Let me explain...
My Grandma raised her children on a farm in Magrath Alberta, Canada.
She had seven children, and a farm with limited modern conveniences.. I mean we're talkin' outhouses and coal fire stoves here.
She had farm workers that she also had to feed daily, so between the laundry, cooking, cleaning, baking, sewing, children etc..
She would sometimes call out at her children
" I'm goin' to
Panoka." or "You're sending me to
Panoka"
(According to my Mom)
AND, this meant that she was going to the loony bin because
Panoka was the closest mental health institution to their town.
With that said.....I almost went to
Panoka on the way to take Aydan to school yesterday.
I won't bore you with the details of my usual morning routine..but let's just say it's busy.
As I was carrying armloads of stuff out to the car and the kids were trailing behind me, I walked into the garage and unloaded my stuff into the car when I hear........
"AAAHHH...AHHHH....AHHHHH a WOWM, A WOWM....my shoe..
WOWM = Worm in 2 year old speak
Aydan runs into the garage, wide eyed Mom It was an accident!
(yes, we've ALL heard this before)
Holding Ellie's favorite pair of princess flip flops with a slimy, skinny, black WOWM strewn across the front of her shoe..Ellie is having a FIT about the whole thing and carrying on about the "Dead WOWM on my SHOE!"
So I wipe the worm of onto the grass, reassure Ellie that it's all gone, help her get on her shoe and tell Aydan to get in the car.
I pick Ellie up and strap her in her car seat when I see....
The dogs jumped into the car after I had left the car door open and attended the worm drama.
Now this is NOT normal as our dogs do not usually want to ride in the car because they know that we are taking them to the groomer..not merely just going for a ride.
(You can't see very well but there are two of them one is just dark brown under Ellie's Feet ...and Princess shoe.
You can see the side of Aydan's face that he thinks this is pretty funny.. The dogs won't listen to me and get out of the car, so I decide to just take them with us because I am NOT about to get a tardy slip,and we are now running late.
We made it to school and as you can see Kinky here she is pretty content and siting in the front seat next to me, she is the Momma and Alpha..Queen #2
Kinky, being eclipsed by Coco, (Coco is Kinky's baby) See her cute new pink and green collar?
We get home and this one(Kinky) who is as smart as a whip, won't get out of the car. I opened my door and called her but she just looked at me like this in the picture. So I walked all the way around the car and went to open her door..as I did this, she jumped over the console in the front seat into MY chair. I opened the passenger door and she just gave me this same look. So I walked around to the other side of the car. (Coco who is dumb as a box of rocks has already jumped out of the car and is following me around.) And Kinky jumps back to the passenger seat..so now I finally realize that she doesn't want to get out of the car!! I had to go get Matt to help me get her out!
ONE WORD:
PANOKA
Ellie got her sample on! She found the corn on the cob and then the chips, pizza, fudgecicles,toffee, chips, artisan bread, and sports drinks...
Sew Cute 
