The weekend before Thanksgiving we had house guests. My friend Shelly brought her 4 kids from Arizona for a visit. The boys were thrilled! And, naturally, I didn’t take a single picture all weekend. Shelly has 3 girls and a boy. The older girls are 9 and 8. Ricky loved watching them play their Nintendo […]
Author: Cindy
Helping himself
As I sat in my front room working on a future blog post (Thanksgiving will be posted, someday), I heard the sound of Rusty drinking in the kitchen. At first, I didn’t think anything of it … kids drink. Then I realized that I hadn’t given him a sippy cup any time recently so I […]
Older Women
There is some saying about boys wanting to marry women like their mothers, but Ricky has perhaps taken this to the extreme. We were at a neighborhood Christmas party last night and I was visiting with my friend who drives Ricky home from school. She told me about a transaction between Ricky and her daughter, […]
Candy something
Billy walked over to the tree the other day, pointed to the red and white thing shaped like a shepherd’s crook and said, See this? Some people call them candy CORNS. We call them candy CANES. There you go.
Tree Decorating
The boys got to help decorate their tree tonight. There are no pictures. You don’t leave them very much unattended during this event – let alone stand across the room with something in your hands. Even without pictures we had: One goose-egg One carpet burn One scratched stomach 4 broken ornaments One fight about which […]