Finally Friday's Menu

Happy Friday Gang. I'm glad to have this week over with and a long weekend ahead, but then next week there are trainings here at work all week and I have to finish getting the worksheets ready for them.

We are registering the Jeep that Irvin got tomorrow so now he'll have something better on gas than the big trucks. Other than that, I'm not 100% sure what else the weekend has in store for us.

QOTD: What was your favorite stuffed animal you had as a kid? Mine was a unicorn that my brother got me when he was in college in Jacksonville, FL. He came home for Christmas break and woke me up since it was late at night to give me the unicorn. He said he had to chase it around for a few hours until he could catch it. As a 6-year-old I believed him and still have Uni to this day.

B: coffee and ham/egg sandwich

L: burritos from a local Mexican food truck

D: homemade fish and chips

Here's some bunny pictures. I was finally able to count and see how many each Doe had. The cream one had 8 and the black one had 7 not too bad for first time moms.

Have a great day and weekend everyone!!!

Good morning, everybody!

I hope everyone has a great weekend. We have a pool party tomorrow and we are going to do some small tasks around the house and then get ready for our trip abroad next week.

Plus lots of football and US Open tennis.

I am working today but the email traffic seems pretty slow so far.

QOTD: I had two teddy bears. I still have one.

Breakfast: bagel

lunch: tuna

Dinner: pasta

Have a great day, all!

When I was growing up, girls did not usually have stuffed animals. Girls got dolls, often with diapers and baby bottles so we could prepare to be mothers. My brothers had teddy bears. It was part of giving kids the "correct" toys. Stuffed animals for girls were a big thing in the 70s and some girls had a bedroom overflowing with them.

Teddy bears were started in 1902, when Theodore Roosevelt was on a bear hunt and refused to shoot a bear that had been captured by someone else.

Since Dad never got the son I think he wanted I tried to pal around and do some guy stuff with him. That paid off...one of the best toys I ever got was a 1960's hydraulic lift blue and white Tonka pickup dump truck. Still have it (and the stuffed Beagle he gave me) and the hydraulic still works. And yes, I got all the girl appropriate role modelling toys too. Even still have my aqua Suzy Homemaker oven and both my daughter and all the grands have played with it. With MASSIVE supervision, lol. When we moved in the 70's all my girl friends had bedrooms overflowing with stuffed animals.

How is it Friday already? It has been such a busy time around here that I could swear it was just Monday. Your mama buns really did great...that's a lot of babies! Your unicorn story is so sweet, no wonder you still have it today.

QOTD: I always wanted a fancy, articulated soft teddy bear. But being doll crazy that didn't happen. Dad brought home a rock-hard 'plush' brown and white beagle (he said it was named Snoopy but everybody knows Snoopy is black and white, lol) after yearly training school in Dayton. That was my only stuffed animal until someone gave me one of those carnival-prize bears when I was a snotty teenager. Hubby came through though...as newlyweds he gifted me 7 Steiff bears while we lived in Germany.

Food was:

B: a cup of coffee with a treat...a tablespoon of powdered creamer. It tasted like desert.

L: My protein/collagen shake.

Snack: one wedge of Laughing Cow Lite

D:2 cups zucchini and 1 cup mushrooms cooked in 1 cup of no-sodium chicken broth and topped with 1 tablespoon shakey Parm.

Might have 10 shrimp for a late snack.

Have a fun weekend everybody! If you barbecue, enjoy delicious food. It's going to be a preserving weekend, so glad for a wall-unit a/c in the kitchen. The regular a/c can't keep up with that much heat in that room.