25 Things I learned from my Mom...actually got this email from my Mom ha-ha

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
'If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.'

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
'You better pray that it will come out of the carpet.'

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
'If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!'

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
'Because I said so, that's why.'

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
'If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me.'

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
'Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.'

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
'Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about.'

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
'Shut your mouth and eat your supper.'

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
'Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!'

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
'You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone.'

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
'This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.'

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
'If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!'

13 My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
'I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.'

14.My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
'Stop acting like your father!'

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
'There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do.'

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
'Just wait until we get home.'

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
'You are going to get it when you get home!'

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
'If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.'

19. My mother taught me ESP.
'Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?'

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
'When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me.'

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
'If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.'

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
'You're just like your father.'

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
'Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?'

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
'When you get to be my age, you'll understand.'

25. And my favorite:My mother taught me about JUSTICE
'One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!'

Kids are so cute!

When Gabe was a baby, he had his own language for some things. He called juice "mah-neh-mo." We would ask him to say "orange juice"..."orange mah-neh-mo." He knew he was saying "juice" but just couldn't get it to come out the way we say it. Annabelle used to call her belly button a "duppy-duppy," and Arthur was "Sa-Sa." Arthur loved his brother "bagel", and his sister, "a-buh-lel-lel." Charlotte was playing outside the other day and came running up to me telling me about "sun buzzies." Having no clue what she was talking about, being a good Mom, I asked her to show me. She took my hand and walked me over to a patch of dandelions and pointed, saying "sun buzzies." Too cute!

Muscle memory

You know how your muscles remember how to do things without your brain thinking about it (or so it seems) like typing, brushing your teeth...when the year changes and you're still writing the previous year, or you write a check out on your birthday and your write your birth year as well? Well, Annabelle was doing her spelling homework last night and one of the words was "beginning"...I'm thinking of the muscle memory because she's so use to writing her name on everything that she wrote "beginnabelle."

vs. Facebook

Ok, so I haven't posted in quite a while, but in my defense, life has been, well, life! I am usually on FB and working and cleaning and tending to children and emailing and on the phone with Mom and trying to maintain a very untidy house. Blogging has never been my thing, but I have been making some very positive changes in my life...reading being one of them. One new book a month, and every third month will be a leadership book. I've always wanted to try my hand at journaling, so maybe this would be a good forum, since nobody reads it anyway. So, if you find yourself here, reading this, bear with me, I'm only going through life as it is!