We go to Scott's Methodist church, and as we were leaving a few weeks ago, Jessie saw a bookmark on the table by the door. It had a rainbow cross on it. Loving the rainbow, she said, "What's this ( Read more... )

Alex is so funny. Touch is one of his love languages, and he "asks" for touch by picking on me so that I will tickle him, wrestling him to the ground and pinning him till he's gasping.

He calls me his "coo-coo Mom" and we're at it!

I love cracking her up ( Read more... )

Jessie had a friend over today, and they wanted to go to the park. So I invited Alex to go over as well to shoot some hoops. Now, I had two older brothers who played a lot of driveway basketball. I wasn't as good as they were by a long shot, but I didn't do too badly ( Read more... )

Honest to God, it's like someone turns on her mouth when she comes home and she's been saving words all day. I finally said to her just before dinner (fairly mean, actually, because when she's like this she's COMPLETELY oblivious to social graces), "Stop TELLING me about it and just go MAKE THE THING ( Read more... )

Jess cried and cried about having to have a shower, including (at 6:50) deciding that it should be a bath instead. "Nope," I said. "You could have done that before, but now it's too late. I'm starting the water. If you don't get in, the warm water will get used up and you'll end up having a cold shower ( Read more... )

The kids hosted "art contests" yesterday. These were my 30 minutes sketched entries. Each of them said I was the winner of their contest.

Woohoo! I'm an awarded artist! LOL

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Interesting ( Read more... )

Though the "audience" here in LJ land is ever-shrinking, this conversation I had yesterday with the kids was too fascinating not to record, so ( Read more... )

Jessie said to me, clearly puzzled, on Tuesday, "Logan doesn't celebrate Christmas." Now, I don't know Logan, never hear her talk about him. I gave the very brilliant parenting reply, "Oh ( Read more... )