I was at dinner with some friends last night and we started talking about old movies. Several were dubbed as “must sees.” Do you remember Coctail? I loved that movie! Some others were, The Adventures in Babysitting, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, When Harry Met Sally, Annie, and E.T. What are some of your favorite oldies?
Oh, how I love to save money!!!!! Thanks to imommies, I was able to get my boys some accesories for our Wii! I got a steering wheel, the sports pack, the light gun, and the boxing gloves all for $33.97! And that included shipping! I placed the same items in a cart at Wal-Mart and the total was $85.12! Can you believe it??? Thanks imommies. Anyone need any electronic devices…check it out.
We had a couple of friends come by to turkey hunt the other day and the boys saw them and rushed outside. They were dressed in full camo with rifles on shoulders. Baker in complete awe looks up and says, “Are you reeeaal army men?” They laughed and just said they were hunters. A little while later as we were heading out to play, Cooper looks around the field and says, “Mom, where did those halloween guys go?”
Tommorow, May 17th, Brandon and I will celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary! A while back our Pastor, David Landrith, did a series on marriage. I was shocked to find out the “hardest” years for a marriage to survive. Year one, a given! Year five..maybe, and year 10! I was confused at this year. I knew our 10th was approaching quickly and I vowed not to allow the devil even the tiniest hole with our marriage. I began praying daily for my husband and our marriage. All around me, it seemed as though more marriages were falling apart. I encourage you if you are not already to begin praying daily for your husband. I do mine when I slide my wedding ring on each morning. I am thankful for the husband the Lord has given me and thought I would celebrate with 11 things you may or may not know about us.
We are getting to the age where the boys are always wanting to spend the night with friends and have friends over. Is there a rule about being old enough? And responsible enough? It all began in our home with us helping out some friends at church. Our boys are the best of friends and have been for several years. They had a serious illness they were dealing with and were traveling a lot back and forth the Nashville to the hospital. Something their 4 year old definantly did not want to do. So, he came to hang out and spend the night with us. The boys had so much fun! They have had several sleepovers since then and we have really enjoyed them. But now with kindergarden coming up, I am not sure how I feel. How do we seperate from who we know well and those we don’t with out hurting feelings? Do we set a “general rule” and how do you go back? I’m not sure we want to go back.
What have your experiences been with sleepovers? Do you allow them? And with who?
And I know the obvious is to “know” the parents, but is that even possible now a day? Because just when I think I may know someone, I find out I had it all wrong.
I guess this is an age old battle. All I can say is why I absolutly adore my little girl, I will take boys hands down! I can remeber when I found out I was pregnant with Baker, how I longed for a little girl. I even may several comments about if it was a boy, I was sending him back! I just didn’t know what to do with a boy.
I guess I have figured it out…you just roll with it! Boys are such dare devils. My boys have little to no fear! They are constintly playing in the side yard which is the snake pit! They have seen them and been warned about them. But something about the rush of it all gets them. Sometimes, I almost wished they would get bit, maybe then they would have a little fear!
As most of you know, we live on a huge family farm. Noone can see our home and our neighbors are not “next door.” For that reason, and the fact that they are almost always covered in mud, we have allowed our boys to pee outside. We have explained several times the rule. Come on…. I can only clean up mud so many times during a day! Yesterday, we were at Moss Wright Park and Cooper has his shorts pulled half way down! As I rushed over to him, he explained to me that it was ok, he was behind a telephone pole. Now, this pole is between the bleachers and the field! Everyone had a full view of what he almost did!
On the other hand, my darling daughter is the most dramatic child! Although she can definantly “hang” with her brothers, she will let them know she is the boss! Wonder where she gets that???? I heard someone say last week I am not bossy, I just have a lot of ideas!
