wanna just look at it! LOL!

He also got me a gigantonormous bag of squirrel seeds! Super cool!

Now do these kids ROCK or what!!!!!

Mark – KING of them all, my super sweet old man! ….is going to get me a new recliner!!!! Wooohoooo! Thank goodness – I haven’t had a recliner since I had to give up my last one in 2004. I cannnnnot wait! And for today – he got me some Turtle candies – YUMMMMMMMM…… and a musical card that has a Celine Dion song in it. (Celine Dion is uber important to me!)

What a SWEET family! Treating me all uber doober special on my birthday! They must be practicing up right for next year, when they may have to call the men in white coats to take me away! Ha!