Author: Cindy

Tommy is usually a fan of shoes.  He’ll put on a pair of shoes -his own, Ricky’s, mine – and wander around the house.  Or outside.  The shoes don’t have to fit … or even match.  He just likes shoes. The other day, though, he found one of my hats and took to wearing it.  […]

Rusty is a crack up. Today at church, one of the teenage girls who helped with his Nursery class stopped me.  She told me how she kept trying to play with Rusty in class and he stiff-armed her and said, “No!  I don’t play with girls!  And you are a girl!” Yesterday morning, while playing […]

I don’t do a lot of crafts with the boys.  They get plenty messy at mealtime – I don’t find it necessary to create additional messy moments.  That’s what craft time is to me … mess time. But the boys are always tickled when I pull out something crafty for them to do.  One day […]

My boys have never been big meat eaters.  Ricky proudly declares, “I hate meat!” whenever he thinks it is appropriate.  Billy will eat meat – he avoids fruit like the plague, but he’ll eat meat. For Grandmama’s birthday a month ago, we got KFC because she quite likes it.  We always get some boneless chicken […]

Ricky started 3rd grade last week.  He thought he was ready to go back.  Now he’s happy to be there and enjoying spending time with his friends.  He likes his teacher and that Grandmama gets to come volunteer in the computer lab a couple of times a week.  It should be a good year!  Ricky […]