We gave mom the day off today since it was her birthday yesterday. After eight-years of being a mom, one day off seemed generous. So she took leave early this morning and dad was in charge of the kids. As you can imagine, that can make for an exciting day. However, before mom left, she [...]
Archive for the ‘Our Family’ Category
Urbanites version of being a country girl
Posted: August 24, 2009 by counselingsolutions in Our Family0
Haydn, my 5-year old, asked me the other night if he could sleep with his gun and bullets. Praise God!! I gave him the big thumbs up and an enthusiastic YES. Every man needs to sleep with his gun and bullets. It does a daddy’s heart good to know he wants to do that. I [...]
Ariel has no maple syrup & other extraneous notes
Posted: August 1, 2009 by counselingsolutions in Our FamilyTristen was so excited tonight about Ariel’s bath. Lucia put her (not Tristen) in the washing machine and gave her a good going over. Tristen announced tonight that she was so clean, no maple syrup and other accumulated things that Ariel had acquired over the past year. Ariel was not quite whiter than snow, but [...]
Today was national cow day or something like that at Chick-fil-A. The kids were up early and ready to go to breakfast with their friend, Samantha. Anybody who wears a cow outfit of their own making got a free meal. Lucia was up at midnight last night finishing up their costumes. Chick-fil-A was proactive enough [...]
We were coming home tonight from our Boot Camp exercise group and Tristen announced quite emotively that she had a loose tooth. I checked it out and found not just one, but two loose teeth. She was ecstatic. Her bottom two front teeth are quite shaky. They probably won’t make it through the weekend. She [...]
Before there was Twitter, there was Tritter
Posted: June 14, 2009 by counselingsolutions in Our FamilyWhen Tristen was born in ‘01 a close friend saw her and nicknamed her Tritter. The name has stuck. She is called Tristen, Tritter, Trit and Tritty. Most of her friends, who know her well, do call her Tritter. Her brother and sister call her some form of her name or nickname, depending on the [...]
Each month we make our way to Home Depot (first Sat) to do a building project. The kids have HD aprons and now a dozen or so nice pins representing each project of the month. Last month it was a birdhouse with a piece of plexiglass on the back so you can attach it to [...]
The other day Lucia took a nap while Ansa took her normal mid-afternoon nap. When Ansa awoke she was rubbing Lucia’s face and being playful in a just-woke-up-sedate-kind-of-way, she began rubbing Lucia’s forehead and noticed the wrinkles. She told mommy, “I want some of them.” And then she began to rub at the outer corners [...]
This pic shows Tristen just before she was to do her sections for AWANA. She was stressing. It was cute. It is the way we all get just before it’s “show time.” She did great. She did six sections. This was her first night to do sections, her third week in the AWANA Program. On [...]
