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Am I the Only One?
I go out and buy something- something I never buy and a day or so later someone gives me that very thing. As a gift. It’s weird. I mean really weird. Examples: fig newtons. I never buy them. They sounded good so I got a package. Then someone brings me a box not a [...]
First day of School
Thursday we sent the boys to school – 2nd grade and kindergarten. Toby came home with adorable snippets of his day (at lunch he said he “had a good time”) and that he has his first friend, Drake.
Caleb spoke of his class with more reserve and said this year started off better than [...]
Camping Cousins
We had a ball camping at Lake of the Ozarks State Park this past weekend. Uncle Adam and the kids came out for a couple days and we beat the heat index (0ver 100 degrees) thanks to the lakefront beach and lots of tree shade. We learned a number of important things from this trip:
1) [...]
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Sheepish attempts at self-reliance
Toby was soaking wet. When I inquired as to why, this was his response:
“Well, I couldn’t get the lid off the water bottle, so I tried to just fill it up through the little hole on top.”
mental floss
Caleb said he wishes his brain would stop remembering bad things. I asked what he meant and he said that bad movie, Coraline. admittedly, it was a scary movie, where a little girl enters a parallel world where her new ‘parents’ seem perfect – except they want her to sew buttons on he eyes. Yes, [...]
Aaah…small successes
Toby looks up from his sandwich at lunch today and says: “Mama, congratulations, this bacon is really good.”
we are not superheroes
I was scrubbing the floor outside the room where Toby was playing a game on my iPod. Suddenly he yells out, “Whoever is making that scratchy sound needs to stop! You’re making my brain hurt so I can’t play my game. You need to be very, very quiet!”
Of course my response to that was, “You [...]
updates along the way
We are waiting to find out if the people who have made an offer on our house have any counter-offers after the inspection. Anyone who has been to our house knows it is grand, with large, sunlit rooms and original woodwork. It was also built in 1920 and has the original windows, among other non-updates. [...]
attack of the 90’s hair
Is Keith Urban trying to bring back the early 90’s? I thought we had seen the end of Wham…..
