My People

Kyra (age 2) asks me today to borrow some money. I ask her how much and she tells me she needs a lot. When questioned further she tells me it's not "actually" for her but for her people. . .

What in the world does a 2 year old need "people" for?

Our Super hero

One of the great things about our school is that the teachers have taught all over the world. Zeke's Kindergarten teacher is from Spain and most recently has taught in Nicaragua.

Zeke comes home every day asking if he can bring plastic pop bottles to school to recycle, and he's now asking everyone he knows to donate pencils because the kids in nicaragua don't have any. When he found out they don't have shoes either he started trying to find his old shoes we could send to them all though it took some convincing that his shoes were a bit too stinky at this point to send them on to someone else.



This little guy wants to save the world and knows he really can do it. If you have some new boxes of pencils, send them our way, he'd love to give them to the kids in Nicaragua.

Happy FALL

We took a trip to Black Island Farms last week during UEA and it couldn't have been a more perfect day!! The kids all had a great time trying to get lost in the corn maze, we all picked the biggest pumpkins our arms could carry and we had fun shooting corn cobs out into a corn field. We were thankful for "corn cops", who helped us find our way through the crazy maze. Sam went flying down the biggest slides, Zeke took extra special care of Kyra, and Emma was the best leader on the trails.

I could post 50+ pics of the fun we had but tried to keep it to our top 10 favs. . .

It snowed, it snowed, it SNOWED!!!!

It snowed today! What else can you possibly talk about on a day like this except for hot cocoa and a good book?

Happy Birthday nana

My mom turned 63 today. I can't believe she's 63, that's almost 70 and 70 is almost 80. You get the picture. I suddenly realized that my moms isn't going to always be here. I depend on her, love her and most days need her to help me get through. We get on each other's nerves I'm sure I remind her of all the qualities she doesn't like so much in my dad, but I know she loves me and wants what's best for me. I know she loves my children and that makes me love her even more.

My little sister came up and surprised her for her birthday and we had the most fun I have had in a while. We laughed almost non stop for the 5 hours she stayed. The kids all got along great, the adults all reminisced and told stories and the food was absolutely amazing. Thanks chez papa!

Happy Birthday, Nana.

why do Kings have servants?

Zeke:"Mom, do you know why King's have servants".

Mom:"Not really sure Zeke, let me think about it."

Zeke:"You don't have to think about it mom, I figured it out. King's have servants to pick stuff up for them."

Mom:"Aren't you lucky you learned to clean up after yourself? You have a great mom to teach you how to do things for yourself".

Zeke:"No, mom they CAN'T pick stuff up, if they did their crown would fall off of their head. It's all about the crown, mom, I figured it out."

Where's the ceiling?

A few days ago Kyra was taking a bath, and always when I have to wash the shampoo out of her hair I ask her to look up at the ceiling so the water won't run into her eyes and always she looks down and it doesn't work.

This time she put her hand up and yelled "STOP". I paused and asked her what's up. Her response? "What's a ceiling mom? I don't know where that is?!?".