People joke about kids making that statement when they go as a family on a trip. We left Monday on a trip and it was less than 30-minutes down the road when one of them asked the question. I thought this was way too early for a five-hour trip. It became an about every 20 [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Today Lucia was making smoothies for our kids. This is an almost daily occurrence for the fam. My kids, plus this big kid, loves Lucia’s smoothies. She keeps a regular stock of frozen bananas in the freezer in the garage and a few frozen strawberries or blueberries or mango or whatever mixed with some apple [...]
Okay, we’re hooked. We started watching the The Biggest Loser last year and now we’re hooked. Tuesday night family time is watching some very large people lose weight. It actually is quite motivating. I only had one handful of popcorn tonight, while watching the latest episode and my family had only one bag. We’re making [...]
A number of years ago Lucia and I had the privilege to spend a week in Hawaii. It was beyond belief. It was drop-dead gorgeous! While we were there we visited with a friend who turned us on to some Hawaiian music, particularly Brother IZ. His real name is Israel Kamakawiwo`ole. He is one of the [...]
It’s a Girl! …and a Boy! …and another Boy!!
Posted: September 17, 2008 by RickThomasNet in Our Family…and 10 more to go!!! Tristen came running into my office this morning with the big news. The caterpillar collection we bought two weeks ago are now hatching into beautiful Monarch Butterflies. We watched them all form their chrysalises a little over a week ago. This morning they began the coming out process. The Monarchs were shriveled [...]
Tristen dictated this story to her friend Brooke, who kindly penned it for her. Brooke, who has kept the kids in the past, wanted to stop by to see them again. It’s been awhile since they’ve hooked up. She is so kind. She is a full-time student at North Greenville, but wanted to spend time [...]
Last night we had our whole family together for a meal, including Miss Emily and Miss Christa. Emily had made a hu-mon-go tub of potato soup. So we had lots of soup and cheese and it was very good. As we were about to pray over the food Haydn asked if he could pray. He’s [...]
We bought the kids 13 caterpillars this past week, plus an aquarium from craigslist, a stand and a bunch of plants that came with the caterpillars. Needless to say the caterpillars have been the topic of discussion for my kids and the point of focus for friends who have visited. On Monday Lucia sat up [...]
Today is known in our home as “Daddy’s Day Off.” The kids are not sure if it is Monday or Friday or Wednesday. It doesn’t matter what other name you call it. For them it’s Daddy’s Day Off. This particular day off happens to be Lucia’s first Monday of the month administrative day, which means [...]
