Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Happy Anniversary!!!

So it's my beautiful Mothers Anniversary today, why is it just her Anniversary do you ask???
Let me Answer with this:

Happy 30th Anniversary of your 29th Birthday!!!!
My mom is sooooo loving me right now, I can feel it!

I have been wondering how to honor my mother on her special day, and my normal is to go on and on about what a wonderful, incredible person she is, how she is the most patient, loving, selfless, giving and forgiving person that I know, and how I would be so happy to be 1/10th of the Mother she is to my children and she was to me.  But in thinking back about past birthdays I could not get this story out of my head so it must be that I must share...............

When my mom was celebrating the 11th Anniversary of her 29th birthday, my Dad took her out to dinner with Aunt Pam and Uncle Ken and some of our neighbor's from our Roosevelt Days, so thus my big brother Justin was left to manage all us "little" children (why my mom ever left him in charge is still a mystery to me, anywho) I remember all of us being downstairs I am going to say peacefully watching TV because after all that is what my mom wants to hear right.  When all of a sudden we heard a noise upstairs, I remember all of us older kids trying to quiet the little kids down so we could hear what we just knew was a burglar in our home, we were trying to listen so we knew where this burglar was and what they might be stealing.  Justin being the "babysitter" decided that he would protect us all and snuck upstairs and grabbed one of my Dad's knives from the kitchen drawer, now for some of those who may not know my Dad was, is and will always be a butcher, so needless to say we always had BIG and SHARP butcher knives.  Once Justin came back downstairs with the knife we formulated a plan to go and make sure that this burglar left our home.  So Justin, Matt, Me and I am pretty sure Kari (but it could have been Erin because she was more likely to be braver than Kari) went upstairs, and room by room we searched for our burglar.  You can just imagine Justin and Matt being the big heroes and sneaking into the bedrooms and searching behind each door for our burglar, picture with my please....sneak, sneak, sneak (looking at each other and mouthing) you go that way, grabbing doors and with a quick humph and a HI-YA, yep that was us protecting our home!!!  So after every door, closet and room was thoroughly checked and cleared we started to head back to the basement when I happened to look on the Kitchen Table only to notice something was not right, as I got closer I saw the very thing that must have been the burglars reason for entering our home, what was it; a cake.  Someone in the neighborhood had brought over a cake, I am sure that they must have knocked and knocked they may have even rang the doorbell, and I will never know why us children who always behaved so well when my parents were gone couldn't hear them, until they walked in and put it on our kitchen table.  Well Mom I am glad for you that we all survived our harrowing night of the Birthday Burglar!!!   :) 


Happy Birthday Mom, I really do Love you!!!
(even though you did leave Justin in charge)

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Word Puzzle

So can you read this:

HiGis

The girls came into work with me for a little bit today and Lainee immediately grabbed the whiteboard markers and starts wiriting things on Scott's whiteboard.  As she started writing we both look up and saw that she wrote an H, and then the i, "Hi" when she added the Gis, I thought she was just writing random letters,  Scott on the otherhand asked her what she spelled and she says in her oh so cute voice, "Hi Guys!!!!!"  So totally funny, Love 1st grade phonetics!!!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

A new laughable line of Lainee's and a hopeful boy with a homeless brother.

So yesterday I was walking into the Grocery Store with shoeless Lainee in tow, and you know the times when your kids are talking and you are "uh-huh"ing and "yes"ing to them but really you are going through the gocery list in your mind because your forgot your paper grocery list at home.  Well needless to say it came to that point in the conversation where I was like "what???, what is she talking about and I was completely stupified at what she was telling me."  So I asked her to repeat herself, only I came up with a comepletely clever and wonderful way of asking so it seemed as if I was really listening to the whole conversation!!  She then began her story again, and just to speed it up a little she was telling me that Justin Bieber had gone to this girl's house because she said she was in love with him.  So I looked at Lainee a little confused and said, "I thought Justin was with Selena Gomez?"  "Mmmmoooooommmm", she said with an exasperated lilt, "They broke up, it has been all over the news, how did you not know this....."  "Well my little 6 year old sweetie, who goes to bed at 8:30 well before the news, I guess I am just behind the times!"  At this point in time I notice that there was a man walking beside us who heard this whole conversation, he just started laughing, and walked down the aisle next to the one we were heading down (I am sure to save me the embarassment of having to explain to him why I did not know this little factoid)!!! Gotta love Lainee!!!

Also last night Scott and I were talking to the kids and we were telling them that over the course of the next few months we would be changing their sleeping arrangements, largely due to the fact that Bradley and Zachary either are friends and want to talk and talk and laugh all night or they are enemies and want to fight and argue and punch each other all night, so we are going to be doing some remodeling and hopefully when all is said and done we will live in a house of peace and tranquility where all the inhabitants talk nicely to each other, use good manners, always keep their bedrooms nice and tidy, and most importantly go to bed when they are suppose to!!!!  Hey, it will happen you just watch!!!  Okay so fast forward to after dinner and a little before bed time, I walk into the boys' bedroom and I see Zachary with a basket of stuff and 3 drawers worth of treasures (*cough* crap *cough*) being sorted and carefully organized back into the drawers they just came out of.  So I asked him what he was doing, he didn't even look up at me or acknowledge that I was standing there, he just simply pointed at his treasures and said "I am going through my stuff and throwing away all the garbage and re-organzing my drawers, and putting my p.j.'s away." "Oh," I said.  "What is this basket for?"  "That is Bradley's stuff, I am moving him out!!!"  I kinda laughed because of the finality in which he spoke was funny.  So I had to re-iterate the fact that it was going to take more than a day, or week, or maybe even month, for us to be ready enough for Bradley to actually "move" out to his own room.  "Don't worry mom, I know, I am just going to be prepared for it whenever it happens!" Well okay then, that's that, I guess, I really hope Bradley doesn't mind being homeless for a while because I have a feeling that Zachary will have him all packed and ready to leave the nest by tonight!  :)