I don't compare myself to a pit bull

So, I heard back from Son #2's coach. He was very nice. He told me that something like 13 of the 50 kids were 'sick' or 'hurt' and couldn't practice, and unfortunately, Son #2 took the brunt of that one........He spoke to Son #2 and made amends. All boys that didn't practice that day got bumped down in their positions, but Coach assured mine that he WILL see game time tomorrow, and even may play quite a bit.

My MOMMY is coming tomorrow. I'm excited. My brother may come as well. That is Heather's (my niece) dad, and The Rock Star Princess's grandpa. Yep, grandpa. He was 34 when Maddi was born...I call him the youngest grandpa ever. This makes me think of Crissy's post, and the decision to have a baby---just think Crissy----you COULD be a grandma..........

Anyway, I'm excited about my mom visiting. She's a total gem, and I dont' see her often enough.

I am making French Onion Soup to put in the fridge, so after the game tomorrow, we can have something decent to eat..........we'll pop it into crocks, and add toasted bread and cheese, and OH MY.......I nabbed a recipe from the Food Network....Tyler Florence to be exact, and it's some mighty fine soup.........try it if you are so inclined.........it's super easy, but cooking the onions down takes a bit of time.

I am off work on Friday to hang out with mom......WOOT WOOT. I love my time off work!!

It seems like there was something IMPORTANT I wanted to share, but for the life of riley, I cannot think of what it was.

OHHHHHHH.....I know---IT'S A NEW GHOST HUNTERS tonight. I'm stinking up my house with 4 huge onions cooking down and topping it all off with ghosts. If I have crazy ass dreams like I did LAST night, I'll be peeved. Mr. Perfectly better be more sympathetic to my ghost fear than he was to my paralyzing SNAKE fear.

Does anyone else have problems with the FREE CREDIT REPORT DOT COM commercials resonating in your brain? I know, I know, I've talked about this before, but I have a real problem with it. The jingles just rattle around up there and WON'T GO AWAY. Mr. Perfectly thinks it's just TOO FUNNY to play them repeatedly for my OCD pleasure.

Took son #2 to get his mop top shorn.......coach doesn't want to see their hair sticking out under the helmet.........he's not happy with his new sort of traditional boy haircut. The back and sides looks like a reglar boy hair cut--over the ears and trimmed on the neck. The FRONT however, is still shaggy and sort of long-ish.....

Well, that's all the stuff I've got tonight.........real exciting, huh? Welcome to the life of a football mom..........BORING. I rarely wear lipstick, either.

I'll let you know tomorrow how the ghost show goes....and if I slept well through the fear and onion smell.........

Tequila really DOES make your clothes fall off!!

So, last night was Monday---and what does that mean? $1.50 margaritas! Teenie and I went out on the town…….pigged out (seriously---this go around we didn’t share….we each got dinner), and drank margaritas.

Since when I mention the $1.50 margarita phenomenon, I generally get a comment or two from the “oh-my-gosh-I’d-be-drunk-all-the-time-for-$1.50-margaritas” set, I thought, for your viewing pleasure to take some pics of the food, the drinks and of US!!


Teenie's Grilled Chicken Nachos (that's cheese, not beans)


My Camerones El Jimador


The Sopapilla!!



It was a lot of fun. The first margarita was the best—I think they rope you in with a good strong one, then make them weaker………I had THREE (3), and although was happy, certainly not what I’d expect from 3 margaritas……maybe it was the heavy food too…..mmmmmmmmmmm.

Here's Teenie!

And Me with messed up bangs and a CUTE new shirt!!



I took pictures of the food, and of Teenie, but we wanted one together too…so we tried to take a photo holding the camera in front of us…..it didn’t work so well, so a cute waiter took pity on us and took a very nice picture for us.

The failed photo:

The good photo:


You all can glimpse my BREEZIES SUPPORT BRA peeking out in the photo..the straps are not conducive to wearing wider neck tops......

And finally, the BILL....for you non believers........Pretty cheap, eh?



Mr. Perfectly drove me to the restaurant, since I fully intended on drinking at least 2 margaritas---but Teenie took me home instead of Mr. Perfectly coming back to get me. We got into her car, and she put on her seatbelt, and realized her blouse was UNBUTTONED to the middle……..Teenie is VERY modest….she doesn’t let ANYONE see her nudie, so she was pretty worried that the cute teenage looking waiter wanted to take our pictures because her blouse was unbuttoned to her navel……but alas, that wasn’t the case…the buttons must have popped while putting the seatbelt on, because as you can see by the photo, she’s fully clothed. She made me PROMISE I wouldn’t post anything that may prove to be embarrassing. All this hoop-la-la was taking place between us LAUGHING OUR BUTTS OFF because when she realized her blouse was unbuttoned she loudly exclaimed “Tequila really DOES make your clothes fall off”….hilarity ensued.

I had the strangest dreams early this morning. Stoogie, you’ll be proud to know that you were in one of them. I was at a dentist office with SOMEBODY (I have no clue who) and we were making impressions of our teeth. I was really worried that the goop would be nasty and I’d gag, so I did my OWN impressions while waiting in the waiting room. I looked at the colorful comic section of a newspaper and saw a comic strip from STOOGEPIE……..I picked it up and was exclaiming to my dentist cohort who Stoogie was and this was his COMIC…..OMG!! I picked up the paper and was reading it every way from Sunday to try to figure out WHO Stoogie was…..there were oodles of names and corporations and stuff listed as the author, and I never could put a name to Stoogie. I then spat out my yellow goop with the teeth impressions I had made, and the dentist lady was impressed that I’d done it all by myself , and was complimenting my abilties…..then she BIT THE LOWER IMPRESSION in half…..with her MOUTH……..it totally grossed me out………..cause y’all know that spit is disgusting to me.

THEN right before alarm time I dreamed of snakes. I don’t like snakes. I’m afraid of snakes. As a child I had a recurring ‘snake’ dream. I never saw the snakes, but I was descending into an industrial type building…the stairs were those metal ones with holes in them? It was all dark and echo-ey---I could hear the HISSING and the snakes slithering all over each other……..it was TERRIFYING. But early this morning, I was dreaming that I was at my Mom’s house (it wasn’t really Mom’s, but you know how dreams go) and I looked out the back door and saw the HUGEST snake I’d ever seen coming out of a hole in the ground. It was using it’s scales and muscles to power up through the dirt and it’s MOUTH was wide open………you could see it rippling, and the UPPER body of the snake was standing UPRIGHT….you know, like a cobra……..it had to have been like 10 ft long or more. I freaked out and turned around and there were snakes in the house!! There was mysteriously a tree growing in the middle of Mom’s kitchen, and there were SNAKES in the tree, and a cat CHASING snakes……..I ran to get my mom and she was stooped over searching for snakes, and I was screaming “they’re in the trees….the cat is chasing them” and she’d LOOK and never see them. Then I woke up…….and neither Mr. Perfectly nor Buster the dog felt sorry for me. But I know you will, Internet, because you all have the LOVE for me……….

Oh, and finally I’m awaiting a response from son #2’s football coach. I did it, and went all MAMA on the man………my baby was sick---SICK and couldn’t practice yesterday. Coach wouldn’t listen to him, proceeded to apparently talk behind son’s back in the locker room to the other coaches IN FRONT OF THE OTHER KIDS, and told son #2 he would lose his 1st string position if he didn’t practice.

Son #2 had gone to the nurse, and was told he was running a fever. He had body aches and felt nauseated. I assumed he may have a stomach bug…but as it turned out, it was a SEVERE migraine. He laid in bed last night for 5 HOURS waiting for the pain to abate….he kept trying to hydrate himself while not PUKING. Poor baby…he’s had migraines since he was about 7. He has a pediatric neurologist that sees him a couple of times a year, and management is about all we can do for him. He CANNOT take imitrex, and other prophylactic treatments make him really foggy and upset his stomach…..so he’s got it rough sometimes.

Anyway, if the coach takes his 1st string position away, than so be it. That’s his job as a coach, but he better give my kid an EAR and not talk about him in front of other kids next time……that’s just wrong. Son #2 wasn’t even allowed to explain what was wrong…….. so I sent an email to coachie boy……..and so far NOTHING. It may hurt sons place on the team….I sure hope it doesn’t.

Toodles for now. Have a happy Tuesday!

Monday Musings

It is FUTILE to try to apply makeup when allergy season is in full force. I got up late this morning, and showered and sat down to put on my makeup…my eyes were running, my NOSE was running, I was sneezing and COPIOUS amounts of snot were being produced.

I gave it the old college try, though. My nose is scaly and Rudolph-esque, and I’m sure my mineral makeup fused with the eye liquid to make an actual liquid makeup……it was seriously a mess.

So, what did YOU all do this weekend? Well, my in-laws made a surprise visit on Saturday morning. We went to Dillard's and shopped the 75% off sales (take an additional 50% off the already 75% off prices). I got 9 shirts…NINE people for about $45. I got to the checkout area and watched my $4 and $5 purchases ring up and went for my debit card. NOTHING. No wallet, NOTHING. My checkbook was in my purse, but my wallet was missing in action. Of course, I couldn’t write a check without any identification, so my mother-in-law paid for them. My wallet ended up being left at my office on Friday, so I went to the bank with Mr. Perfectly’s card, and she refused my pay back……so I essentially got 9 shirts for FREE.. It was really nice of her to buy them for me, but when she pulled out her credit card, I figured it was a quick cover for my lost wallet…….but she wouldn’t take my money. Thanks Mom-In-Law!!

We went to Red Lobster for lunch---again, they paid---which was quite nice. We’d already made plans with Perfectly’s Dad to go here---the Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association’s BACK TO THE FARM REUNION in Booneville, MO. The in-laws decided to go with us…me, Mr. Perfectly, Son #2 and Girlfriend, Perfectly’s dad and the in-laws all trekked up to the wonder that only rural Missouri Entertainment can offer. There were tractors EVERYWHERE. We went originally to the tractor pull…….Mr. Perfectly took this picture of me next to a tractor because just LOOK AT THE NAME……….these old farmers are nothing but Horn Dogs……….



We finally got our dads pulled away from the tractor pull and we went over to the fairground area to witness lots of junk vendors, some displays of corn meal grinding, ice cream making, kettle corn making and THIS (disregard my fat ass).


DICKS. He makes the BEST horseradish imaginable. We usually find him at the annual Pumpkin Festival in October, but he said this year he may not be there….because of high booth prices and gas prices…….he said so many younger people go to that festival, and don’t have any money, that it wasn’t worth it. Whew, I’m sure glad he was at the Steam Engine show….because I’ve GOT to get my DICKS horseradish every year. It’s $6.50 per 12 oz jar or $12 for a 24 oz jar, and he makes regular horseradish and get this…..CRANBERRY horseradish…….I KNOW…..it sounds gross, but it is AWESOME…just awesome. I have a jar of each in my freezer, just WAITING for some use. Go HERE for his website. ORDER FROM HIM…….it’s good. He’s even got recipes. I love me some DICKS………

Then the in-laws wanted to go to the Isle of Capri casino…to eat and to gamble. We tried to eat at Farraddays’, and the suckers wouldn’t seat us. The SAID it was because there were 7 of us and it would be a 45 minute wait—unless we wanted to sit in the bar, with some tables shoved together. Since none of us smoke, the smoky bar was out of the question. Personally, I think it was because we looked like 7 hicks that just came from the BACK TO THE FARM REUNION. We were all in t-shirts and jeans, and I somehow think that FARRADDAYS thought we were too unkempt for their hoity-toity ala carte menu. So we begrudgingly went to Calypso’s Buffet. My Mother-in-law wasn’t pleased. She doesn’t ‘serve herself’, but aside from that little blip on the radar, and the fact that our waitress was totally kicked out of charm school, it turned out to be just fine. It was SURF-N-TURF night, so there was all you can eat shrimp (fried and boiled) and all you can eat CRAB LEGS and prime rib and 3 buffet lines of STUFF. It was totally awesome. I went for Crab Legs 2 times….and that’s all I ate! Other than dessert……some sort of mint crème pie, and part of a pastry and some chocolate covered strawberries. Holy crap, what a night…..unlimited, butter drenched crab legs and dessert! Screw You Farraddays………the buffet may have been loud and alcohol free, but it was some GOOD FOOD.

Then came the bad news. The in-laws and Perfectly’s dad went to gamble. Perfectly wanted to go SO BAD. Horseradish, Crab legs and nickel slots…..WHAT MORE COULD A GIRL WANT?? But, remember my wallet being at work? NO FREAKING IDENTIFICATION…..so I couldn’t get on the boat. I was sad. Mr. Perfectly, however, was thrilled that I wasn’t going to enter the brightly lit arena and throw his money down into machines that don’t readily give his money BACK. I’m like a raccoon…..shiny, and bright attracts me…..I don’t care if it doesn’t pay. So we left….and went home. Oh, we didn’t pay for dinner either….so other than some horseradish and a couple of sodas and gas…….we had a pretty fun FREE day of family adventure.

Yesterday, I did some laundry, washed some dishes, went grocery shopping. All the things that needed to be done (well not ALL of them, but at least I felt like I wasn’t TOTALLY gross by leaving EVERYTHING undone). I made my asian lettuce wraps, and we had a grand evening. Mr. Perfectly ran out to the local Democratic campaign office to pick up tickets for Joe Biden’s visit to Columbia Mo tomorrow. I fell asleep in the chair and was startled like YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE when he came home. I was so out of it, I asked him where he’d been…..he’d only been gone 20 minutes……..so I toddled off to bed and didn’t even finish the DVR’d Big Brother.

My MOMMY is coming for a visit. I’m so excited. She’s coming for round #3 of Maddison’s birthday celebration this weekend……..so I’ll have pictures and funny stories, I assume. She’s a dream boat…..and funny to boot! You’ll all love her as much as I do.

See you soon!

Karma

Walking to the bathroom and seeing someone in our reception area. Noting, with disdain, his very, VERY large Huraches, and jovial “I’m such a cool guy” attitude. Getting into the bathroom stall and realizing my fly was down and gaping WIDE OPEN.

Happy Friday…..it’s my FAVORITE day!!

One Up

I know someone who CONSTANTLY tries to ‘one up’ anyone she’s having a conversation with. She’s had a WORSE illness, or experience, or has MORE knowledge of subjects, or her FAMILY has experienced things worse, or has more knowledge…..and every conversation ends up turned around and being about her.

This person can NEVER allow another to have a moment in the spotlight……because HER experiences are so vastly greater than the other…..that she must publicly express how much MORE she knows about it. She demands people take her advice, and seems quite peeved when we don’t.

This person ALSO takes issue with another individual……person #1 complains INCESSANTLY that person #2 is always ‘one upping’ everyone? HUH? Slackjawed looks all around? Hello, doesn’t she SEE what she’s saying?

I have begun thinking about this phenomenon…..this ‘one upping’. I do it…..I’ll be talking to someone, and they’ll say something generic, like “I haven’t been sleeping well”. I’ll pipe up and say “me either!! I’ve been taking benedryl all week to try to sleep….maybe THAT would help you” But is that really ‘one upping’? Is it taking the other persons’ experience and making it all about YOU?

I do it on blogs………I recount my experiences that mimic the bloggers point….I’ll add my two cents in where maybe it doesn’t belong. Maybe I’M one upping and people are looking at me all slackjawed wondering how I don’t SEE how annoying I am.

Is there a fine line between casual conversation….and learning about others and sharing about yourself and ONE UPPING? I personally think so……

My personality traits run parallel to this one upper I know….and I try my best to be cognizant of this fact…..so I don’t annoy others, but I’m sure that I do things just like her that really piss people off…..I don’t WANT to be like that. I tend to INSIST that others take my advice….when I realize I’m being pushy, I try very hard to back down……but by then the damage may be done…..

So, does it bother you guys when I comment on your blogs about MY similar experiences? Does it make you all want to strangle me when I recount MY story in YOUR comments? Or does it endear me to you because you KNOW more about me???

I’m just thinking out loud, I guess. We tend to dislike in others some of the things we do ourselves…….

I tried, really TRIED to finish Ghost Hunters yesterday. I failed. I took BENEDRYL for my terribly runny nose---can’t tell if it’s cold or allergy….and I was GONE……SOUND ASLEEP by 9pm…and we’ DVR’d Ghost Hunters, and didn’t start watching it until 8:30 or so…..so DON’T TELL me if they saw ghosts…….I’ll finish it this afternoon. I also need to find out what sorts of deadly ailments I may have by watching my DVR’d episode of Dr. OZ on Oprah. Jeez, he scares me. He makes me think I have EVERYTHING he talks about….then I google it, then I’m a mess.

Hurricane Gustav has brought his tropical rains to Missouri. It’s been raining for 2 days now. Which is good….I mean we need rain, but *sigh* it is SUCH a drag.

I am not watching the RNC……I know I should….to further educate myself…but I just can’t. I will politicize my feelings about ONE topic, though…….I do think the media needs to lay off Sarah Palin’s daughter. Those of us with kids KNOW that our kids will do things we DO NOT WANT THEM TO…no matter how we parent them. This is not a Democrat or Republican or Independent issue…it’s a problem with ALL people and their teenagers. We cannot be with our kids 24/7, and despite our best efforts, our kids WILL engage in behavior we don’t want them to. The Palins are dealing with this as any other family would need to, and the nation needs to BUTT OUT.

I guess that’s about all…..I had several things I wanted to bring up that I thought of in the shower, but of course, that was earlier today, and I’ve forgotten!!

Happy Thursday, all!

Hoods

Ok, I've got a new obsession. It will be short lived, I'm sure, but still......right now, I am thinking, wishing, etc.

Remember how I wanted a donate-a-thon so Perfectly could get a new porch/siding, and an anniversary at the Ritz and Amazing Grace products? Huh? Remember? Um....by the way, nobody offered up any cash yet...but ASIDE from that.....I've gotten a new want.

A new bathroom. Well, not a new bathroom......but to update the one we've got. Our house was built in the early 60's. We bought it before housing prices rose dramatically in the 90's. Our home has doubled in value in 15 years. It's a 1475 sq ft 'raised ranch' home....about 1100 sq. feet up and about 375 down. The basement is finished, but we don't really use it.....we've got weight equipment, a desk and a small tv area for the boys......and their video games......it needs alot of work all over. We've always lived on a really tight budget, and household updates have been low on the totem pole of life. Oh, raised ranch, I've learned, means different things in different parts of the country. Around here, it means you walk into the basement level foyer, and instead of 'split', you go up a full flight of stairs to the 'ranch' layout.......

In the mid to late 90's we did update the kitchen with new flooring, and countertops. We painted the existing cabinets white, and put new flooring in the bath. It made a huge difference....HUGE....but of course, I was overzealous when choosing colors, because now the kitchen is quite 'dated' and although it was trendy for the time, it wasn't a good 'timeless' choice.

We desperately need a new porch---the existing one is disgusting, and we are the ones bringing property values down in the neighborhood, but we've never really been able to afford it. We still can't so donations will still be accepted!!

Here's a picture of our house.....it doesn't show all the warts on the porch, and belive me....there is NOTHING nice about the porch........


So anyway, despite the fact we need alot of MAJOR work done on the outside and in places in the house, it's all cosmetic.......Mr. Perfectly and I took a trip to HOOD'S today---do y'all have HOODS? I don't even know how to describe it.....it's like a junk drop off for overstock of the Lowe's and Home Depot's of America.........

For instance, today, we saw a variety of wine glasses with "1994 PROM" etched onto them. First of all.....if you are going to PROM...one doesn't NEED wine glasses, now does one? Secondly....1994? But this illustrates my point. Alot of junky stuff.

But, they also have, unfinished, un-assembled wine racks...you can paint or stain them.......it would be cute in a nook area....and they have these weird things called CARPET SQUARES.....they sort of stick by themselves, to a smooth surface. We actually bought them for our stairs when we thought we'd re-finish them. HA, which never happened, but still...they work......so we went looking for carpet squares for our basement.........to cover the pink schoolhouse tile from the 60's. We didn't find any, but guess what we DID find?

Tile. 12x12 tiles for 49 cents apiece. They are gray with splatters of black and white throughout them. Now before you scoff.......The original tub, stool and sink in our bathroom are GRAY.......so we laid black/white linoleum years ago, which now looks terrible. So, these tiles would be PERFECT for the bath...and it would provide an updated look. Our gray sink is rusting around the drain. Boo Hoo...because to go to Lowes and custom order even a plain old sink in gray would be HUNDREDS of dollars.......and Hoods has one for $29.95. Now it wouldn't fit our current sink hole, but they also have laminate COUNTER TOPS.......now don't scoff at the laminate.....remember....this is what most would think of as a starter home.......and laminate would be just FINE compared to what is there now. Counter tops are $4 a foot. So, to outfit this bathroom would cost us about $25 in tile, about $25 in counter tops and $30 for a sink. Now this doesn't include grout and time involved and things to update further like light fixtures and a mirror, but for the BASICS........$80......so what if it isn't granite? Granite is hard to care for anyway, and you all have HEARD about my lack of cleaning prowess.

Mr. Perfectly is worried that he wouldn't do a very good job. But it's so beat up right now, it CAN'T be any worse.......and it would be NEW.......

As I mentioned, we bought this house for nothing....compared to prices today, that is. Our house payment is less than most car payments these days. No Joke. That includes the property tax and insurance........so living where I live may be lame at times, but you can't beat the cost......the house next door sold recently, and it listed for 95,000. One down the road that is asthetically similar to ours (only more updated) is listed for 112,500. One 3 houses up is rumored to be on the market for 120,000. You all do the math and figure out a range of what we paid for this baby......With two headed to college (one next year), a low house payment will be NECESSARY.......I can't even imagine living in a city where housing prices are out of reach, and you get less than what we've already got. I was watching house hunters and the HOMES......there were homes on the West Coast (I Assume) that were smaller than ours for $450,000. I can't even imagine. That kind of money around here would buy a near mansion.......

So, 80 bucks for a bath re-do? I think we should do it. It will cost more, because of tile cutter rental, grout, mirrors, etc.....we may need a new vanity, which would put the project off for a while, but we are talking about buying the tile, sink and countertop for now....just to have it before they run out....It's a warehouse for overstock, so once they are out...they are out.......

What do you all think? It's our only full bath, so 4 of us use it in shifts DAILY......our second half bath needs work too, but it's downstairs, and unless there's an 'emergency' we just don't use it much.

Come on to Missouri folks....cheap housing and $1.50 margaritas on Mon. and Thurs! We can live in the same neighborhood and party!!

Happy Wednesday!

Oh,I nearly forgot.....a new episode of Ghost Hunters airs tonight (at least it's SUPPOSED to)........aren't you EXCITED? It's been way too long.......get ready, Mr. Perfectly, for 2 am house checking!! He forbade me to watch any more 'I was bitten' stories on TLC, since I made him examine our bed all over for brown recluse spiders........he didn't appreciate my fear........it was a really nasty thing....this brown recluse......I didn't want one in MY bed.......would you? Therefore, I didn't think my request for a bed examination for spiders was unusual or too much to ask!! Therefore, I think it should be acceptable for him to check for ghosts at 2am when I hear mysterious noises in the house.

Toodles!!

Gratuitous Brag--YOU BETTER READ ANYWAY!!

Yeah....you better read this and COMMENT people, because we don't know if or when this moment may happen again. I want accolades and site hits to me and Mr. Perfectly's site...because he's where all the info comes from and I imagine there will be NEWSPAPER RECOGNITION, so check his too......it's here.

My baby.....MAH BABY.....scored the WINNING TOUCHDOWN in the Freshman game yesterday. YES HE DID........It was MY BABY...!!!!! I have PICTURES to prove it!

We drove to St. Louis yesterday for the 10 a.m. game against the McCluer North freshman. It promised to be hot. I don't do hot. I filled up a bag with towels, wet wipes, a water mister and sunscreen. I loaded up my face and scalp with sunscreen BEFORE WE LEFT(so my scalp doesn't burn and then peel, causing me to explain to everyone I see that it isn't REALLY dandruff....but peeling skin from a sunburn) The visitor section faced the hot sun..OF COURSE.....but there was a breeze....thank god for the breeze, because I may have given up and missed the MOMENT........

Anyway, our local high school team has had an issue with fumbling.......this issue has been an ongoing one for years.....unfortunately the curse seems to have been passed on to our Freshman boys as well......we gave up points right away in the game. I don't know all the terminology, but at halftime it was them 14, US......2.....yes 2....as in TWO. The first half of the game went by quickly...and relatively cool....then halftime hit.....the sun was high above, and we were losing. Badly. It sucked. It was hot...at some point some other peoples kid got a touchdown for our team......yeah, great....JUST HURRY UP....Mr. Perfectly brought me an umbrella to keep the sun off, so I looked like a nerd sitting in the stands with an umbrella. But I DIDN'T CARE.........the other team had the ball.....yada yada yada......suddenly I saw a commotion on the field.....and some kid...one of ours...had the ball suddenly....and made a touchdown.......IT WAS #32.....WHO IS MY KID!!! I was screaming, and bobbing the umbrella like CRAZY screaming to the 10 other parents in my area...."that was MY SON.....THAT WAS MY SON". They patiently nodded and clapped.

The boys were all hugging son #2, and I think there was a yellow flag, so tension prevailed for a moment until the referees proclaimed that my BABY'S touchdown counted!! I was hoping the team would carry Son #2 on their shoulders to the sidelines, but that didn't happen....but that's ok....I'll send a memo, so if it should happen again, they'll do it.

Son #2 is a defensive player. Defensive players don't usually get the ball....because they are DEFENSE, not OFFENSE. Apparently, son #2 'stripped' the ball from the other teams' quarterback (QB) and ran for a touchdown.....it was awesome.

Here are a series of photos......MY KID IS #32......THIRTY TWO......32......There are alot, and I want you to LOOK AT THEM ALL.....and revel in his heroic actions to save the game!!!























After the game, fresh as a daisy!!






Okay, didja all look CAREFULLY at each photo? Huh? Examine them CLOSELY, because I want you to. I'm A PROUD MAMA!

Thanks for looking...Mr. Perfectly keeps his sports blog for all kids and parents so he can't openly brag about Son #2.....but lets hope there's a newspaper mention!

Woo Hoo...go Jays Freshman!!!

Happy Tuesday!