Author: Cindy

Billy has no fear when it comes to doing physical tasks.  Jump off something, climb something, spin on something … he’s game!  The fact that he hasn’t seriously injured himself amazes me. One day he’d done something and that something had hurt his foot a bit.  In an effort to make it feel better, I […]

Our Christmas break wasn’t ideal.  Christmas day, Ricky started feeling sick.  Bobby’s nose had been running horribly and a couple days after Christmas, he became sick, too.  Just as Ricky was feeling a little better on New Year’s Eve, the middle three came down with the yucks.  Kevin and I were fighting it but it […]

While we eat dinner, I like to ask the boys questions.  Sometimes I ask them to tell us about specific things and other times I just ask them to tell us something about their day.  It seems hardest for Ricky to come up with something to share and he always goes last. A few weeks […]

After a long Christmas break where we have all taken our turns feeling horrible, a few of the boys are feeling cabin fever. In Ricky, this showed itself today as bossiness. Tommy, our resident bossy one, was fed up with Ricky’s bossiness. He said, “Ricky!  You are NOT the boss of us … Jesus is!” […]

We were reviewing our schedules the other night at dinner.  Among the list of things going on, I said, “…and tomorrow morning I have a dentist appointment.” Tommy looked concerned and asked why I was going to the dentist. I answered, “Oh, just to get my teeth cleaned.” Tommy now looked very perplexed and said, […]