Archive for June, 2011
Ethnicity
Thursday, June 30th, 2011“Your brother doesn’t look like you!” ~ A little girl in Kimmie’s swim class “I know. That’s because I’m not Ethiopian!” ~ Kimberly This may not seem like much but it was a very uplifting moment. Ethnicity/race/color of skin don’t matter to my kids. When we adopted Paul I knew that we would be faced [...]
Cupcake Wars
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011On Sunday Annie asked to make cupcakes. She made the cupcakes from a box of cake mix and we let them cool. We decided to have a cupcake decorating contest with the cupcakes. We used our imaginations and some chocolate and vanilla frosting and came up with some amazing cupcakes. Since the kids are into [...]
Gamers Unite
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011This summer the kids have really been into playing on Mimi’s DS and vsmiles. They have all become very adept at these games and it is interesting to see this growth in them. Before this summer they were only marginally interested in video games. They spent a lot of time last summer playing Just Dance [...]
36 years ago
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011My parents were wed on this day 36 years ago. I don’t recall the day though stories told by family tell me I was constipated that day. (Isn’t it interesting the memories people keep forever.) They committed to love each other through thick and thin. They did. One of the harder things of having my [...]
Plucked Out
Monday, June 27th, 2011Finally the day came where one of the kids would allow me to pull one of their teeth out. Mimi had a loose tooth for some time. She was babying it for several weeks and making me crazy. On Father’s Day morning she was having her sisters try to pull it out. I said I [...]
I love my blog . . . really I do.
Monday, June 27th, 2011I really do love my blog. My current blogging time allotment doesn’t support this but I really do. I love the inane family history that it has recorded in it’s pages database. I still think about my blog a lot even though I don’t make much time for it. I have tons of topics that [...]
Be Careful or You Might Tear Off a Limb
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011“Don’t fight over your brother!” ~ Mommy Since the girls have been home for summer vacation I have had to say this phrase time and time again! I am not sure why Paul loves having them home, but he does. He gets pulled in three different directions all the time. Each of the girls have [...]
Change of Opinion
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011It has almost been a month since I have updated you about the healthier me project. The reason I haven’t updated is because, honestly there isn’t much to tell. I go to my workouts sporadically, I follow my diet somedays and not others, and I still weigh the exact same as I did 4 weeks [...]
She’s Famous
Thursday, June 16th, 2011My Mother got a job this summer at a new indoor amusement park. She will be making pizza and snacks for kids and parents to munch on. The other day they had a VIP party and the kids were invited. They were shooting a commercial and needed kids having fun. When I told the kids [...]
Our Rider
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Grammy came over yesterday and Madeline insisted on showing her how she could ride her bike. So I took some pictures and recreated the scene. The rider with her adoring sister helping her. A small movie of her riding. Yes, she rides really slowly. I am not sure how she stays so stable at this [...]
Biking
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011Last night as we were going to go on our walk, Madeline asked if she could ask Annie to try out her two-wheeler. I figured she would do what she normally does which is get on for a second, feel the wobbly bike and get off for the evening. I went about my normal routine [...]
Biggest Enemy
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011“There’s my biggest enemy!” ~ Kimberly “What are you talking about?” ~ Sandi “Mr. Peanut, he’s my worst enemy!” ~ Kimberly This was out of the blue as we were walking through Walmart tonight. She is so funny about how much she despises anything peanut. I guess if it could kill you, you’d be pretty [...]
A New Adventure
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011I have decided to begin a food blog so that this blog is not cluttered with the post about the foods we love. You can catch all the action over here at myculinaryescapades.com. You can see the fun rainbow cookies the kids and I created today along with many of your favorite recipes from 6browns.
Swimming time again
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011I have good intentions, really I do. I have been trying to remember to bring my camera each morning to swim lessons to capture the “first day of swim lessons” photo. But, somewhere between packing up 4 kids, their towels, bathing suit coverups, making sure I have applied sunscreen to each one of them, and [...]
18 years
Sunday, June 5th, 2011Bill and I celebrated our 18th anniversary early with a nice dinner at Melting Pot and a drive with the top down. On our actual anniversary we did laundry, went to a family party and hung out with friends at the train park concert. Just another day in paradise around here.
When Crafting Goes Wrong
Friday, June 3rd, 2011Sometimes crafting has an ugly side, a gory bloody ugly side. That side showed it’s ugly head on Tuesday afternoon. Mimi and I were settling in to make some owl coasters for Bill. We had already found the fabrics we wanted to include in our project. Mimi was sitting at the machine ready to sew [...]
Congrats Grad
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011Last week our neighbor and good friend Becca graduated from high school. The kids love and adore her. We stopped by the other day to congratulate her and celebrate. We made her some pink and purple ribbon jello with a banner of her name on it. She seemed to enjoy it. The neighborhood will be [...]
If Dad can do it . . .
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011While watching America’s Got Talent we saw a guy who farted with his armpit. The kids laughed but weren’t impressed. “Even Dad can do that!” ~ Madeline The kids agreed that if Dad could do it then the people didn’t have talent and shouldn’t move on. Facts are Bill can fart with his armpit and [...]