tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83404292770520950892024-02-18T22:55:43.142-08:00Little OlivesA family journalWellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-45866760788560386022023-01-22T15:54:00.000-08:002023-01-22T15:54:11.030-08:00The Funnies ~ Jan, Feb, March 2018<div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Mom, my eyes ripped out." -Silver, age almost-3, Jan 2</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Mom, my blood is better." -Silver, Jan. 2</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Current form of being naughty: leaving a sink full of dishes. Goodnight world! -Jan. 7<br />
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Sparrow: "Come on, it's not even cold, it's like 50 degrees outside." (It was 42.) -Jan. 8<br />
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- Jan. 24</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The other night we were getting out of the car, and Silver was gathering all her things, but she kept looking around and saying, "I lost the cheek!" I was confused and asked her to describe it to me, and she said, "Um, it was white, and fluffy, you know, the cheek!" I looked in the car and found something like a cotton ball. It was a little pom pom CHICK. Hahahah! -Jan. 24</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver, watching me feed Blaise, said, "Mama, when I was Blaise's age, you used to feed me in that chair. But now I'm growing so fast." Then she went back into the room where Dad was doing devotions with the children and came out again with a sad pout: "They read without me!" Me: "Oh? What were they reading?" Silver: ... "Jasmine 2. In Daddy's Bible." -Jan. 26<br />
<br />Silver: Pippa's stinky feet were on me!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: I don't think those were Pippa's, they they were probably Golden's and you don't know if they're stinky. They probably smell like lavender.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: Or chocolate. Or caramel.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-Jan. 26</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div>
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Looking at the Maisy book, she says, "I don't want his name to be Cyril. I want it to be Johnson." -Silver, Jan. 26</div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><br /></div><div style="color: #1d2129;">"I heared a cloud popped." -Silver, after learning that the sound she heard on the window at night was rain. -Jan. 28</div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><br /></div><div style="color: #1d2129;">Silver: "When I was an elephant, I used to spray ice. At Oliver." -Jan. 28</div>
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<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">I bought Pippa a notebook. And she already taught herself to spell something super important: "OB1KNOB" -March 19 #starwarspeople</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Silver farted loudly in the morning. </span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Blaise (almost 1 year old): "Pthpthpthpth!!!" -March 26</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Thomas and Silver talking about his childhood:</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Thomas: "My parents didn't really understand me."</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: "Yeah. My parents didn't really understand me either." -March 28</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Thomas: "Hey Silver, come here! I need to see your face."</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: "No thanks." -March 30</span></div>
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</div>Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-28533252354468432482023-01-22T15:20:00.000-08:002023-01-22T15:20:58.359-08:00The Funnies - Oct., Nov., Dec. 2017<div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Silver is 2, almost 3; Pippa is 5 1/2; Silas is 7, Golden is 9, Sparrow is 11</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Me: "Maybe make a symbol for something that comes out in the evenings."<br />
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Golden: Can I have a raisin bagel?<br />Me: not for lunch. That was breakfast. You have to eat something else.<br />Golden: Like what?<br />Me: Pasta. ...Oh wait...</span></div>
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Sigh. When all the foods are made out of white flour! -Oct. 2</span></div>
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Every morning, Blaise wakes up around 5 AM and thinks it's fun to blow loud raspberries. Mom = zombie. -Oct. 7 </span></div>
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"You know what I like, Mama? I like the kissings." -Silver, Oct. 9</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver, playing with her hands, making them "kiss" each other, & talking to herself in a high pitched voice: "No! Look away! They're kissing! Don't look!" -Oct. 19</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: Aw, dangit, now you have cashew butter all up in your hair.</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: Yeah, but yesterday Daddy washed the STINKY out of my hair.</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: You mean the STICKY?</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: YEAH! </span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-Oct. 21</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: "When I grow up, I'm gonna be a moji." -Oct. 21</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver called hedgehogs "Poky-pawns" today. -Oct. 24</span></div>
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Me: "Silas! Don't use Shakespeare to insult your siblings!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silas: --Sigh-- "Okay." -Oct. 24</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Evidently, I can now make the bed while holding a baby in one arm. As my friend V always says, "Mom level: PRO!" -Oct. 28</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Discussing Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" with Sparrow, age 11) she says, "They were building a wall, and it seemed like there was really no reason to build a wall, like cows."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: :Yeah. So why do you think did the neighbor want a fence there?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sparrow: "Because he was an introvert." -Oct. 30</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Silver: "How many birds are shrieking?" -Nov. 3</span><br style="color: black;" /><br style="color: black;" /><span style="color: black;">Silver, jumping about my bed: "I can do that, mom. And it's really cool." (willy cooah) -Nov. 3</span></span></div>
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I'm cold!" --as the straw, of course. -Nov. 7</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; text-align: center;">The problem of how to fit into your own life while also breaking its limitations occupies most of my philosophical musings. -Nov. 11</span><br style="color: black;" /><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"><br />Silver sang songs to me tonight, about our farting cats.</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; text-align: center;">Me: What? The cats are farting?</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; text-align: center;">Silver: Yeah! I like farting! </span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; text-align: center;">-Nov. 7</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;">Blaise fell off our bed and landed in a trash can right side up. -Nov. 15</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Daddy had just scooted Silver over cause she was sleeping in his spot in the morning, and she blinked open her eyes and said, "Mama, there was a GUY. And he was throwing the pajamas in the sink." -Nov. 15</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Watching a movie that was about 80's video games, Silver says, "They're from the A.D.'s!" -Nov. 17</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver, singing: "Frosty the snowman was a very-very-old..." -Nov. 18</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: Do you have some socks you can put on?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: Yeah. I'm just really really busy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-Nov. 18</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver had just gotten a splinter out of her foot, when she discovered another one in the other foot. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: Oh no, how old is that one?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: Sixteen, I think.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-Nov. 20</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Me: Tell me about the party, Silver!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver: Um, there was cooies, bread, water, plates, --one plate, lights, little lights, and little candles, and bread, and a table.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-Dec. 8</span></div><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;"><br />I just high-fived my husband and said, "We had a day!" -Dec. 9</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;">Silver crushes my snowflake. "It's destroyed," she says. -Dec. 14</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;">Silver: "And God was a baby. When he was born in our car." -Dec. 14</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 30px; text-align: center;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1qh1hWDdf4wgvXzzaKyMYqWCwGKIKghMrnyPe6EdCnPspZBHRA42pe-EtQtzl4Efd1eOALJ3Ac06ODjTbeTxhX3RZIK7u1_LfEG9_fhYNvOAZL1TghIckReIrGLjZ4a9CUauGMNRRstD/s1600/hey+girl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1qh1hWDdf4wgvXzzaKyMYqWCwGKIKghMrnyPe6EdCnPspZBHRA42pe-EtQtzl4Efd1eOALJ3Ac06ODjTbeTxhX3RZIK7u1_LfEG9_fhYNvOAZL1TghIckReIrGLjZ4a9CUauGMNRRstD/s320/hey+girl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-Dec. 15</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Silas, narrating the Bible reading: "And then the bush said that he was the God of Jacob, Isaac, Moses, and some other people..." -Dec. 16</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Silver named her toy animals:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Giraffe: "How."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bird: "Birdies."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mouse: "Mousies."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Red snake: "Help."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Blue snake: "Helpies. I mean Blueberries. And the red snake is Red Blueberries."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">-Dec. 17</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Silver calls a flashlight a "FRUFF RIGHT." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"This side (of the bed) is kinda fall-ish-y." -Silver, Dec 18 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Silver was singing "Deep Cries Out" (Bethel Music) this morning when she woke up. Then she slipped off the bed holding her blanket around her, dropped to the floor, and said, "I'm just a worm. That slugs and slugs and slugs. And some people get on me." -Dec. 19</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Me: Wow, this Burger King coupon page says you can save over $130. Hah! I mean, if you went to Burger King every day and used these coupons, you'd be like, hey! We saved $130 on our BK bill this month!<br />Sparrow: If you went to Burger King every day you'd be dead.-Dec. 20</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;">Silver calls ornaments "ardavents." -Dec. 22</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: center;">Headline just seen in beauty section: "Rock the No Makeup look with ease."</span><span style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"> </span><span>-Dec. 27</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div>
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"Mom! I love your feet!" -early July</span></div>
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Silver says funny things in general. She pronounces I's after vowels like i's or y's.</span></div>
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Store: "Stoy."</span></div>
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Cart: "Caw-yt." (one syllable.) (sounds a lot like kite)</span></div>
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Fart: "fight" or "faw-yt."</span></div>
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Silver is too cute right now. It's 7:30 AM and she has woken up and is chatting to me from my bed, where Blaise is also sleeping. She keeps saying things like:</span></div>
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"Mom, I'm so comfortable with Blaise!"</span></div>
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"Mom, he's farting!" </span></div>
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"Blaise has eyebrows." </span></div>
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She has really precise anunciation. The other day she called him a "munchkin," & her lips as she so clearly pronounced that word were so cute! -July 14</span></div>
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Golden, suddenly paying attention: There are aliens in this book?!?</span></div>
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Silver: And the baby alien, it's hiding! -July 16<br />
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<span>Silver, pointing to a turtle in a book: "Iss a tooter!" -July 16</span><br />
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Me: Do you wanna go to the park today?<br />
Silver: Yeah. And I want to go to the zoo. I want to go to the zoo and see elephants. And dinosaurs at the zoo.</span></div>
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Their expectations grow exponentially into the fantastical in a matter of seconds! Before you know what happened, you have to TALK THEM DOWN. Welcome to the world of toddler parenting.</div>
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Clearly the answer is never to ask a toddler their opinion. -July 17</div>
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Me: "I don't know, it's not THAT old!"</span></div>
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Pippa: "Yeah, it's only like... HALF old."</span></div>
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Silas: "Yeah, like 44 years or something." -July 18<br />
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I spent a few minutes singing Silver a song I had made up for her, during which she sat there beaming like a queen. When I finished, she said,</span></div>
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Things I never thought I'd find myself saying:</span></div>
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"I will be serving crepes to people who are wearing underwear."</span></div>
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"JUST say thank you for the hairy cousin!!!"-July 20</span></div>
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Me: So in order to get the unknown by itself, you have to remove the other numbers on that side of the equation by doing the reverse function. So the opposite of times is divide. So divide both sides by 2/3.</span></div>
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Sparrow: I think the opposite of times Is un-times. -July 20</span></div>
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The other day I referred to erasing as "deleting." Just now I told my daughter we could "edit" her skirt. Aaaaah! #digitalage -July 28</span></div>
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"I wanna play with my toys, but I guess I'll do a puzzle for a few... whiles." -Pippa, July 29</span></div>
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Silver, crying with wide, sad eyes: "I can't jump over the ceiling, Mommy!" -July 29<br />
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Me: Are you interested in rock concerts? </span></div>
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Sparrow: No. But I'm interested in ROCKS!</span></div>
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Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-45041045469230771442022-07-07T20:50:00.000-07:002022-07-07T20:50:07.311-07:00Liesl's 2-yr birthday!<p> The things I've been through today though!!It was Liesl's actual second birthday, so even though we had a party last Saturday, we still wanted to do something fun! </p><p>So I wanted to go to the beach, but had to do an office task first. Two, actually, and they took me hours. I was trying to call customer service for Thomas' warranty because his laptop hasn't been turning on for like three weeks. Nothing. Just no turning on or lights or any indication of AI life still remaining. I told him I would have time to do it yesterday, but then I went to Costco and TJ's with Blaise and Pippa, and the van died at Trader Joe's and it was 100 degrees, and we had ice cream in the bag, and we had to wait in the store for Thomas to come and rescue us (and eat all the little ice creams), and then we had to put all the food away when we got back and then the Martindales came to dinner. So I didn't have time yesterday. But this morning I was on the phone for over an hour with the customer service people. And when I had been transferred to the second level of computer helpers and they were STILL trying to get me to do troubleshooting and resusitating moves to a computer that was stone dead instead of just bunging me a new one, the indian man on the other line told me to check the cable and unplug it in the middle, and when I did THAT, lo and behold, there was a chew! A chew through the cable, Almost the whole way through! HAHA! When I pushed the wires back together, the charging light on the computer TURNED ON! So funny! So all they had to send me was a new cord, after all that. </p><p>We left for the beach at nearly 2PM, </p><p>-Liesl said a 4-word sentence but I forgot it!</p><p>-beach. Some woman was wearing a "bathing suit" that had her entire bottom all hanging out in the atmosphere. Just no. That is not how you treat yourself to anything like dignity. </p><p>-pippa had to poop at the beach, so I had to take her to the big van and tiny potty, and I had to pilfer some sand from a beach house yard, to put in the bottom of the potty cause: smart. I had to throw the poo away in a laundry bag that I found in the van from the Hamilton Hotel that we had gone to back in December.</p><p>-Liesl thought Silas was drowning as he was playing in the water, and was really upset. "Silas! not! Safe!"</p><p>-home, then showered off. Had chocolate ice cream. Washed Liesl's hair in the sink. Tried to start dinner but was on a double streak on Duolingo outside, and I looked up, and Liesl was playing with POOP on the front porch, but I had to do a double take because she was already all stained with chocolate and I couldn't compute at first what was happening. Well I hosed her off in the little bathtub that was standing out front, and cleaned up the poop and then hosed off the porch. and then I had to make dinner and put away the beach stuff. I was putting away the popsicle floaty, when I noticed brown stuff on it, and I smelled it, and it was poop! So I had to take that back out front to hose off again. Later we found even more poop on the lawn, and more on the porch! Prolific! While I was doing dishes during dinner prep, Liesl grabbed my new tiny press pot that I had gotten on Tuesday at IKEA to froth milk with, and she threw it on the ground and it smashed! Gave Blaise a bath out front in the little tub. Dinner was at about 8! Silas was at youth group from 7-9.</p><p>-Thomas also said we got a ticket for over $100 because of some thing we ran up in DC in December, and had apparently missed the first notice. </p><p>-Sparrow made a cherry pie and it was too late for most people to eat it.</p>Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-75662905377793331882020-06-28T09:15:00.000-07:002020-06-28T09:15:53.998-07:00May/June QuotesAdam, on going camping: "Basically, I say, we bring the kids, we bring coffee, we're good." -May 17<br />
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Silas: "My wee wee is heavy!"<br />
me: "Do you have to go pee?"<br />
S: "NO! My wee wee is <u>heavy</u>!" -May 17<br />
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me: "What was your favorite part of the day?"<br />
Golden: "Going strawberry picking. And Pippa's favorite part was... being a baby." -May 17<br />
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me: "Can you come here and finish your hot dog?"<br />
G: "I will, but I'm waking up the dandelions." -May 27<br />
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Silas, on his steaming hot muffin: "Mom! It was smoking! There was fire coming out on me!" -June 11<br />
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Sparrow: "How long do ants live? (Thinks for awhile) ...They live either until someone squishes them, or until they get really old and die." -June 9 (I love it when children answer their own questions)<br />
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Silas points excitedly, "Mom! Enormous, BIG...!"<br />
Sp: "It's a cockroach, buddy."<br />
Silas: "No!!! It's a BUG!!!" -June 26<br />
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Silas called thunder "blunder." -June 26<br />
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Silas: "I don't want to drive through space, and I don't WANT to."<br />
me: "Honey, I don't think that's something we are gonna have to worry about." -June 29<br />
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Silas: "That's OLD ice cream, and it's dripping."<br />
Golden: "No, it's melted ice cream and it's melting."<br />
Silas, encouragingly: "That's RIGHT!" -June<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-19710867023143062952019-03-13T21:51:00.001-07:002019-03-14T19:26:47.234-07:00Pippa's 5th birthday<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My wilder one is 5 today! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">5 years ago we were living with friends in a city we had just moved to and one day I just sat there so sad for my little coming one, no place to put a nursing chair, no one who cares to shower her with welcome. God stopped me in my tracks by bringing to mind Mary the mother of Jesus. No room in the inn. No baby shower, no rocking chair. In fact, she was giving birth next to the animals and had to set the baby in a feed trough because there wasn't even a bed! From then on there was a joyful fierceness in my pregnancy and labor. WE would love her. WE would make room. From the moment she came out, she's been a heralder. Her voice was so strong that the nursing staff couldn't believe her scream wasn't that of a 3-month old! She is a heralder of the Kingdom. She is one who makes room. Happy birthday, you fierce one. Go big.</span><br />
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Funny things Pippa said when she was four:<br />
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Silas: “Pippa, you do NOT want to go to hell.”</div>
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Pippa: “… Is it a dangerous place?” -May 31<br />
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">We were learning about jaguarundis, and they watched a little documentary. When Pippa was trying to describe it to me, she said, “we watched the one about the undie leopard!” -May 26</span></div>
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Me: “Don’t color on your skin.”</div>
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Pippa: “I’m just making zebra stripes!”</div>
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Me: “But that marker is toxic, and can sink into your blood stream.”</div>
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Pippa: “I need a wet wipe! SILAS! Did you know, this can get in your SKIN, and take away your BLOOD.” -May 23</div>
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Pippa: “The devil is not gonna kill me. Cause he’s in my heart.”</div>
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Me: “Who’s in your heart?”<br />
Pippa: “God.”<br />
Me: “Who is the devil?”<br />
Pippa: “He’s the bad devil.”<span class="text_exposed_show" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Me: “Yeah, he’s an angel who turned bad.”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Pippa: “But sometimes tiny angels, they have wings, and they’re good angels.” -May 3</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Observing how enthusiastically someone in our church reacted to a testimony, Pippa leans over and whispers to me: “She banged the table. Maybe the police would come and drive her away.” -May 1</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Me: “What is candy?”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Pippa: “Candy is when your hands get sticky you have to wash them, and if you eat too much sugar you will get sick.” -April 17</span></div>
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For church one morning, I had dressed Silver (the 18-month-old) practically for the beach–because we are so hot without the AC these days–and then Pippa came out wearing long pants and long sleeves.</div>
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Me: “Wouldn’t you rather wear short sleeves?”</div>
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Pippa: “No.”</div>
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Me: “Well you might get hot at church.”</div>
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Pippa: “I WANNA be hot at church!” -July 17</div>
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Pippa: “Proboscis monkeys have FOUR stomachs.”</div>
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Me: “Wow! Where do they all fit?”</div>
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Pippa: “One at the bottom, …and one… at the top, …and one on the side.” -July 10</div>
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Pippa: “I want to eat ALL the cherries, so I’d be a GROWNUP!” -June 28 </div>
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Pippa: “Mama? Some animals could be extinct.”</div>
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Me: “Mhm. What does that mean?”</div>
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Pippa: ” It means they be dead. Or they are already eaten.” -July 7</div>
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Pippa: “Mama? Rhubarb is a sour leaf in the world. Cause I love it.” -June 28</div>
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Silas: “Parrots don’t live in Virginia. Or toucans. Or peacocks.” </div>
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Pippa: “Or dingoes. No way.” -June 28</div>
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Pippa: “Mama–FEE-lions means CATS!” -June 26</div>
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Pippa (4) learned how to pronounce girl the right way! She has been saying “GORE” for girl ever since she learned how to speak! We kept teasing her, saying, “No, it’s gore!”</div>
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Pippa: “No, it’s not, it’s girl!”</div>
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Me: “Who told you? Who taught you about girls?”</div>
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Pippa, without missing a beat: “God.” -June 7</div>
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Pippa, age 4: “GUYS! Whoever cleans up this room, will get CORN, in a BOWL, in the LIVING ROOM!”</div>
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Hmmm…. tempting. -Aug. 5</div>
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Me: “Pippa, could you bring me that charger? My phone needs to be charged.”<br />
Pippa: “But what percent is it at?”</div>
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Unmmm… Since when do 4-year- olds deal in percents?!?? -Aug. 6</div>
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Pippa: “Mom, GUESS how long the flood was in Noah’s Ark?”</div>
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Me: “How long?”</div>
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Pippa: “Fortylong DAYS.” -Aug. 21</div>
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Pippa, on the first morning in late summer that it was actually cool outside: “Hey! Now we have an air conditioner! ~ Outside!” ~Aug. 27</div>
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Me: “You have to talk to him nicely.”<br />
Pippa: “I don’t know about that.” (LOL. She meant “I don’t know anything about that.” Which may or may not be true.) -Aug. 30</div>
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Pippa, age 4: “Mom, when I get big, I’ll be a grown-up and you’ll be a grown-up, and then we’ll have two moms.” -Sept. 15</div>
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Pippa: “Why do they put the seeds in the bell peppers in Trader Joes?” -Sept. 16</div>
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Pippa, 4: “I know why it’s illegal to drink in the car, mom. Cause when you drink, it really makes you go pee in the car, and that’s why it’s illegal.” -Dec. 17</div>
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Pippa licked all the frosting off all the cake today, painted her own nails, and scattered Candyland all over the floor. All before 8:30 AM. I love that child fiercely. – Dec. 21</div>
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Pippa: “When is the world gonna end?”<br />
Me: “Nobody knows but God.”<br />
Silas, age 6: “<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">I</em> know. When the WAR ends. You know which war? The war of history, World War Two, and the Civil War.” ~December 2016 </div>
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On the way over, Pippa explained to me why it was so cold today. “It’s cause all the DIRTY wind is coming from here, and the CLEAN wind is pushing it back.” -Dec. 15</div>
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Pippa, to Silver, “Stop it, you’re NERVOUSING me!!!” -Nov. 22</div>
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“Do you know what twice means? Two times. Do you know what thrice means? Super fast.” -Pippa Nov. 23</div>
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Pippa praying for the food: “I pray this food would make us big and strong, and that volcanoes wouldn’t explode or that the devil wouldn’t be bad, Amen.” -Nov. 14</div>
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Pippa: “Sparrow! Someone tooted!”</div>
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Sparrow: “Oh. Is that so. How do you know?”</div>
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Pippa: Because I smelled tootish stuff. And stinky stuff.” ~Nov. 1</div>
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Silas: “I can’t wait for Halloween AND Christmas!”<br />
Pippa: “Yeah, AND the dentist!!!” -Oct. 25</div>
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Pippa: “Mom? I had my alone time on the trash can today.” </div>
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Me: “Oh yeah? What were you doing on the trash can?”</div>
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Pippa: “Trying to kill my pumpkin.” ~Oct. 21</div>
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Pippa, 4, talking at 100 miles an hour, “I PUT stuff under my pillow, and then when I wake up, every time, and check, it keeps DISSING appear!” -Oct. 16</div>
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Golden (age 8), breaking into tears because she accidentally let our as yet un-spayed cat outside after dark.<br />
Pippa, saltily, “Hope she hasn’t gone out MATING!”<br />
Indeed, child. Indeed. ~Oct. 16</div>
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Pippa, age 4: “The light is so pretty right now, it looks like God.” -Oct. 12</div>
<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-64931301087475089442019-03-13T21:02:00.000-07:002024-01-02T08:19:04.108-08:00Silver's daysFall 2017<br />
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Silver has been trained to hold hands in a parking lot. She is so good about it now, that she will stop still in the median or at the sidewalk and start shrieking and/ or crying, "I need someone to hold my hand!" The other week we were at Assateague Island and we stopped at a nearly deserted parking lot to see the beauty of the marshlands before dark. There was no movement in the parking lot at all. Silver, concerned, said, "I need someone to hold my hand! I don't wanna get DIED in the road!"<br />
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Last week she also called herself a baby "ginoceros." (rhymes with rhinoceros, soft g at the beginning.) Haha! That child!<br />
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11/26 we went to a Christmas tree lighting event and Silver went to sit on Santa's lap. I didn't even get to see her! I was in another line with someone else an asked Sparrow to take her down to see Santa, since it was one of the only other booths set up at the time, and hey--she might like it. None of my other kids ever wanted to sit on Santa's lap, but perhaps she was not yet corrupted by their cynicism. Sure enough, Sparrow went through the line with her and they went through all the way before I was done waiting in my line! All I got of the event later was a few pictures taken by Sparrow and Silver's comments about it. "I sat on Santa's lap. And he was a nice Santa. But on the TV there is a mad santa." Oh, but this one is nice? "Yah. He told me about the caterpillar mouse." You told him you wanted a caterpillar mouse for Christmas? "Yah."Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-80197485298123168272019-01-26T19:42:00.003-08:002019-03-14T19:35:16.215-07:00Sparrow turns 11Sparrow's eleventh birthday...<br />
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Sweet, imaginative, loyal. I hit the jackpot with Sparrow as my eldest daughter. And she turned eleven. My little baby. She is highly creative, funny, and on my wavelength. =) We got to invite friends over and have a sleepover! They watched 'Moana' and made something crafty.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Eleven?! ...ELEVEN!!! This happened to my firstborn this week and I was the one in shock about the eleven. She is more than one could hope for in a daughter. Sh</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">e and her sweet friends are having a sleepover right now, and baby's only three weeks old, and part of me thought "What was I thinking?!" But I've learned a few things about parties, cause it ain't my first rodeo. My tips: When she says "I'd like an ice cream cake," and I think 'I could make that myself,' I autocorrect: "Um, no you will NOT make that cake AND clean the house while nursing a newborn. You will BUY that cake and actually have some fun at this thing." <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f3b/1.5/16/2b50.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">⭐️</span></span> Paper plates don't have to be cute. <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f3b/1.5/16/2b50.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">⭐️</span></span> You don't have to plan a whole bunch of activities OR have a theme, either. <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f3b/1.5/16/2b50.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">⭐️</span></span> The most important things: friends, ice cream cake, oh and give her a whittling knife. <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f3b/1.5/16/2b50.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">⭐️</span></span> WE LOVE YOU, SPARROW GIRL!!!!</span><br />
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Golden: “What should I draw for the month of March?”</div>
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Sparrow: “A clover, and a pot of gold, and a–you know–what are they called? …A LEPER!” (Bible raised! LOL!) -May 23</div>
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Sparrow, re: the YMCA pool: “They were having water Arabics or something…” -May 11</div>
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Me, to Sparrow: “You said you brushed your hair, but it doesn’t look like you BRUSH-brushed it.”</div>
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Sparrow: “I only partially brush-brushed it.” -July 17</div>
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Sparrow (10) reading the Dora book to the littles: “…me and Boots.”</div>
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Golden, getting conscious over proper usage: “She put herself first!”</div>
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Sparrow: “She always puts herself first. She does that. For a living.” -June 22</div>
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I am journaling in bed, but out in the living room it sounds like a trading floor! The children are shouting “gob stoppers!” “Smarties!” “Who wants whoppers?” Yup. Trading trunk or treat candies like Wall Street pros. -Oct. 30 (Spasrrow was definitely the instigator of this....</div>
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Sparrow, age 10: “I’m definitely an emotional eater. Thing is, I’m usually only emotional cause I’m hungry.” -Oct. 13</div>
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If you ever feel like telling a pregnant woman that !she's about to pop! --resist the temptation. She probably knows. Also, we don't pop.</div>
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How about giving her an encouragement instead?</div>
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Thank you for bearing new life.<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />Blessings on your labor.<br />You carry that baby so well.</span></div>
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Breath is life. It's so important to be intentional and not wasteful in how we use it.</div>
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(Remind me of this tomorrow when I start to rant at my 10-yr-old for leaving milk sitting on the front steps...) (March 8)</div>
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Holing up with chocolate for a few mins here--as my friend <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000022434044&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/veronica.mahnken.5?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Veronica</a> says, 11 years of wiping heinis = a nightly bowl of ice cream and hourly "10 minute breaks." (March 7)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Someday you might find yourself on your couch clutching your sobbing children as you say goodbye to your 8-month old cat who has just died a horrible, dramatic death in your living room after being sick for 3 days. Parenting is dangerous. Parenting cats is dangerous. I didn't think this would happen for another 10 years or so... It seems like he ate some kind of poison. Can we find hope and not let every thought crumble, when we just saw what we saw, and we'd prayed and prayed? I won't let this turn into poison in my mind. I'll just cry for him and let that be that and not draw all kinds of dramatic meanings out of it for now. Ok? I'll hold them, be with them, remember Catness and the dear and funny things he did. Loving them better and more gently is my design. We feel so raw. (March 11)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Sweet, comforting friends keep telling me my children will be OK and that this will help them grow. I agree. But I just want to say *I* MISS THE CAT! *I* hate that he suffered! I will never forget the haunting sound of his little kitten body giving up the ghost (and a lot of violent throw up) when he died and we all rushed around him with helpless cries of despair. Last night I blustered in from the icy winds and I just wanted to call him at the door one last time. So I did.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">And then I cried. Golden sat there in front of his fresh grave Sunday evening for a long time alone in the darkening freeze, and Sparrow went out to her with a blanket so they could huddle through that bleary ache together. I haven't worked in three days. Isn't it strange that this cat who is just an ANIMAL --and we eat animals every day-- could make me cry so much? I mean, I experienced the death of my own MOTHER and two miscarriages. What IS this strange thing called grief, that I know in a few days will be dull and accepted and in a few months probably completely forgotten? I can only hope it fuels me to treasure my people and all our moments more. More depth. More breath. More intention. Less fussing. Go slower. Be tender. I pray I can make these things habits NOW while I have fuel, so when the grief goes away, the good from it will have been permanently built into our life. (march 14)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">One week ago, had a midwife appointment in the morning. "3-4 cm," she said, "see you tonight or tomorrow." She was spot on. She knew more than me, and I'm 6 babies in! I didn't even realize I was in full on labor all that afternoon... A week later, the bruises on my arms from hep lock attempts are purpling and changing shape, but I'm insanely grateful for the water birth I finally experienced after 11 years of wondering. (Barely made it in in time, but I GOT IT!) A desire ful</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">filled is a tree of life. And a second son is a love multiplier. We are all in baby bliss in our little brown house. Here I get to nurse again, submit to rest again, exercise more wisdom, grow into more patience and letting go, remember that like God, part of my identity is THE NOURISHER. We are turning to gold. (Hope to have complete birth story written out soon on the blog!) xoxo let your children drive you to love today. (apr. 5)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;">Shout out to Golden. Elegant, intuitive, compassionate. But also silly. </span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f79/1.5/16/1f61c.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">😜</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"> Cause that's good and right when you're 8 and life's great. Blaise there, he's a snuggla. He will cling to people's shoulders or clothes or jewelry when they hold him, like a koala babe. He's just a happy little potato, and charmed by simply EVERYTHING. </span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/faa/1.5/16/1f449.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">👉</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;">How's your summer going? I guess all of America is smack dab in the full swing of it by now. </span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/faa/1.5/16/1f449.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">👉</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;">We just finished up our year's documentation for school a</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;">nd are still finishing math, so... 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About 20 minutes down the trail is a mossy bank: our treasure. Hauled the stroller up and down the path though the tires were flat. Because it was almost arid that day, and we had to feel the spiked little tender jewels all nestled together, the emerald blanket all cool and smelling of earth. Shooting arrows into that bank is pretty satisfying too. <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f27/1.5/16/1f600.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">😀</span></span></div>
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Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-50709207934754075332017-07-01T10:08:00.000-07:002018-03-26T10:29:56.722-07:00The Funnies - April, May, June 2017Sparrow is 11, Golden is 8, Silas is 6, Pippa is 5, and Silver is 2.<br />
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Silver, making a deep inhale, her nose all wrinkled up, whispers loudly, "I smell my boogies." -April 4<br />
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Silver took off her diaper and smelled it.<br />
Me: "Does it smell like pee?"<br />
Silver: "No. I smell Easter." -Apr. 4<br />
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Silver, pointing to her belly button: "I have a boob. I'm going to have a baby brother." -Apr. 4<br />
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Silver, hearing Blaise cry for nursing this morning: "She's grumpy." -Apr. 10<br />
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G: "Silver, what sound does a cat make?"<br />
Silver: "Mau."<br />
G: "What sound does a cow make?"<br />
Silver: "Moose."<br />
G: "What sound does a chicken make?"<br />
Silver: "...Sound." -Apr. 8<br />
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"Now she's all nice and cuppaful." (comfortable.) -Silver, Apr. 19<br />
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Found myself saying, "That diaper doesn't want a straw in its butt." -Apr. 26<br />
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"If we drank one or two cups of wine, we would get drunk. Cause we're young and impressionable." -Sparrow, Apr. 26<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Motherhood has forever ruined the word "blowout." It makes me laugh when I see it on store signs. Every mom reads it and thinks only "CRAZY POOP EXPLOSION." -Apr. 27</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sparrow (11): "I like little kids' history. But nowadays all I read is--war, maybe some peace here and there, ships, an occasional exploding building, treason, battle, sneaking, people named Wolfgang--I mean, every chapter is the same!" -May 10</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Me: what are you playing with?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Silver: going outside.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Me: ok, but we'll need to get some clothes on you first.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Silver: No! I want to play with naked mole rat club! -May 17</span><br />
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Things the Greeks found to be the most important in the world, according to Sparrow: "Love, wine, wisdom, war, blackness and crafting, thunderbolts, lightning, mothers, home, and hearth." -May 18<br />
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Silver, after Sparrow had set her up on the tree stump and gotten her safely down again: "Whew! That was a close one!" -May 25<br />
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Sparrow, explaining themes from Fiddler on the Roof:<br />
"The problem with the 3 guys is:<br />
One of them is poor,<br />
One of them doesn't care about tradition,<br />
and one of them...<br />
is ugly." -May 28<br />
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Silver: "Jesus put lotion on my feet this morning." -May 29<br />
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Silver: "I came alive this morning." -May 29<br />
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Golden: "Why do we have to go to Costco?<br />
Me: "Cause we're out of a bunch of staples. Like chicken. And honey."<br />
Golden: "And staples." -June 3<br />
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We were at the soccer field cheering on Silas in his game: "Go, Roadrunners!"<br />
Silver, catching on, shouts, "Go, Naked Mole Rats!" -June 3<br />
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Me, to Silver, regarding Blaise's lower parts:<br />
"It's not gross. He is a boy and he has a penis."<br />
Silver: "Yeah, it's his BEANS." -June 8<br />
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I was in bed with a crick in the neck.<br />
Pippa (5) approaches wide-eyed and says, "Mom, how do crickets get in your neck?" -June 9<br />
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Silas, giving a narration for history:<br />
"Marco Polo, and some other people, like Nicolo and stuff, traveled to a far off country for TWENTY years. And when they came back, NOBODY knew them. Cause their clothes were all twisted, and swollen." -June 13<br />
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Silver calls the baby wrap "the wrapper." -all the time.<br />
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Sparrow: "That's illegal."<br />
Silver: "No, that's not an eagle, it's a BIRD." -June 15<br />
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My parenting skills seriously deteriorate with stress:<br />
"Like don't hit people in the face and stuff." -June 17<br />
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Silver, coming up to me with a little weed covered in someone's old hair, holding it as delicately as a baby bird:<br />
"I got this in Germany. Jesus gave it to me. And God made it and then I found it." -June 15<br />
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Silver: "Where's God?"<br />
Me: "He's with you."<br />
Silver: "No, he's not. He was in the house. And he was cleaning up." -June 25<br />
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Me: "Where are your shoes?"<br />
Silver: "I dunno, they're in my shadow." -June 25<br />
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Silver: "Daddy cut a chip in half-ses. and then the ants were coloring all over it." (crawling.) -June 25<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*Silas is CHIPPER and telling me how herring farts sound like Russian submarines. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*I was just about to go crazy and whip up a pie crust for quiche tomorrow morning, when I realized tomorrow is oatmeal day. WHEW! That's why I have a schedule, REMEMBER? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*I hate it when I need a flashlight to find a flashlight. </span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f2d/1.5/16/1f606.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">😆</span></span><br />
-June 27<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-82911454274881198782017-04-15T06:10:00.000-07:002017-08-30T06:11:38.563-07:00Pippa's fifth birthdayPippa the firecracker! She has grown by leaps and bounds this year and enchanted (and frustrated!) us all with her insatiable thirst for learning and getting things done. She is my best dinner helper, always wanting to get her hands on REAL things and do things that have a REAL effect. Real knives. Real vegetables. Real fire. She was never much one for pretend play or dolls. Nope. No dolls. But whenever I let her, she's right there helping me with everything. This year was quite eventful for her!<br />
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She has begun drawing representational things. And they are darling.<br />
She started writing her name (all on her own)<br />
She cut her own hair<br />
Her cat died<br />
A baby brother was born.<br />
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On her birthday, Blaise was only a few days old. My German friend Christine came over and brought a delicious German cake and flowers! Pippa got a school workbook (she loves workbooks), some puzzles, and an umbrella. Later we had to celebrate again with Daddy home from work. I think we finally finished watching Pete's dragon (which you remember had been interrupted by Blaise's labor), while we were finishing the cake at 9PM! She had asked for an MnM 5 cake, so even though we'd already had cake that day... we had another! I love you so much, Pippa. God has his fingerprints all over you! Love, Mama<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My wilder one is 5 today! 5 years ago we were living with friends in a city we had just moved to and one day I just sat there so sad for my little coming one, no place to put a nursing chair, no one who cares to shower her with welcome. God stopped me in my tracks by bringing to mind Mary the mother of Jesus. No room in the inn. No baby shower, no rocking chair. In fact, she was giving birth next to the animals and had to set the baby in a feed trough because there wasn't even a bed! From then on there was a joyful fierceness in my pregnancy and labor. WE would love her. WE would make room. From the moment she came out, she's been a heralder. Her voice was so strong that the nursing staff couldn't believe she wasn't a 3-month old! She is a heralder of the Kingdom. She is one who makes room. Happy birthday, you fierce one. Go big.</span><br />
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I love you so much, Pippa. Love, MamaWellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-62709541325399860192017-03-31T14:00:00.000-07:002018-03-25T14:18:13.133-07:00The Funnies, January, Feb, March 2017The other day, Silas and Sparrow were arguing about something at the table. Silas had just delivered an angry/ dramatic line, when suddenly, Golden RAN in, saying loudly, "Annnnnnnnnnd CUT!" and turned the light off! It was so unexpected that we all BURST out laughing! (Jan.)<br />
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I was trying to get our 1/2 hour of German in right before dinner--but I was a bit stressed and was kind of ranting in German and I said something about "reingetan." (Put it in, in past tense.) Golden pipes up from the table and says, "sounds like orangutan." I forgot my scolding and laughed! -Jan. 13<br />
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Pippa, during German lessons, said in "German" accent: "Fire--in--die--hole." --And then farted! (Jan.)<br />
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S<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">parrow: "Oh mom, this is so sad! It says that carbs turn into sugars in your body!"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br />
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Silver, whining about a diaper change. When I asked her why she didn't want her diaper changed, said without hesitation, "cause it's dangerous!" -Feb. 9<br />
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Silver wanted a graham cracker and she called it a "grandma cookie." Haha! -Feb. 9<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Epic. Today I forgot how many children I have. I was in the Costco bathroom helping Pippa wash hands, and a lady commented on Pippa and the one in my belly. I said, "And my three others are right outside the door!" When I emerged, though, I noticed there were actually four others... -Feb. 17</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">What do you do when your fave family of seven children comes to visit your five-children-family? Put a turkey in the oven and go to the Goodwill Outlet of course. Found mustard colored Nine West Purse. Check. Silver shoes for Silver. Check. Ya know what I'm saying? Just because we invested in people over things doesn't mean we don't also appreciate nice things. This man who kept staring at us and making comments said to me in the lobby while </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000022434044&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/veronica.mahnken.5?fref=mentions" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">Veronica</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">was in the store, "You sure have a house full, eh?" "Yeah-- we have to cook a whole turkey every night to feed them." -Feb. 21</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Text of the birthday card that Silas wrote to Thomas:<br />"I hope you have a good birthday, and have a very good time, and have fun, and spend time together, and other stuff, like happy stuff, like make crafts with each other and stuff." -Feb. 25</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Silas, when he's talking about something that happened kind of a long time ago, says, "Pretty much days ago, ..." Hah! -all the time</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Silas, looking at a huge dictionary: "Mom, someday when I'm able to read, like when I'm a teenager, I'll be able to read this book. Unless I fall asleep." -Feb. 27</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Silas: "I can't sleep without Pippa." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Me: "Really? Well it seems like you don't even like her that much during the day." </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Silas, pondering: "Well, in the morning, I'm really annoyed, and then later, I'm only sort of annoyed. And I'm mostly annoyed at the noise. But when she's quiet, I'm just--fine. ...And... When I feel... someone's warm feet on me, it just helps me to sleep better." -March 4</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Pippa, to Silver, demonstrating with dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets: </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">"These dinosaurs are on top of each other and they're mating and they're having babies. That's what happens, Silver." She was so instructive and patient in teaching her little sister the ways of the world. -March 5</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Silver, this morning, was going to do my yoga with me. When the video came on, she said, "It's the yogurt!" (She pronounces is "yogut." -March 9</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">This morning at devotions, Thomas asked, "what is the opposite of understanding?"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Silas: "Overstanding." -March 9</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Pippa, praying at dinner, "...And that Mama's water baby would come out..." -March 9</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Pippa, during a game of dinosaurs to Golden: "Golden! Dinosaurs live in another STATE!"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Golden: "Actually, they're extinct." -March 9</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Me, regarding Cecil (Catness) who was ill: "I wish I could tell him that we will take care of him. At least with sick humans, you can speak to them." </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Silas: "Yeah, we know what cat speak sounds like, but we can't understand it." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I was washing dishes late in the kitchen, and Silver, having had a late nap, was still awake and hanging out with me. Siddenly she said, "Get--dat--corn--out my face!" -March 22</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Silas lost a tooth and wrote a note to the tooth fairy:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">"Dear Tooth Fairy, I hope you remember to put in my dollar and I hope you have a very nice day and a happy time. Love, Silas."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">The next day, I said, "Did you get your dollar?"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Silas: "Yes."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Sparrow and Golden: "Silas, you should thank the tooth fairy."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Silas: "Thanks, Mom." -March 22</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I was trying to get dressed in my room this morning, and Silver walked in and saw me fully pregnant without my shirt on. She takes one look at me and says, "Ew! Dat's GROSS." -March 23</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Text: "How's the cat (Clementine) been behaving for you?" </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Sparrow: "This is Sparrow. The Clementine is good. She sits on my face at night." -March 23</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Pippa keeps calling 101 Dalmatians "One hundred and Dalmatians." -March 23</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Watching new baby brother nurse at the hospital, Silver says, "Mom, she's nursering." -March 31</span></span><br />
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Silver turned two!<br />
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There was a blizzard the day before, so we were still pretty snowed in on January 9th, her big day. Haha, funny story about Silver in the blizzard, for it was the first time she remembered seeing snow: when she got snow on her mittens, she said, "Oh no! Dirty! Wash hands!"<br />
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Thankfully we had everything we needed in the house for a party, even the people, for this is one of the big benefits of having a lot of children: having a party always at hand without having to invite anyone else!<br />
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From the family journal:<br />
She woke up all smiles, even though she is recovering from a cold--her bangs had been cut for the first time yesterday, so I could see her eyes--her gray-green-blue starburst eyes. The children were really enthusiastic about celebrating her, and we decided to make french toast, not start school after all (it was a Monday), and have a cozy day. Silas and Pippa helped me make the cake--and begged for taste after taste of batter! After which I eventually sent them out of the kitchen. A baker has to focus!<br />
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It was hard fore me to insist on Silver's nap, as she really didn't want to take i, but better a happy party girl than a grumpy one, and sleep makes happy.<br />
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We had a little tea party when she woke up, which was quickly followed by dinner because Thomas came home from work. We ate the good leftovers from all I had cooked for "crazy cooking day" yesterday.<br />
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Then--to finish the cake! I had cut the cake into two layers and put a butter cream in the middle, but the top layer was whipped cream and gelatin for stability, and we colored it pink and sprinkled on some really OLD chocolate covered sunflower seeds we'd found in the back of the cupboard--stale but colorful!<br />
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Silver, in a party dress, was so delighted with it and with her present--a new "bathing baby" doll--they played with it for a long time after dinner--Golden helping her get the water into the little tub--she's such a sweet big sister.<br />
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Then we watched a nature show all together in the big bed. By the way, they are really into the soundtrack from the movie Trolls and one of the songs in particular, even Silver practically knows by heart. She sings with gusto, " I WILL GET BACK UP AGAIN!"<br />
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We are so happy to have this sparkly one in our lives and home. May this next year be full of growth and the Holy Spirit for her. Angels. Keep her safe, Father, show her she can trust you.<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-61305205751203810322017-01-01T04:48:00.000-08:002018-03-25T14:06:00.929-07:00The Funnies, October/ November/ December 2016Sparrow, age 10: "I'm definitely an emotional eater. ...But I only get emotional when I'm hungry." -Oct. 12<br />
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Silver said "actually" at 21 mos old. haha.<br />
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She also says lots of things with a "P" at the beginning. "Nunu pime," for example, instead of nunu time.<br />
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Silas, age 6: The best way of going to sleep is by warmness, and closing my eyes. And thinking of stuff." ~Oct. 8<br />
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Pippa, age 4: "The light is so pretty right now, it looks like God." -Oct. 12<br />
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Sparrow, age 10: "I'm definitely an emotional eater. Thing is, I'm usually only emotional cause I'm hungry." -Oct. 13<br />
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Golden (age 8), breaking into tears because she accidentally let our as yet un-spayed cat outside after dark.<br />
Pippa, saltily, "Hope she hasn't gone out MATING!"<br />
Indeed, child. Indeed. ~Oct. 16<br />
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Pippa, 4, talking at 100 miles an hour, "I PUT stuff under my pillow, and then when I wake up, every time, and check, it keeps DISSING appear!" -Oct. 16<br />
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Heard myself saying: "Well maybe if we put bacon in it, it will make people want to eat it." ...Which I then realized is the motto of Southern cooking! -Oct. 19<br />
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Pippa, age 4: "Mom? I had my alone time on the trash can today."<br />
Me: :Oh yeah? What did you do on the trash can?"<br />
Pippa: "I was trying to kill my pumpkin." -Oct. 21<br />
(Sure enough, later, Thomas told me when he had come home from work, he's found Pippa sitting on top of the large outdoor trash can, stabbing her little pumpkin with a knife!)<br />
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The other day I asked Silas after his reading lesson, "Can you make a sentence with the words 'am' and 'seat'?"<br />
Si: "What's a sentence?"<br />
Me: "A complete thought. A whole idea."<br />
Si: "OK... So... you know the little white chair? If you turn it upside down and put a rubber band between two of the legs, it makes a catapult. And--AM--reminds me of HAM. --So if you put a piece of HAM into it, you can CATAPULT the ham." -Oct. 24 (the brain of a child who has not been raised on workbooks!)<br />
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Silas: "I can't wait for Halloween AND Christmas!"<br />
Pippa: "Yeah, AND the dentist!!!" -Oct. 25<br />
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Golden and Pippa were discussing something and I felt like I had to correct them on some point or other.<br />
Golden: "Mom! We're playing a pretend game!"<br />
Pippa, to Golden: "Yeah, and I'm pretending you're not in the game." ~Oct. 28<br />
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I am journaling in bed, but out in the living room it sounds like a trading floor! The children are shouting "gob stoppers!" "Smarties!" "Who wants whoppers?" Yup. Trading trunk or treat candies like Wall Street pros. -Oct. 30<br />
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Pippa: "Sparrow! Someone tooted!"<br />
Sparrow: "Oh. Is that so. How do you know?"<br />
Pippa: Because I smelled tootish stuff. And stinky stuff." ~Nov. 1<br />
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At Costco, Silver was sitting in the shopping cart and Silas and Pippa were around the corner. I slowly started pushing the cart, and suddenly Silver yelled out with force, in her hoarse little voice (she had a cold):<br />
"SON!!!"<br />
She was calling Silas, the way she's heard me call him a hundred times! Then again:<br />
"Son! Son~NY!!" ~Nov. 1<br />
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Silas was the cutest that night. He snuggled up in Sparrow and Golden's bed and asked Sparrow if she wanted to "talk about stuff like what we'll play tomorrow." He looked so happy. ~Nov. 1<br />
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Silas: "The only fun thing about pants is throwing them up in the air and catching them." ~Nov. 13<br />
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Pippa praying for the food: "I pray this food would make us big and strong, and that volcanoes wouldn't explode or that the devil wouldn't be bad, Amen." -Nov. 14<br />
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Poop on the floor.<br />
But at least we saved a diaper!!! -Nov. 17<br />
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Pippa, to Silver, "Stop it, you're NERVOUSING me!!!" -Nov. 22<br />
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"Do you know what twice means? Two times. Do you know what thrice means? Super fast." -Pippa Nov. 23<br />
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Silas, age 6: "If you want a burned turkey, buy a turkey at the store, and then burn it."<br />
Thank you, son. Always with the helpful tips. -Nov. 29</div>
Pippa: "When is the world gonna end?"<br />
Me: "Nobody knows but God."<br />
Silas, age 6: "<em>I</em> know. When the WAR ends. You know which war? The war of history, World War Two, and the Civil War." ~Dec. 2<br />
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On the way over, Pippa explained to me why it was so cold today. "It's cause all the DIRTY wind is coming from here, and the CLEAN wind is pushing it back." -Dec. 15<br />
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Pippa, 4: "I know why it's illegal to drink in the car, mom. Cause when you drink, it really makes you go pee in the car, and that's why it's illegal." -Dec. 17<br />
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Pippa licked all the frosting off all the cake today, painted her own nails, and scattered Candyland all over the floor. All before 8:30 AM. I love that child fiercely. - Dec. 21Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-6835220355578385532016-09-08T20:17:00.000-07:002017-08-30T06:13:04.470-07:00Silas' 6th Birthday and Some AnecdotesI just saw Silas at the library playing with another boy. He was chasing the younger boy around, silently. Every now and then the other boy would RUN to the shelf and pullout a book or a few books and throw them on the floor. And every time he did, Silas would go over and put the book back into the shelf. And then the little boy would do it again. And Silas would silently pick it up and reshelve again. Then the book chunks started getting bigger and bigger. Next time the boy ran over to pull books out, Silas stood in front of him and said, "don't mess up the books." The boy got a little upset with him. But Silas stood firm. -July 18, 2016<br />
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Us: "Silas, would you like a little brother?"<br />
Silas: "No. ...I can play with my sisters now." June 2016<br />
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BUT HE'S GETTING ONE!<br />
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(Continued 2-07-17) It's been such a long time since I journaled on here! I wanted to relate about Silas, and his turning six, and Golden, and her turning 8. We'll do Silas in this post, even though his birthday is later, because I already related two summer anecdotes about him above!<br />
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Silas' birthday was a home day. Thomas had the car at work, so we were home bound, but auntie Martina had sent him $50 and I had bought him a few presents, the most memorable of which was a 50-pc set of crayola colored pencils. We ALL fell in love with them! And spent most of the day in fact on my bed coloring! Silas was being really generous and sharing them.<br />
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Later we had a party at the Mariners Museum! The Thompsons were able to come and so were Mrs. Crowder and Asher. We had baked a cake and decorated it with blue frosting and fruits that the girls made into boat-shapes! It was a HOT day and I feared the icing would melt--it was whipped-cream based--but it didn't and I think Silas had a good time.<br />
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Silas, you are beautiful. Thank you for being so sincere, and so willing to help--you have a great attitude about that, and it shows your heart of gold. I love that you love the outdoors and animals so much (animals are your favorite thing in the world), and I love your enthusiasm about dinosaurs. Haha--I know I will someday miss you going into "T-rex mode." You are serious and funny and sweet and still Smiley Silas. What an amazing gift you have been to me and Daddy, for six whole years now. I pray you grow in wisdom and faith this year--that you would find strength when you need it, believe in the angels God has placed around you, that you would find comfort when you need it, and encouragement and hope. You are doing so good. Thank you too, for being my enthusiastic trash-bag replacer. You have no idea what a help that is! I love you like crazy. I can't wait to take you to the jungle! Love, Mama<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-30914349656366653252016-08-31T20:57:00.000-07:002017-08-30T06:12:33.701-07:00Golden's 8th BirthdayGolden the Golden.<br />
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This will be addressed to you directly.<br />
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You're precious, wise, thoughtful. I love your sensitive spirit. You're hilarious, original, and such an amazing artist. You're a really good friend and I love seeing you interact with people. You've been a delight for eight whole years! Don't hesitate! God made you powerful and smart and capable. I pray for the strength and wisdom to keep building you up in your identity in God. You are a true jewel in the world, Golden. Always believe you can do anything.<br />
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On your birthday we went to Whole Foods for breakfast with Daddy.<br />
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Several days later we had your party at the Fort Eustis Aquatic Center which has a fun pool and a slide! Miss Genie came with Genevieve and Rachel and several of her older children and it was super fun! </div>
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Although I have to say, I was wrestling with that dang cat cake for FOREVER and I made us really late, and I was so stressed that I yelled a lot, and for that I am sorry. I hope that part is erased from your brain. I love you so much. May you grow as a healer and a seer this year. May you know your identity as in Christ beyond anything else, and may it give you amazing confidence! </div>
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Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-73276353753850635272016-07-11T14:08:00.004-07:002016-07-11T14:08:51.299-07:00Fear is Like the Daddy Long LegsI just observed a daddy long legs--a big one--crawling off the rail to thes side of me as I sat on the front step at Hidden Hollow Homestead (which is seemingly our summer home). He came out from behind my coffee cup and gangled his awkward strings of legs up over the white wood rail, moving the sharp mouth-pincers about in a nervous way.<br />
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He looked a fright. Those yellow pincers, sharp; and would they inflict a bite, or poison into the skin? His ghastly overlong legs shivering through space. How they would feel on the back of my neck... He looked like fear itself.<br />
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And then I realized: fear itself is exactly like this spider. Shaky, ugly, inducing the shivers. Hungry yellow mandibles, and looking like a formidable adversary. And yet--afraid himself, with very little power--no power, in fact, to do damage to me. The power of fear is only that which is given to it by those that actually do have power--the children of God. And when we forget that we are the powerful ones, the "most frightening things in this place" (paraphrase from Robinson Crusoe, a passage of literature that has changed my life), that's when we look at fear and get all a-shiver. How ugly it is! How menacing! And how, then, we cower before something that is nothing but an ugly, impotent spider, that knows in its very body that it is meant to die, and exists only to get a last meal in the shadows before it is found out and ultimately smashed.<br />
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Fear is nothing but a fear. I will not fear a fear.Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-20567936192628343622016-06-07T05:21:00.000-07:002016-06-14T06:15:45.916-07:00A Golden Evening Experienced Through Real EyesI have to write this down, because it is a momentous day. Pippa learned how to correctly pronounce "girl." She has called it "GORE," ever since she learned how to talk. It is a bittersweet moment. We keep teasing her, "No, it's gore!"<br />
"No, it's not, it's 'girl.'"<br />
I tell her, "Who told you?! Who taught you about girls?!?"<br />
Pippa, without missing a beat, responds, "God."<br />
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Silver was adorable personified today. She was trying to jump in the living room with Silas this morning. It was like a beautiful slow-motion indie video. In the filtered morning light in the brown room on the humble wooden floor, she danced. Up went one leg, bent knee out, up went her hands as she tried to use them for momentum. Then down. Then, deliberately, carefully but enthusiastically, UP! And softly back down.<br />
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This evening was unearthly beautiful. The air was saturated in golden light radiating from a sun setting in a splendor of heavenly marigolds. The clouds, a moody mixture of dark gray and orange, split here and there to reveal a brilliant crystal blue above. Everything seemed clearer, sharper, and unreal.<br />
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The light hit the maple and lit up all the leaves for a few minutes, turning it into a fantasy tree of quivering gold and green geometry. We lay there, on the picnic blanket, getting lost in the dizzy hugeness of the sky from this perspective. It was surprisingly cool outside. The breeze blew a steady, gentle freshness whole scene. At one point it started to rain. Silver drops coming down and blessing us like showers of jewels.<br />
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The children saw the first fireflies of the season, and chased them with awe and delight until well past the velvet dusk, naming them things like "Glow-Glow, but Glow for short," and Harold, and bringing them to me as I sat on the front step, drinking in all the visual poetry with every part of my being.<br />
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Silver, dressed in nothing but jeans, found Silas' brown John Deere baseball cap, put it on, and tottered over to me, saying, "hat, hat!"<br />
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For once, I let the camera lie still in the house. I needed the moment, I needed to lock in on it with my soul, experience it undiluted instead of through the eye of the shutter.<br />
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Yesterday, I also took my moment. I have been trying to slow down again and breathe moments of beauty as used to be so easy to me when I was younger and not so... responsible. Worrying about the bills isn't going to pay them. It seems helpful to worry about them, but it's really counterproductive. I still get to slow down, I still get to enjoy, I still get to be a presence-person. God said He would provide all our needs.<br />
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I had been to an exercise class after 3 or 4 days of feeling very dizzy. When I came home, Thomas had built a large fire with thick parts of the trees he's been cutting down in the yard. The fire pulsed and popped and sparked like some live alien trying to communicate a fierce message of love.<br />
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The children had roasted hot dogs and marshmallows already and were inside, but I stole a moment and slipped outside with four marshmallows, and squatted by the fire, my old familiar place, the smell bringing me back to 27 years ago, to a tiny adobe village in the Albarradas mountains of Mexico...<br />
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And tonight, as I sang "How He loves us, Oh," and played on the guitar, Silver sang with me, "Let it go!!"<br />
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Close enough.Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-9205216674406485202016-05-18T06:33:00.003-07:002016-05-18T06:33:48.577-07:00Pippa's Fourth BirthdayPippa,<br />
You're a little genius.<br />
Pippa,<br />
You're strong.<br />
Pippa,<br />
You're original.<br />
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Pippa is a combination of rainbow and TNT. The girl has ideas. The girl has energy. A lot of energy.<br />
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We were awestruck that this little thing is turning four already, and celebrated it at home with much gusto. Pippa celebrates everything with gusto. Gusto is her middle name.<br />
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I love the way she dresses herself.<br />
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I love the way she does manual labor in a princess dress.<br />
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And her bravery of deciding to get her ears pierced. The girl was determined AND decided on her course of action. Perhaps a little surprised, when she found the first side hurt, but she still went through with it and is as proud as ever.<br />
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And... the Mahnkens came over on her birthday! Boom. Seven extra children makes a party if I ever saw one. I love that Veronica took on the trip right before their huge California road trip. And it was the first time she had driven their behemoth van such a great distance, and the first time she had come over without the hubs. I salute her. Bonfires and park days and Old Navy trips galore! (Just kidding. It was two days. There was only one instance of each of those.)<br />
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Anyways. Pippa. This firecracker birthday girl.<br />
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Always look up to Jesus. He is excited about you. He is close to you. He will never leave you. He has great things for you. You will lead people with your voice. The way you love to recite scripture and sing is just beautiful. Your voice has power to effect change in the earth. You know that! Proverbs 18:21 is one of your favorites, and you committed it to memory really quickly. Your voice is a special gift that was notable from the day you were born, and I can't wait to see what happens with it as you hone it, as you use it in the presence of God, as you bend and discipline your will for the purpose of power and love and a sound mind. You've got this! God's in you! I am so blessed to be your mommy. You have made me an extra level of rich.<br />
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Love, Mama<br />
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Here's Pippa reciting Proverbs 18:21, just before her fourth birthday:<br />
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She's going places. With Jesus!Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-44725796149863358442016-04-20T06:49:00.000-07:002016-06-14T06:14:52.753-07:00Sparrow's Tenth BirthdayMy girl, the one who made me a mother. She was ten this month and I'm still trying to catch up in my mind to the fact that I am a mother at all, still trying to grasp how my love of another human being, my husband, could have made this new thing, this whole person with a huge everlasting soul, and she tells me she is already ten, and could she please buy a Kindle with her birthday money this year. She's the one who cries over disappointments but also with compassion, who flares up quickly and then loves you so passionately the next moment that all is forgotten. There is so much of me in her. So much of her in me by now, it's impossible to think of another path for this journey I call my life.<br />
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And she? How is her life? is it joyous and hopeful and exciting? One hopes that in God's mercy she is remembering the evenings snuggled on the bed reading, the impromptu trips in the car, the friends invited over for bonfires. One hopes that the mother's stress, the oft disappointments of things we have to say no to, the recurring frustrations as we work out chores and habits in an ever-changing family, will be gently erased off the essence of her memories.<br />
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She is awe in a capsule. Her ability to see another's trouble, to quickly repent, and her love for her sisters and brothers... they are extraordinary. Her insight into people and sensitivity to their intentions and desires... make her a constantly interesting person to talk to. I like her AND I love her. Her love for Shakespeare and chemistry--yes, even at ten--they make me stand back and attempt to take a breath and hold on tight because she's a tangled ponytail in my house one day, but will be changing the boundaries of the earth tomorrow. She will yet teach me more than I know. My ceiling is her floor.<br />
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Last night, as I was walking through this old house...<br />
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I go from the front to the back. Checking on the party of girls who have come to gather to celebrate her life. In our home. There they are, gathered around. Friends. They giggle, playing the yucky jelly bean game and filling these halls that were empty for three years with the untainted laughter of youth. That youth that thinks it will live forever. Or knows it will. Outside, the embers of the bonfire are glowing their last warm glimmers. It starts to sprinkle. A cool, Virginia spring rain, giving magic food to the budding irises. Walking through the kitchen, the sink is clean, because I have wiped it. Because it is mine, and there were all those times when we didn't have a sink. I remember washing dishes in bath tubs, and in borrowed rooms. I love my dominion in the kitchen. I pass under the festive birthday flags and down the hall, to peek in on the baby in the large nursery with walls of blue. The lights of the star lamp are scattered all over the ceiling and walls, casting over the room a glow that sings its own kind of lullaby. Her dreams will be joyous and unmarred. She sleeps in the crib we have used for the last four babies and brought with us from across the country. Her sheets smell fresh because I washed them today. I remember too, years without washers and dryers. Laundry is my joy. I pass into the back room, where Thomas has fallen asleep with the middle and the elder little. They are pressing into him one on each side. The four year old has her hand across his chest, she knows she takes care of us all. He is completely blissful and breathing like a steady tide. This is what he always wanted. Redemption. I pray with them and kiss them goodnight. As I turn away, I can't recognize the odd feeling I have, here, on these old wood floors, and suddenly I know it: it's the feeling called being home.<br />
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Even in these tattered walls, paint half done, insulation so-so... Even in this unremarkable suburb, where things are close by, but communion with nature is further away than my childish soul would like to remember... we have come home.<br />
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And Sparrow? Here you are, growing into a lady before our eyes. You are beautiful. Thank you for always being more than willing to help. I trust you for many things, and you are through and through a delightful and trustworthy girl. You are learning so well. You are loving so well. Your intentions are gold. I love your fun-loving ways, your humor, how we can share and appreciate stories together. I love to watch your eyes, pure and innocent. You have such a strong sense of duty, and I want to tell you that I appreciate that so much. It is going to grow into good friendships, good wifehood, and good motherhood (if you choose to get married of course!).Your heart is being held by God, and I pray you know that fact more deeply than anything else you know about yourself. Your purpose is to be yourself in God! Can't wait to see what you do this next year! So excited we get to be here with you, watching you!<br />
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This past year, let's think about some of the fun stuff we did:<br />
-Lived with the Stroupes for two months<br />
-Visited the Mahnkens a LOT of times<br />
-Went to Busch Gardens in the summer<br />
-Celebrated Cow Appreciation Day<br />
-Moved into our new house<br />
-Went to Maymont in the fall<br />
-Went to Ikea with Miss Genie<br />
-Went to the Smithsonian in Washington DC with Miss Genie<br />
-Sang at the church talent show<br />
-Had our first Christmas at our own home<br />
-Planted flowers in our own yard (you got snapdragons!)<br />
-Planted strawberries and blueberries<br />
-Read "Twelfth Night" together<br />
-Got a King-sized bed and had many reading evenings on it!<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-11582091822413775932016-03-29T12:04:00.001-07:002016-03-29T12:04:53.347-07:00Golden, on her Seventh Birthday<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
I love that little Golden is seven. She came out in four hours start to finish, and stole my heart right from the beginning. She is subtle, graceful, a little shy. Hilarious. She makes up the craziest dances! Her humor comes out like surprising little rainbow-colored bubbles, escaping from a pool of serene thought and beauty.<br />
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The feeling I have when thinking about Golden is a deep feeling of joy in my chest and stomach. It is calm. It makes me want to cry. She's a treasure and she's true to her name. I'm feeling from the Holy Spirit that Golden's destiny is to be a wellspring of wisdom, soothing those in her presence. She brings otherworldliness onto a room, but with a compassionate grace. She elevates. She lives in beauty. Her childlikeness, and her appreciative nature, cause others to see the present moment as a drop of treasure and to value the life they are in.<br />
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Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-61601879697730954942016-01-31T06:06:00.000-08:002017-08-19T20:22:01.009-07:00Silver's First BirthdayIt has been four months since the event, and this mama is determined to get back into the family record-keeping aspect of blogging which is why she started this blog in the first place.<br />
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So better late than never.<br />
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Silver's first year was crazy and wonderful. She wasn't crazy. Our circumstances were sometimes crazy. She was pure wonderful.<br />
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Birth: January 9th, 2015<br />
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Loved by all siblings. Came home January 11th to all four siblings, a dad, and grandparents from Germany who were there specifically to welcome her into the world.<br />
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For months she just slept and nursed, slept and nursed. Sweetly, so sweetly.<br />
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Around three months she started batting at the hanging toys over her bouncy chair. glory of glories. There is always great rejoicing.<br />
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There was turning over, then rocking, sitting up, and crawling.<br />
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First solid food, around six months, in the upstairs room of our friend's house where we were staying in between houses... Her first solid food was squash from our friend's garden.<br />
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She first stood up at seven months.<br />
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We moved into our first home (that we owned!) when she was just over seven months old. Her first real home.<br />
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Took first steps around 12 months.<br />
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It took til 13 months til she was really walking.<br />
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She is a gorgeous little being, sweet and excited.<br />
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In the winter, Thomas found an old tiny little Elmo in our attic of our new home. He brought it down and I just nodded toward the trash can. It was cheap and dusty and of questionable origin. But Silver! I remember she was wearing green flannel footie pajamas handed down from her brother (with trucks on them, thank you, she's the fifth child...) And she just flipped over love for this elmo thing when she saw it! She screamed with such energy when Thomas threw it in the trash, that we fished it out, cleaned it, and now it is one of her most beloved toys.<br />
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Oh Silver.<br />
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Her first birthday was spent at home with the siblings. I made her fruity muffins in the morning, then we bought her a beautiful fruity cake at Whole foods to have with dinner that night.<br />
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Silver--how God has blessed you. How He has blessed us in giving you to us. The perfect addition, a spunky, sweet, and amazing being that brings more laughter into our home every day. Thank you for being you and showing us more of God.<br />
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You are my earliest to attempt to sing.<br />
You are my earliest to attempt to dance.<br />
You are my earliest to start kissing us!<br />
You are my only one to care about fashion so young. Haha! When I put a new outfit on you, you parade down the hall proudly to show the rest of the family and are all smiles under their praise.<br />
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We love you, Silver. All my heart, Mama<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-44299008998213443622016-01-04T13:49:00.001-08:002016-01-04T13:49:40.402-08:00Unexercised and UnshoweredYou know, for somebody who wakes up early and spends the morning hours working, and doesn't turn her attentions to home and family until 9:30AM and then is starting from scratch...<br />
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And puts things like "exercise" and "shower" on her to-do lists...<br />
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And then finds herself at 3PM still unexercised and unshowered, perhaps I should just lower my expectations.<br />
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Maybe my to-do lists should say things like "brush teeth." And "get out of pajamas." Then little victories might snowball into great ones.<br />
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You might tell me "get up earlier."<br />
"Just exercise first thing in the morning."<br />
or<br />
"For God's sake, give yourself a break and get some help."<br />
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You get up earlier. You do it first thing in the morning. You get some help. I am more than willing to hire a housekeeper... after we get all our bills covered. I've noticed that if I leave the work,the work that pays actual money, for any later than first thing in the morning, it doesn't get done. Too many variables. And by variables I mean children.<br />
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"Can't your husband help?"<br />
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No. He can't.<br />
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It's really all on me. I just don't know how to do it all. It's more than one person can humanly do.<br />
Bear the children<br />
take care of the children<br />
feed the children<br />
educate the children<br />
work<br />
take care of the house management<br />
take care of bills<br />
clean<br />
cook<br />
shop<br />
and take care of self.<br />
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Too much. I quit. Stuff is gonna be dirty, y'all.<br />
I am not doing it all. I am not going to be on time. I am not going to apologize. Y'all can ask me to be on time when you come over and help me get my stuff done. When you babysit my five children. Sure! Ok, ok, enough with the cynicism. That's enough. In 2016, I'm going to continue planting and cultivating my little seeds:<br />
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My children are the most amazing people on the planet.<br />
We are called to be a sign and a wonder.<br />
We are here to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.<br />
He loves us.<br />
I am a writer.<br />
My words have the power of life.<br />
I can do this.<br />
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So scratch what I said about not being able to do it. I mean, I can't do it all, not all THAT. But I can do what's MOST important.<br />
And that includes breathing.<br />
And laughing.<br />
And changing the world.<br />
Hang the fact that there's dust under the bed and I haven't unpacked from the weekend trip.<br />
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I taught Golden a math lesson IN BED today. Cause we can. Cause it's cold.<br />
I took care of the babies and fed everyone twice.<br />
And did my morning work.<br />
I did not do it all with style and grace but some of it did come off well. I never thought I'd say this. EVER. But math was the funnest part of my day.<br />
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Then I--FINALLY!--got in the shower and tested God in His Malachi 3 promise. I think I shouted til I was hoarse. So we'll see what happens with that. I also asked Him to prevent me from hitting actual insanity. And prayed for some people who are dear to me.<br />
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Now off to finish making the dinner. And finish the home school. And wash the breakfast dishes.<br />
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I love my life!Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-30910838915453934632015-12-28T20:49:00.002-08:002016-01-04T12:58:55.034-08:00Coming HomeWriting in this little space feels like coming home.<br />
I can be simple here.<br />
I don't have to worry about traffic. Or being profound.<br />
I just get to talk about the lights in my day, the little children that I spend the most time with.<br />
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They say you are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with. So there you have it. I am a simple child.<br />
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Silver will be a year old in two weeks. She is completely delightful. Cuddly. Curious. I'm so glad I had her. We all delight in her every day.<br />
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Her new thing is saying "WUH," when she thinks something is astounding or cool.<br />
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She is walking a bit.<br />
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She is dancing a bit.<br />
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She is smiling a lot.<br />
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Words: Thank you (her first word besides mama, dada!), I love you, yes mama.<br />
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She got a keyboard for Christmas and she love sit so much she stands on top of it, cause what you love you must conquer.<br />
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I have been eating way too much German chocolate.<br />
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Sparrow has been listening to stories on the Kindle and trying to remember to brush her hair every day.<br />
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Golden draws. And does funny dances.<br />
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Silas loves to do fun things. I think he needs a boy in his life. He told me today, "Thanks for wiping me, mom," Cause I sometimes still wipe his bum. Cause I'm the mom. And I said, "No problem, it's my job." And he said, "Yeah, that you get money for it?" (I am paraphrasing... the way he said it was so cute and I can't remember how it went!) "Yes. Yes I do get money for it," I said. Cause God pays me. That's what.<br />
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Pippa, she's... all or nothing. And usually, it's ALL. The only time it's nothing is when she's sleeping. And even then, she throws herself off bunk beds or pees on the mattress. She ate all her advent chocolates early and then started on everyone else's. She spills water on purpose. Sits on the table. Takes crackers into the class room and crumbles them all over the desk like it's her job. Draws all over my calendar. Erases my to-do lists. And then smiles like this: That girl, with proper training (help me, God!) and proper inspiration (help me, God!) will be a great forerunner someday. She's got this.<br />
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I love my job. The year is drawing to a close and I have to think seriously about what my priorities are and how to arrange my life so that it will work. We are so blessed. But some of the aspects aren't working together quite right at the moment. It's a puzzle. God is a good puzzle solver. He told me today to approach my life with unfaltering trust.<br />
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So I go out of this one and into that one, knowing I can trust Him. Unfaltering trust.<br />
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<br />Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159147753127350670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340429277052095089.post-1110081201804701072015-08-20T05:29:00.001-07:002017-08-08T16:40:51.091-07:00To Silas, on His Fifth BirthdaySilas, the smiley one.<br />
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Is it true that you are five already? And is it possible that you are still mine?<br />
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You had a beautiful year digging in the dirt and chasing snakes and turtles and frogs. Out in the yard you would run and dig. Scraped knee, tick bit, dirty charcoal face. Digging worms in puddles. Watching tadpoles.<br />
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You learned to ride your bike! At age four! And you would ride it up the little hill, and down! You had dreams about pirates. You admired the moon. You walked with me and dwelt with me and listened to the stories I read and attacked your dad when he came home and ate lots of German pancakes and were the best son a mother could wish for.<br />
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I love you with unearthly love. You are a boy growing in wisdom. Conscientious. Sweet. Surprising. God is watching you, putting His word into you. You are a man of God.<br />
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Happy birthday, little racer!<br />
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