Why is it that, as soon as the phone rings, I have two youngsters who either have a life-or-death crisis (in their estimation) or who are trying to kill each other? Even if I proactively tell them that I need to make a phone call, someone will inevitably forget and start playing the piano.
I was [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 23, 2009
The Kid-Telephone Connection
November 5, 2009
Snippets: A Life Consistent with Our New Identity
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything [...]
November 3, 2009
Funny Conversations: Latin Vocabulary
Evan: Mom, I’m reading my Latin words from the next few chapters. You’re my mater…
Mom: Yep.
Evan: …and Daddy’s a homo!
Mom: ::sputtering:: Um, right.
Glossary: mater=mother, homo=man
November 1, 2009
Lack of Trust?
After we returned home from trick-or-treating, Kendall took her candy to her bedroom. As we don’t allow the kids to have food out of the kitchen, I asked her to bring it back downstairs. She brought it down in a box with this inventory taped inside the lid. Hmmm…
November 1, 2009
Halloween
For Halloween, we had an Indian Princess and a Power Ranger (notice the Ninja death blade the Power Ranger is carrying–long story). The Power Ranger was extremely nearsighted until we convinced him that he could indeed wear his glasses under the mask.
A couple months ago, the kids were trying on all the Chinese clothes we [...]
