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so mrs. wacky witmer let me know she missed looking in my back door. maybe the rest of you do too, so i thought i'd bring you up to speed with a series of posts over the next couple of days:)

first off....hubby recently spent an hour or so sharing with whizboy's 4th grade class all about the michigan road. i'm not sure who was more excited! as he was preparing for that princess learned she needed to interview one of her parents about their job and then do a power point presentation. sure she wanted to ask me she let me know that my job wasn't nearly as exciting as daddy's and it was all about him!! really? is it just that he can wear pajamas to work? above she is conducting her interview!


as a window into my selfishness extreme.....when hubby was on city council he had meetings almost every week. being a mom that lives for my kids early bedtimes there were 2 options on meeting nights...and extra early bedtime or the kids could stay up 30 minutes late if they rubbed my feet, back, and played with my hair:) ahh.....well, the other night princess was bouncing around and needing to settle down so i gave her the option of early bed or playing with my hair. so i was dolled up with pigtails and some make-up!

and then there is what seems to be on our tv pretty much non-stop these days - scooby-doo!!!! we have a history with scooby doo. and since someone out there wants to hear my tales you can all listen (although i guess you can just leave my page!)
anyways....back when whizboy was mapboy he had this weird fascination with really boring movies about big trucks. as he headed off to kindergarten i got concerned that he wouldn't know what the other kids were talking about. so in an effort to make him socially aware (pathetic - i know) i headed to the library. i was done with barney and clifford...but scooby doo...that is something boys should like. i mean i loved that show as a kid. so home i came with our first dvd of scooby - old school scooby! at first, it was hit of miss but scooby quickly became a household name with both princess and whizboy. i am particular about the newer episodes.

so a few years ago the kids started using sugar packets and creamers at restaurants to recreate scooby shows while waiting for our food. they are definitely creative! for christmas we decided they needed the scooby people. an online search revealed we could only find them online. there were all sorts of weird comments - like they smelled like skunks and people had to throw them away. one of my favorites was the velma didn't have underwear! i was trying to remember which barbie had underwear!! anyways - we took the risk and ordered them. thankfully they didn't smell like skunks and the kids never questioned the underwear on a hard plastic velma:) they were loved and adored and lost and found and still a part of our little world today!

wow....but you never saw that story coming!

so there you have it - a little glimpse into our back door.



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