Word Of The Day: abide & an excuse to post more pics of the house

When I read in my e-mail what the good word was I had to smile.  It is one I know well and see everyday. It also gave me a wonerful excuse to take some pictuers to post.  I have been meaning to take some for awhile and show off the decorating we have done since we moved last summer and I know some of my friends have asked me to show case some more of the new house.  So enjoy seeing where I "abide" and learning the true definition and history of today's word.

• abide •

Pronunciation: ê-baid • Hear it!

Part of Speech: Verb, intransitive & transitive

Meaning: 1. (Intransitive) To live in the sense of dwell, to reside. 2. (Intransitive) To continue in existence, to exist unchanged in some state. 3. (Transitive) To tolerate, put up with, endure.

Notes: Historically the past participle of this word was abidden but the past participle assimilated with the past tense a century or so ago, so now this verb is conjugated abide, abode, (has) abode. However, since this latter form is now used for the noun (an abode), the verb seems to be converting to a regular verb: abide, abided, (has) abided. This trend will continue if this seldom used verb itself survives.

In Play: Today's poetic word has pretty much been replaced by the simpler verb (to) live in colloquial speech but remains for those unafraid of touching up their conversations with a bit of poetry: "How Lester can abide in such a hovel as he inhabits is beyond explication." The transitive sense of this verb is a more fetching substitute for stand or tolerate: "I simply cannot abide the skimpy skirts girls wear to school these days; I wish they would return to uniforms!"

Word History: Today's Good Word is a rarity, indeed: a genuine unborrowed English word. It came to us from the Old English verb abidan, comprising a-, an intensifier prefix + bidan "to remain". The same root that came through the Germanic languages to English as bidan emerged in Latin as fidere "to trust, confide" and fidus "faithful (remain unchanged)". Words with the Latin root were borrowed en mass by English in words like fiancé, affidavit, fiduciary, and confide. (We simply could not abide forgetting to thank Jaime Jamison for suggesting today's Good Word.)

John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

And here is why he desreves that La-Z-Boy...

Remember that list I had posted last week of manly things that needed to be done around here???  Josh's first order was to get to work on the house stuff and even went the extra mile and put up shelving in the laundry room!!!  I just had to post the pictures to remember this.. lol who knows when it may happen again!

Oh Ya.. What says "I love you" better than a La-z-boy?!

My husband and I are so bad.. we can't keep a secret for nothing.. the excitement gets to us and we haveeeeee to tell.

Our 10th.. yes 10th.. the big 1 0 is June 15th and ofcourse you have to add Father's Day the Sunday after into the mix.  I wanted so badly to get Josh a wonderful gift.. one that says it all.. I love, Your a great husband, Your a good father, you are appreciated for all you do for this family and surprise him, catch him off guard. Somehow I didn't think the requested golf shoes and balls would say all that and he specificity said NO SOAP ON A ROPE! (aww but that is the tried and true Father's Gift isn't it??? LOL my Dad liked Brute.. LMBO)

I have wanted to get him a leather recliner forever but money has always been an issue and plus.. the man is picky!!  Yesterday I was just looking at them online.. wondering how I could swing it and decided to take the older two children with me to go and "have a look see" and price some out at La-Z-Boy.  Before we left Josh said.. ohh we should put a price limit on our gift giving to each other.. how about $100?? I laughed at him.. noooo.. that will not do dear, not for what I have in mind. He said..ok.. $150.  I laughed some more at him.. really I had like $300 in mind but was flexible.  Obviously I was neieve when it comes to leather furniture.

After sitting on the HWY for 2 HOURS!!! Yessss 2 HOURS (awful construction traffic) and listening to the kids whine and complain I was ready to turn around and go home but figured I didn't want to make it a wasted trip and went to the furniture store anyhow.  And you guessed it.. was right away approached by a bushy mustache salesmen.  I hate that!! Give me a chance to look will ya??!  But I was wore out from the heat and the drive so I told him "Leather Recliners" and he lead me to the ones they had on sale still from Memorial Day. Ohhhhh  A SALE.. you know us women are SUCKERS for a sale!! LOL

We tested them all out and owwwed and awwed over them.  I found one that was somewhat close to what Josh had in mind when we had talked about furniture and it just so happened to be one of the lest expensive ones.  How could I pass that up??!  You know.. I have said it before over and over.. I HATE SHOPPING!!  But it was really nice to say and be able to mean it, "We'll take it.. ring her up"  Delivery day is the 14th.. I was going to sooooo surprise him!!!  And I made the kids swear to not even so much as give him a hint! 

On the drive home I was in something of panic mode.. "Oh crap, what did I just do.. that was alot of money.. that was about as much as our mortgage payment.. how can I keep that from him? What if he doesn't like it? What if he makes me take it back.. ohh I am sooo stupid.. that was impulse shopping tissssssskkkkkkkk!!!!!!!"  Then when I got home I envisioned him reclining in HIS chair snoozing or watching the DIY network and knew it was perfect.  Then the hint and teasing started. hahaha

My husband was excited.. he could tell I got something big.  He was trying to leave it alone.. play it cool.. wait it out.  Then he started teasing.. oh I left something out in the van.. YA AS IF I would leave your gift out in the van.  Then he did the BIG NO NO for all men-kind.. he picked up my purse and acted like he was going in it!!! And what is worse.. as we struggled over my purse he knocked over my soda, spilling it all over the carpet.  Sheeeeeeshhhhhhh!!!!!  Then we calmed down and I said.. "well.. do your realy want to know??" Ofcourse he said NO.  I told him that he didn't have to make me that lobster dinner or get me a big gift.. lol and it was going to be a real nice Anniversary, Father's Day, Birthday, and maybe even Christmas gift.  His eyes got wide as he asked.. HOW MUCH did you spend?!  I said.. "let me put it this way.. DON'T LOOK AT OUR BANK ACCOUNT!"  That was it.. he had to know.

He asked if I could at least tell him what store it was from with out him guessing.. NOPE, that would be a dead give away. I told him, "If you tell me mine I'll tell you yours." (see what I am saying.. lol we are so bad at keeping secrets) I knew he had said he was getting two things for me so when he only coughed up the one I said ohhh no.. tell me both.  The first one was a day at a spa.. witch we may not be able to afford now (great.. I just shot myself in the foot huh! that would of been soooo awesome) and he said the second one was something he was getting for free but it was personal and he was Defiantly not going to give it up.  Aww.. so is he actually going to get me something he put thought and time and himself into?? We shall see.

So that buttered me up and I gave him my purse.  Hetook out the envelop with the recipe in it that said La-Z-Boy on it.  His jaw dropped!!! "No.. no... reallly?? A La-z-boy!!" A big sweet boyish grin light up his face.. he was just too cute. He was totally surprised and defiantly taken off guard!!

You've got to understand.. its not just the fact it is a leather recliner.. but that it's a real official La-Z-Boy.  I know that is something my own father always wished for and never got and I have an idea the same is true with Josh's.  It is like the Prada of recliners for men (I think that is the case but.. I don't own any Prada so I really can't say for sure LMBO)

Who's The Queen of gift giving now??? Ohhhh Ya!!  : )

 

 

Word Of The Day: Skinflint

• skinflint •

Pronunciation: skin-flint • Hear it!

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A miser, a niggardly person, a tightwad, a person so greedy he would try to get skin from a flint.

Notes: Today's Good Word may be the longest word in English that is pronounced the way it is spelled (see Pronunciation). The now famous poem by Gerald Trenite The Chaos reflects the more usual relationships between English pronunciation and spelling. In other respects, though, this word is not alone in the world; it possesses an adjective, skinflinty which boasts an adverb, skinflintily. and a noun, skinflintiness.

In Play: For some reason, skinflintiness is most often associated with old people: "That old skinflint has the first nickel he ever earned." That may be the result of the ability to manage money coming later in life. Whatever the reason, it is unfair; skinflints come in all sizes, genders, and ages: "Is my baby already such a skinflint that she won't share her cookie with her daddy?" You guess the age here.

 

I hope when he sees the gift I got him for our 10th anniversary the skinflint side of him won't make me take it back!

Word Of The Day: forthy

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• forthy •

 Pronunciation: for-thee • Hear it!

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: 1. Open, affable, and forthcoming in nature. 2. Forward, frank, outspoken, or presumptuous in behavior.

Notes: No, today's Good Word is not a misspelling of frothy, but a distinct adjective based on forth (see Word History). It originates in southwest England, around Devon and Cornwall, but English is spoken there, too, so we are free to use vocabulary from there. The comparative would be forthier and the superlative forthiest, while forthiness would be the noun indicating the quality distinguishing a forthy person.

In Play: Today's word is a good substitute for forthcoming when you are in a hurry and want to shorten things: "I have always found Dorian Seaman forthy on the subject of his marriage—too forthy, if anything." This word is more often used in the pejorative sense of forwardness: "The forthy waster had the cheek to ask my wife for a dance before I had the chance to."

Word History: We can trace this Good Old Word back to a form *per in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the language from which most Indian and European languages derive. Per meant "forward, before, in front of". It underlies English for and far, with its derivatives farther and further. It is also the origin of English fore found in foreground, foremost, and before. The same PIE root became Old Iranian pairi "around", visible in pairidaeza "a wall around (a garden)". Hebrew borrowed this word as its pardess "citrus orchard". The Greeks, however, wrote so ebulliently of the lushness of Persian gardens that the word entered Greek as paradeisos "paradise", the sense it had when English borrowed it.

 

My husband has not been forthy about my gift in the least. In fact he is having fun torturing me with the suspense.

What's a happy home look like?

A little bit like this!!!!

Daddy home and his babies falling asleep in his lap because they missed him sooooo much that they just had to snuggle on him all evening after dinner.

Say it with me.... awwwwwwwwwwww sweeeeeet!

Cry with me as we send off my baby to her first day of school and summer school

The day has finally come.  Who would of thought the years would go by this fast?!  All four of the children in school!!!  I know it is just summer fun school.. but it is Sophia's first time away for any kind of school and her first time on a school bus with out me.

Yessss.. I was chocking back tears as I waved them on to the bus!!  Sophia was not scared at all and was so excited.  She knew that her big sisters and brother were going to be around if she needed them and oh mom.. she has the dog and cat to keep her company lol.

And yessssss.. the house is eirly quiet.  The dog is mooping around and has a sad face.  We will get used to it and by the time we do, school will be over.

It's a big day for us.. and I am kind of tripping out.  All my babies are gone!  And they left me happily and willing, with out a second thought or a quick reassuring hug.  But aww.. I look forward to them coming home and hearing all about the games and friends they will meet.