Twelve Months in Two Minutes
A little montage of a year in the life – mine, specifically.
By the way, my daughter requested the dramatic ending. Who'd have guessed?
Plainsies, Clapsies
A ball bouncing game from my youth instructed the player to throw the ball up ( plainsies ), throw it up and clap ( clapsies ) throw it up and roll your hands ( roll the ball ) and touch your shoulders ( tabapsies ). In trying to locate the rest of the ball bouncing chant, I found out not only is my “tabapsies” a mondegreen , but also the motion – touching your shoulders – isn’t even the correct movement! You are supposed to clap your hands behind your back and say “ to backsies .” Yeah. That makes much more sense. Being only slightly deflated by this discovery, I will still share my exciting news. In an attempt to counteract the stretching of my wrist from doing front squats two days in a row, I pulled out the tabapsies motion this morning. This, in itself, is not newsworthy. However, I grabbed both shoulders with all five fingers!!! Again, not exciting unless you know that when I was nine years-old, I broke my left elbow doing a running cartwheel; the repai
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Wow, thanks for including my blog in the quick pics too! According to google analytics, I've made it to 70 hits... from small beginnings :)
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And I recognize my lovely children in your photo with the Christmas cards!
Blogging has been fun. I'm glad you've joined us.