Babies

On New Year's Day, I got to meet my cousin's new baby girl...in a red tutu! Are you ready for this?


She was the happiest baby, she smiled all day long, and I got to hold that sweet baby for a long time (longer if my mom and sister didn't keep snatching her-lol). I love me some babies!

I got a little extra time this week with my baby because I got to walk him home from school (brother Jack usually walks him home, but he was home with the dreaded step).













He's not as little and he doesn't wear red tutus, but he'll do just fine :-)

Movie

Last night when the boys were playing a shoot-em-up game in the mancave, I was upstairs watching a great movie, Hope Floats. It is one of my faves. I love Sandra Bullock and especially Harry Connick Jr.! Matt joined me for the last half of the movie after the boys went to bed and witnessed lots of tears from me. You know, that movie is sad. Her dad is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's, her mom dies, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, her nephew was abandoned by his mother, her daughter is mad at her and got beat up at school by big Darlene, you get the picture? The part that sent me to the ugly cry was when the little girl, Bernice was chasing after her daddy's car and crying because he was leaving without her and didn't want her. She is just standing in the street with her little suitcase, crying. I know, so sad. Don't fret though, there are bright parts of the movie, mostly in the form of Harry. He is sunshine in the gloom and thank heavens for that. Matt asked me why I liked the movie if it made me cry. I really don't know, it's a girl thing I guess. It has a great ending, a happy ending and maybe that's why I like it. When good trumps the bad, I'm in.

Pledge

Today, my preschool students were asked why we say the pledge of allegiance.
A little boy with a slight speech impediment answered so sweetly and I had to share, please read it phonetically.
"We say da pwedge of awegence cuz it tews peepow we wove wiving in Amewica."
Translation: We say the pledge of allegiance because it tells people we love living in America.
Doesn't that just warm your heart?! So sweet.

Africa

A little boy in my preschool class came to school yesterday with a new shirt on with the world on it. I was talking to him about his shirt and he was showing me where we live and where Africa was and so on...I told him I had a cousin who lived in Sudan with his family. He asked if I had been to Africa to see him and why he lived there. I told him that my cousin was a missionary.
Student: What's a missionary?
Me: It's a person who travels to places where people don't know about Jesus and teaches them about who He is.
Student: Well....... (Long pause while rubbing his chin)....who's Jesus?
Me: He is God's son.
Student: Oh.
Me: Do you go to church or Sunday school?
Student: Well, I know about Christmas!
Me: Oh, Christmas is when Jesus was born.
Student: What?! What's a missionary again?
Me: It's a person who spreads good news about Jesus to people who don't know Him.
Student: Oh. (Pointing to the toy on the floor) Is that our new classroom toy that Santa brought?
Me: Yep.
Student: Exit stage left :-)

And that was the extent of my witnessing for the day, short and sweet.

Hello, infectious disease?

Three boys, three prescriptions, three strep throat victims, we can't get rid of it!
Grant- 3rd time in 2 months
Jack-2nd time in 1 month
Dylan-1 time

Two boys back to school, one on the couch feeling miserable.

One mother bleaching everything in sight, washing every towel, buying 8 new toothbrushes, contemplating having our dog checked for strep to see if she is the contaminator (seriously, somebody told me that could happen), and/or calling infectious disease to come and de-germ our house.

What the heck?