August 31, 2010, at 10:45 pm | My sister came to the lake house toting gifts for her nieces, much to their delight. I had never heard of apparently-coveted Pillow Pets, but my girls are now proud owners of a duck and a turtle.
Angie: “I now bequeath upon you, Miss Susanna Joy, your very own Pillow Pet.”
Becky: “Am I dreaming? Is it Christmas already?”
Becky and Susie: “We’re never letting our Pillow Pets go.”
Becky: “I guess I’ll share my Duck with Dad, if I have to.”
Jim: “Hey, these things aren’t so dumb after all. I think I need one, too.”
Susie: “My turtle also makes a great reading table. Who knew pillows were so versatile?”
Becky: “All this pillow talk has me tuckered out. I’m just gonna chill with Dad for a while.”
Susie: “Aunt Angie is the best aunt in the world!”
August 30, 2010, at 10:27 pm | Okay, I’m still pretty daunted by the thought of sorting through hundreds of vacation photos, so I think I’ll break it down by date. Here are the pictures from our boating excursion to the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania with our friends on Saturday, before meeting up with my parents and sister.
Susie: “I’ll just be happy if I can sit with the big girls all day.”
Becky: “I didn’t come here to sit and look pretty. I came here for some speed!”
Becky: “And for some monkey business.”
Jim: “Gavin, do you think you can ride this tube as fast as Becky can?”
Susie: “Okay, maybe the water isn’t so bad. Matt assures me I’ll be just fine.”
Susie: “Umm…the boat is a little far away for my taste. I did what you asked and got on this silly raft. Now let’s get back to socializing.”
August 29, 2010, at 10:32 pm | We just got back from a week-long vacation with my parents and sister at beautiful Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. I will post lots of pictures once I sort through the 400-plus images that I just uploaded (and once I stop giggling at all the shots of a fuzzy caterpillar my sister took when she absconded with my camera for a morning). I quickly scanned the pictures and tried to pick one that captured the mood of the week, so I could convey to you all what a wonderful, full-yet-relaxing time we had. I eventually decided on one that shows my mom helping the girls swoosh down a slide together. Becky, Susie and Mom are all grinning like they’ve never been happier…which just may be the case!
Here’s a video to show you what a great time they’re all having:
August 27, 2010, at 10:32 pm | I guess it’s a good thing that a friend recently found us a chalkboard at a garage sale. I don’t think it would have been long before the girls decided that Jim’s car looked like a blank slate in need of decoration.
August 26, 2010, at 10:43 pm | Even though we haven’t been doing a lot of pool swimming, that doesn’t mean our towels are sitting idly in the cupboard. Nope, around this house, beach towels double as headdresses. And as we all know, headdresses make everything better. For instance…
They enhance games of leapfrog:
They make you a better artist:
They enhance your “what are YOU looking at?” expressions:
They improve your four-wheeling skills:
And they make you look Arabian princesses frolicking in a parched land (that happens to be populated by SUVs):
Not to mention they make your mom laugh chuckle and take lots of pictures!
August 25, 2010, at 10:16 pm | Lately, Becky’s greatest desire in life is to ride the merry-go-round at the mall.
If only all our desires in life could be utterly satisfied by a spinning musical horse!
August 24, 2010, at 8:33 pm | I think (that is, I hope) most all parents think their kids are cute. So cute that they should be featured in magazines or books. And while I have no intentions of taking my girls to any modeling agencies, it’s nice to know that some book publisher thinks I have a cute kid. Or at least, that someone somewhere has a cute kid who looks just like my cute kid.
Because doesn’t the picture Becky is gazing at below look a lot like a smiling Susie?
At least Becky thinks so – every time she turns to that page in the book, she exclaims “Suey! Suey!” (that’s her pet name for her sister…or maybe she’s calling her sister a pig, who knows).
August 23, 2010, at 9:56 pm | There’s nothing like a little after-dinner conversation with your dad.
August 22, 2010, at 11:28 pm | I was recently putting away the groceries that I had purchased that afternoon while running errands with the girls, when I found something unexpected. At the bottom of a shopping bag, I pulled out a bottle of body wash. I don’t use body wash. I’m a plain old bar of soap girl. There’s just something about bath puffs and moisturizing/exfoliating/massaging body washes that strikes me as faintly hedonistic (unlike my love for Starbucks’ Mocha Frappucinos, or my stash of Dove chocolates, which aren’t hedonistic in the least). Not that I’m calling anyone who uses body wash a self-indulgent hedonist. Not at all. It just doesn’t appeal to me for some goofy reason.
Anyway, as I was saying, I don’t use body wash. Therefore I don’t buy it. So what was it doing in my bag?
The only answer I can come up with is that the girls felt I was in need of some body wash. Their arms are now long enough that, given the narrow aisles of the grocery store and my frenzied let’s-get-through-this-as-fast-as-we-can approach to shopping, it’s very possible that the girls have been sweeping an additional item or two into my cart. And since I’m not a fastidious receipt-verifier like I ought to be, it’s probable that I’ve ended up purchasing and bringing home those items without noticing. In fact, if I know the girls’ tastes at all, they’ve most likely thrown an extra box of cookies or candy into the cart, which I was unconsciously grateful for.
But they went too far with the body wash. Especially since it was an “age defying” body wash. So not only did they get my personal hygiene preferences wrong and imply that I smell bad, they also implied that I look OLD.
Those stinkers.
Maybe I should use the body wash on them.
August 20, 2010, at 11:51 pm | I know you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seats (or couches, or beds, or wherever you happen to perch when you peruse my ramblings) for the rest of the boating pictures from our excursion last Saturday. Sorry for the delay; I had snapped so many pictures it took me a while to sort through them. And now I’m too tired to do any captions. But I hope our smiles (and peacefully sleeping kiddos) speak for themselves!
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ABOUT US I'm blessed to be saved by the grace of God, loved by my wonderful husband Jim, and embraced by my twin girls, Rebecca Faith and Susanna Joy and my sons Jimmy and Danny. I started this blog in May 2008 when I was hospitalized for pre-term labor at 24 weeks gestation. The Lord allowed me to keep the girls inside until they were 34 weeks along, and on July 27th, Rebecca made her debut, followed by Susanna, five minutes later, on July 28th. We ecstatically welcomed Jimmy into our lives on April 25th, 2011, and Danny on August 31, 2012. This blog has been a personal journal of faith and motherhood and the only way I can remember which child did what and when. Thanks for stopping by to share in my Faith and Joy! Feel free to e-mail me at: [email protected]. |
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