Wordless Wednesday

Out of the mouth of babes

So this morning while Abby and I were eating breakfast she told me what she really wanted. She said “Mommy I really want you to have another baby” After I almost spit out my food I tried to rationalize with her and I spoke the most profound words ever:
“WHAT?!? Abby you don’t even get along with the brother that you have, why would I want to have another one?”
She then told me that she wants me to have a girl baby and maybe she would get along with her. The key words are girl and maybe. Nothing is a guarantee. Sorry punky but your mommy isn’t having any more babies. You can beg, plead and promise to get along with her but it still won’t work. I should have told her to show me that she can get along with Andrew and then I would think about having another baby. But that would just be wrong, I guess.

The Circus is Coming to Town

Well, more correctly, the circus came to town and we were there to see it. Last year I took the kids by my self because Marty was in Ohio, this year he got to experience it with us. And boy was it an experience. I love the circus all of it; the popcorn, the clowns, the cotton candy. Let me tell you about the cotton candy. So we all know that cotton candy is only sugar. Well, we must have had the golden sugar or something because a bag of the sugared gold (ok so it came with a hat also) was $12.00. Yes, you read that right and yes we got some. We are such suckers!! The kids had a blast and so did all the parents. We went with 2 other couples and their kids and I’m not sure who enjoyed it more.

Playing dress-up- well not Andrew

The kids

Asia the elephant painting her masterpiece.

The Masterpiece

My very own clowns

Foto Friday

Like Father Like Son

Andrew was so cute yesterday at church. I always go get the kids during the invitation because they like to hear the music and they feel included. The service we go to is contemporary and has a band instead of an orchestra/choir. The music was really upbeat yesterday and Andrew and I were singing (me more than him but he likes to try) Andrew looked me just as serious as he could and said “Mommy, I wish I would have brought my guitar” It was precious, he wanted to be on stage playing his guitar with the rest of the band. He truly believed that had he had his guitar he could have been up there playing away. A few minutes later he said “I wish daddy bring his drums too and we play together” Watch out world Andrew has aspirations, even at the tender age of 2.

Wordless Wednesday

Little girls can be so not nice.

I will start this post by saying that I know my little girl has had her not so nice moments. But I saw something the other day that broke my heart. I was walking Abby into school one morning last week and I saw a girl in her class (here forth named C). Abby didn’t notice her thankfully but C gave Abby the dirtiest meanest look I have ever seen. Believe me I have seen many, ok so I have even given a few in my day. I had to look around to see if the look was intended for anyone else, but no one was near. Later in the day I asked Abby if she and C play together. She said “no, C only plays with B” (another girl in their class) I then asked if she and C were friends and she again told me no, then she said that C wasn’t nice to her sometimes. Really, it’s already starting? Aren’t they too little for this? I know the answer to that but I am not ready for the heartbreak I’m sure will come Abby’s way someday. Why can’t everyone just get along?

On a sweet note, there’s a little boy in Abby’s class that has a crush on her (I mean hey, why wouldn’t he). I was talking to his mom this morning and told her that Abby will be at his birthday party this weekend. The whole class was invited but she told me that he didn’t want to invite anyone else to his party, only Abby. She would name off names and he would say, no only Abby. Even if we did have other plans, I would rearrange them to make sure Abby was at his party, it’s obviously important to him.

Andrew's boo-boo

Andrew told Marty that his boo-boo was all gone from his hand. Marty asked where it went and Andrew said matter of factly:
God took it away.

Melts my heart.

Fiddler

Marty's playing with a guy tonight named Fiddler. Seriously, only in Nashville.

Wordless Wednesday. . .Christmas card out takes

The busy moms lifesaver

A few months ago I felt like I was in a cooking rut. I was making the same meals every week with little variation or we would go out to eat. Don’t get me wrong, I love to go out to eat but it was showing in our budget. Wow, it was really scary; we really like to eat out.
So in August I signed up to a meal planning website. I was very happy and didn’t have any complaints. But, just recently I found another website that I like even better. E-mealz is a really great website. First and foremost, it was started and is run by Christians. I like it because I can get 7 days of meals, although we don’t ever use all 7 days (a girls gotta eat out at least once a week) and I can also get a shopping list. The best part for me though is that I can pick what store I shop at and it will utilize the specials for that week, so I am also saving money. Big bonus!! It is $15.00 for 3 months ($12.50 if you use the coupon code DAVE, always trying to save money) but we can it that much worth at one sitting at McD’s. I feel like an infomercial but I really do like the meals and the program so I wanted to pass it along to others that might have fallen into the dinner time rut.

I'm back

After a wonderful and relaxing holiday vacation, I am now back. I feel like I haven't written anything in such a long time, oh wait I haven't. I went through a blogging funk. I just wasn't inspired and couldn't come up with anything blogworthy. I know you are all laughing because some of the silliness I have written about definitely hasn't been blogworthy. I also get really bogged down when I have a lot going on, I can't sort out what to write about. Too many things, so little time.
I am going to get into posting regularly again so get ready.