I think it is so important for the kids to spend quality time with dad. Especially since that give me quality time ALONE!!
Last week, Jeremy took Delaney out to play “ball,” as she refers to it.
I think Delaney enjoyed it more than Daddy did. And now she knows what daddy does all day!!
The big girls have been away for the better part of three weeks. Which makes for a very quiet house. And I’m feeling a bit useless after several weeks of not playing chauffeur to my busy teenagers!
First they spent a week at High School Church camp. Then they left for a week-long vacation with their dad. And then on Monday, I drove them and 4 little girls to Council Grove for J.A.M. (Jesus and Me) Camp. Bri and Allison have been junior counselors for the elementary camp.
I’ll be driving back to Council Grove in the morning to help drive all the munchkins home. And then I’m looking forward to a week with the girls at home. Hopefully we can do some fun stuff during our last full week of summer vacation.
P.S. The bold words make me sad!!
Now we all know how great it is with chocolate. And it makes for an easy sandwich. It’s not too bad with celery. And my mom makes some rockin’ peanut butter cookies! But it’s not just good to eat…
It actually does take gum out of hair!
I’m raising my third girl. And girly number three is really breaking me in! I had to call poison control for the first time last summer when Delaney ate sunscreen. So I shouldn’t have been terribly surprised when I woke Delaney up this morning to find gum on her pillowcase and, of course, matted in her hair. Not what I wanted to deal with before church this morning!
I’d always heard that peanut butter will remove gum, but up until now, it was no more than an old wives’ tale for me. But by golly, it actually worked! And quite well I might add. She sat very nicely on the kitchen counter while I smeared peanut butter in her hair and combed the strands to remove them from the sticky gum.
I am so hoping that this is our last encounter with gum removal. And just maybe a two year old really isn’t old enough to chew gum.
After writing my recent post about Miss Delaney’s enthusiasm with praying, I was reminded of a story about my two oldest girls and prayers.
When Brianna and Allison were probably not a whole lot older than Delaney, maybe preschool age, they were spending the night with Gaga (my mom). Before bed they wanted to pray. And Bri, my soft-spoken, shy little girl led this prayer time. She started out with…
“Once upon a time…”
Then Allison, who always approaches her older sister in a kind and gentle voice responded to her error. And when I say kind and gentle I mean thoroughly annoyed. Her reply…
“Bri, that’s not a prayer. That’s a story!”
Oops…I’m sure even Jesus got a little chuckle out of that one.
Facebook has been more than just a time sucker for me. I’ve actually been able to reconnect with a few friends who I haven’t seen in years. Most recently, my childhood neighbor tracked me down and we’ve had a chance to catch up.
Heather was my first “real” neighborhood friend. We moved into the house on Peterson Street when I was just 4 years old and she was 6. And we were friends almost immediately.
We would have sleepovers. And go to each other’s birthday parties.
Heather is the cute blond in the blue shirt with pig tails. This was my 6th or 7th birthday. A party at McDonald’s!!
Another birthday.
And sometimes we just hung out at home.
Probably my favorite memory with Heather was sitting on the window seat in my parents’ bedroom and talking to her through the open windows while she was in her bedroom. We would sit and talk after dark. Since we had to go in when the street lights came on, it was our way to continue our time together.
This is the window where I would sit. The one with the lamp.
Then Heather moved away to Colorado (and later on to California). And I moved to another town. And eventually we lost touch. But thanks to Facebook, we found each other again.
See, I knew I wasn’t just wasting all my time on Facebook!
