"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."-Emerson

Monday, November 5, 2012

The difference between boys and girls

 Isaac provides us with some great conversation tidbits... The other day he walked in on Cosette going potty and when she wiped he got after her:
I: "Cosette, you only wipe when you go poop!"
C: "No, I wipe every time!"
I: "No. MOM! Tell Cosette that you only wipe when you poop!"
M: "Isaac, girls have to wipe every time."
I: "WHAT?!? Girls have to wipe EVERY TIME?"
 


Thursday, November 1, 2012

October

 We survived Halloween this year. Is it just me or does halloween seem to be lasting longer and longer nowdays? I remember when I was young it was just ONE day a year. It seems that now everyone starts celebrating a week or two early so you end up with two weeks of celebration. Anyhow... I took the kids trick-or-treating this year will Ellen and William and Christopher and some friends. I forgot that the kids haven't been trick-or-treating since they were itty-bitty so the whole idea was novel and fascinating to them. After a block of trick-or-treating Debbie came booking it off a porch and yelled over her shoulder to me, "Mom! This is AWESOME! We should do this more often!" haha And Isaac was blown away by the idea of going to "actual houses" (as he put it, over and over and over again last night.). He just couldn't believe that you could go knock on doors because all they can remember is trunk-or-treating. Anyways, it was a real treat for me to take them because they enjoyed it so much, it was really fun to see.
And here's a random picture of Cosette asleep at the computer desk. Love it.
Well, that's basically it for October. I only took a few pictures this month which, let's face it, isn't a bad thing considering the thousands of pictures I have of the rest of the kids' young lives.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Isaac's Math

Isaac loves math. And I love that Isaac loves math. I'm so proud of him, it makes me so happy. Last night Isaac was sitting on his bed doing math in a math workbook and I told him it was time to go to sleep and he politely pled with me, "Mommy, can I please do my math problems?" Uh, yeah! So I gave him 10 more minutes. Then this evening he was working in the workbook again and Chad said it was time for homework and he threw a fit and cried that he wanted to keep doing his math. Ha! I love it! And I hope he keeps this love of math with him throughout his life.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Adventures in sleep-walking

Debbie sleep-walks. Normally it's pretty funny. Tonight it was disturbing. She went to the bathroom. In the bathroom. But somehow managed to sit ON the free-standing toilet paper roll holder and pee. Gross! She soaked the whole roll of toilet paper! And I'm blogging about this as blackmail for her in the future.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Truth

"Ugh, behaving is HARD."