Month: November 2012

This past Sunday at church was our testimony meeting (when members of the congregation stand up and share their testimony with everyone).  Ricky leaned over to me after the second or third person shared and said, “Momma, can I go up there?” We’ve been counseled to have our children share their testimonies at home, but […]

For Red Ribbon (Drug-Free Awareness) Week at school, one day the kids got to wear their hair any crazy way they wanted.  Ricky had just had a hair cut, so there weren’t a whole lot of options for him.  I suggested a bunch of little pony tails.  He did NOT approve of wearing his hair […]

I had just finished singing a few lullabies to the three older boys the other night when Rusty told me that he was scared.  I didn’t really think he was scared … this has been a favorite tactic of all the boys lately to get out of things – cleaning the toy room (“Momma, I […]

We didn’t carve pumpkins this year.  Shame on me, I know.  I just had too much going on the week of Halloween. We did do the next best thing though …. we Potato Headed them! Tommy would have been happy just using stickers … he found this ghost one somewhere and stuck it on while […]

I love Halloween.  Bet you didn’t know that, huh?  But I do. I’m doing my best to make my boys love it as well.  This year I totally think I succeeded. Our neighborhood does a big Trunk or Treat on a dead end road instead of house to house trick or treating on Halloween.  There […]