Have pity

Wow, it's been so long since I've written. I used to think I had so much to say, now I never have time to say it. Lol. Anyway, here's a good one. I can't even remember now what the issue at hand was the other night.........Annalynn either wanted to stay up really late or get more ice cream or something. Anyway, she was in the tub and I was sitting next to it talking to her. She asked me "Do you want to hear what I learned about in Sunday school today?" Now, I am the one that normally asks this, so I could just SEE it was going somewhere. "Sure" I replied. "What did you learn about today?" She proceeded to tell me the story of the man who owed the king money and the king forgave his debt after the man begged the king to have pity on him........."So you should have pity on me and let me get ice cream" (or whatever it was she wanted...) I tell you. This child should be an attorney some day. But she has her heart set on being an astronaut, marine biologist, pyrotech(now that one really scares me) and a pizza chef. We have this figured out see.........she pays her way thru school by doing the pizza thing and setting off fireworks over the summer. Then she goes to school in the fall. Check out space and if she does not like that, then take to the ocean. I see a cushy retirement life for me. lol.

It Just Gets Better......

Tonight Day, Annalynn and I went to see some friends. On the way home, Day was in the middle of the two lanes at one point. No cars around, but just not really in one lane or the other. Annalynn pipes up and says,"So Poppy, uhhh which lane are you in?" I just laughed and Day looked at me like 'don't encourage it.' heeheehee. it WAS funny. She's a smart one.......

A Tool Lesson......

Okay, I put this on facebook, but "IT's TOO LONG." see, that's why I do not like facebook. sometimes I have things to say and they are long. SO, here's the latest "mommy moment." Yesterday I am out in the garage putting some legs on an old library table. you have to put the big bolts thru the legs and tighten them. I did not want to search in the dark recesses of Day's toolbox in the basement, so just grabbed a pair of pliers in the garage. I am sweating and complaining because doing it this way is taking SOOO long. Finally, Annalynn looked over at me and says.........get ready..........


"You should probably use an open ended wrench to tighten those." Yeah, my jaw dropped to the FLOOR and i just stared at her for like 5 seconds. I asked "ANNALYNN, WHERE did you learn this? How do you KNOW that?" she replied, "Handy Manny. He says for bolts, an open ended wrench is what you should use." duh...........did I feel silly.............

Just One Stone

Recently, Annalynn and I were reading the story of David and Goliath. In the account, it is told that when young David went out to conquer this giant, he "chose 5 smooth stones from the stream" and put them in his slingshot bag and went on his way. When he slings one and hits this giant in the forehead and he drops down, I was a little leery of reading on to the part where he draws Goliath's sword out of his sheath and cuts his head off. Well, it did not seem to bother Annalynn a bit. She simply said, "He only needed to take along ONE stone, huh??" OOOHH my gosh.I about peed myself laughing. This is one practical child..............

Annalynn's Future

Well, today I told Annalynn we only had 2 weeks of school left, then we are done for summer. She thought she was done with school FOREVER. I said, "No, then comes first grade, second gradet"............and so on and so forth. I said, "then when you graduate, you get a JOB and start working." She looked at me and said, "I don't WANT to get a job. I want to spend time with my family." She's pretty smart, "spend time with my family" sounds a lot different than "live at home til I'm 45, eating your food and using your car........" hahahahahahaha

Little Blue Cornflowers

The other day, Annalynn and I were down in the flower garden and we saw the little blue cornflowers we'd planted on Lucy's grave. They were just starting to bloom. I told her in a few days, we'd pick them and put them in a little vase to remember Lucy by. These have been very special...about a year ago, or so, Annalynn went to a birthday party....it was at McDonald's. They gave out goodie bags and in the bag was a little seed packet. I figured they were probably old junk seeds and never expected them to come up. Nonetheless, Annalynn wanted to plant them in the garden. Lucy, a Boston foster of ours, had recently passed away and we missed her very much. She was one of our very favorites. Another very sad story, rags to riches, at the door of death brought back to life kind of story....so we planted these little seeds on Lucy's fresh grave. Lo and behold, they grew. And they bloomed. The prettiest little blue flowers, like they were made from tissue paper. And not only that, but those plants stayed green thru the winter. Every time I'd go down there, I'd be amazed that those bushes never hibernated or died. They remained a bit green and alive thru the winter months. Now I did a bit of research on the web and discovered it is an annual, and it was on the endangered list in Europe for some time....Well, today I walked down to the garden. I noticed some rocks had been turned over and not replaced. I then noticed big holes here and there. Someone had been in our garden over the last couple days and had dug up several of our flowers. Including Lucy's cornflowers. This made me very sad. I was so upset, I walked back up to the house. I think i saw maybe one stalk left. I hope they last until we can move from this place ...how can a person go onto someone's property and dig up their plants and carry them off to replant them in their own yard? As I looked around, I noticed several spots where things had been dug up. An entire hosta plant, some bulbs here and there...it just made me sick. So as Annalynn and I talked about this tonight, we said a prayer for that person who did this. All I can do is teach my daughter how to extend forgiveness in a fallen world and continue to teach her morals and how to love people and life. Right now, though, I am having a hard time with this one. We lived near a Christmas tree farm at one time. Every winter, someone would manage to steal a tree or two, and it never ceased to astound me how someone could steal a tree and then go home and put presents under it. There is something just not right about that. Well, tomorrow is another day. We'll see what that holds..........

Touched by an Angel

Last night, Annalynn started to not feel well. This morning we got up and it was evident to me she REALLY did not feel well. She fell asleep on the couch watching TV. That has only happened once or twice, again when she was sick....she was burning up and talking about things that I felt were almost "out there..." so I took a few steps to bring down the fever, we did not have a working thermometer in the house....so I called and asked Day to get one on his way home...meanwhile, she wanted to go outside to cool off. I put a few blankets down on the porch, and her pillow...well, she fell asleep again. So I left here there, went in and did a couple dishes, came out to check on her, still asleep, and it went on like this for about an hour. Suddenly, she woke up and looked at me and said, "Mommy, when you were in the kitchen, I think an angel touched me." I asked her how it felt,and she said "It felt good. I think I feel better." and her demeanor did a 180. So tonight she was still a bit hot,but not near as bad as earlier. She talked a few times about the angel. amazing.........God is indeed with that child........