What Mama saw...

Yesterday, Angela asked if my older kids ever read to my little ones. Then last night, I found this!
Michael reading Only the Cat Saw by Ashley Wolff to Daniel, while Katie Grace looked on.

*happy sigh*

I say, we will have no more marriages...

I think my kids miss their Saturday Daddy.

Two weeks ago, there was one wedding.

Then last week, there were two weddings.

This weekend, there was one more wedding.

And with weddings come Friday night rehearsals and Saturday night receptions.

I'm glad all these people are entering the most holy state of matrimony, but I definitely understood the song Nicholas was making up in the back seat of the car today on our way to Heritage Days without Daddy...

Dum, dum, dum,
Dumb old weddings.
I'm so tired of everyone getting married.
No one else can get married.
I miss my daddy.

You say goodbye, I say hello...

While we were with college friend, Chip went to get some gas for the generator. Unfortunately, the gas can spilled in the trunk. It would have cost $1,000 to have the carpet replaced.

We had been having troubles with Carl (our Windstar mini-van) anyway. The service engine light kept coming on and blinking, and no one could figure out why. We had it into one shop three times in two weeks, and a second shop twice in one week. We sank a lot of money into Carl, and he still wasn't working.

Plus, he was ten years old and had 175,000 miles on him.








So goodbye Carl, and hello Pearl! She's a 2006 Town and Country with 28,000 miles on her.



Now to find some bumper stickers...

From Memorial Day

Forgive the tiny picture. I can't believe I forgot to post a picture of our Freecycle picnic table! The church guy who helped us pick it up is also a carpenter, and replaced most of the bench and some of the table for us. God bless church guys!

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

Our Little Saint

Today is the tenth anniversary of our losing our first little baby, Mary Elizabeth. It's good to know we have a little saint in heaven, interceding for us.

Family Meeting

We used to have family meetings, and the kids missed it a lot. Tonight we had the first family meeting in a long time.

New Business included:
* This week's schedule
* Can the children have a glass of wine? (Answer: No)
* Changes to the morning routine
* Can we plant more flowers this spring? (Discussion tabled)
* Michael wants to help pack his school lunches
* Michael is worried because the occupational therapist "gets angry" when he isn't at school by 8:30 for OT on Thursdays. (Note, school doesn't actually start til 8:45. DH is going in early with Michael on Thursday to find out what the heck is going on. Or maybe I will. Bwahahaha!
* Chores and allowance
* Computer usage negotiation
* Can we go ice skating? (Answer: Sadly, no. There is no ice skating rink near us)
* Library routine

There was no old business.