Posted by Hannah Rae on Feb 16, 2009 in
Life in the Stubborn house
My beloved husband told me that he had ordered a surprise for me. I had a hunch what it was, especially since my husband’s love gifts tend to be on the technological side. So I came home today and he presented me with a beautiful new digital camera that he got at an amazing bargain price. He is so good at that. Anywho, I thought I would mark the occasion by sharing some pics of the furrier household members.
Zoe and Pe taking a nap by the fireplace.
Pe showing you her “Why are you taking pictures of me” cute face.
The Juji Bird chewing on my hair tie.
Juji hangin’ out on her foraging tree
Now that I have a camera, I am sure you will be seeing plenty more fuzzy pics in the future. 
Here’s one more for the road!
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Posted by Hannah Rae on Jan 26, 2009 in
Life in the Stubborn house,
Not Me Monday
Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
Okay, so there is NOT a lot of crying in this post. I did NOT spend hours upon hours crying this weekend over various semi-serious at the moment things.
My husband’s departure to California did NOT have a much more profound effect on me than I had anticipated.I am NOT already missing his smell and the taste of his kisses. Nope, I’m NOT that sentimental.
My entire diet Sunday definitely did NOT consist only of biscuits and blueberry jam.
I really did NOT actually sleep in till nearly 1 PM Sunday after driving my hubby to the airport, and I did NOT ask my sister to put the dogs in the sauna so I could sleep undisturbed.
I did NOT wear the same pair of pants all weekend.
I was NOT a little relieved that Baby Degu died on Friday because it means one less critter to have to worry about and feel guilty about not spending enough time with.
I am NOT secretly hoping that the training I am supposed to do on Saturday gets canceled, because I definitely don’t want to spend the day with my Gracie girl.
I am NOT contemplating going to a certain frozen custard restaurant after work to get a large cone of the flavor of the day.
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This post is part of “Laughter Lives! Tuesday” on the Riggs Family Blog. Check our their blog to read everyone else’s “Laughter Lives!” posts.
So since I am kid-less as of yet, I have to borrow my brother’s kiddos for this post…and maybe a friends child as well.
Oh, Joanie!
My brother is blessed with 5 beautiful children under 7 and one on the way. The three year old, Jonas, is especially close to my heart because he is an exuberant middle child and reminds me so much of myself…he is loud, hilarious, and always getting into trouble. In fact, when we were down at my older sister Sarah’s wedding last June, the then- two- year- old Jonas was constantly doing things that reeked of mischief. At one point, Sarah looked at him and said, “Jonas, you’re trouble.” He looked her straight in the face and sternly corrected her, “I’m not trouble. I’m Jonas.” So noted. The rest of the weekend it became a game. He would point to any family member and rename them. I became Daddy, Daddy became, Mommy, and so on, but he would always end with “And I’m Jonas!”
The face says it all.
My brother loves Johnny Cash. His boys have followed right along, and their favorite song is the Burning Ring of Fire. When my mom went to go visit this past summer, she had her cell phone set to play The Burning Ring of Fire every time her husband called…which is very fitting. The first time it played, Jonas came running into the room saying “That’s my favorite song. Where is that coming from?” Needless to say, the cell phone was a huge hit that visit. Joanie’s version goes something like this: “Down, down, down in da fire!”
The Cookie Monster Dog
We have two great friends, Eric and Teisha, who have two great kids, Gideon and Zanna. Gideon is a surrogate nephew to me, since mine are so far away. I steal him (with his parent’s permission) as much as possible. He loves going to Hannah’s house to see all the animals. He is big enough now, at 2 1/2, that he can actually interact with the dogs in some manner, and they really enjoy this miniature person who is much easier to lick than the tall ones. One weekend, while he was visiting, we were doing some baking. I gave Gideon a cookie and he immediately became the most popular person in the house. Zoe and Pe followed him at such a close proximity that if Giddy stopped too quickly the dogs would bump right into him. He kept telling the dogs, especially Zoe, “No, Zoe. My cookie.” as he wandered in circles around our house. About the 6th or 7th lap, they must have wore him down. I saw him open his hand and OFFER Zoe the cookie, which she gladly accepted. I looked at him and said, “Giddy, where’s your cookie?” He looked at me and shrugged as if he had no idea how it happened but simply said “Zoe got it.” Yeah, I guess she did.
This kid also spent a good part of an hour trying to call our Clevie cat out of the basement, patting his leg like you would call a dog saying “Cm’ere, kitty. Cm’ere!” Well, he was persistent. Clevie just sat and stared at him, of coarse.
Thanks for letting me share my stolen stories.
-Hannah
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Posted by Hannah Rae on Jan 19, 2009 in
Life in the Stubborn house,
Not Me Monday
One of my favorite blogs that I have become addicted to is the Mck Mama at http://www.mycharmingkids.net. Every Monday she writes “Not Me Mondays”, so I thought I’d give it a try.
Friday I did not discover that my coat had bird poop all over the collar. I have no idea how that happened, and it definitely couldn’t have been my beautiful African Grey. I most definitely didn’t wear that coat to work anyway and hope no one would notice.
I did not get my butt beat by my overly-lucky husband at 3-13, and I definitely did not lose to my sister at 3′s.
I did not leave my beautiful sister a sink and a half load of dishes after our pizza night.
I am not pestering all of my friends and family over facebook to check out my new blog.
I did not forget on purpose to tell my husband that our beautiful Pe had chewed through the electrical plug for our cable box more than a month and a half ago. He definitely did not remain a lot calmer than I thought he would when he found it while looking for some computer tools.
Pretty boring Not me Monday…but it’s my first one, so I don’t feel so bad.
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