Rosie-an the librarian

First, watch this (if you read this in email, you'll have to click through to the blog to see the video)...

Now meet... Rooos-ian the libraaaaaaaaaar-ian

WWFN,

Rosiean the librarian

xoxoxoxoxoxo

Birthdays, nothing but birthdays

Today (ok, when you read this it will probably already be Friday, so yesterday) is/was Baby Celery's 1 month birthday! Happy Birthday, little dude! It doesn't seem like it could be a whole month already, but I can't remember a time when you weren't here. :)

Today/ yesterday is/was the 25th anniversary of the release of the most. awesome. movie. ever. (that'd be The Princess Bride, for those of you not intimately acquainted with my favorite movies). And when I say that it's the best movie ever, I mean it. Anybody want a peanut?

Actually, the title of this post lied. I do have more than birthday stuff to share. Roo took some pictures of the weird way I was laying on my bed today. :)

Ok, more like half on and half off than on... 

Lots of love to all from your faithful*,

ROSIE <3

*Yes, Roo is pretty sure that's very nearly a quote from Little Women. No, it wasn't intentional. (BTW, if it's a LW quote, it would be from when Beth signs her letter to Mr. March when he's in the hospital. Don't ask how I know all this. :))

Rosa of the Bathervilles

According to legend.... (Warning: The following involves a graphic description of a bath. Sensitive readers are reccomended to go read a cheerier post:)).
Many years ago, in a valley deep in the mountains of Switzerland, there lived a Bernese Mountain Dog named Rosa.  Rosa lived with a semi- dysfunctional  English ex-pat family called the Bathervilles.  Rosa was a sweet and charming dog who looked a little like this. 

One day, they decided that Rosa's own sweet, charming scent was obnoxious. Insanity did tend to run in the family. They realized that there was a solution to this.  They would douse her with water, rub her with sweet milk and Rose scented shampoo, and then she would smell "good". 

They bathed Rosa, and overnight, she morphed into this:

only scarier. The moral of the story: As you value your life, do not go out on the Moors at night bathe your Bernese Mountain Dog.

Hint, hint, Tigger and Daddy, hint, hint. 

XOXO,

Rosie

Rose of the Baskervilles

           " Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound."

"The eyes.... glowed..."

Yep. It's Rose of the Baskervilles, the voracious milkbone eater. (Not to be confused with the vicious, homicidal hound of the Baskervilles)

Love,

ROSIE!!!

A visitor.....

Today, our dear friend Mrs. V. came by for a visit. Mrs. V. is a former homeschooling mom who now teaches in a classroom, for those of you who may not know her.:)
I was very, very happy to see her, because she likes dogs, and knows just where to scratch behind me ears. :)  She came over because Kanga was giving her some books to use in her classroom, and it was just like old times again (well, except that when Roo [who's helping me type this:)] was in 3rd grade, the conversation was more about how homeschooling would help develop independence which would help all their kids in college and careers, and now it's about how homeschooling did develop that).  The conversation was on all the same topics it used to be: homeschooling, children's books, gardening, and the insanely high rate of school district taxes.  Oh, and Pooh, in case you were wondering, if Kanga were to give you a five minute warning while talking to Mrs. V. today, you could pay about as much attention to it as you could back in the glory days of writing club. Some things never change. Fortunately, our talent for getting lost in parking garages is one of the things that has changed.

Note that this is the same couch used in such classic plays as "Life, Love, and Death on the New York Subway" , " The Committee", "Macbeth (the original version, by Wilma Shakespeare", and others... (Wait was Macbeth at our house or the V.'s. I can't remember now. :))

Lots of love to everyone,
Rosie:)

NEW POLL!!!!!!!

Tiggy's friends/ co workers gave her a list of movies that they want her to watch over the summer.  The poll lists some of them, which we have watched so far. Please vote for your favorite.  (If you haven't seen any, vote anything except LOTR.  Pooh will love you forever if you do. psyche*. [Why is Rosie talking like a typical public schooled teenager, you ask? I don't know. ~Ed.]) *For those of you not familiar with tpst speak, psyche = not.
Love,
Rosie

I Loooove curling up on my comfy sofa to watch a movie with the family.:)