I Won A Prize.

A couple months back I entered a contest.  With this contest you needed to go visit the featured blogger on Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground and then leave a comment on the featured bloggers post letting them know that you were visiting from Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground.  Real simple and it was fun.  I found a lot of really cute, amazing, and inspiring blogs this way.


So when you left a comment you were entered in the drawing for, I think, three different prizes.  And I won!!!  Whoot! Whoot! as my oldest son would say.  Now I am sure you are all wondering where on earth I am going with this.  Well..........

I won a prize, for participating, from Lynnette, who resides at Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground, and she lives back east, which means that she lives on the east side of the Mississippi River.  OK, so the prize I won is from another Lynette at Janey Mac Press, who lives 45 minutes away from where I live.  I picked the Dandylion's which are shown next the the couch on the upper right corner, except for mine are a little bit smaller.  Her stuff is really cute and you should all check it out.

This may not seem all that interesting or blog worthy, but I really thought it was quite an unusual occurance.  What are the chances of me, midRae, participating in a contest hosted on a blog that has a home many many many miles away, like thousands, winning, and the prize being located just right in my back yard?  Figure the odds on that.

Love to All,

midRae

PS.........I'll post a picture of my prize as soon as I pick a wall to put it on.  I am so excited!!!  :)

HALLOWEEN! (at old folks houses)

As you all are aware, my three sons are pretty much all grown up.  The oldest has married and moved out, the second works full time, has a sweetheart, still lives at home, and is his own person, and the youngest is tailEnd, whom you've all met.  So how in the world would I have anything to post about when it comes to Halloween, other than the fact that midMan and I handed out our candy to the 15 Trick-or-Treaters that we had, then we turned off all of the lights and went upstairs to watch a movie, just midMan and I.  And we all know you guys really don't want to hear about our boring night anyways.


But look!!!  I do have a few photos, nothing grandiose, but a few photos just the same to share.

My sweet middle child concentrating really hard to get that make up just right.  He loves the holidays and I think he looks forward to them all much more than he ever lets on.  He will always be my sweet, wonderful, middle Dayt.

Here is sweet Dayt with his cute sweetheart, Shannel.  They both love cookies and cold cereal in a cup, with milk of course.  And they both love to spend time with Shannel's nieces and nephews, they took them Trick-or-Treating on Halloween.  What fun they always have in most things that they take on, they truly do love adventure.

And of course we have tailEnd.  Yup, this is his costume.  Took some major imagination on his part, NOT!!!!  He wasn't going to go out Trick-or-Treating but when his friends came to the door, he sucked down his dinner in three bites, grabbed his pillow case, and ran.  And of course we didn't see him for the next 2 hours.  They hit the Trunk-or-Treat at the church and then they managed to visit each and every house in our neighborhood, and I promise that is quite a few houses. 

When tailEnd finally made it home he tried to weigh his candy, it wouldn't work with my scale but he did have a pillowcase halfway full.  He dumped it out and then proceeded to pick out all of the really good chocolate candy and left us with lots of Smarties and Suckers.  Oh, and this morning I grabbed a pack of Candy Corn that was in his reject pile and decided he was really smart in rejecting the Candy Corn.  I think it had to of been from 10 years ago, it was hard as a rock! 

I guess that's what I get for having no will power lately. 

Love to All,

midRae

One Word Wednesday

FLAMINGO'S

What?!  In the mountains?!

Love to All,

midRae

Honest Scrap Award

Whoa, who would have guessed it?  My new friend at Planes, Trains and Automobiles and the Things That Make Up Days, has awarded me with the Honest Scrap Award, which is given to others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.  What was she thinking?  But I think she's really great and you all should visit her.

This award comes with some rules as well:


1) You must thank the person who gave the award and list their blog and link it.
2) Share "10 Honest Things" about yourself.
3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.
4) Tell those 7 people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving the award.
 
My '10 Honest Things' about me:
 
1.  I have a love/hate relationship with blogging.  I love the fun of it all and how crazy it can get, but sometimes, just like this weekend, I hate to even look at a computer.
 
2.  I really really hate to shop for clothes.  Just give me jeans and a t-shirt and I'm set.  To bad the bosses don't like my idea of what's best for midRae.
 
3.  I love to serve my family.  I have this thing, that if they are not happy I am not happy.  I really need to work on that.
 
4.  I have a really structured and boring life.  I plan each day and if you throw something in there that I have not planned on you will make my head spin and the evil midRae will rear her ugly head for about 30 seconds.  Then I get it all under control.
 
5.  I secretly wish that I could be a stay at home mom.  The only problem with that is that all of my children are pretty much grown.  Can I just be a stay at home?
 
6.  I have the uncanny ability, most of the time, to just know what is wrong when things break down.  My midMan just hates this and I try really hard not to say 'I told you so." to often.
 
7.  I loved watching tailEnd play football and would be totally excited if he decided to play next year.  Right now it doesn't look like he is going too, and I won't tell him because I don't want him to play if he doesn't want to.
 
8.  I love taking photos but I have so much to learn and I am so afraid of taking college classes to get that knowledge.  It's been a really long time since I was in school and things have changed and college is so much more that high school ever could be.  Oh, see another thing; I've never been to college.  Do I really want to start now?
 
9.  I am an eternal optimist and I am so happy that I am.  I love to find the bright side of everything.  The only problem with that is, that I try to make everybody else see the bright side, too.  Too bad that doesn't always work or go over very well.  Some people just need to be not so happy to be happy.
 
10. I really hate for my house to be dirty, but I have really slacked off this past summer, and I really need to get on it, like big time, before Thanksgiving, because I think I may have at least 15 family members at my house this year, and that does not include my kids or there sweethearts.  Whoa, what did I get myself into?
 
And that, my friends, is the Honest Truth.  Maybe a little to much honest truth for me.
 
 And now to nominate seven other bloggers that totally rock my world.
 
1.  Creative Catharsis
2.  Billy & Sherrie Carpenter Family
3.   nienie
4.   Overstuffed
5.  We're Glad! Are You?
6.   Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground
7.   Confessions Of A CF Husband
 
Love to All,
 
midRae 
P.S.  I really do wish I could have nominated more great and amazing friends.  Maybe I will figure something out to recognize all of the wonderful people who have touched my life in so many ways. 

Not Me Monday.....

Sooooo......as you guessed, it's that time of the week again and it looks like McKMama is dealing with other, more important issues, namely her baby boy Stellan.  Please pray for Stellan, they need us all right now.  So please join me on my 'not me' Monday.  We can't link up but we can visit the ones we know.  I'm sure we all had one of those weeks were we did not do any of the following.

This is my cute baby Zoe, and I did not strip down and take a shower with her just so that I could get her really clean.  I would never take a shower with a dog and then I would never tell the blogging world about it.  Definitely not me.  And I would never submit her to endless picture taking knowing she is terrified of the flash.  Nope I would never keep trying to sneak up on her in a million different ways.  Nope, not I.

And I did not completely fail at working out this past week.  Nope, I would never let anything take away from my personal time, that one hour a day that I long for.  Nope not me, and definitely not women all over the world.  We would never put ourselves last.  Never, never, never.

And I did not eat 4 donuts at work on Friday.  I would never throw all semblance of my good health out the window, along with my workouts, and just bask in the unhealthness of 4 donuts in one day.  Nope, not me.  And then I did not post on my Facebook that the donuts had won.  Nope.  I am too much of a private person to ever share that with the world.  I have too much will power to ever let this happen.  This is so not me.  I promise, it really isn't.

Love to All,

midRae