So Long T-Ball

Big Brother ended his last season of t-ball Monday night. Next year, coach pitch. How did my little t-ball player grow up so fast? He's my little major league all star in training.

A Blessed Weekend

I absolutely loved the Beth Moore conference I attended in St. Louis over the weekend. It is something I will never forget. The praise team and everyone singing along was awesome! Beth Moore and her message was awesome! It was just awesome to be a part of it!

Come Awake

Five Quote Friday

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
~Author Unknown

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
~Laurence J. Peter

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
~Dorothy Parker

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
~Author Unknown

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse

Momma's Getting a Break

I'm excited I get to go to St. Louis this weekend with my girls from church to a Beth Moore conference. I will miss my boys tremendously, but it will be a blast!

I asked my boys (including Hubs) what they would be doing while I'm gone.

"We're going to sit around in our underwear and eat watermelon."

Lovely.

All Star

Publish Post

Baby Jaws vs. The Pen

If I Stand

Five Quote Friday

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
~Harmon Killebrew

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~Mark Twain

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
~Ruth E. Renkel

The Good Book

Random Things I Did Today

I made blueberry muffins in my GT Xpress because my oven has been broken since Saturday. (The UPS man brought the new part this afternoon and thanks to Mr. Fix It Hubs, it was working again in no time.)

I bought a buttload of groceries at Dillons using my buttload of coupons and was told by the older woman behind me, "I'm proud of you. Look at those coupons. I need to do that more."

I went by Sonic to grab a drink and was told by the girl in the drive-thru, "Thank you. It was an honor to serve you today." Then I almost laughed in her face. I say almost because it kind of made me feel like a queen.

I texted this to Hubs, "You're no fun today."

I cleaned greenish, squishy poop up off the bathroom floor while a naked Baby Jaws stood watching and saying, "Ewwww."

I picked Big Brother up from summer school.

I met Hubs at Walmart. I needed things I had coupons for. He needed charcoal and lighter fluid. I went through one checkout while he went to the lawn and garden center. As the boys and I were leaving, Hubs was riding through the doors on a motorized scooter. I was shocked at first and then just amused. He swears a little old man asked him to drive it back in for him. I think he just went for a joy ride. And to quote Hubs, "That thing has a horn." Giddy up!

I went to the bank.

I ate an angus hot dog for dinner that Hubs had grilled just right.

I overheard Pat tell Vanna, "It's time to part," at the beginning of Wheel of Fortune. And then I overheard Big Brother yell, "He said it's time to fart!"

I went to church at our new church that is still a work in progress. It was awesome to be there again with the same guys that came last summer to help put up the outside walls. This summer, the inside walls are almost finished. Really awesome!

I tucked two exhausted little boys into bed.

I said, "I need a haircut," for the 257th time this week.

Say a Prayer

I was just reading the latest post at Steph's Gonna Win. Steph, her family and friends can use your prayers now more than ever. Remember her husband and especially her little boys. As the post says, "Today, all of the littles understand what is going on. Please pray for wisdom as we are all asked questions that we wish we didn't have to answer. Pray for their little hearts."

Please join me and say a prayer for them all.

Go Fish, Go Flush

I noticed our fish was dead today. You don't understand. This is the fish I thought would never die. You see, this fish has survived a lot. I don't even know what kind of fish it was or how long we had it. I just know it was old. It used to live in a giant tank with all of our other fish until our first big ice storm in 2007. Our electricity was off for quite a while and every fish in our tank died in the ice water, except for two. We got rid of the fish tank and all the dead fish. I put the two survivors in a little fish bowl, sat it on the kitchen counter and all was well for a few months.

In May 2007, we traveled to Oklahoma for a couple of days. When we arrived home, I went to the kitchen to feed the fish and found only one in the fish bowl. I found the other fish had jumped to it's death and was in our sink. We ruled it a suicide.

So our lonely little fish was all alone in his fish bowl. It didn't seem to bother it though. The next winter rolled around and so did another ice storm. Our electricity was off again, our house got cold and so did the water in that fish bowl. But our little survivor weathered yet another storm.

Over the past couple of years, I have been secretly wanting it to die, but after all it had been through, I never thought it would happen. It's as if it had nine lives. And I just didn't have the heart to flush it.

I actually felt a little sad today when I went to feed my little survivor and didn't see it. I found it under a rock. Poor little fish had such a long life, but now it's time to flush it to that big fish bowl in the sky.

Five Quote Friday

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
~Germain G. Glien

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
~Winston Churchill

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
~Hermann Hesse

It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. ~Abraham Lincoln

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
~Frank M. Garafola

Hubs Could Be Right

So after telling you about our three little dirty pigs, I found this online this morning. We're not the only ones who think our Happy Meal toys are saying dirty words. Here's the link to the news story.

That's My Boy

I loved finding this after Big Brother told me he was finished with his cereal this morning. It's not enough that he gets to eat breakfast at summer school. He has to have an appetizer every morning. I don't know how he's so tiny for being such a bottomless pit.

He loves his Alpha Bits and didn't even know he had left these three letters in the bowl. He thought it was just as cool as I did. That's my boy!

What Did He Die For

Three Little Dirty Pigs

Baby Jaws and I ate lunch at McDonald's today after couponing around town. I ordered two Happy Meals just to get two toys because although Big Brother was at summer school, I knew all heck would break loose when we got home if he saw that we went out to eat without him. Two toys, two boys, one happy momma.

Fast forward a few hours. Hubs got a hold of the Happy Meal toys which just happened to be the three little pigs from Shrek. So Hubs started pushing the pigs' button and immediately thinks they're saying something dirty.

I kept telling him he was crazy, but after Hubs pushing the button probably a hundred times, I heard the same thing. Dirty little pigs.

Five Quote Friday

"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box." ~Robert Fulghum

"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon."
~Peter Lynch

"My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons."
~Jessi Lane Adams

"Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks."
~Dr SunWolf

"My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when its wet,
and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet."
~Shel Silverstein

At the Creek

Jiffy Pop

The best part of going to the farm for Hubs and Big Brother?

A stove top you can actually make Jiffy Pop on.

My Big Boys

Big Brother started summer school today, breaking my heart just a little more. I missed the little guy since he was at school all day, but he seemed to have a good time.

Baby Jaws also slept in his toddler bed for the first time today. We've been trying to get him to sleep in it for weeks, but he keeps going to his crib. At nap time today, he walked in the bedroom with his blanket, climbed up on the bed and went to sleep. He went to bed tonight in the toddler bed too.

My babies are turning into big boys.