<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241</id><updated>2010-03-20T18:41:41.044-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Foursons</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>392</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-5556491489194275064</id><published>2010-03-20T07:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T07:57:59.673-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Domination</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6TiTPO5rnI/AAAAAAAACA0/GxrAKtnRWic/s1600-h/600px-New_Mexico_217_svg%5B3%5D.png"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="600px-New_Mexico_217_svg" border="0" alt="600px-New_Mexico_217_svg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6TiTvJudNI/AAAAAAAACA4/HVwy1hrgrDI/600px-New_Mexico_217_svg_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="395" height="395" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;The point of that obnoxiously big number you ask? Well...I gained 7 FOLLOWERS yesterday &lt;em&gt;alone &lt;/em&gt;and I feel the need to announce that fact to all the world, or just blogland. &lt;em&gt;Whatever.&lt;/em&gt; And yes, I feel validated by new followers. Some bloggers aren't in it for the fame or fortune. But me- I am. I'm all about becoming a super-sized blog and making 6 figures. Go ahead judge me, it's OK. I need to get used to ignoring naysayers because once I hit the big time there are bound to be one or two.  But it’s alright, I enjoy laughing all the way to the bank.  It beats crying that’s for sure. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And for my newest validators- I'll be by shortly to come visit you. It is baseball season here in Fourson's household which means between work and games...wait, &lt;em&gt;is there time between work and games? &lt;/em&gt;Anyhow, I'll be over to visit soon! Welcome, welcome, welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-5556491489194275064?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/5556491489194275064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=5556491489194275064&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/5556491489194275064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/5556491489194275064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/blog-domination.html' title='Blog Domination'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-7563014233430813513</id><published>2010-03-18T19:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-19T16:06:32.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Letters of Intent</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Foursons" src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n308/juliechinni/letterbutton3-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href="http://http//sellinginflatableboats.blogspot.com/2010/03/letter-of-intent.html#comments" target="_blank"&gt;Inflatable Girl-&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;your post will not let me comment. I have tried several times! I'm sorry, thank you for linking up!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spoiled kids? Spoiled spouse? Spoiled dinner? Are you cranky, tired, sick, tired of being sick and tired? Need to whine? Need to cry? Need to shout at someone...anyone? Maybe you need to shout out that you have a new arrival on the way, or that you are a fabulous writer of blog posts but for some reason your fabulousness just isn't well known (&lt;a href="http://www.switch2planb.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0080ff;"&gt;Brian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). Well, now is your chance! Write it all out...in letter form of course. Tell us the who, what, when, where, and why of all the unhappy/glorious events of your week. Grab my button from the sidebar, write your letter, and link up at the bottom. I look forward to your Letters of Intent!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Endocrinologist,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have such a superb practice and have so much of my respect that you have earned &lt;em&gt;two whole posts&lt;/em&gt; in which I discuss you. (Insert sarcasm here). &lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/thank-you-very-much_17.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0080ff;"&gt;I spoke highly of you yesterday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Ahem. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the last six months I have struggled with extreme fatigue, my hair falling out in clumps, cold extremities, and weight gain. All of these are typical symptoms for someone with hypothyroidism. And with my normal medication, Armour Thyroid, being &lt;a href="http://www.metabolism.com/2009/09/02/armour-thyroid-disappeared/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0080ff;"&gt;confiscated by the government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I have had to use a synthetic drug to treat my symptoms. Fine, good, whatever. Let’s just get me the medicine I need in order to function properly. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here’s the thing though. &lt;em&gt;You have to prescribe me the equivalent dosage in the new medicine that I was taking in the the previous one! &lt;/em&gt;It’s amazing what &lt;em&gt;tripling &lt;/em&gt;my dosage will do for me. Seriously? &lt;em&gt;Triple? &lt;/em&gt;How could you make that kind of mistake? How could you let me live the last 6 months of my life in utter misery and not catch this mistake? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not acceptable. Plain and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The woman who is now shopping around for a new endocrinologist. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Dad on Nolan’s Baseball Team,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must stop looking at me as though I am a manic woman. Yes, I’m loud. Yes, I’ll jump up out of my chair and start helping in the dugout or on the field if I’m needed. Yes, I tell Chris (who is manager of the team) what to announce to the parents at the end of the game. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have been at these Little League fields for a long time. And by long time, I mean I started showing up for games at these fields &lt;em&gt;13 years ago&lt;/em&gt;. So yeah, I feel comfortable enough to help out at the first game of the season. Especially at a T-ball game. Deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chris and I are a team. He is a great coach. He can teach kids who have never even seen a baseball to throw one with great accuracy. Kids who have never held a bat will become a power hitter. He is &lt;em&gt;not &lt;/em&gt;a details person. That would be my part of the relationship. So yes, you will hear me telling him the important things to announce to the parents at the end of the game. It doesn’t make me pushy or over-bearing. It just keeps the team rolling through the season. So please, don’t stare at me wide-eyed and slack-jawed as though I am supposed to be a meek woman on the sidelines. It just isn’t going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6Ln_tI36kI/AAAAAAAACAk/HogbjGxeFVo/s1600-h/high5s6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="high 5's" border="0" alt="high 5's" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6LoBBusQ_I/AAAAAAAACAo/9Nv0Fn9U6Kc/high5s_thumb4.jpg?imgmax=800" width="789" height="573" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The woman who who tells the coach where to be and when to be there so that he is present and accounted for during the season. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*I am working today. I promise to get to your letters and will leave some comment love as soon as possible this evening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=21262"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-7563014233430813513?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/7563014233430813513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=7563014233430813513&amp;isPopup=true' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/7563014233430813513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/7563014233430813513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/letters-of-intent_18.html' title='Letters of Intent'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-6001157102505543980</id><published>2010-03-17T19:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-17T19:03:38.335-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank You Very Much</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/kdawley/ThankYouVeryMuch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m  cranky today!  So boy is this post needed.  &lt;em&gt;Big time.  &lt;/em&gt;Make sure to click on over to &lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kmama’s&lt;/a&gt; and link up your own sarcastic riddled therapy post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the doctor’s office who found it acceptable to set my appointment at 10:45 in the morning but then to make me wait an ENTIRE hour before actually seeing the doctor.  Next time I will make sure to show up late and &lt;em&gt;not &lt;/em&gt;early.  My time is much more valuable than you are believing it to be.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6GJ5Pa1UlI/AAAAAAAACAU/UYaq6f1i_ik/s1600-h/waitingroom3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="waiting room" border="0" alt="waiting room" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6GJ5t6dZgI/AAAAAAAACAY/ORKPrmgeZAg/waitingroom_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="456" height="447" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the billing office at the same doctor’s office.  That $135.00 that you &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I owe you- yeah consider that payment to me for my time today.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the doctor whom I visited today.  Your letter is coming tomorrow missy.  &lt;em&gt;Oh yes it is.&lt;/em&gt;  I have way to much venom to spew at you to try to sum it up in a couple of short sentences.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the scale at the doctor’s office.  I am serious about losing weight this time and when I step on you after an entire week of eating better I expect to see a lower number than what I saw last time.  &lt;em&gt;You need to be calibrated.&lt;/em&gt;  My husband &lt;em&gt;owns&lt;/em&gt; a scale company and I do not appreciate you making me think I actually gained 0.4 lbs over the last week when I’m trying to lose weight.  You are playing dirty, dirty tricks on people.  I have actually lost 2 lbs. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To my stomach that is not being kind to me.  I know you don’t like all these fruits and veggies I’m eating.  But honestly in the long run we’ll both be better off.  So please, please stop revolting on me.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6GJ6QiKUuI/AAAAAAAACAc/5xiYbm5wtNw/s1600-h/rman3767l4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="rman3767l" border="0" alt="rman3767l" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6GJ69qf5WI/AAAAAAAACAg/xLtIsRpDoI8/rman3767l_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="481" height="436" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-6001157102505543980?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/6001157102505543980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=6001157102505543980&amp;isPopup=true' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6001157102505543980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6001157102505543980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/thank-you-very-much_17.html' title='Thank You Very Much'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-8967289526179541241</id><published>2010-03-17T07:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-17T07:50:10.525-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wordless Wednesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Wordless Wednesday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Me &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Circa 1975ish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6DsEVCuP_I/AAAAAAAACAM/674aCGLIqj4/s1600-h/me%20baby%20yellow%20chair%5B4%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="me baby yellow chair" border="0" alt="me baby yellow chair" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S6DsFFG_t4I/AAAAAAAACAQ/zTD0p8IIlDQ/me%20baby%20yellow%20chair_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="600" height="565" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-8967289526179541241?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/8967289526179541241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=8967289526179541241&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/8967289526179541241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/8967289526179541241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/wordless-wednesday_17.html' title='Wordless Wednesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-6340938814409297290</id><published>2010-03-16T07:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-16T07:56:54.487-07:00</updated><title type='text'>True Story Tuesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://tris-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s320/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;Living in a house full of men is interesting to say the least.  Things that are taboo for women are free reign for men.  I grew up in a house full of women.  I have 2 older sisters and was raised  by a single mother.  We had our fair share of cat fights, jealousy, and wardrobe issues.  However, in a house full of XY chromosomes, the everyday happenings are of a different caliber.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Girls catfight.  Boys wrestle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Girls are jealous.  Boys wrestle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Girls want to look their best for boys.  Boys tear their clothes while wrestling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Girls eat very little.  Boys inhale food in between wrestling matches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Girls use the bathroom facilities when nature calls.  Boys…well boy’s don’t.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case in point.  Yesterday I walked out onto my back porch to feed Rocco.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;      &lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5-cFu2tdNI/AAAAAAAACAE/0WQMCKKLgAU/s1600-h/016%5B4%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="016" border="0" alt="016" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5-cGUiJHPI/AAAAAAAACAI/wFwiz_MqBJ4/016_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="683" height="520" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is my back porch.  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;It is a nice and roomy, covered back porch.  I enjoy it thoroughly.  &lt;em&gt;Most days&lt;/em&gt;.  But most days I do not walk outside to feed the dog and find myself slack-jawed and wide-eyed.   “Nolan, are you peeing &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;my porch?!”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Yup, some days I wish I shared the house with another XX chromosome.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;I am linking up today with &lt;a href="http://http//www.onceuponamiracle.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday" target="_blank"&gt;Rachel and Mr. Daddy from Once Upon A Miracle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-6340938814409297290?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/6340938814409297290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=6340938814409297290&amp;isPopup=true' title='42 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6340938814409297290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6340938814409297290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/true-story-tuesday_16.html' title='True Story Tuesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s72-c/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>42</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-7650791152820028881</id><published>2010-03-15T04:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-15T04:49:19.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I heart Faces- Week 11 (2010)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The theme at I&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;Faces this week is &lt;strong&gt;“Bundled Up”.  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This week's photo should be all about snow, the cold, being bundled up, etc.  Any way that you can show off the concept of cold and being "bundled up" will work for us. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am entering a photo of Nolan at the Winter Funpark from our trip to NM.  Isn’t he cute?  And again- point and shoot photo.  (Shameless plug for a Nikon &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; Cannon DSLR.) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S54dvHwdTaI/AAAAAAAAB_8/WniN7kqX-8U/s1600-h/nolanbundleduppicnik4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="nolan bundled up picnik" border="0" alt="nolan bundled up picnik" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S54dw961tPI/AAAAAAAACAA/6LBFCZtdWlg/nolanbundleduppicnik_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="704" height="559" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;Make sure to go check out more bundled up beauties over at: &lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.livinglocurto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-7650791152820028881?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/7650791152820028881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=7650791152820028881&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/7650791152820028881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/7650791152820028881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/i-heart-faces-week-11-2010.html' title='I heart Faces- Week 11 (2010)'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-9034037891325319618</id><published>2010-03-11T20:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-12T19:44:30.269-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letters of Intent'/><title type='text'>Letters of Intent</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Foursons" src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n308/juliechinni/letterbutton3-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has this week been a comedy of errors? Have you been taking care of children who got sick while waiting in a doctor’s office waiting room for a Well-Checkup? Did your first preteen crush overdose on prescription medications and leave you wondering what is going on in this world? Or…did everything go RIGHT this week? Did your luck seem so hot that you stopped at the racetrack on the way home from work? Did your numbers come up in the lottery? &lt;em&gt;(If so, can you share with me?)&lt;/em&gt; Well tell me about it! Write the who, what, when, where, and why of it all. Grab the button from my right sidebar and link up at the bottom. I look forward to your &lt;em&gt;Letters of Intent!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear A.R.D. Committee, (Admissions, Review, and Dismissal)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week I wrote &lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/letters-of-intent.html" target="_blank"&gt;this letter&lt;/a&gt; to you. I expressed my concerns about entering into a meeting in which I feel it is me vs. THEM. And “THEM” is the group of people who have the power to deny my son services I feel he desperately needs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, I’d like to say thank you. Thank you for approving &lt;em&gt;every single&lt;/em&gt; accommodation I asked for. &lt;em&gt;I am thrilled!&lt;/em&gt; I have a hunch that his classroom teacher was a huge advocate for these accommodations. I am relieved that her voice has so much influence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;So it is with much gratitude that I write this letter to you today. Thank you for giving my son another school year in which he is given every opportunity to be successful to his&lt;em&gt; fullest&lt;/em&gt; potential. Thank you that we are not settling for “good enough.” Thank you for giving him the chance to achieve greatness- even if he is only in the 2nd grade. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A mom who only wants the best for her son.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Audrey Niffenegger,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations on your national bestseller for you very first novel ever! &lt;u&gt;The Time Traveler’s Wife&lt;/u&gt; has seen much success in book sales and has had quite a bit of success as a movie. You have accomplished many writer’s dream with your very first published novel. That is incredible!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I bought your book last week and started reading it. I admit, I was hooked immediately. It is a well-written, original novel that pulled me into the story as though I was right there. Normally when I read a book I will sit down and read it from beginning to end without stopping. And yes, that means I will read 300+ pages in one day. However, I read your book slowly. I wanted to absorb every word of it and even reread parts to make sure I understood what was going on. This is unusual for me, but is a testament to how well written your book is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;However…and that is a BIG however. Part II of your book left me angry and frustrated. I didn’t want to finish reading. While Part I of your book was light and pleasant, Part II was dark and dissatisfying. While I do appreciate that you made the effort to conclude the book so that there are no questions about how the character’s lives end up, I would have been much happier to just end the book after Part I. I think the only reason I actually finished &lt;u&gt;The Time Traveler’s Wife&lt;/u&gt; was because of the time I had already invested into it. I &lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt; to know how you chose to end the story. Unfortunately, that left me tossing the book aside glad to be done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447597889426910722" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5nBavZ1bgI/AAAAAAAAB_0/m-0juaSM-GA/s400/the-time-travelers-wife.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A woman left wanting something better than what she got.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Followers/Commenters/Lurkers,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would love to read your letters this week. It just might make up for reading a dissatisfying book. And I PROMISE to send some comment love after work and baseball practice tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Love,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your humble leader. (Bawahahahaha) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=20460"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-9034037891325319618?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/9034037891325319618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=9034037891325319618&amp;isPopup=true' title='32 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/9034037891325319618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/9034037891325319618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/letters-of-intent_11.html' title='Letters of Intent'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5nBavZ1bgI/AAAAAAAAB_0/m-0juaSM-GA/s72-c/the-time-travelers-wife.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>32</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-6498341838705070312</id><published>2010-03-10T19:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T19:21:20.551-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thank You Very Much'/><title type='text'>Thank You Very Much</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Daily Dribbles" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/kdawley/ThankYouVeryMuch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Weekly therapy time courtesy of &lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kmama at The Daily Dribbles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the scale. We have a love/hate relationship. Right now I hate you. Very much. Let’s start loving each other again. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5hes-VBkKI/AAAAAAAAB_M/o88p19LSw5A/s1600-h/scale7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="scale" border="0" alt="scale" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5hetWDTxuI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/xm1NWIQQZAE/scale_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="433" height="357" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To Fibromyalgia. Now is not the time to cripple my body so that I can not stand up straight. Pain relievers need to work right now. Muscles need to function. I am trying to love my scale again. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5heuHJ0HvI/AAAAAAAAB_U/1bwvgMR-_-c/s1600-h/Fibromyalgia14.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="Fibromyalgia1" border="0" alt="Fibromyalgia1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5heupOidZI/AAAAAAAAB_Y/LbqKcHge5yw/Fibromyalgia1_thumb2.gif?imgmax=800" width="453" height="342" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To Rocco. I will walk you to help aid in my weight loss. But for the love of all that is good and holy- do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; pull me behind you. My pain wracked body cannot handle it. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5hevcKkj3I/AAAAAAAAB_c/CMmm1CWG9ZY/s1600-h/0511081104153723_Cartoon_of_a_Dog_Wa%5B1%5D.png"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="0511-0811-0415-3723_Cartoon_of_a_Dog_Walker_Being_Pulled_by_a_Dog_clipart_image" border="0" alt="0511-0811-0415-3723_Cartoon_of_a_Dog_Walker_Being_Pulled_by_a_Dog_clipart_image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5hewckHrUI/AAAAAAAAB_g/B9rhG2njLyw/0511081104153723_Cartoon_of_a_Dog_Wa.png?imgmax=800" width="466" height="391" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To my love of sugar, carbs, and processed food. Please, please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; start tasting repulsive. It is so hard to resist you and oh how I need to do just that- resist. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5hexKIAmCI/AAAAAAAAB_k/nDjvOXQmuUo/s1600-h/junkfoodjunky4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="junkfoodjunky" border="0" alt="junkfoodjunky" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5hexnd9QYI/AAAAAAAAB_o/zpo4pKv0PSI/junkfoodjunky_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="473" height="446" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To swimsuit season. Can you please be kind to me during Spring Break? Spring Break is supposed to be a happy, let’s have fun time. Not a depressing, I am so fat and pasty white time. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5heyNAUcbI/AAAAAAAAB_s/2EzMSnqLiRw/s1600-h/swim4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="swim" border="0" alt="swim" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5heyuywLuI/AAAAAAAAB_w/zDz8PgMkoag/swim_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="495" height="217" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-6498341838705070312?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/6498341838705070312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=6498341838705070312&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6498341838705070312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6498341838705070312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/thank-you-very-much_10.html' title='Thank You Very Much'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-4552359746071129756</id><published>2010-03-10T04:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:06:04.142-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordless Wednesday'/><title type='text'>Wordy Wednesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;This boy…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUiig8-iI/AAAAAAAAB-c/5RUUHH1Vuwk/s1600-h/reading118.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="reading 1" border="0" alt="reading 1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUjvtostI/AAAAAAAAB-g/keFopyJiHus/reading1_thumb16.jpg?imgmax=800" width="462" height="605" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;With chocolate on his face…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUk1ermSI/AAAAAAAAB-k/wVquICuXlw8/s1600-h/reading47.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="reading 4" border="0" alt="reading 4" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUluuqOdI/AAAAAAAAB-o/iDk4eEY6KG4/reading4_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="458" height="599" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;And chocolate on his shirt…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUmZBX_vI/AAAAAAAAB-s/L4Ad1u5sjgA/s1600-h/reading29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="reading 2" border="0" alt="reading 2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUnQ1tV3I/AAAAAAAAB-0/kRAV-liTDsQ/reading2_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="604" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Has developed…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUoIVokKI/AAAAAAAAB-4/Zh5SvtQTcl4/s1600-h/reading38.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="reading 3" border="0" alt="reading 3" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUoyAPmhI/AAAAAAAAB-8/YtE-DwRjSyU/reading3_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="480" height="629" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;My love of reading...and chocolate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUpXWxEDI/AAAAAAAAB_A/YAhppj_blbc/s1600-h/reading512.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="reading 5" border="0" alt="reading 5" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5eUqEkyVRI/AAAAAAAAB_E/E0gXVBp4suM/reading5_thumb10.jpg?imgmax=800" width="496" height="645" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-4552359746071129756?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/4552359746071129756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=4552359746071129756&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/4552359746071129756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/4552359746071129756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/wordy-wednesday.html' title='Wordy Wednesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-1635294743771008822</id><published>2010-03-09T04:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:06:43.813-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='True Story Tuesday'/><title type='text'>True Story Tuesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://tris-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s320/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;Life is scary sometimes.  And right now my life is downright frightful.  I don’t know what I’m going to do or how I’m going to do it.  It’s just to much to handle for one person.  Does anyone have a one-way plane ticket to…anywhere but here? &lt;em&gt;Anyone? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason for my alarmist attitude you ask?  &lt;em&gt;Ahem.&lt;/em&gt;  Admit it- you &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; asked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This.  This is my reason. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="March 2010" border="0" alt="March 2010" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5ZEYluj1QI/AAAAAAAAB-Y/SQ8CHTSeThU/March2010_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="591" height="451" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, I have a desk size calendar hanging on my kitchen wall.  It’s the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; thing that works.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every flower on my calendar for the month of March represents a place that I, my children, or my husband need to be at a certain time.  Some flowers have &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; activities hiding beneath them.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So what’s the scary part you ask?  &lt;em&gt;Yes, I hear your voices in my head.&lt;/em&gt;  The scary part is that it is only March 9th and I do not have the Spring baseball schedule for Jakob or Nolan yet and I do not have my work schedule on there seeing as how I pick up jobs on a day to day basis. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So- about that plane ticket…. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am linking up today with &lt;a href="http://www.onceuponamiracle.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Rachel and Mr. Daddy at Once Upon a Miracle.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-1635294743771008822?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/1635294743771008822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=1635294743771008822&amp;isPopup=true' title='39 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/1635294743771008822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/1635294743771008822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/true-story-tuesday_09.html' title='True Story Tuesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s72-c/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>39</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-6613063294088086396</id><published>2010-03-07T18:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:06:56.955-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IheartFaces'/><title type='text'>I Heart Faces- Week 10 (2010)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;This week’s theme is “&lt;strong&gt;Jump for Joy&lt;/strong&gt;”.  I had a photo shoot all planned out with my boys and niece and well…it just didn’t happen.  Nolan got sick, Jakob got invited to play at a friend’s house and I was forced to search my archives for a photo that suits the theme this week.  Oh how this one makes me long for summer!  (And a DSLR…shameless plug.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5Rlg_v98uI/AAAAAAAAB-Q/CDROltgd5_Q/s1600-h/jump4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="jump" border="0" alt="jump" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5RliDOBWUI/AAAAAAAAB-U/Qd_rUEaXzeo/jump_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="619" height="776" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Make sure to “jump” (hahaha- I am &lt;em&gt;so &lt;/em&gt;clever) on over to &lt;a href="http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;IheartFaces&lt;/a&gt; and check out more contest entries!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.livinglocurto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-6613063294088086396?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/6613063294088086396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=6613063294088086396&amp;isPopup=true' title='31 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6613063294088086396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/6613063294088086396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/i-heart-faces-week-10-2010.html' title='I Heart Faces- Week 10 (2010)'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-7207638221679149150</id><published>2010-03-04T20:04:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:07:10.316-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letters of Intent'/><title type='text'>Letters of Intent</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Foursons" src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n308/juliechinni/letterbutton3-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has the last 7 days felt more like 14?  Has Charlie Sheen’s problems made you weep because they have stopped production on &lt;em&gt;Two and a Half Men?  &lt;/em&gt;Are you stunned by Kara’s review of Casey’s singing this week on American Idol?  &lt;em&gt;Wasn’t she mooning over the guy just last week&lt;/em&gt;?  Or how about Ellen’s terrible critiques in general on the show?  Have you felt like you were the one standing in the spotlight on stage waiting for 4 people to rip you to shreds as you just sang your heart out?  Or maybe you received their praises and have been glowing ever since.  Well tell me about it- in letter form of course.  Write the who, what, when, where, and why of it all.  Grab my button from the RIGHT sidebar and link up at the bottom.  I look forward to your &lt;em&gt;Letters of Intent&lt;/em&gt;!  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear A.R.D. Committee (Admissions, Review, and Dismissal),&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next Tuesday I will be sitting in a room with you discussing Jakob’s I.E.P. (Individualized Education Program).  Please for the love of all things that are good and holy- let’s not make this difficult this time.  I know the school district does not want to allocate money to special services outside of the regular education classroom.  But you and I &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; know that you are required by law to provide them.  Jakob is under the autism umbrella now and so it is &lt;em&gt;I &lt;/em&gt;who has the upper hand- not you.  So yes, he is kind, responsible, well behaved, and smart.  He does not cause problems for his teachers.  &lt;em&gt;He is a joy in the classroom&lt;/em&gt;.  Wonderful- I love hearing these things. &lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt;, that does not mean that you get to neglect his needs because he is not making waves behaviorally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I’m well aware of how good his grades are.  But his disabilities are keeping him from reaching his full potential.  Jakob is a s.p.o.n.g.e. and has a love of learning.  He could be doing so much better than he already is.  So when I ask for more accommodations do not guffaw at the idea.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A child who is reading almost 2 levels higher than his grade level should not be making “B’s” and “C’s” on his writing.  He is being penalized for his fine motor disability.  So when I ask for graph paper for tests, dictation for essays, access to the computer for any written assignments, copying from the board/overhead to be obsolete, extra time on tests as needed, and daily visits into the writing lab with the resource teacher- I expect to hear a resounding “yes” across the board.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A mom who is ready for battle and is not taking “no” for an answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5CC2cCTuyI/AAAAAAAAB-I/V7jZIxid66c/s1600-h/PolarBears25.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="Polar-Bears2" border="0" alt="Polar-Bears2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S5CC2-KSsOI/AAAAAAAAB-M/rEFFIWOBfII/PolarBears2_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="637" height="415" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Don’t mess with Mama Bear when she’s protecting her cubs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;______________________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Dear all my legion of fans/followers/and lurkers,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;I am working &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt; today.  I promise to leave you some comment love for your link-ups as soon as I am home from work.  And thank you so much for you patience last week with MckLinky.  I think we got things all worked out!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Your humble leader.  (Bawahahahaha)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=19691"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-7207638221679149150?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/7207638221679149150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=7207638221679149150&amp;isPopup=true' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/7207638221679149150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/7207638221679149150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/letters-of-intent.html' title='Letters of Intent'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-2566022252600261369</id><published>2010-03-03T19:03:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:07:22.430-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thank You Very Much'/><title type='text'>Thank You Very Much</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt; &lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Daily Dribbles" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/kdawley/ThankYouVeryMuch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s Thursday!  Make sure to hop on over to &lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kmama’s at The Daily Dribbles&lt;/a&gt; and link up your own therapy for this week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the school calendar that made me think I picked up 3 days of subbing during standardized testing so that my days would be e.a.s.y.  Turns out only one of those days applied to the high school.  I’m going to work anyways, but I’m not happy about it.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the box of cell phones that were confiscated during testing.  My how times have changed since I was in high school when cell phones didn’t even &lt;em&gt;exist&lt;/em&gt; yet.  I officially feel old.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S48i68oS8NI/AAAAAAAAB94/jyZMxFhd17k/s1600-h/cellphones3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="cell phones" border="0" alt="cell phones" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S48i7kWsl5I/AAAAAAAAB98/Km7YOTpmn1g/cellphones_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="424" height="322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;By the way- their phones are much cooler than these.  &lt;strong&gt;Much cooler.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To my wardrobe that does not contain 3 consecutive days of work clothes.  You are making my life difficult.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the TV in the playroom that has decided to stop working.  My children are going through withdrawals.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S48i8tfC0hI/AAAAAAAAB-A/jGVCDu6TqRU/s1600-h/brokentv4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="broken tv" border="0" alt="broken tv" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S48i9Ua-3vI/AAAAAAAAB-E/kyd-xuSqCd8/brokentv_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="393" height="447" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-2566022252600261369?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/2566022252600261369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=2566022252600261369&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/2566022252600261369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/2566022252600261369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/thank-you-very-much.html' title='Thank You Very Much'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-3717643644897063329</id><published>2010-03-03T04:52:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:07:36.464-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordless Wednesday'/><title type='text'>Wordless Wednesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S45bnB7EtsI/AAAAAAAAB9w/fDDoAuD0rf8/s1600-h/Nolanpicnik18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="Nolan picnik" border="0" alt="Nolan picnik" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S45bolcdvlI/AAAAAAAAB90/nn3mmS836wI/Nolanpicnik_thumb16.jpg?imgmax=800" width="592" height="775" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-3717643644897063329?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/3717643644897063329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=3717643644897063329&amp;isPopup=true' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/3717643644897063329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/3717643644897063329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/wordless-wednesday.html' title='Wordless Wednesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-4187474129724010292</id><published>2010-03-02T05:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T05:01:51.376-08:00</updated><title type='text'>True Story Tuesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://tris-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s320/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Last Wednesday was kind of a national holiday of sorts for us.&amp;#160; Josh was coming very close to home to play two baseball games.&amp;#160; Because of the option to only drive for 30 minutes compared to the 4 hours where his college is located we took this as reason to celebrate.&amp;#160; We kept the boys out of school, took off from work, and planned a day at the fields.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S40MNMUEQCI/AAAAAAAAB9g/4JxHtLpGWkE/s1600-h/joshjakobnolanpicnik27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="josh jakob nolan picnik 2" border="0" alt="josh jakob nolan picnik 2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S40MN72Fw0I/AAAAAAAAB9k/I-pfBCVUquo/joshjakobnolanpicnik2_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="442" height="615" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It was an exciting day to say the least.&amp;#160; It was also chilly.&amp;#160; Once the sun went down and we were sitting in the breezy stadium it was downright cold.&amp;#160; Like the ever-prepared Mary Poppins I had my bag of supplies.&amp;#160; Drinks, snacks, jackets, and even Long&amp;#160; Johns.&amp;#160; Yup, I packed Long&amp;#160; Johns.&amp;#160; And sure enough, Jakob asked for some knee warmers.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S40MOvkxKfI/AAAAAAAAB9o/0Os9-oKU0Ho/s1600-h/jakobholesinjeanspicnik24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="jakob holes in jeans picnik 2" border="0" alt="jakob holes in jeans picnik 2" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S40MPpsAqNI/AAAAAAAAB9s/ftuKEdi-FBg/jakobholesinjeanspicnik2_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="625" height="477" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, I take my child out in public in tattered clothing.&amp;#160; I have no choice.&amp;#160; Unless of course I choose to buy a new pair of jeans every single day.&amp;#160; Because seriously- it only takes one day to make them look like the above photo .&amp;#160; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Where I live in TX, it is not often that knee warmers (aka Long Johns) are needed.&amp;#160; It is just not cold all that often.&amp;#160; And actually my children have never owned a pair until we went to NM on vacation last December.&amp;#160; So I guess I should have seen it coming.&amp;#160; I didn’t realized that my 8 year old would need an explanation on how Long Johns work.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;That was until he walked back into the stadium where I was sitting and handed me his jeans and happily proclaimed, “Much better!”&amp;#160; “No Jakob, you have to put your jeans back on &lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt; the Long Johns!”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I am linking up today with &lt;a href="http://www.onceuponamiracle.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday" target="_blank"&gt;Rachel and Mr. Daddy over at Once Upon a Miracle&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; Make sure to head on over there to read more &lt;em&gt;true stories!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-4187474129724010292?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/4187474129724010292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=4187474129724010292&amp;isPopup=true' title='36 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/4187474129724010292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/4187474129724010292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/true-story-tuesday.html' title='True Story Tuesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s72-c/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>36</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-2318430753704079996</id><published>2010-03-01T04:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T04:41:39.667-08:00</updated><title type='text'>IheartFaces- Week 9 (2010)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I haven’t entered much this year due to not having anything pertaining to the themes.&amp;#160; However, this week’s theme: &lt;em&gt;Hilarious Outtakes&lt;/em&gt; is right up my alley.&amp;#160; All it required was picking which photos to enter.&amp;#160; Although they are not technically perfect, they certainly make me laugh!&amp;#160; (Shameless plug for a DSLR)&amp;#160; This is Angie and Amy’s week off and in their place are 5 special judges who will pick the photos that tickle their funny bone the most!&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u14A32RxI/AAAAAAAAB84/PMClHX4PHY0/s1600-h/christmas1%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="christmas 1" border="0" alt="christmas 1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u15GadocI/AAAAAAAAB88/wDcdob75MXQ/christmas1_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="682" height="546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The group Christmas shot is a given.&amp;#160; There is always going to be silliness, closed eyes, not looking at the camera, and/or all of the above.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u16FVNAiI/AAAAAAAAB9A/39hFWMaPyBw/s1600-h/joshbriannanate4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="josh brianna nate" border="0" alt="josh brianna nate" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u168pJyEI/AAAAAAAAB9E/T5niB1lguc8/joshbriannanate_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="685" height="531" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Three teenagers in one shot.&amp;#160; Need I say more?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u17zTF4dI/AAAAAAAAB9I/mVOE9YjDWjM/s1600-h/nolanpickingnose4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="nolan picking nose" border="0" alt="nolan picking nose" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u19cJ4N2I/AAAAAAAAB9M/IdjtZYvMr5Q/nolanpickingnose_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="690" height="687" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Um, yeah.&amp;#160; Thanks for that Nolan.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u1-OIUZcI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/7VuEpIDhrKw/s1600-h/nolanandjakob3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="nolan and jakob" border="0" alt="nolan and jakob" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u1_MrucPI/AAAAAAAAB9U/utZViSl3wAY/nolanandjakob_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="701" height="532" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Can you get any more effort into that “CCCHHHHEEEESSSEEE!”?&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u1_s9OUnI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/pR7PAJemPw8/s1600-h/thekiddos4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="the kiddos" border="0" alt="the kiddos" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4u2Atl8TjI/AAAAAAAAB9c/NES3Wh-ltjk/thekiddos_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="716" height="494" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Obviously, there were some good times goin’ on in this photo!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;center&gt;Be sure to check out more &lt;em&gt;Hilarious Outtakes&lt;/em&gt; over at:&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.livinglocurto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-2318430753704079996?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/2318430753704079996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=2318430753704079996&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/2318430753704079996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/2318430753704079996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/03/iheartfaces-week-9-2010.html' title='IheartFaces- Week 9 (2010)'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-2251227228761605885</id><published>2010-02-27T21:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T21:39:59.084-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Almost There</title><content type='html'>I changed my layout to Stretch Minima and MckLinky appears correct now. My nav bar is gone due to it not liking Stretch Minima but I can create a new nav bar. Does it bother y'all to have the post area so wide? At this point I don't know what else I can do because I don't want to lose my &lt;em&gt;Letters of Intent&lt;/em&gt;. By the way- all of you who linked up on Friday are now showing up on the post. &lt;em&gt;Whew!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And a HUGE thank you to &lt;a href="http://www.screweduptexan.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Allie over at Fresh Confessions of a Screwed up Texan&lt;/a&gt;. If you've never read her blog, I highly suggest doing so. You also need to check out her book, &lt;a href="http://www.screweduptexan.com/search/label/My%20Story" target="_blank"&gt;My Story&lt;/a&gt;. It will keep you captivated until the very end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.screweduptexan.com/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii24/allievanwagoner/SUTbuttonFeb2010_125.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Allie was so patient and helpful to me trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with my blog. And she did it all on a Saturday night! Thank you so much Allie, I am forever grateful!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-2251227228761605885?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/2251227228761605885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=2251227228761605885&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/2251227228761605885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/2251227228761605885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/almost-there.html' title='Almost There'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-8122694979404428855</id><published>2010-02-27T16:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T16:13:18.851-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Help?!</title><content type='html'>To all of you HTML gurus out there- can you help me? I am begging and pleading for anyone to offer any kind of a solution. MckLinky is not working with my new layout. When Brent Riggs entered my code into his test blog it worked just fine. However, it does not work for me. He thinks it has something to do with the coding for my layout. Amber used the Minima layout and changed the colors and added some widgets. Nothing too intense was done. Any ideas? Please???!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-8122694979404428855?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/8122694979404428855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=8122694979404428855&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/8122694979404428855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/8122694979404428855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/help.html' title='Help?!'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-4290630335965351045</id><published>2010-02-27T10:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T16:36:11.838-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Test</title><content type='html'>This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the Federal, State and local authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, (optional -- stations may mention the types of emergencies likely to occurr in their area) the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news or instructions. This station (optional -- insert station call sign) serves the (operational area name) area. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/181/F492B1AF8A3BC1BEBCFC0AF47E09A5FC.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=19008"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/links.php?owner=foursons&amp;amp;postid=27Feb2010&amp;amp;meme=tt" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/graphic.php?owner=foursons&amp;amp;postid=27Feb2010&amp;amp;meme=tt" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=19028"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-4290630335965351045?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/4290630335965351045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=4290630335965351045&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/4290630335965351045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/4290630335965351045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/test.html' title='Test'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-9120415216057184872</id><published>2010-02-25T16:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:07:56.871-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letters of Intent'/><title type='text'>Letters of Intent</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;UPDATE: I'M NOT SURE WHAT IS WRONG WITH MCKLINKY AND MY NEW LAYOUT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LINK UP ON THE SECOND MCKLINY. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOOK INTO THE PROBLEM UNTIL THIS EVENING. SORRY!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/search/label/Letters%20of%20Intent"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n308/juliechinni/letterbutton3-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Has it been a week worth remembering? Or how about a week worth forgetting? Has your calendar been so filled with things to do and places to be that you want to rip the thing off your wall and throw it in the trash? Has American Idol being so annoying that you have officially removed it from your DVR list? Well tell me about it! Write the who, what, when, where, and why in letter form of course. Grab my button from my RIGHT sidebar and link up at the bottom. I look forward to your &lt;em&gt;Letters of Intent&lt;/em&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;___________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battle of the Blogs Results:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to Fly&lt;/strong&gt;: 20 (&lt;em&gt;How many&lt;/em&gt; times did you vote for yourself Rachel?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to be invisible&lt;/strong&gt;: 36 (Woohoo!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top comment pick:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://asthedaysgoby-shaun.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Shaun’s&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I chose invisibility. I would love to just disappear so I don't have to hear "mommy, hey mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy. MOMMMMMMMYYYYYY" When my husband is sitting right beside me and he can easily answer the question, turn on the light in the bathroom, get the milk, etc. That would give me a good 5 minutes of peace. If I were to pick flight, the kids could still see me. I love my children, really I do, but I want to pee with the door SHUT! Sorry...got a little off track there. But yeah, invisibility for sure! Plus, I would totally be able to tag along on my daughter's dates when they get older. And I could randomly drop in on them at school and they'd never know. I would use my power of invisibility for good too. I'd be all sneaky and drop in on meetings of opposing governments, then we'd know what they were thinking. Think a country has nukes? Just call me! I'll go check it out! I'd totally save the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;____________________________________________________&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Dear My Most Beloved Followers,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Thank you so much for allowing me to redeem myself! I am forever grateful that you did not cause me to go down two in a row to &lt;a href="http://www.onceuponamiracle.com/2010/02/battle-of-blogs-round-two.html" target="_blank"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt; in our &lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/battle-of-blogs-round-2_21.html" target="_blank"&gt;Battle of the Blogs&lt;/a&gt;. Thank you, thank you, thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Love,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The woman who is doing the happy dance with jazz fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;____________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Dearest Rachel, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;I can’t help myself. I just have to do it. You gave a good effort and I applaud you for it. You even went so far as to beg pity votes not once, but&lt;em&gt; twice&lt;/em&gt;. Even &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the polls were supposedly closed. &lt;em&gt;Ahem. &lt;/em&gt;So, without further delay- Na-na-na-na-na-na. *Sticking thumbs in ears and waggling fingers.*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4c40p46fiI/AAAAAAAAB8w/Rv5VxUHw2ks/s1600-h/boy%5B7%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="boy" border="0" alt="boy" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4c41OpfgjI/AAAAAAAAB80/NneyxwKXdmw/boy_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="437" height="465" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Love,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The woman who is doing the happy dance with jazz fingers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;____________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Dear My Most Beloved Followers,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;I’m so sorry for my lack of comments the past few days. I have not been home for the last two days and I am working again tomorrow. I promise to pass on the comment love to all of you lovely bloggers who link up and will catch up on all my other reading this weekend. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Love,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The woman who is asking for patience- I promise to comment as soon as I have a free moment! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=18832"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=18891"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-9120415216057184872?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/9120415216057184872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=9120415216057184872&amp;isPopup=true' title='29 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/9120415216057184872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/9120415216057184872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/letters-of-intent_25.html' title='Letters of Intent'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>29</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-9016686519394548945</id><published>2010-02-24T20:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:08:09.165-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thank You Very Much'/><title type='text'>Thank You Very Much</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt; &lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Daily Dribbles" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/kdawley/ThankYouVeryMuch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s Thursday, and that means I save money on therapy by linking up with &lt;a href="http://thedailydribbles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kmama at The Daily Dribbles&lt;/a&gt;.  Be sure to click on over to her house and link up your own &lt;em&gt;Thank You Very Much&lt;/em&gt; post!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the incredibly busy day I had yesterday.  It was supposed to be a day off for fun and good times.  Instead I feel exhausted and worn out.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the weather that can’t decide if it is winter or spring.  I froze my patootie off at Josh’s baseball game yesterday.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much&lt;/em&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4X3bjfg18I/AAAAAAAAB8g/99eJlIc4Lt4/s1600-h/winterspring7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="winter-spring" border="0" alt="winter-spring" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4X3cCUaCRI/AAAAAAAAB8k/Fq8u_UwUZZk/winterspring_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="551" height="466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To my son, whom shall remain nameless. &lt;em&gt;Jakob.&lt;/em&gt;  I’m sorry I flipped out when we thought you lost your &lt;em&gt;brand new&lt;/em&gt; baseball glove.  But for heaven’s sake- those things are expensive and if you haven’t noticed we do &lt;em&gt;not &lt;/em&gt;have a money tree in the backyard.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To my calendar.  We don’t need to be this busy.  Stop filling up with activities and things to do.  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To American Idol.  3 days a week with 2 of those 3 days being 2 hour shows is ridiculous.  Let’s cut to the chase and just start with the Top 10, shall we?  &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4X3cy384nI/AAAAAAAAB8o/_gnDSYW4D0k/s1600-h/wagt_american_idol6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="wagt_american_idol" border="0" alt="wagt_american_idol" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4X3da55XiI/AAAAAAAAB8s/2MNKethiykU/wagt_american_idol_thumb4.jpg?imgmax=800" width="394" height="242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-9016686519394548945?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/9016686519394548945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=9016686519394548945&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/9016686519394548945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/9016686519394548945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/thank-you-very-much_24.html' title='Thank You Very Much'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-1782687810426416669</id><published>2010-02-24T07:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T07:09:00.855-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Makeovers</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for all of the positive comments about my new look!&amp;#160; A few of you have expressed interest in getting a makeover for yourself.&amp;#160; There are 2 bloggers I recommend.&amp;#160; Of course &lt;a href="http://lahadesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Amber&lt;/a&gt;- who did my current makeover.&amp;#160; (Thank you Amber!)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://lahadesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/amberlaha/Design%20Site/button-1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Also, Carla from &lt;a href="http://mastomama.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Masto Mama Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; She does fabulous makeovers (of which I’ve won one, so be expecting another look eventually).&amp;#160; Every penny she earns from makeovers goes towards medicine for her and her kiddos.&amp;#160; (The first button is her blog.&amp;#160; The second button is her makeover blog.)&lt;a href="http://www.mastomama.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4361925438_18b028579c_o.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;a href="http://www.mastomamamakeovers.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4361929922_c22d96f4bb_o.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-1782687810426416669?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/1782687810426416669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=1782687810426416669&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/1782687810426416669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/1782687810426416669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/blog-makeovers.html' title='Blog Makeovers'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-8929654071558018887</id><published>2010-02-24T06:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:08:23.309-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordless Wednesday'/><title type='text'>Wordless Wednesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4U5ljOvfwI/AAAAAAAAB8Y/FWXYI6v_PIM/s1600-h/nolanonhorse5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="nolan on horse" border="0" alt="nolan on horse" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4U5mhg-C9I/AAAAAAAAB8c/flh3OABADt0/nolanonhorse_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="687" height="467" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-8929654071558018887?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/8929654071558018887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=8929654071558018887&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/8929654071558018887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/8929654071558018887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/wordless-wednesday_24.html' title='Wordless Wednesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-5418318435991144022</id><published>2010-02-23T14:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T15:03:38.672-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My New Design</title><content type='html'>UPDATE: I'm not sure why my blog looks all wonky in Firefox but bear with me while we figure it out.  *sigh*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So? What do you think? I know- COMPLETELY different, huh? I wanted a layout that I could make my pictures larger ('cause one day I&lt;em&gt; will&lt;/em&gt; have a DSLR) and I wanted less to look at when viewing my blog. I think there are still a few more tweaks- my blog designer, &lt;a href="http://lahadesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Amber&lt;/a&gt;, has been working her fingers to the bone for me even though I won the makeover and am not actually paying her. I was P.I.C.K.Y.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So? Be honest. But nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lahadesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/amberlaha/Design%20Site/button-1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-5418318435991144022?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/5418318435991144022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=5418318435991144022&amp;isPopup=true' title='37 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/5418318435991144022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/5418318435991144022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/my-new-design.html' title='My New Design'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>37</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194033156419343241.post-1078532133451975860</id><published>2010-02-23T04:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T09:08:40.370-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='True Story Tuesday'/><title type='text'>True Story Tuesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://tris-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s320/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the last eleven days I have had the privilege of watching the world’s top athletes compete against each other for the most coveted medal in all of sports.  The Olympic gold medal is the prize elite athletes strive for.  It represents all the effort, sacrifice, and money that has driven these men and women most of their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4PNegckZbI/AAAAAAAAB7w/YJ5lL9yglC4/s1600-h/goldmedal3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="gold medal" border="0" alt="gold medal" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4PNfFEwaMI/AAAAAAAAB70/0UDKjAT-XoY/goldmedal_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="253" height="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a spectator who is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an athlete, watching these men and women perform at an athletic level that I can only dream of achieving is fascinating.  They make it look easy.  They make it look like I could dig myself out of my couch cushion, put on some sports equipment and ski down a slope, do a 780 on a snowboard, or even twirl in the air on ice skates and land without falling.  (&lt;a href="http://www.myfourboys.net/2009/09/true-story-tuesday-part-vi.html" target="_blank"&gt;No comments from the peanut gallery&lt;/a&gt;.  Thankyouverymuch.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4PNfUgE6oI/AAAAAAAAB74/FpZ8FG_ZBeI/s1600-h/shawn_white13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="shawn_white 1" border="0" alt="shawn_white 1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4PNfzp7riI/AAAAAAAAB78/jJhmwaBf4VA/shawn_white1_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="268" height="354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not the only one in awe of these Olympic games.  As I scroll through Facebook headlines I see that others are too.  &lt;em&gt;And&lt;/em&gt; I am not the only one who watches and imagines themselves as one of these athletes we see on our high definition televisions.  Many of us are trying to find the sport most suitable to us as we dream of standing on the podium for our countries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4PNgR915uI/AAAAAAAAB8A/3YWjMXE5mF4/s1600-h/podium4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="podium" border="0" alt="podium" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vZuyAETJBUg/S4PNg2tGnUI/AAAAAAAAB8E/9VnSWrvcND0/podium_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="463" height="299" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FB Friend:&lt;/strong&gt; After watching the Olympics, I think I missed my sport, God gave me the thighs to do speed skating. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me: &lt;/strong&gt;God gave me birthing hips. What sport am I good for? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am linking up today with &lt;a href="http://www.onceuponamiracle.com/search/label/True%20Story%20Tuesday" target="_blank"&gt;Rachel and Mr. Daddy at Once Upon a Miracle&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;True Story Tuesdays&lt;/em&gt;.  Be sure to click on over there to read more amazing, miraculous, and (mostly) true stories.  You can even link up your own while you’re there!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/181/F492B1AF8A3BC1BEBCFC0AF47E09A5FC.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5194033156419343241-1078532133451975860?l=www.myfourboys.net' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/feeds/1078532133451975860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5194033156419343241&amp;postID=1078532133451975860&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/1078532133451975860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5194033156419343241/posts/default/1078532133451975860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.myfourboys.net/2010/02/true-story-tuesday_23.html' title='True Story Tuesday'/><author><name>Foursons</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07470306593323990269</uri><email>foursonsblog@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14098165679852895318'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMlyr5DDsLY/ScRpgY4L7ZI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/zc6P2o8F7K4/s72-c/true+story+tuesday+final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>27</thr:total></entry></feed>