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Is It Juice or Short Pants?

Molly typically wears dresses throughout the summer, but every so often, we can coax her into a pair of shorts or capri pants. One day, in what was a surprise request, Molly said, “I want to wear my Capri Sun pants today.” Despite repeated corrections, she continued to call them Capri Sun pants most of [...]

7 Quick Takes: July 23, 2010 (Vol. 46)

~ 1 ~ Very soon, we will be having a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party (for Jack and Noah) where there will be right around 20 children.  Yes, that’s a two and a zero.  So much for homeschool kids being unsocialized. On a funny note, I think it’s a sign that they’re homeschooled as none [...]

Top Ten Reasons I Know I’ve Been at The Hospital Too Long

Regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much (or at all) in the past week.  I’ll write more about the specifics later (soon), but this week has found me mostly hanging around the hospital after my Mom had emergency open heart surgery at the end of last week. This was quite shocking [...]

Oh no! Not the Popsicle Privileges!

This year was the first time that the kids have gone to Vacation Bible School where I didn’t stay and volunteer.  Two of the days of VBS week found me hanging out in a local Panera chatting on Facebook working on my blogs. On the first day I was there, two mothers came in with [...]

Hasta La Vista, Germs

One day, after a trip into the store, the boys were using some hand sanitizer in the van.  They got to the point where I suspected that they had used way too much.  Finally, in what I felt would be a sign to them that it was quite enough, I asked, “Hey — are you [...]

Another Reason I Know My Kids Are Living in Different Times

I can remember playing house (which my kids call playing “family,” by the way), setting up play post offices, and making stores.  Molly does a lot of those very same things. However, I have realized that I grew up in a very different time from that which my children are growing up in. Just a [...]

Top Ten Reasons My Kids Wish They Were Me

Just like network television has to offer up equal time to political candidates, I thought it would be one sided to only share the reasons that I wish I was one of my kids.  I was just going to guess on the reasons my kids might want to be me, but they were happy to [...]

Hang On — Where Are We Really Going?

This is really hard to see, as the camera on my phone is not very good at all.  So, in case it’s not clear, this sign says: To “Arby’s” So, um, where are we really going?  Obviously the quotation marks would indicate that it’s not actually Arby’s.  I don’t know — there is a Chick-Fil-A [...]

Why Noah Had Difficulty with Ode to Joy

One of the first real songs (other than “Hot Cross Buns”) that we all recognized that both of the boys played was “Ode to Joy.”  It’s a song that I have loved for a long time, so it was fun for everyone. Now that Noah is in the next set of piano books, he has [...]

That Bird Tweeted at Jack

While shopping at Menard’s, my boys suddenly had a “shock and awe” look about them.  They’re good boys (generally), so I didn’t think they were doing anything bad, but I finally had to ask what in the world was going on. “Jack freed a bird,” Noah proclaimed with wide eyes. My kids are not big [...]

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