The Truth About Cops and Robbers (In KCMO)

1. No, I do not know or get together with other cop wives.

2. Jeff's sargeant does not yell or berate his officers. In fact he's a really nice, mellow guy who gave them all $20 movie theater gift certificates for Christmas.

3. The cops who give speeding tickets are part of the traffic division. Therefore, not every (in fact MOST) cops you meet will not be hiding on the street somewhere to give you a ticket. Jeff has vowed to NEVER be in the traffic division.

4. Most of the calls that Jeff goes on have something to do with alcohol. He is constantly saying how if they would ban alcohol then most crime would be prevented. Don't believe him? I'm sure he'd be happy to sign you up for a ride along so you can experience the drunken and disorderly state of most criminal activity yourself!

5. Jeff does not get to drive his Police car home. Apparently in Kansas they can, I'm not sure if it's all of them or just Sargeants. But here in KCMO - are you kidding? They barely have enough cars for the officers on duty.

6. There are a bunch of places that feed cops for free in Kansas City. This was hard for Jeff to take advantage of at first, for some reason he felt bad about it. But after a while, and some pushing from me, he now takes full advantage of the freebies.

7. Heard about the thin blue line? It's totally real, these guys are keeping the nasties on the street at bay so they don't show up on your doorstep.

Smile at a cop today!

First Five Gimme Gimme

My friend April posted this tag/giveaway/challenge on her blog and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get something wonderful from her. Here is the tag, copied directly from her blog, that she copied from a friend, and so on and so forth. For my gimme's I'm going to go ahead and say that it WON'T be anything listed in #4. It WILL be something sewn, since that's what I'm into right now and frankly I need the practice.

Here are the rules:

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! my choice. for you. this offer does have some restrictions and limitations.

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!

2. What I create will be just for you.

3. It’ll be done this year. {translation: you may be waiting a little while}

4. You have no clue what it’s going to be … it may be cards, a poem, a bookmark, something yummy or a complete surprise to you (and me!) … who knows? not you, that’s for sure!

5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

6. Most importantly, you must offer the same deal on your blog - the first 5 people to comment on your blog (or if you do not have a blog, facebook) get something made by YOU!

7. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did, win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me …

Luvin'

We got some good luvin' in on Valentine's Day. Jeff was on duty so no date for the "big kids" but me and the littles had lunch at Wendy's and then went to Kaleidoscope where they got all their family Valentine's made. How lucky are we Kansas Citians to have a TOTALLY free place like Kaleidoscope?

Later, after Jeff woke up, we had a small window of time before he had to head out to the KC streets again. We managed to give presents and have, as the kids dubbed it, "a feast".


I pledged to myself last year that Valentine's day would be the one holiday I would make all the presents. Of course 2 days before V-day I changed my mind as to what I wanted to give Sable. So I stayed up till 4:00am each night to make her a quiet book. I've never made one before, and did it entirely from scratch without any instructions. I was actually pretty shocked when I finished and it matched what I'd imagined in my head.





For Jeff, I "made" him an appointment for a massage. Yeah, another massage. He was pleased as punch.


Jeff got me just what I wanted, check out the bling on my right hand.


Now for the mushy part. Luvs to all - my kids, my husband, my parents, my bros, my friends and to you as well my dear 5 readers. You really don't know how special it is to me to actually have people read my words. Someday, when I actually write my first book - you'll be the ones I dedicate it to. Let's face it, you deserve it for wading through these posts as I slowly find myself as a writer.

LUVS LUVS LUVS!!

Valentine's Groove

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Happy Valentine's Day from C-Girl, Lil' Romeo, & Baby S.
Luvs!

Sable Baby

Hearts on Fire

If anybody feels like my new blog background is burning their retinas, don't worry it's only temporary.
I'm not usually one for backgrounds, used them before and have always taken them off within days (or seconds) of putting them on.

But it IS Februrary, and

February = gaudy displays o' love

So there you have it.

RIP Agro

Dang it. Agro (our fish) died tonight, and this time it may have been my fault. In fact, I'm fairly CERTAIN it was my fault. I'm not sure what I did, but he died just seconds after I cleaned his bowl. I didn't do anything different then I've done a dozen times before, but I put him in his bowl and seconds later he was dying.

Sigh.

This time Capri cried, I think because we actually watched Agro die. Watching something die is tough, and kind of graphic. Even if it's just a fish.

So we've decided to take a little break from fish, at least from Betta fish for a while. Any suggestions on a starter pet that isn't high maintenance? Capri is SO desperate for a dog and Jeff has made it VERY clear that won't happen for a LOOOOONG time. My first thought was turtle, but a looking them up online I saw that the little ones are actually illegal now and the bigger ones require large tanks. So what have ya got readers?

That's Not New Baby!

I'm REALLY not one for the Superbowl - I saw about 5 minutes of the last one. Enough to hear Jeff go on about the last call not being reviewed and how CRAAAAZY that was. I took his word for it.
I don't even care about the "awesome" commercials everybody gathers around to see. Any other day we all can't stop complaining about them but then suddenly on Superbowl Sunday they apparently become PURE ENTERTAINMENT.
I will say that seeing The Boss perform for a couple minutes took me back, my Dad was a big Bruce fan and us kids knew all his songs growing up. He sure is getting old though (Bruce, not my Dad - well actually. . .) but weirdly sounds exactly the same.
Anyway, my very bestest friend posted this commercial from a previous Superbowl and it actually made me laugh out loud, a lot. So I had to share it with MY readers. You know, all 3 of you (one being this friend).