My Future

I'm not sure how I'm going to adjust to the change in TV when we move.  I got this mesage on my screen yesterday and am worried that it is just the beginning of my future where we spend three years without the TV shows I am used to watching.  Netflix instant viewing won't work internationally.  Even logging directly onto the network websites to watch online is blocked.  Ugh.

All done!

My angel mother took care of all my peaches from the orchard while I was
away at camp. Thank you!!

every Doc first words when

every Doc first words when they see me regarding my mouth stuff - "Wow! You really took care of this thing!" good check today :)

Progress

I've had in my mind for months and months a smattering of things I need to get done to be ready to move.  That includes a long list of things not worth taking overseas.  Just seems too overwhelming to get them posted on Craigslist to sell them.  Last night I was laying in bed thinking about doing it yet again.  I started counting the months.  Four months.  That's it.  Once we get our orders, there will be lots more important things to take care of than selling stuff.  It will end up being donated to places that may or may not be able to sell it or sent to a landfill.

 

This morning I posted the first two items to get rid of and it feels good.  Already have an appointment for someone to come look at the entertainment center at 4pm.  Yipee!!  Let the dejunking begin.

 

PS - I also sorted out ALL of the three mounded buckets of clothes the kids have outgrown in the last year this week.  They are bagged and labeled.  Now...what to do with them...take or leave I'm just not sure.

Leave It to a Man with a Chain Saw

After Maddie finished her stories tonight and was shuffled off to brush her teeth, Ben had a question.  Thankfully he addressed it directly to dad.  "Dad, how do they get babies out of a baby if you stay at home?"  (My friend is hoping for a home birth today).  Brian, not knowing what to say, tried and tried to dodge.  Finally he came up with telling Ben, "I don't know.  I never had a baby at my house.  All mine came at the hospital."

 

Nice try. Ben follow up with, "Then how do they get babies out of the mom at the hospital?"  Brian still waffling around said the doctor cut him out of my stomach.  That prompted Ben to more questions and offering options for Brian to choose.  "Do they use a chain saw to cut the baby out?  Or a jack hammer?"  He told him about the little knives for surgery.

 

Ben then says, "I know that I have a puzzle in my brain that tells how I am."  Confused, we asked more questions to figure out what he's talking about.  He tells us the puzzle said he would have a p (if I write the word my blog will get blocked). Okay, he must be talking about DNA making boys and girls different.  Using that lead in, we say just like he has a body part, girls have a hole for babies.  And that's enough info for tonight.  All I know is I'm glad no one used a chainsaw to get my babies out.

 

I asked Brian if I could post this or not.  He read it first and said if this is what I'm writing, he wants me to add that I sat at the table the entire time with a smirk on my face offering not even one teeny tiny piece of aid to my poor husband.  It's true.  I have already had this talk at least twice and figured it was Dad's turn to be on the hot seat.  He did well.

Stories By Maddie

Brian can often be found entertaining our kids over dinner.  It usually starts with, "Can I tell you a story?"  That question is always met with an extatic YES from the kids.  Then he starts in about a hypothetical family with three kids, a big brother, a sister and a little brother or something like that but never mentioning names.  They of course catch on every time and squeel with delight that the story must obviously be about them.  Then he relays a story from our family history.  They hang on his every word and Maddie's smile is ear to ear and irresistable.  Tonight Maddie wanted to return the favor and shared a story with us.  Here it is, transcribed as she spoke.

 

"Once there was a big family. And they had a daughter called Angie.  One day when it was Octember they had a new baby called Brian.  Then one Sunday after they went to church they came home and were surprised to find a babysitter to babysit the new baby. And that babysitter was called Ben.  And then there was a new baby named Maddie.  I mean Pineapple Penelope Tree. Then the grandparents called their friends who met them at church and when they got home the friends parents were already at the house.  So the parents forgot to take the kids home so the grandparents and I took them home."

 

Erin also told me today that Maddie had relayed to her that she was getting a baby sister some day soon and that she has 100 grandmas.  She also plans to pray to Heavenly Father to see if she could live with him some day, then she can see her 100 grandmas. 

 

I watched Heather's cute girl Hazel today while she attempted to have another baby.  When I explained why Hazel was here to play, she leaned down to Hazel, who is 10 days younger than Jacob, patted her stomach and told her congratulations on getting a baby sister today and that Maddie was getting her baby sister in a while and she was SO excited.

 

Bad day at the state inspection place.