July 26, 2010
We were visiting at Chris’s mom’s house while he and Kelly were in town, and sitting down to white beans and rice with the three of them and Granny, when Lucy raced into the room.
Lucy: “The step-mother is here!”
I start to ask one of those motherly questions which draws out the story behind her pretending, but before I can form the words…
Lucy: “I’m going to kill her!”
And she was gone again. I turned red, shocked, and sent Craig to deal with this. He deals with football players and wrestlers and marine-wanna-bes on a daily basis, after all. Apparently Lucy was protecting her friend, Meadow, from the step-mother, who was going to hurt her. Read more...
July 19, 2010
It has been a week of visitors. We managed to have someone over for a meal every day last week. After Taylor’s wedding, my mom and brother came over, so they were here Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. (Their visit also included a shopping trip to the French Quarter and a trip to the Aquarium.) On Wednesday Craig’s brother and his girlfriend came for dinner and so that Craig could help Sean with calculus. Thursday’s dinner included some of the usual suspects, Theresa and Paige. (Eric Parrie – I am calling you out publicly for standing us up!) Friday Fr. R.B. spent the night. Which I guess means I could count Saturday breakfast, too, but then Theresa brought a little girl she was babysitting over to play and have lunch. Seven days in a row! Read more...
July 13, 2010
You have to read this. I was crying I was laughing so hard, while trying not to wake up the almost-sleeping parrot-monkey. It will make sense if you read it.
http://inspiredtoaction.com/2010/07/survivor-suburbia-the-grocery-store-with-children-challenge/
July 13, 2010
I finally, after months, decided to read a blog of two today. This article was first, and it came at just the right time.
July 13, 2010
Well, it has finally happened, that rite of passage all mothers must undergo. (It does happen to everyone, right?) One of my children has fallen into the fountain at the mall. You know, the one with the plants around it, strategically placed next to the winding stairs, the lovely view from which we always bypass because I am not Superwoman enough to drag a stroller up them. Read more...
July 8, 2010
Lucy: “If God was made of glass, and had a thing in his back so you could wind Him up, like a wind-up bunny, then he could go up to the sky and come back down from the sky.”
And later in the same car ride…
Craig: “Have you ever tried to talk to Jesus?”
Lucy: “No, I’m too shy of him.”
July 7, 2010
Lucy’s imaginary phone conversation this evening as we drove to dinner:
Lucy: “We’re leaving the house.”
* unintelligible question from interlocutor*
Lucy: “Because we can’t pick up our big house! It’s too heavy!”
Apparently her friend on the phone was a turtle.
