Why do you get Goose Bumps, Mommy?

You know you wanted to know this answer, so here you go!  :)   Actually, Hunter asked me this tonight so I had to google it for him and this is what we found.  I thought I would entertain the rest of you to get your mind off of that last post I shared today, and get your brain cells tingling with this info!  

PS:  Whatever you do, do not google search "goose bumps" and then click on images with your child standing right next to you.  Thankfully, I did not do that! Geez!!! 

It’s that time of year again-when the weather turns cold and we like to snuggle in front of a fireplace with a hot cup of cocoa. But, have you ever noticed that when it is cold outside sometimes the hairs on your arms stand up and you get little bumps all over. But then when you go inside the little bumps dissappear. These little bumps are called goose bumps…but do you know what is actually happening with your body when you get these bumps?

When you’re cold, your arrector muscles pull your hair up, and your blood vessels and ducts to your sweat glands get small to conserve heat. Millions of years ago, humans probably had more hair on their bodies then they do now, so their hair standing on end acted as insulation. We don’t have enough hair on our bodies to keep us warm anymore, but the little muscles at the end of each hair are still 

Laughter Lives!

This post is part of "Laughter Lives! Tuesday" on the Riggs Family Blog. Check our their blog to read everyone else's "Laughter Lives!" posts.

"Eeewww, Mommy....."  By:  Misty

My son Hunter, now 8 years old, is always saying something funny.  This kid has a vocabulary of a 5th grader and can often just blow me away with the things he says or comes up with.

However, Ill never forget when he was 4 years old and even younger, some of the things that he said, and while saying them at moments that make you want to crawl under the nearest rock as possible.  Now, although this is suppose to make people laugh, I am ultimately going to embarrass myself at the same time. I don't think I have shared this story with many.  If so it has been a very, very selected and trusted few.  Now I am going to share it with the world. Why, am I doing this?  Because I like a good, tears rolling down your face, you think you may pee your pants kind of laugh.  Man, that kind of laugh just feels so good on the soul, mind and body.

Agree?

So here you go, you get one of those kind of laughs at my expense today, thanks to my clever and oh so smart little boy brutally honest 2-year old at the time.  

Taking a deep breath and trying to convince myself to stop typing this story, for what I am about to say is just not that funny if you were standing in my shoes this day.  

I am a model here in Miami Florida.  No, that isn't the funny part! Geez!  During my single day years as a single mom, I would often have to take my son to my shoots with me for my family all live in Texas.  He was accustom to being on sets since he was a week old for that is all he knew between his dad and I both being in the industry.  Well, technically since he was a fetus, because he was on the very first cover of Pregnancy Magazine back in 2000, while 7 1/2 months pregnant. 

Being a typical day in our lives, we had a photo shoot to be at early in the morning (6:00AM).  I'll keep the client and shoot information disclosed for now. Here we are at the shoot, everything going fine like it should.  First thing we do is grab juice or bite to eat with whatever they have to serve the crew, until I am called into hair and make-up.  I shoot, we are finished and its time to wrap it up and head home. 

After gathering up all the toys, snacks and wardrobe items that we brought with us, we head out the door.  While waiting by the elevator for our turn, I am standing there with my hands full, my 2 year old little boy and my friends daughter Zoe, whom I brought with me to help entertain Hunter during the shoot.  Then here comes the grip guy, the stylist and the photographer all waiting on the same very slow elevator to arrive.  Everyone is standing pretty quit for it has been a long days shoot.  I'm sure everyone was lost in their own minds of what they needed to get to next, once they left this place.  I at some point said to Hunter, again, my 2 year old toddler to come and stand next to mommy.  Trying to get him out of the way of all the gear and equipment that surrounded him.  

As he moves closer to me and leans his head up against my stomach, while I carry about 20 things in my two hands, he quickly steps away from me, grabs his nose with his finger and thumb and says to me, "eeww mommy stinky right there, ewww," I thought I was going to faint as I realized I was witnessing what everyone else was also witnessing at that very moment, my son pointing at me in a place he shouldn't be pointing, all while holding his nose and saying "eeww, mommy stinking there, ewww mommy." 

My vision became so blurred that I can't even recall what anyone else around me was thinking or doing.  I felt the blood rush to my head and by the time I got on to the elevator and into my car to drive home, I can't recall anything.  Its all a blur.  I was horrified and so out of my comfort zone, I just sat in the car on the way home in shock.  Yes, this just happened to me, a model that tries to present herself a certain way, while often getting to live in the fantasy world by pretending to be whatever I am needed to be for the job if it be print, TV or film.  That day, I was no longer Misty Rice, the model/actress.  I was quickly humbled and reminded that I was simply a hard working mom, a single mom of a beautiful, but yet brutally honest and amazing little boy!!  He keeps me in check, keeps my head balanced and I love him for all of it. Yes, even at moments when I wish I had a huge roll of duct-tape to place over his mouth and leave it there till he is out of college. 

You see, I bet you are now laughing, or peeing your pants by now at my expense.  I feel all those raw emotions coming back at me now, as if it just happened yesterday.  I want to crawl back under that rock.  

I guess I better explain why my very brutally honest 2-year-old said such a thing, at so the wrong time.  I hope this part of the story isn't a little TMI (too much information), but I feel after such a horrifying experience, I have the right to explain myself (after I stop crying and laughing while typing here).  Okay, breath Misty, breath! 

People, I simply had infection from my (IUD) okay!  I went to the doctor, got rid of the probably and I assure you my son has never said that again.  Laughing!!!!!!  Now quickly forget that I just shared this story with you, and hurry over to Riggs Family Blog and share your Laughter Lives story.  I need something other than myself to be laughing at here.  

PS:  You may never bring this story up to me again. *LOL*  My Blog, My Story and My Rule...unless of course its Riggs asking me to post it in their Serious.Life Magazine.  I may have to then change my name and identity, but it will all be worth it, if I got you to laughing till you peed your pants. 

Hunter when he was only 2 years old.  

And another one....

FYI: I am SO loving this blog stuff.  I love creating and designing blogs for my friends.  If one of my friends does not have their own blog, they will once I have had 5 minutes with them.  LOL (Kidding--sort of!)

Let me introduce you to my friend Carolyn and her daughter Kyana.  I have actually mentioned them a couple of times on my blog.  Once with a picture of us and our girls having a girls day at her Boca Beach House, and another time when I gave her a shout out for her marvelous hair product 'Its A 10'.  

She had asked me a while back to help her get a blog going and also do some digital scrapbooking for her, but with time and holidays, we both are just now getting around to it.  So she called me up yesterday and today we decided to do an impromptu  photoshoot of Kyana.  So I went to her beautiful home and we danced, giggled, chased and snapped some really pretty images of little Ms. Kyana.  

I took the images and designed her header in my photoshop (yea, me!!!). Used a background from The Cutest Blog On The Block, because I have yet to make my very own custom background yet, but getting the itch to do that.  We added a slideshow at the bottom, some music and her first post and wah-la, she now has her own blog.  

Take a peek at it and leave her a comment, welcoming her to the world of blogging love.  Click here to visit Carolyn's blog. 

 

So what do you think?

Well that is frustrating.  I just typed this entire post and lost it. Ugh!!  Let's try again.  As I was trying to write before, I wanted to tell you that my Misty Rice.Net site is up and running now with some changes made to it.  It is going to now be a two-in-one site for my professional things (Modeling/Photography).  This gives clients a place to go and see my photography, while getting that professional appearance to it.  Which means that the Misty Rice Photography Blog, will be coming down I think (I think!). Pretty sure it will!  

Anyways, as you can now see my two makeovers are finally complete.  I have had many compliments on the blog facelift, so now go check out the .NET site by clicking on the tab at the top of my blog here and let me know what you think about the new changes on there.  I am still in the process of organizing, adding, deleting and rearranging photos and titles and groups, on the online gallery pages. You still get the idea of what that site will be like though. I am very excited about it.  

Also, my web girl "The Kulig" sisters, are two wonderful web masters.  They are nice to work with and just talented.  If you or anyone you know is looking to have a website, ask me about my girls and I will be glad to get you in touch with them.  

Anyways, honey and I have some errands to do.  We have several light bulbs out around the house.  

Also, it appears that Morgan may have a little infection in her right ear from her earring.  So we have to go get that checked out. So pray for my little angel that it does't get any worse than it appears to be right now.  We have to go and get her some real earrings.  It seems as though she is taking after her mama and her body doesn't like accepting the fakes.  

I know, I know.... you were just thinking "aren't you suppose to be in Orlando today at the Holy Land Theme Park in Disney?" Yes, I was, but we are not.  As it turned out it was way too cold to be having Morgan walking around a park all day today, and Hunter likes to do things with his teammates on these out of town hockey tournaments, that I felt bad taking him away from all of those activities with his team.  I decided I will pick a nice warm weekend to take both the kids to disney, visit my friends Adam and Kristen while out there and do a few theme parks in Disney then.  So we are here doing things that need much attention to around the home.  Honey went to the gym and feels energized now, so I have to take advantage of this free day to get things done.  

Speaking of....while I sit here typing, honey is over their playing Rock Band II by himself, jamming on the guitar and Morgan is sleeping.  Oh how we love Saturdays!!! 

Tomorrow is a BIG day for my honey, can any of you guess why??? Ill give you a few to try and guess before I tell you why it is a big day for my honey.  

For now since it is again my rules, which I have broken at times, to not post without a picture. So here is a little fun art image I did in photobucket of baby girl.  I still have pictures from the cruise to post. I still have my little give away to do.  Although, I some how deleted my counter and will need to start a new one.  We know I hit the 10,000 views mark, so maybe I will just start my new one at 10,000 when I do my little give away.  My only issue is, I have no idea how to do my little give away.  Any of you have any suggestions? 

Okay, I have rambled enough.  If you didn't read yesterdays post, please do and please check out my Charity Run (5K) that I am doing on February 7th, and make any donations you can.  Please help this wonderful Ministry, that serves families while serving Him.  

Have a blessed weekend.  

PS:  Please pray for two families that are friends, they both just had babies this week and both babies have been very ill.  Pray for those little angles!!!!  

Chasing Fireflies Catalog

The catalog arrived today in the mail, I browse through it and see nothing! Decide to go to the website to see if mine and Morgan's shot would be there yet, and it was.  Now, take a look at the image.  Can you guess what I am doing in this image?  If you are a bit confused, take a look at my mouth.  Does that not look obvious that I was in the middle of saying something?  I was trying to help calm Morgan down because she was hot and getting fussy.  I have to say I don't know what people see when picking images sometimes, but I can assure you there were probably a few better shots of me other than this one with my mouth in the middle of a word.  Ugh!!!

Anyways..... to see more of this beautiful catalog go here at Chasing Fireflies.