It Came! It Came!

This got a little lost in all the kerfuffle of Bug's broken arm adventure(as they both arrived the same day) but, that is all behind us now that his arm is safely encased in an orange cast (he picked partially in honor of Mr. Stellan and partially because it is one of his favorite colors).

I won this from Myra.  She has a great blog and is a whole lot of fun; you should really check her out.  Right now, until Nov 17, she has another fresh giveaway going on.  Check out the previous link to her blog to find that particular post!

Drum Roll PLEASE!!!!!

The judges deliberated for many, many hours over over their FruitLoops this morning and have come back to me with their decision as to the winner of the fabulous "Name the Fish because I ran out of creativity" contest, in which the winner wins a big, fat nothing unless you count being mentioned on this blog and perhaps being able to score a CEO position by adding Namer of Fish on your resume. {Grin}

Ok, without further ado, the name of this fish

is Pearl, submitted by Melissa at Tiny Greek Goddess.  Thank you all three of you, for your suggestions.  Jellybean and Bug had a fantastic time deliberating.

Pearl seems to love her new name and is very relieved to not be referred to as No-name any longer.

Thanks for playing...

Never too young

I took Jellybean and Bug with me tonight when I went grocery shopping. Where else would they be, right? Anyway, totally not the point of the story.

We were passing the deli where they keep all the delicious looking sandwiches that they sell for $5 each when Jellybean had a brainwave. "Mom," she said full of excitement over her thought processes, "why don't you just buy me and Bug one of those sandwiches for our lunches and then you don't have to make us lunches anymore?! That would be so easy for you, heh?"

I didn't want to crush her really "great" idea but I took that time to explain to the kids about being good stewards of our money, then we discussed how much two of those sandwiches would be for one day of the week and then I showed and explained to her (Bug too but he wasn't really listening - what can I expect from a 6 year old boy about grocery shopping? Yawn)how much lunch stuff we could buy for that $10.

She will be getting a delicious looking egg salad sandwich tomorrow but I think this one only cost about $0.75 to make (if even that). She did get the message and you could see the "gears" turning in her head as she was figuring out what the best deal was, and as she figured it out and saw that she could have her sandwich and a package of mini oreo cakesters for lunch for way less than that one sandwich she was uber excited to go home so I could make as many sandwiches as I wanted.

P.S. I will be bringing forth all name suggestions to Jellybean and Bug tomorrow for judging and let you know of the "winner" of the unbelievable prizes as soon as I can. {Grin}

"Name that Fish" contest

Seriously...this is a name that fish contest. Why? Because my creativity is tapped.
What do you win? Absolutely nothing other than the satisfaction of knowing that the name you picked will last as long as the fish and my children's memory does. Oh, and you will be announced here so me and my 13 other readers will remember that you won the "Name that Fish" contest.

Rules? There are none other than the name needs to be family appropriate.

This is Hidalgo. Why? He is a "paint" and he as the same temperment as Hidalgo from the movie


These are the two remaining of the original three...Herman is the bigger of the two and Rosie.


This goldish, bronzish looking fish is called...you guessed it....Gold's Fish (sort of like Gold's Gym but fishy)


This is E.B.B. Covergirl...when you see the picture you WILL understand!


We have two of these guys, Chinese Algae Eaters, and they are The King and Sally, named after a certain someone's favorite Cars movie.



And now, my friends, it is totally your turn! I am so fish named out and I am at a loss for this poor fish. My inspiration has plummeted into almost non-existance! You think I jest but it is sadly true...

Please, name this fish...he/she can't be no-name for the rest of its life!


All you get is the satisfaction of knowing that a handful of people know you named the poor fish and perhaps you can add it to your resume...Namer of Fish. You never know, it could be the small detail that gets you that big CEO position...

...you never know!

And yes, I know this is a sad little contest...especially for being the first contest I have ever had...pitiful.