Archive for the year 2010
Quotes of the Week
Toby: “You, me and Ellie are on the plump team. Daddy and Caleb are on the lean team.”
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Caleb: (after I reminded him to look for his lunchbox he left at school) “Mama, we discussed this already…”
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Ellie: “Sometimes you don’t have to tell two adults things. I already told you, so today we don’t have to [...]
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) [...]
Why?
Ellie: We can’t eat ducklings
Me: no…we usually don’t
Ellie: Because they’re cute
Me: perhaps that’s what stops us
The power of words
Pursuing promises of a Nintendo DS, Caleb learned the sobering power of these words printed inside a cereal box: “This box is not a winner.”
Wise daughter
Brian and the boys picked veggies from a friends garden and came home with squash, beans, cucumbers, onions, potatoes and more.
Ellie is awesome. She looked down and said, “those potatoes with the long stems we should just throw away.”
They’re beets and I AGREE. Brian must be testing both my culinary prowess and my [...]
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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.”
Prince of Peace AND….
“Jesus and God are my LifeDaddies”
-Ellie, random in the van
(somewhere between lifejacket and P Diddy?)
