My 200th post, Nicknames and a Giveaway!

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Well hello out there in Blog-land! I can't believe it's been 4 days since I last posted!

SORRY!

Little man just went back to school today (well, he went Wednesday, but had to come back home because of a fever), and now I have a hubby with the crud.

Things always get off track when sickness attacks this household!

Well, anyway.....I just realized that this is my

200th Post!

Wow! 200 posts since Decemember of last year.....I like to talk...

A LOT!

I see all of y'all who know me in real life nodding your heads.

So, in honor of my 200th post, I am having another giveaway!

Back in August, when we went on our unexpected blessing of a beach trip, one evening Chelsea and I went on a little Mommy's-and-daughter's shopping trip...

NO BOYS ALLOWED!

While on that trip, we walked through the new Pier Park Shopping Center in Panama City Beach. The shops there were just adorable! I could have spent DAYS looking through all of the cute shops there....

IF it hadn't been pouring down rain, and IF Marty hadn't been calling me every 10 minutes wanting to know when we were coming back....

Anyway, we ran into this cute little shop (we were trying to keep from getting soaking wet), and looked at all of the goodies they had. They had such ADORABLE stuff!

T-shirts, purses, jewelry, signs......You can tell it was the kind of store that sells things made by smaller companies. In other words, you just can't run down to the Wal-Mart and pick this stuff up.

I was instantly drawn to this little table that was covered with jewelry, notebooks, wallets and this....

It's a Cell Phone/Ipod/Camera Holder made by "Natural Life". I've never heard of this company before, but I just loved all of their items.

Isn't is just adorable?

It has a cute little wrist strap so you can just carry it with you that way, or you can use it protect your items while they are in your purse.

I just had to buy one and I specifically bought it to give to one of you! And, because I love you all so much, I may even put a $25.00 Target (or Wal-Mart...your choice) gift card inside it.

It is the perfect size for that, you know?

So, how do you enter? Here is my original post....you know the one I wrote BEFORE I realized this was my 200th post:

Yesterday as I was trying to catch up on all of my bloggie buddies, Jana at The Meanest Mom was talking about Nicknames. She said that her first-grade-aged daughter "Camber" had decided to "change" her name to "Amber". Signing all of her papers "Amber" and even only responding to that name. Jana wanted to know if we or our children ever had any nicknames.

What a fun question!

Myself, growing up with the name "Robin"....nicknames were just TOO easy:

Rockin' Robin
Robinetta
Robino
Fly Robin Fly
Big Bird

Then there have been other nicknames:

Rachel (don't ask...My Father-in-law liked to tease me)
Beeno (Short for Robino...gifted to me by my bud, Sharn Jean)
Rob (Also from Sharn)
Mouth of the South (Uhhhhh, no idea how I got that...lol)

So, I hoped that my children would at least get GOOD nicknames. BUT, dummy me did such a smart thing....

I call ALL of my children by their MIDDLE name.

Sara "Chelsea"
Lena "Courtney"
Timothy "Bryant"
Robert "Jameson"

WHAT A PAIN!

I can't tell you what a pain it has been to have every single stinkin' piece of paperwork come through this house with their first name on it. Class pictures and annual pictures have "Sara" and "Robert". You would think that in such small schools, they would KNOW what their names are.

GRRRRRRRRRR

So I guess in the school setting, their "real" name has turned into their nickname.

However, they each do have nicknames that family members call them.

When we came up with the name "Jameson", we always assumed we would call him something else....and had decided that we would probably end up calling him "Jay". Well, when he was born, he wasn't a "Jay", he was a "Jameson". However, several people had known that we wanted to call him "Jay"....so he ended up being called "JJ". How it turned into that, I have no idea. But that's what we call him when he will let us.

Recently, he has wanted us to start calling him "Professor Hill"...

or "Robert"

or "Vid"

or "Steve"

Fortunately, he was just "Jameson" when he left the house today.

Chelsea has been really fortunate to have many of the same students and teachers for several years in a row. Once, when she was little, one of her little school friends started calling her "Chelsea-Belle". "Belle" after the character in "Beauty and the Beast." It stuck and I still call her that all the time, as do many of her old teachers and friends.

Or "Bonehead".....

Yes, "Bonehead"

However, nobody is allowed to call her that except for her daddy. This whole "Bonehead" thing really caught me off guard. Chelsea and Marty were playing around one day, and Chelsea yelled "Hey Bonehead, stop it!"

I was like "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL YOUR DADDY?????"

She said "Bonehead!"

I flew into her, telling her how disrespectful she was being and she was never allowed to call him that again.

The poor baby was STUNNED!

Well, about that time, Marty comes back in the room and wants to know what's wrong with Chelsea, and I tell him she's called him "Bonehead".

He bursts out laughing and then decides to let me know that "Bonehead" is THEIR pet name for each other.

Oh, OK then.

I tried calling her "Bonehead" one time....it ended up with her asking me why I was being so mean to her....

"Chelsea-Belle" it is!

(This is what my family calls a "Bonehead")


So, my dear, wonderful bloggie buddies, to enter this super-duper, end of summer giveway, tell me What fun and wonderful nicknames do you and/or your children have?

For one entry, leave me a comment about your nickname.

For a Second entry, post about this giveaway on FaceBook, Twitter, or your Blog.

A max of two entries per person.

And unfortunately, this contest is only open to my boggie buddies in the United States and Canada.

So, get to posting and let's have fun with this! The comments are bound to be HILARIOUS!