Tonight before bed, Noah sat down and wrote a letter to Santa:
i wunt to get you a tom tom for my Dad
the tom tom is a gps
OK, so he got a couple of words out of order and it is missing punctuation. Only one word was misspelled, though.
The important part, of course, is the incredible [...]
Today, I am thankful for:
A wonderful day in a house full of family. And LOTS OF KIDS to entertain my children for me.
Tons of family members who wanted to hold and interact with the baby. And the fact that Violet didn’t scream at them when they tried.
That Noah got to see his cousins’ new brother [...]
I WILL be showing this to my children in the morning:
Today, I am thankful for:
The fact that my kids are totally cool enough to appreciate the video above. Honestly, Bohemian Rhapsody is one of their all-time favorite songs. And I love that.
That Sean has had a good month at work. Traditionally, [...]
Today, I’m thankful for:
The opportunity that I have to teach my children at home so we can focus on learning a concept instead of just being graded on how quickly you can pick it up.
Finishing our school work for the day before lunch today. That almost never happens, and it is so nice to know [...]
Did you know that this week is National Family Week? My church encourages us to really observe this week and use it as an opportunity to devote the hours between 5pm and 9pm to one another. This week, we will be turning off the TV, stepping away from the computer, and trying to really focus [...]
Today, I am thankful for:
The fact that my cell phone (an Instinct—a phone that I have disliked the entire time I had it) waited until a few days AFTER the phone I have been looking at (the Palm Pixi) came out on the market to go completely toes up.
The good buy back price I got [...]
Noah: Mommy, what is the party you are going to for?
Me: Well, it is for a bunch of women to get together before most of them go see a movie.
Noah: You’re going to go see a movie?
Me: No, but I’ll probably watch it when it comes out on DVD.
Noah: What’s the movie about?
Me: Well, [...]
Once a year, all of the children from three to eleven years old in our church do a presentation during the main part of our Sunday meeting. All year long, the kids practice the songs they will sing. For the last month or so before the presentation, they practice reciting parts that they are each [...]
January 13, 1993
Dear Me,
This is a letter to myself to let me, in the future, see what my hopes and expectations were when I was almost 16, and to see how my life met up to those dreams and expectations.
In two and a half years I hope to graduate high school and probably go to [...]
It had been such a nice weekend. Really, it had. Every year, my community does a big festival the first week of October. Friday night there is a cruise-in, Saturday is a parade, and Saturday and Sunday are a street fair. Since my mother is up for re-election this year, we attended most of it. [...]
