Archive - August, 2006

mom devotion

By on August 21, 2006 in Home 28

Karen sent me this timely devotion this morning. I thought this would be a good follow up to the previous post and a source of encouragement for the mamas. Click on the link below.

“Mother of the Year”

Deuteronomy 11: 18-21,Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.” (NIV)

a.d.d. and home delivery

By on August 17, 2006 in Home, homemaking 22

I did it again. . . I left the grocery store today, drove home, put Anjelia down for a nap and went to unload the groceries only to find them missing. This is the third time, at this particular store, that I’ve drove off abandoning my groceries in the cart in the parking lot! I’m known there as the D girls’ mom. The folks at this small town store are so kind. One of the gals hauled my six grocery bags to my home on her lunch break!

I’ve also pulled this stunt at Target! I did a little shopping there one day when Anjelia was an infant. I was driving down 39th street headed toward the highway. As I was passing the mall, I noticed there was quite a bit of road noise. After looking back I realized that my back hatch on my van was completely open! I must’ve looked like a real ding-dong driving down a busy street like that. After embarrassingly pulling over in the mall parking lot to shut the thing, I noticed that my stroller and bags were missing! Quickly, I turned around and drove back to Target, relieved to see my stroller and bags waiting for me in the parking lot!

Do you think it could be ADD? Or is this just a busy mom syndrome? Or did I inherit it? My mom has some really funny stories! Like the time she thought her cars doors were frozen shut. She hooked up an extension cord so she could melt the ice with the blow dryer. It didn’t work. That’s when she realized the car doors were locked!

school days and a new blog

By on August 17, 2006 in Home, kiddos 26


School Days
(When We Were a Couple of Kids)

Words and Music By: Cobbs & Edwards

Nothing to do, Nellie Darling,
Oh, there’s nothing to do, you say,
Let’s take a trip
On the Memory Ship,
And sail back to the good old days.
Sail to the old village schoolhouse,
Anchor outside the school door,
Look in and see,
There’s you and there’s me,
A couple of kids once more.

School days, school days,
Dear old golden rule days.
‘Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick.
You were my queen in calico,
I was your bashful barefoot beau,
And you wrote on my slate,
‘I love you, Joe,’
When we were a couple of kids.

‘Member the hill, Nellie Darling,
And the oak tree that grew on its brow?
They’ve built forty stories
Upon that old hill,
And the oak’s an old chestnut now.
‘Member the meadows so green, dear,
So fragrant with clover and maize,
Into new city lots
And apartment block plots,
They’ve torn them up since those days.

School days, school days,
Dear old golden rule days.
‘Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick.
You were my queen in calico,
I was your bashful barefoot beau,
And you wrote on my slate,
‘I love you, Joe,’
When we were a couple of kids.


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***Blog debut***

My bestest childhood friend Elizabeth just started her own blog. I think it will be a great outlet for her. She’s busy preparing for all of her classes and I know she’d love comments to help take her mind off all her preparations. Her site has a great name — French Roasted. Please check it out!

Peaks Piking

By on August 15, 2006 in family, friendship, Home, kiddos 31

We had the good pleasure of being a part of Rob and Sarah’s wedding in Colorado Springs! We loaded up Tuesday evening and left at 5 am Wednesday morning. As you know, it’s a long boring trip across the state of Kansas. Even the stuffed animals Mug and Pumpkin got bored!

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Everywhere we go we are accompanied by stuffed animals!

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I never know what I’m going to find.

By on August 2, 2006 in Home, kiddos 29

Today was washing day for all our sheets and blankets. As I was walking back through the kitchen, after replacing the sheets, I found Anjelia sitting on my kitchen counter unwrapping and licking beef bouillon cubes!

Elaina and Anjelia have recently started sharing a room together. Poor Jessica could no longer handle sharing a room with her two year old sister and has sought the sanctuary of a shared room with Lydia. I went to check on the sleeping little ones before heading to bed myself and found Anjelia in Elaina’s bed. Elaina was hanging halfway onto the floor as her little sister was crowding her out of her own bed.

These moments made me smile and giggle a little. I don’t want to forget all the silly little things the girls do each day. I fear that so many of those little moments have already been lost. I hope to do my best to hang on to as many as I can.