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Sunday Smorgasbord of Sharing Stuff

First of all, THANK YOU for the birthday wishes. I had a wonderfully lazy and hedonistic day of nothing. Now, don't feel sorry for me because we didn't do anything...that's exactly what I wanted! I had breakfast in bed and I played with my new photoshop software and I read and I relaxed. My family pampered me and I didn't cook or clean or do laundry all day. In my book, that's a GREAT day!! Especially because tomorrow the craziness begins. School, homework, laundry, ballet, carpools....

Oh yeah. I absolutely reveled in my precious day of laziness.

I also spent some time browsing through a couple of my favorite sites, Pixel of Ink and Ereader News Today, which have lists and links for free and bargain books for the Kindle. If you have a Kindle or Nook you should definitely check them out! 

I also received my first blog award from the amazing Lady Bren. That was a pretty awesome Birthday gift, Lady Bren...thank you!

Here’s how the award works:
After accepting the Versatile Blogger Award, the blogger must:

Thank the person who gave the award and link back to them in your post.

Share 7 things about yourself.

Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.

So...here are seven random things about me, which you may or may not already know. Coming up with seven things about myself was not as easy as it might sound!

1. Before I became a short order cook, chauffeur, and domestic goddess, I was a flight attendant for many years.

2. I'm afraid of sharks and snakes and roaches and bears. And teenagers!

3. I really, really, really want to visit Egypt someday. I want to visit a lot of other places too - but especially Egypt!

4. I love to travel and experience new places and meet new people.

5. I love big dogs - they're mellow and easy. Ditto for cats. Little dogs, not so much. No offense, if you have a little dog - they're just not my cup of tea. At all.

6. After driving a minivan for 14 years, I finally have a small car. I love it and I especially love driving 450+ miles on 10 gallons of gas!

7. I dislike rudeness and hypocrisy. A lot.

15 of my favorite blogs, in no particular order:

1. Gigi's Ramblings

2. Our Life In Words

3. Young Adventures

4. Laundry Hurts My Feelings

5. Mom of the Perpetually Grounded

6. Empty Nest

7. Ostriches Look Funny

8. Twelve Days Old

9. The Frat Pack and Me

10. Happily Chaotic

11. Donkeys to College

12. Foursons

13. Going a Little Coastal

14. Working Woman's Guide to Dinner

15. Chillin' With Jill

And finally, thank you so much for reading my silly little blog. Thank you for listening to me brag about my kids and whine about my kids. Thanks for listening to me and laughing with me. Thanks for following me and commenting. The MDSA facebook page has 199 fans as of this morning - Wow!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Happy Birthday to "Mommie Dearest"!!!

Happy Birthday to the best mom in the world!

You're kind, funny, smart, beautiful, and AWESOME!

You always put others first and never complain. 

You drive me all over town for ballet and do my laundry and cook really good food!

I love you Mommy!!!

Guest Post coming up...

Mommie Dearest is taking the day off but Mr. Wonderful and the kids will be filling in and guest posting later today. (Oh dear!) 

Flashback Friday: Rapunzel

Thank you all for the lovely compliments regarding The Princess's hair. She does have beautiful hair...now. I'm going to let you in on a little secret though...The Princess has not always had such long, shiny tresses. In fact, once upon a time, The Princess was rather follicly challenged...

When she was born she had a full head of dark hair. But, unfortunately, that all fell out within the first week and she was left with...

Peach fuzz. For the longest time she was the prettiest bald baby you ever saw.

Every time we went somewhere people would come up and say, "Oh, what a cutie! How old is HE?"

Eventually, finally, her peach fuzz began to grow into something which slightly resembled hair. I wasted no time in scraping it back into little barrettes and bows so strangers would not mistake my precious baby girl for a bald little boy any longer.

I created teeny tiny little ponytails...

See? She's a GIRL!!!

When The Princess saw these photos she said, "Wow, Mom...I guess you must have REALLY wanted me to have a ponytail!"

Eventually, when she was about 4 years old, she had hair. Wispy and thin hair...but hair, nonetheless.

One day I realized there was enough hair to do a braid!

Woo Hoo!

Of course, by the time she had enough hair for a tiny little braid, all her friends had hair down to their waist.

The Princess persevered however. She ate healthy food and took her vitamins and let her hair grow. Over the years It DID get longer and thicker. And then, one day, we realized that she had hair!

Real, honest to goodness, hair.

Long and thick and healthy.

The Princess thinks God gave her nice hair to make up for making her bald as a baby.

I think she might be right!