We took dinner up in the mountains and built a fire and made 'smores. Aubrey thought they were really yummy. It seems like this was just the other day, but it was 3 years ago. Aubrey was only 2 years old. Time goes by way too fast and my kids are moving right along with it.
Aubrey and Emily had their spring concert last Saturday. It was called "When The Root Children Wake Up". It is an old German story. They had a narrator telling the story during the performance. I think my girls did a fabulous job. Here is
Aubrey's Bumblebee dance: (Aubrey is the curly headed girl who is always to the right of the screen, she is the first bee to sit and spin on the far right at the back)
Emily's Off To School Dance: (Emily is the 2nd to the last dancer to come out)
The grand finale: (it is hard to see Emily in this but Aubrey is wearing black leggings with a black sweater with a fur collar)
Yesterday I took the kids to the park for lunch. Only I didn't eat lunch at the park. I sat and watched them eat their corn dogs and day dreamed of the leftover taco stuff I had at home waiting for me. I was starving by the time I got home. I couldn't wait to dive into those tacos. I got all the stuff out, meat, lettuce, cheese, olives, salsa. I heated the meat up in the microwave. Then I went to get the taco shells out of the bread drawer. They weren't there! When we had tacos the other night for dinner, I put the tortillas and the hard shells both in the bread drawer. For some reason, Addison really likes playing with the box of hard shell tacos. I have found it in several different places all over the house. Well, I was hungry. My meat was warm. All the other ingredients were just sitting there waiting for me. So I quickly searched the whole house over. I looked in all the other kitchen cabinets, under the couch. In closets, in the bathtub, in her dresser. I was getting really angry and my taco meat was getting cold. DANG IT! I really wanted those tacos. I couldn't eat them on tortillas because the kids finished those off yesterday. Should I just eat the meat and all the stuff, shell-less? Nasty. While I was wandering through the house debating, while still trying to uncover the shells, I found a piece of trash on the floor. So I picked it up, walked over to the kitchen trash, opened it up. And there, half hidden under the refuse, I could see the top of the taco shell box. THE TACO SHELL BOX! So I pulled it out, tore off the used band aid that was stuck to the side, opened it up, and ate my tacos. They were really yummy.
Ahhhh. Summer vacation. Here....at....last.......Sob. (That was me crying. I was crying loudly and so I capitalized all the letters in sob and it looked like I was swearing. Which I kinda am on the inside.) There is a part of me that is so glad we are done with homework, spelling tests, getting up and ready and out the door every morning on time. There is a part of me that is excited about lunch at the park and swimming and the library. Then there is a part of me that is crying on the inside because there will be fighting and yelling and messes and 4 kids to take to the grocery store.
Emily, I love her so much. She has inherited my sisters volume level for her voice. And it is constantly set to max. And I wish you could hear her right now. She has been hyped up since she woke up and I've had about all I can stand and she hasn't even been awake for an hour. I feel bad because when my sister was here at Christmas she was telling us that she never understood it when people would always tell her to be quiet or use her inside voice. She didn't know she was being loud. But I'm about to like, lose my mind right at this moment.
The other day I told the kids we were going to Costco. Zac started whining and said, "Do you know how many countless hours I have spent at Costco, against my will?".
Apparently I have genius children. Addison can count to 3 and Aubrey can read. I take full credit for Addison's counting because she has been hearing this on a semi-hourly basis since the day she was born, "If you don't come here by the time I count to 3.....1.....2.......3......". Unfortunately I can't take any credit for Aubrey's reading. She just busted out with it one day. Shocked the heck out of me. She is my first child to read before kindergarten.
Last week, no one came to see my house. The week before we had 3 showings set up and not one of them came. Do you know how irritating it is to get all excited and get my house all clean and leave the house with my kids for hours at a time and then not have the people show up?
Is it wrong to have my heat on in the summer? I just turned it off yesterday and I said, NO MORE! But when I woke up this morning it was 65 degrees in the house and everyone was shivering. I am actually enjoying the beautiful weather. My kids are getting mad that we can't swim though.
I'm a little irritated with my scanner. Most of the time it works just fine and dandy. But ever so often it just decides to really tick me off. On Tuesday, my anniversary, I was trying to scan a bunch of pictures from my wedding to make a slide show. I only got about 5 done and my computer stopped recognizing the scanner. I found a really good Flashback Friday picture today to use and, by golly, it's still not working right. I don't feel like dealing with it now so you are stuck with some of the pictures I was able to get scanned on Tuesday.
The votes are in. 12 voted for Thinkin' Thursday to stay around. 1 voted for it to disappear.
Alright people. You asked for it. Here it is. I begin this Thinkin' Thursday with some trepidation. But I will give it a go and see how it works out. I know there will be people who will disagree with me and I am worried they will feel like they can't share their opinions. I want everyone to be able to express their thoughts and feelings, so please do. But maybe we can try and do it in a nice way?
This weekend Hilary Clinton will officially drop out of the race for the democratic nomination. I can't believe it, but I am sad. More scared than sad actually. I have made my feelings for BO known before. This is what worries me. And don't go gettin' all in a tizzy Democrats about what I am about to say. I am unabashedly Republican, in case you hadn't figured that out yet. So of course I am gonna want a Republican President in office, right. So just like plug your ears if you have to to make it through this next paragraph.
I am a little nervous about who BO is going to pick as a running mate. Because I have a feeling. A very bad feeling. It might be nothin'. Only time will tell. BO has said in the past that he will not choose Hilary as a running mate. However, I am afraid that some special high up important Democratic people will try and convince him to choose her. I mean, I could be totally off base here, but this is what I think. I think the two of them have made such a mess and a divide of the Democratic party that people are totally split. I think that the Dems will feel that in order to assure a win they will have to put them both on the ticket. And if they do that, I think that they will win. I really do. And I don't like it. Remember, this is my OPINION, and I am entitled to it so like I said, no Freaking out.
That really isn't what my TT is about. This is what it's really about. I'm not going to say anything about the media (who I believe is just an extension of BO's campaign), I will let you make up your own minds.
Can any of you think back to 1992? I know, it was a long time ago. It was the year I graduated from High School. YIKES! That was the year that Vice President Dan Quayle misspelled potato:
Oh my. The media would not let him live it down. They still won't. I just heard someone make a reference to it just a few months ago. It was all over all the news everywhere. People wouldn't stop talking about it.
How often do you hear people talking about this:
HOLY GEOGRAPHY BATMAN! Apparently my teachers lied to me in school. I had no idea we had that many states!
And what about this one:
He wasn't too far off. He only miscalculated by a few thousand, give or take. Actually 12 people died.
And most recently:
What's wrong with this one? Well, I believe, I mean my teachers may have been wrong about this one too, but ummmm, wasn't it the Russian's who liberated Auschwitz?
Why don't we hear about these (and many more blunders) over and over again in the media? Just sumpthin I was wondering about.
Last week was the Pinewood Derby. Zac designed this lovely Pinewood Derby car to look like a Hershey chocolate bar. He didn't win but his car did great and outlasted many other cars in the race.
Yesterday his class had a state fair. They have been studying the states and each kid was assigned a different state. Coincidentally Zac was assigned Missouri, the land of his forefathers. He had to make a poster and travel brochure and do a report on the state. He also had to make a 3D display. He made a Missouri "Hall of Fame". He wouldn't let me take a picture of him with it, but here it is. I think he did a great job.
My kids get on my blog all the time to play my bubble game at the bottom. Well, they are all really irritated with me right now because they HATE the anniversary song and it is really annoying and it disturbs their gaming. So, in order to please the troops, I.....changed the song. Mwaahahahaha. I think they are just irritated by having a constant soundtrack of their lives being sung to them. Tough stuff.
You know how on Memorial day we were going to go ride ATV's and we had them all loaded up and ready to go? Well, we couldn't let such an effort go to waste. So we kept them loaded all week long. Then Friday, when the kids were out of school, we hit the road jack and we didn't look back. We went camping. We had a BLAST. We had so much fun we stayed an extra day and let the kids miss Monday at school. Here are some pictures. Yes, my children are very dirty in the pictures. Being that there were no showering facilities about, we used the tried and true wet wipe bathing method at bed time. I tried the first day to keep them semi clean during the day but we would have run out of wipes within the hour, so I gave that up.
It was perfect weather, except for at night when we froze our bahookies off. We each slept in layers, jackets, 8 blankets apiece, and we were still shivering. We had the whole mountain to ourselves practically so that was very nice. It was hard to come home, but we all pretty much needed a shower so......
I am not kidding you, I am editing my slide show before I post it. I just deleted a picture and an Internet Explorer error message came up saying, "It seems the item you requested has been misplaced. Check your internet connection, cross your fingers, and try again." What the heck kind of error message is that?
I have been out of town for the past 4 days. We just got home not long ago. I have been wanting to do this all weekend, unfortunately I was not near a computer. That's a lie. Fortunately I was not near a computer (it was nice to have a break from real life).
I am not a confrontational person. I don't like to argue. I don't like to fight. I like everyone to just get along. I am usually the peacemaker. I don't like what happened last week with my Thinkin' Thursday. Every time I think about it, it make me feel sick.
I don't know who anonymous was. I don't even know that all the anonymous comments were from the same person. On average I have 80-100 different people every week read my blog. It could have been anyone of you. I don't know who you all are but I am sure that most of you are people that I know and care about and love.
I have had a lot of time to think it over the last few days. I have decided that it is time to give my Thinkin' Thursday weekly post a rest. I am not retiring it completely. I might bust one out every once in a while. But when I do they will be much less controversial. I want my blog to be a happy place where everyone gets along.
So I am sorry. I am sorry anonymous, whoever you are. I hope you will forgive me. And everyone else who had to listen to the unfriendliness that took place here in my little corner of the internet, I apologize to you too.
All you need is love, da da dan na da. All you need is love, da da dan na da. All you need is love, love. Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Love is all you need........love is all you need........
And because I just came up with the title for my post and now this song is going through my head:
We took dinner up in the mountains and built a fire and made 'smores. Aubrey thought they were really yummy. It seems like this was just the other day, but it was 3 years ago. Aubrey was only 2 years old. Time goes by way too fast and my kids are moving right along with it.
Kristy, Farrah, Steve, Allyson, Kay, Earl, Sam and Lauren
Last week was the Pinewood Derby. Zac designed this lovely Pinewood Derby car to look like a Hershey chocolate bar. He didn't win but his car did great and outlasted many other cars in the race.
What a difference 13 years makes.
