From the "Things A Mother Does Not Want to Hear" File:
Two older siblings in another room, speaking to the little brother in panic-stricken voices: TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF!!! TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF!!!
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From the little brother: "Mommy, I figured out how to work the toilet plunger all by myself!"
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Weekend News:
On Thursday night, we had Kim, our piano teacher, and her husband Harish over for dinner and dominoes. They are new in town and it has been hard on Kim, who has never lived away from Indiana. It is fall break this week and the kids did not have chorus rehearsal, so it finally worked out for us to do this. John especially loves having company because it ensures that the house gets a good cleaning every couple of weeks or so. And one day he'll learn to check with me first before taking people on "house tours" :-).
The First Frost of the season was yesterday morning. Nathanael wanted to know why the snow melted so quickly.
John and John Mark are in the woods somewhere in Illinois camping with the Boy Scouts again. The four others and I went yard-saling in the "snow" this morning. John will be glad that I found him a cot for camping. Apparently, two others had been sold just before I got there (why did they have to tell me that?) I have a lot of errands to run around the mall area today, and we have to go to the thrift stores to see if we can find Becca some semblance of a Victorian/Edwardian costume. If I were Supermom, I would try to sew all my kids costumes, but, in case you did not know this by now, I am so not Supermom. In fact, there are a lot of days where I feel like "Just-Barely-Making-It-Mom"!
So that is our day. Don't you wish you could take three small boys shopping all day too? (I'm not above bribes. We'll find something fun to do if all goes well.)
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Addendum:
It's later in the evening; we all managed to survive the day-long shopping trip, and it was a moderate success (found shoes for two kids, but no costume). BUT~ I was about to climb into bed and I ran across a CD that I purchased this morning at a yard sale. It's entitled "Rescue" and it's by the Richland Hills Praise Ministry in Texas. It was still in the shrinkwrap, in a box marked "All CDs $1 Each". Well, RHC's earlier CD "Testify" is one of my most favorite CDs, right up there with the Zoe stuff. How this ended up in a yard sale here is beyond me (you would have to admit, CoC Praise Ministry music is a niche market). Those people clearly had no idea what they had- they didn't even give it a chance! Their loss... I LOVE IT!!! It was definitely the find of the day... and to think I was excited about a camping cot.
6 comments:
I think it is admirable that it is 12:23 and you have found time to blog while doing all of this!! You're more of a supermom than you know!!
That was a great find! I bet you would like Won By One, the group from Pepperdine. If you ever get a chance to listen to them, take it!
I agree!! Won by One is awesome! They've been to our church twice & I have 2 of their CDs. I love them!! Bret can get you a CD if you'd like one. We have some at the office.
Hope the rest of your weekend has gone well.
"Just-Barely-Making-It-Mom"
This is such a huge group of moms and I am proud to be a card-carrying member. The supermoms were letting me come to their meetings until the pop-in visit when they discovered no clean surfaces...hee hee.
one of my comments i heard recently that a mother does not want to hear is (with much frustration)"Momma, i can't get this lipstick off!" as i look down and see the black permanent marker open-topped lying on the floor!!
i'm glad you found a true find. it is strange how it wound up in a yard sale in Kentucky. i will try to get you a won by one cd in the mail sometime. you would truly love them.
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Hi, I found your blog via Lisa over at Hemming my blessings. I am going to add you to my list of blogs that I read. I hope that is ok!
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