Month: November 2013

The boys’ elementary school holds a walk-a-thon each year.  It is a fund raiser and the boys collect pledges based on the number of laps they walk…or they just take an envelope of money to school that their mom gives them. I hate fundraisers.  I hate going to people to ask for money.  I especially […]

Coloring around our house usually means crayons.  Colored pencils are usually saved for a quiet-at-church privilege.  Markers, well, markers scare me.  For some reason, my boys cannot open and close markers without getting ink on their shirts. Drives me crazy!  Therefore, I very rarely pull them out. However, for family night we were making Thank […]

Kevin is better (or faster) at waking up when Bobby cries in the middle of the night.  He’s a lighter sleeper, I guess. A couple of weeks ago, I woke up to the flash of my camera phone.  The baby had been stirring and was ready for a mid-night feeding, but Kevin felt it necessary […]

People often ask me how the older boys are doing with Bobby.  My standard answer is that they either totally love on him or they ignore him.  I’m okay with both. The other day, Ricky was totally loving on Bobby.  He pulled out our Bingo game and set it up with himself, Bobby, Bobby’s giraffe, […]

Bobby was blessed the first Sunday of November.   It was a good day for us to celebrate our newest boy.   Most of my family was able to come.  Kevin’s family is all out of state and when we woke up to snow that morning, we were glad they hadn’t braved the weather to […]