Adam-isms

Adam (hollering): I NEED WI-I-I-PED!

Jim (entering the bathroom): So you did a poo?

Adam: Yeah. My guys needed to poo too. That's their potty.

Letting go

I just sent my bigs off to camp for a week. It's going to be strange without them here but I'm looking forward to some extra time with my littles.

Neither kid was nervous about going or being gone for a whole week. I'm gonna miss 'em.

I took a couple of pictures as they were getting ready to leave. Imagine that!! :-)

We're back in Idaho

And oh so busy. Here's a few pictures of what we did last night:

Meridian Dairy Days Parade

You can stop/restart the slide show here.

Bits and Pieces

I've been absent for a bit and I will continue to be for a little while. We're in Oregon visiting family. We've had a nice visit these past couple of days but I'm missing home and anxious to get back. I just wish we didn't have a nine-hour drive to endure before we're back home! Oh well, we always seem muddle through the drive.

I've kept up on reading the blogs I subscribe to (it's pretty easy on the weekend because the writing tapers off then anyway) but I haven't written much. We've had a birthday last week (Micah's) and there's another birthday this coming week (Rebecca's). Still to come this summer we have two church camps to prepare for, swimming lessons, VBS, and cousins' camp. I may not be blogging much even when I DO get back home. Oh well, I only blog when I 'need' to. It's a great outlet and sometimes I need it and sometimes I don't.

If you're looking for a thought-provoking blogpost, try reading God and Vending Machines over at The Common Room.

Have a great week.

Adam-isms

(Jim was helping Adam try on the new socks that I had just bought for him.)
Me: How do they fit?
Adam: Right fine.

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Adam: (dressed in shorts and cowboy boots) How do I
look? Fancy enough?

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Adam: (with a wad of something on his thumb) I seriously
found this in the play room. It's sticky tack! It's mine because I
found it.
Me: No, it's mine. But thank-you for finding it for
me.

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Adam: Mom, I need my hand washed.
Me: Why? What's on it?
Adam: Pee.
Me: How'd you get pee on it?
Adam: From the toilet.
Me: You put your hand in the toilet?
Adam: No.
Me: No?
Adam: No. It fell in.

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Adam: (strutting around with a bungee cord) Your
baby's under arrest.
Me: Why?
Adam: Because I'm the policeman

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Adam: (after hooking the antique dictionary and its stand
with the bungee cord and bringing it crashing to the floor)
I did it on accident.
I did it on accident.
I did it on accident.
I did it on accident.

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And all of that was since 5:30 pm tonight!

Pole wakes from 19-year coma

I thought this was a really great story. It kinds of reminds me of the movie, Late For Dinner. Love that movie. I should go watch it...

WARSAW (Reuters) - A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy , Polish media reported on Saturday.

Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.

"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24.

"For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.

"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."

Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital.

He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.

Source: Yahoo News/Reuters

With the greatest of ease

♪♪...the daring young (girl) on the flying trapeze ♪♪



She hasn't fallen...yet!

Happy June 1st!

I took my kids out to breakfast this morning. All four of them by myself. It was great. They were very well-behaved and we had a very nice time. Here's a few pictures we took in the front yard after we got home. (Yeah, I know, it's mostly Abby but that's how it goes...)

What it did after we put up our pool

The day after. Of course!

♪ I Wanna Hold Your Hand ♪

I apologize for the poor quality picture but it was taken with my cell phone. I had to share it anyway. Adam fell asleep in the car holding hands with Abby. She even let go at one point to do something after he was asleep and then wormed her hand back under his to hold it again. So sweet!!!

Menu Plan Monday - May 28, 2007

Monday- Grilled Hamburgers, potato salad, fruit, chips
Tuesday- Chicken Fajita Burritoes
Wednesday- Sloppy Joes, Corn, Salad
Thursday- Beef Stroganoff, Salad
Friday- Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy

Be sure to check out the other menus this week hosted by Laura over at Organizing Junkie.

Have a great week!

What I Did Today

Today I put together a quickie little blog that is my growing collection of LOST information. It's called All is LOST. Check it out if you are interested in the show. If you blog about LOST and want me to add you to my LOST blogroll just let me know.

Oh, and I also planted 24 strawberry plants, make snickerdoodles, did some house cleaning and laundry, and kept 4 kids alive. I didn't waste all my time on All is LOST! :-)

Spring has sprung at our home!

Menu Plan Monday - May 21, 2007

Updated to add picture (5-22-07)

Monday- Take-out Chinese
Tuesday- Chicken Salad & Breadsticks
Wednesday- Soft Tacos, Chips & Salsa
Thursday- Chicken & Rice Bake, Salad
Friday- Baked Fish, Rice Pilaf, Salad

Chicken Salad Recipe:
This isn't as much a recipe as it is a list of what I put in my salad. Amounts are totally to taste!

Lettuce (I use romaine salad mix) ~ Cubed: cucumber, celery, chedder cheese, tomato ~ Frozen peas, rinsed and drained ~ Cooked chicken

I cut up chicken breast into bite-sized pieces, season it with paprika (I use a lot of paprika, it gives it great color as well as taste!), granulated onion, granulated garlic, pepper, salt, dill weed

Serve immediately with Italian dressing & breadsticks.

Abby, my little helper... :-) Actually Micah was my helper tonight. He chopped up cucumbers, celery, tomatoes, and cheese. He had a ball and asked if there was a meal he could make all by himself and that he wanted to be a chef when he grows up. I guess I should have had him in the kitchen with me a long time ago!!

Visit Organizing Junkie for more menu plans.

It's the last day of school

The last day of homeschool IS rather anti-climactic! But we're all glad it's here. Micah is finished with the 3rd grade and Rebecca is finished with the 5th grade. Seems amazing to me. I can still remember her first day of kindergarten... "Mom, this is more fun than I hoped it would be!" Her attitude has changed since then but she is still a delight and I couldn't ask for a better student in my sweet son, Micah. It's been a rough, but great year. I'm looking forward to the next one.

I'm still here

When I posted my Menu Plan Monday post below, I realized that I hadn't posted anything since the last Monday! I've had a busy week and blogging didn't make the priority list. Following is a short recap of my activities (besides the usual stuff) last week:

• Finishing up school. Micah is done with his work for this year and Rebecca has about 4-5 days left. Woo-hoo!
  
  
• Boise Bible College Spring Conference. We got to hear Dr. Ajai (ah-jay) Lall from the Central India Christian Mission speak all three nights of the Conference as well as hear him preach today at our church service. My friend, Scott Riggan, led worship each night. I got to see several people from Bible college days as well as see some people from back home in Oregon. It was a great week and my kids had a remarkable time too. Micah was wishing that the conference would last longer and Adam is still talking about going to the "Bible college"! It's so funny to hear a 3-year-old say Bible college. :-) Oh, and it was quite a trip seeing my son, Micah running around making fast friends with the son of a guy I went to school with who is now PROFESSOR Whittaker! Yikes.



• Jim got our garden area tilled up Saturday, (YEA, honey!) and I got my garden planted. This is my first garden in a couple of years. The garden area was looking pretty sad until yesterday. I planted:
  
  
  
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 green peppers
  • 2 cucumbers
  • 1 zucchini
  • 3 pumpkins
  • 1 parsley
  • 1 lettuce (The parsley and lettuce is for the benefit of our newest family member.)
  • a row of carrots
  • 2 rows of sweet onions
  • 2 rows of potatoes (I do live in Idaho!)
  • a second row of peas (the first row was planted about 6 weeks ago)



• We got the house cleaned up and had my in-laws over Saturday evening for hot dogs and other picnic fare. We enjoyed the very pleasant weather and the kids played in the newly tilled dirt. After that it was baths for the kids and bedtime for us all.

All in all it was a very busy, but productive week of breaking up fallow ground and planting seeds that will bring forth a harvest both temporal and eternal. I hope you have a great week.

Menu Plan Monday - May 14, 2007

Monday- Crockpot Swiss Steak & Rice, Salad
Tuesday- French Dip Sandwiches & Cantaloupe
Wednesday- Grilled Pork Steaks, Steamed Baby Reds, Applesauce
Thursday- Chicken Enchiladas, Chips & Salsa
Friday- Crockpot BBQ Pork Ribs (finished in the oven), Corn, Salad

Be sure to check out the other menus this week at Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan Monday - May 7, 2007

Better late than never, right?! Even thought it's after midnight, it's still Monday night to me so here goes.

Monday- Eggplant Parmigiana, Penne Alfredo, Salad
Tuesday- Chili, Cornbread
Wednesday- Grilled Hamburgers
Thursday- Soft Tacos, Chips & Salsa
Friday- French Toast, Bacon/Sausage, OJ

Visit Organizing Junkie for more bloggy menus!

Check it out

My daughter, Rebecca, has a new post up at her blog, Just Horsin' Around. Be sure to check it out and leave her a comment. It will give her a thrill!!

What Season Am I?

You Are Fall!

Thoughtful Expressive Creative Poetic Smart

What Season Are You?

Hat tip to Pipsqueak at The Common Room.