In an effort to get Ada to hurry up…
Me: I’m going to get dressed before you!
Ada: OK.
Eli: When I get older I’m going to have a restaurant called “Eli’s House of Meat”.
Grace: Mine will be called “Taco Tango”, where you can make your own tacos. But no dessert tacos.
Ada: Mine will have a food challenge with 5 sausages, 4 gray sausages –
Me: Gray sausages?
Ada: Yeah, you know, like at Spyro’s.
Me: Breakfast sausage?
Ada: Yeah. 5 sausages, 10 gray sausages, and 9 gallons of … Read the rest
She’s somewhere inside us moms. She’s usually sleeping — but with one eye always open. She’s ready to wake up and spring into action at a moment’s notice and does not discriminate. She will attack anyone, anywhere, anytime. I don’t care if it’s your sweet 6 year-old at church…if I see her slap MY child one more time it’s going down. I’ll forgive once – chances are he deserved it. Twice – no sir.
And don’t be fooled. Momma Bear does NOT look like this:
No, no. Momma Bear looks like THIS.
Playing Lego Indiana Jones on theWii…
Eli: I’m going to get the Cup of Christ……..I choosed wisely.
Ada: Can I smell your breath?
Me: No. you cannot smell my breath.
Ada: Do you want to smell mine?
We were listening to “The Lord is Gracious and Compassionate”, and Ada changed the lyrics “Praise the Lord, oh my soul praise the Lord” to “I love chocolate sundaes, yes I do, I love them”
Grace: It’s getting sunny out.
Me: I know! It’s slowly getting warmer outside. It’s getting ready to be spring!
Grace: I’m … Read the rest
The Parable of the Sower has popped up a few different times lately, so I’ve been thinking about it a lot. In order to hear and understand the Word of God, we need to be good soil, ready for the seed. My thought process then makes a turn and asks, “What does it take to grow a seed?” Many of you didn’t grow up in Esmond, Illinois (so sad for you) surrounded by fields and farms. So we’ll go with grass.
One of the requirements for grass to grow is sun. There is a patch of grass in our front … Read the rest
Ada: I know how to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Me: Good job!
Ada: I pledge allegiance……. under God, invisavle….. Did you know that God is invisavle?!? (I think she means invisible)
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Ada: Why do daddies have hair in their armpits and mommies don’t?
Me: Mommies have hair there too, but we shave it all off.
Ada: Why?
Me: Because someone decided a long time ago we didn’t have enough work to do.
Ada: So when I’m an ee-dult (that’s how she says adult) Eli will have hair … Read the rest
Our church is doing a series on “Fighting For Marriage”, and this week is about fighting. It inspired some thinking…
Chad and I don’t fight a lot. Our last really big one was probably last spring. Honestly. We have random pointless “skirmishes” about dishes and sharing the work-load like anyone else, but I’m talking the big, yelling, take a break and come back to it later fights. We used to fight more, and about less important things, but we’ve learned how to fight with purpose through our 11 1/2 years of marriage. So in this post, you’re getting my introspective … Read the rest
Me: Stop bothering each other and pushing each other’s buttons!
Ada: Like belly buttons?
Me: I have the hiccups!
Ada: Did you get them from me?
Me: No, I got them from drinking pop.
Ada: Wellll … I think you should stop drinking pop then.
Mister Rogers: Do you ever wonder how people make crayons?
Ada: (Nodding) Yeah. I do a lot.… Read the rest
You know what that means. You know how that feels. We’ve all been there. I was there last week. ALL week. We camped there. All three of my children had fevers for 5 days, 2 of those were when we got 12 inches of snow. So not only were they sick, we were home-bound.
I suppose the silver lining could be that they were all sick at the same time, and I didn’t have one sick kid a week for three weeks. But. It gets sort of tricky keeping track of three children’s fevers, cold medicine dosage and times, and … Read the rest
Me: Eli, the kleenex is right behind you.
Eli: I know.
Me: Then stop using your finger and your shirt to wipe your nose!!
Dentist: Do you have homework today?
Eli: Yes.
Dentist: Since when do first graders have homework??
Eli: It’s not the 80s anymore.
Ada: Who ding-donged?
The door bell rang.… Read the rest