Archive for July 27th, 2007
Erin tagged me awhile ago, and I’m just now getting to answer her questions. Here they are:
First memory - First real vivid memory. Being in South Dakota with my family and seeing Mt. Rushmore. We also rode this train thing and saw a locomotive engine.
First real kiss - Real (good) kiss was Josh… dangit, I can’t even remember his last name! Ha!
First love - Bret Page but my only true love is Kevin, of course
First thing you think in the morning - What time is it?
First pet - Alicia & I had a cat named Crystal.
First question you’ll ask in heaven - Take me to my relatives! (I know that’s not a question, but if I wrote “Where are all my relatives?”, you might think they are somewhere else…)
First thing you think of when you hear the word vacation - beach
First best friend - Andrea Stegall. We went to elementary school together but she moved away in 4th grade. We were pen pals until we were roommates our freshman year of college.
Last time you dressed up - Sunday for church
Last thing you ate - brownie (I cooked them too long and they were like chiseling chocolate to break apart.)
Last CD you bought - Mercy Me for Katrina’s birthday in February. (can’t remember which ones)
Last book you read - I’m in the middle of reading a bunch right now… Last one I finished was Generation NeXt Parenting by Tricia Goyer. I highly recommend it.
Last time you cried - coming back from Galveston. (read my post about it)
Last time you told someone you loved them - Just now, when Kevin put Colby to bed. Then Colby kissed me and said, “Night-night Mama, wuv you too. MMMMM-AHHH!” (that was a kiss, don’t you know?)
Last really funny thing you did - Colby & Kennedy think it’s hilarious when I fake sneeze. They both laugh!
Last thing you watched on TV - “What Not To Wear”
Hooray! I tag all my A-friends: Ashley, Alicia, Amanda, Aynsley. 
July 27th, 2007
Kevin’s dad just bought a flat panel HDTV that he’s hanging on the wall. Kevin’s comment to me - “I want a tv we can hang on the wall.”
Kevin’s comment to me about the blog lately - “Stop entering us in all these contests!” To which I said, “Okay, then I guess we won’t try to win a tv you can hang on the wall? And, it’s from Best Buy.” (his favorite store)
(Long Pause)
“Okay, I guess you can stop after this one.” We’ll see.
July 27th, 2007
I’m not sure who first said that, but I’d like to guess that it was a Mom of small children. Last week when we were traveling back home from Galveston, both kids were fussy and so I hopped in the back seat and sat in the middle of them. I gave Kennedy her pacifier and let her hold my fingers, which is what she likes to do to fall asleep. I leaned Colby’s seat back and gave him his cup to drink. Then Kevin and I started talking and I noticed they had stopped crying. They were both asleep! I breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at their sweet angelic faces. Tears poured from my eyes. I realized that in that moment, “All was right with the world.” I held hands with them and said a prayer of thanksgiving to God for blessing me with such wonderful children.
I know I can’t always make everything right for them, nor will I be able to in the future, but I am so glad to be their Mommy. God has given me such a great responsibility for them and I only hope I will make Him happy.
Can you guess what time it is right now? *shhhh!* Yep, naptime. Indeed, “All is right with the world.”
July 27th, 2007
That’s what Colby calls “Veggie Tales”. I never pushed Colby to watch tv, and he never had an interest in tv until he watched the movie “Cars”. But now I am so glad he has taken to liking G-Tales. The series first came out when I was in high school. I remember youth functions where we would get together and watch Veggie Tales, because we truly liked it. There’s a lot of humor there that children may not pick up, and I appreciate the creators for realizing that if you’re going to watch something with your child, it may as well be entertaining for both audiences.
Anyway, if you’re not familiar, the two main characters are Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. Except Colby calls them “Bob May-no” and “Ware-ry Cu-mummer”. (Cu-mummer sounds a lot like what he calls Grandmother - Gam-mummer.) Some people think Veggie Tales is weird because they don’t like talking and singing vegetables. I think it’s great. Colby will now pick up a tomato and say “Bob!” Then when the tomato is cut up and he’s eating it, he says, “Bye-bye Bob.”
What do you think? A ploy for kids to eat their vegetables? Or weird and uncomfortable?
By the way, every time I hear “The Hairbrush Song”, I think of mab. I think she was one of the ones to first introduce me to G-Tales, and I thank her for that.
July 27th, 2007