Coffee Chat

Let's go to Les's from Timeout for Mom  and chat - don't forget to get your coffee before heading over!

  Skipping Out!

 

This is the time of year which brings back fond memories of when I might not be found sitting in class during school hours:  for various reasons.  If you could "skip" a day -- what would you do?

 I would love to have a skip day! I'd stay at home and finish some projects. I have crochet projects that have not been completed, a quilt that's not been done, not to mention the little projects around the house. Oh, and I have a paper that is coming due and I haven't even started it yet! Can I have more than one day?

Porch Chat

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat.
QUESTIONS

1. When it's time to cut the grass (mow the lawn), who does it? Biz is the lawn mower at my house.
2. If someone gave you $500 dollars and you could not spend it on yourself, who would you spend it on? My grandkids of course.
3. Have you ever taken a blogging break or considered one? Considering it more and more each day - having a hard time keeping up with everything.
4. Are you bothered by spring allergies or hay fever? If not spring, any other time of the year? Nope
5. What's new with you? New job, new furnace, a few new gray hairs......

Monday Quiz About Me

Welcome to Monday Quiz About Me - hosted by Acting Balanced and Touristic. They post 5 questions on Sunday evening along with a linky for you to link up your post answers! 

Here are the Questions:

1. Do spelling and grammar mistakes annoy you? Yes they do. I'm sure I make mistakes myself but it really annoys me when students turn in papers riddled with errors.

2. If you could witness any event past, present or future, what would it be? So many to choose from - Christ rising from the tomb - the Gettysburg Address - the Boston Tea Party - too many to choose from. 

3. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A teacher.

4. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be? Not to worry about what others think - be yourself.

My 5th Question - Spring has finally sprung. Mowed the yard for the first time this weekend. Do you love the smell of fresh cut grass or does it aggravate allergies for you?

Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun

Welcome to the weekly Follow Friday Four Fill-in Fun Blog Hop!

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Each week, Hilary over at Feeling Beachie lists four statements with a blank for you to fill in on your own blogs.   This week’s co-host is JANICE from TICK TOCK MY CLOCK– She came up with the last two statements!

This week’s statements:
The color green reminds me of the mountains in VA.
Lately all I get done is going to work and running around after work so  I haven't had much time for anything like crocheting, reading, or blogging!
Does the sound of breaking glass make you wince?
When I wander  through an antique store with Biz I  know that there is going to be another something in my house that I have to dust.

Pondering - switches

It's Thursday! One of my favorite days. Time to do a little "pondering" with Brenda from Ponderings of an Author.  

Her rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in her sidebar)

2. Look at the week's prompt

3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.

4. Go back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list on Brenda's.

5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.

6. AND most of all.... Have fun!

This Week's prompt:  

Switch

 My first thought is a "Hickory switch" - the kind my grandmother would make you go cut and bring back to her so she could switch you. And it had better be a good one too. The going and getting was actually worse than the switching!

There's a light switch. There's the automotive switches that used to be made in the company I used to work at. There's the switch of jobs that I just made. And the switch from daylight savings time and back. There's the countless switches in directions that my life has taken over the years. 

Last night I had to "switch" off my desire to drive to daughter's house and grab my new grandson out of her arms! He was crying the entire time I was on the phone with her and I could just hear the frustration in her voice. BUT, I asked three times if she needed any help and she said no. I swore I would not meddle and make her feel like she didn't know what she was doing - but it was really hard not to get in the car and go. I remember those times with crying babies and how hard it is. I also remember my mil making me feel "inadequate." Won't do that to my daughter. If she needs me she knows all she has to do is ask.

Sorry for the sideline - That's all the switches I can think of right now. I'm sure there's probably more.