It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. Part 2

Today was the day of days and I am a free woman. At least for just a few hours each day.

This chickie went to Kindergarten and, boy, did she love it. She keeps reminding me that she had fun at school. Then she reminds me that she needs to go back tomorrow and that I don't need to walk her up to the door. Sheesh.

The most wonderful time of the year is officially here!

Hallelujah!

A Day In The Life.

Monday...We celebrated Baby Rebecca. We were certainly blessed by her sweet angel-ness for 3 months. The funeral was beautiful and Aunt Jennie was a mess as she led the opening hymn! All Rebecca's cousins sang I Feel My Savior's Love and did a terrific job.

Goodbye baby Rebecca, we love you, we miss you, come back soon!

Tuesday...The boys' first day of school. Ruthie had her kindergarten assessment and did a great job impressing.

Wednesday...Pack meeting was that night and Daniel is the Cub Master. He stapled his patches on and they were falling off. See the staples? I was nice enough to sew them on for him. I'm awesome like that.
Thursday...Isaac needed to get ready for his first spelling test. I didn't believe his teacher that there would be a spelling test the first week of school. Hello! So we broke out the Scrabble tiles and had a mini spelling test. He did awesome.

Friday...We have cantelope! And honeydew. But I only got a pic of the cantelope. It's yummy, too. We are so excited to get them ripe now because last year they didn't get ripe until the frost came.

Saturday...The potatoes are in! This is 1/2 of the first half of the small row in the potato rows in the garden. We'll be eating potatoes a lot this fall!

Sunday...What I love about my garden tomatoes is a good tomato sandwich. just 2 slices of bread, mayo, salt and tomato slices. Mmmm. It's better with white bread, but I don't buy white bread. It's no good with homemade bread. So I didn't make any at all this summer. I have been preparing!

Have a terrific week!

Flashback Friday.

Here we are on the first week of school. I hated school. Seriously. But memories always flood in when I send my kiddos to school. So today we are going back to second grade. 1978. Don't I look like I'm enjoying second grade?
There was a boy named Bobby in my class. I thought he was cute. One day, all the girls started chasing him. Well, I'm a girl, so I joined in. Then things started to change. Drastically. In a way that would forever impact my life. I was named as the girl who would kiss Bobby. Kiss?! Are you cootie crazy?! So the boys joined in and they pinned him down. They all called me up to kiss the boy. I did. Yes. I did. It was an adrenaline rush. Whew!

Then we went back to class. One kid was determined to get me into trouble. You see, it was a school rule that girls don't kiss boys. Especially when they are pinned to the ground by the other punk boys. Danny was his name. And he had really thick glasses and was mean! He kept trying to get the teachers attention. Finally the teacher told Danny that she didn't care what he was trying to tell her. I remember looking at my best teacher ever. She just looked at me, smiled, then went on with the teaching. I knew that she knew what I had done. But I was forgiven. I was saved.

Sometimes I wish it were that easy to get away with stupid peer pressured things you do. Not that I have peer pressure now or anything. And I actually enjoy kissing now. And the only pressure to do it is when Ruthie says, "Mom are you going to kiss dad again?" My answer is always, "Why, yes, yes I am."

Cute Quips.

I have been hearing some doozies lately. But my brain has melted into a big puddle of goo. Yes, goo. But I just got a good one that had me in stitches...

Sam is in bed and it's late and he calls for me to come to his room.

"Mom, what are contractions?"

"Well, when a mommy has a baby in her tummy, it's in a sack called a uterus. When the baby gets big and is ready to come out, the uterus gets really tight so it can push the baby out. That's a contraction..."

"That's a math problem??"

He meant fractions. But we did talk about contractions (can not=can't). Then we talked about verbs, nouns, and fractions. We did NOT talk about child birth.

The Bag Of Yum Quotes. Again.

Okay. Only 2 people tried to guess the quotes on my Big Bag Of Yum post. And you 2 didn't catch them all. So. Here's what I'm a gonna do! I'm gonna put the quotes here in just a bit. Then I will give anyone and everyone a chance to guess where they come from. It's gonna be hard. I'm not gonna lie to ya. But I have confidence in you! Yes, You! Here we go...

"Your pits are entirely tolerable" I did only put the entirely tolerable in the post. We'll see if this helps.

"Stat! Stat means now!"

"And whoever said that orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed."

"Red, yellow and blue. Each one has a message for you and me. Each is a symbol true."

Some clues...One is a movie, 1 is a TV show, 1 is a song and 1 is a cartoon.

Now. What you need to do is this: Email me at lovelaughloud@hotmail.com and tell me what you know. You can do one or all four or just tell me something funny. Seriously! Then I will announce winners and make you cookies. My sister Katie already got 2 right. My friend Jen got 1 right. And I don't need to know you for you to get cookies. Really. Please don't put your answers in the comments! Okay? But you can still leave me a comment. Because I like comments. Ready....GO!

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. Part 1

Today my boys went back to school! Yesterday was the first day. But we spent the day with family for Rebecca's funeral. So today was the day of days.

Sam woke up and the first thing he asked Isaac was, "Are you nervous?". Isaac said yes. And they talked about the first day of school yesterday and that today is their first day and they are nervous because everyone else knows everything and got all their instructions, etc.

I agreed to walk Sam to his class and mention to his teacher that today is his first day.

Then we got dressed, attempted to eat breakfast, brushed our teeth and took a picture. Sam wanted to have a picture.

I think he will be fine at school.

This is the first year I actually dreaded going back to school. As much as I am looking forward to having some time alone, I am really not looking forward to being alone. I will miss my kids. It will be an adjustment. But I'm sure with chocolate and diet pepper I will be able to accomplish ANYTHING!

And then I'll love being alone.

And...

Then I'll have a baby!

Make A Meal Monday

I thought about doing a Make A Meal with the pasta I made last Sunday.

But this is what it turned out to look like. Frankly it just isn't appetizing. It tasted okay, but was far from looking good!
So instead I am going to do these Volcano Meat Balls.
They were awesome and my kids ate them.

You start with 1 lb ground beef, 6 Ritz crackers, finely crushed, 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese and 1/4 cup spaghetti sauce. Mix it all together and shape into 12 meatballs about the size of a golf ball.
Place them 2 inches apart in a baking dish sprayed with Pam.
Press a cheddar cheese cube or slice of string cheese into each meat ball.
They should look like this:
Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes or until meat is thoroughly cooked (160 degrees).
Mmmm...

Ruthie says she's a vegitarian. Unless she's eating meat. Then she's a meatatarian.

Those meatballs are so much better looking than the homemade attempt at pasta!!

Enjoy!