Tonight at Granger was quite the night! I thought that you might enjoy some of the details. We had 6 more children than last night. Last night was calm and quiet, tonight was anything but calm. We had some REAL characters, who will remain nameless. One of the first little girls in.... was Miss ENERGY! I promise you she never sat still the entire night. She ate her popcorn and watched the movie all while walking around. She was as cute as could be, but very busy. I will forever think of her as "the little butterfly". Character number two was a sweet, seven year old boy. He talked and acted far above his years. He kept asking me math problems to show me how smart he was. (he did consistently get them wrong, but he sounded so confident of his answer) I really enjoyed this guy. My favorite time with him was when we were playing Duck, Duck, Goose. We play it differently. Instead of using Duck and Goose, you have to use other words. For example...chocolate, chocolate, vanilla/ dot, dot, stripe/ happy, happy, sad. You get the picture. Well, Mr. Math was so proud of himself for coming up with a great one. He started out...church, church, church, prister! He did prister to me. I did not get up like I was supposed to, I just sat there going, "Prister, what does prister mean?" He looked at me and said, "You know...Prister!" (as if I didn't hear him the first time) I said, "No, I don't know prister. What are you saying?" He stood there for a couple of seconds and then he realized what he meant to say. He said, "Oh, Minister!" We all laughed so hard. He had blended preacher and minister and came up with PRISTER. He was adorable. Characters number three and four came as a couple. They are "boyfriend and friend". She just turned 5 today and he is much older than her...he is 6 and a FAMOUS dodge ball player! (I know this because he told me so) They apparently have been a couple for sometime. The older sister of the little girl told my helper and I all about how much these two "love" each other. We couldn't keep these two apart from each other, they always some how ended up together. I am not too worried about this "relationship", I have known this family for years, they won't let this go on for too long.
Jeff had an award ceremony to go to at the Tab. He was here on the property so we left the children home watching movies. Don't worry grandparents, he had the cell phone if they needed him. They did a great job as far as I know. The only CATASTROPHE was that Joel some how, for how long I don't know, played in the (flushed) toilet while everyone was busy watching movies. Yes, I agree that is DISGUSTING!!! How I discovered it was worse, but you don't need those details. Well there was nothing I could do about it except wash him up and change his clothes and PRAY that he doesn't get sick!
Let me end on a happier note. Amy had me pull her tooth out tonight. She was so excited!
Jeff worked last Saturday, so tomorrow is his day off!!! Yippee. I get to spend time with my husband tomorrow. We will not be working at Granger, so the entire day will be a day OFF! (except for school, house cleaning, and cooking that is)
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
To much not to share
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Where I will be
I am just prewarning you that I probably won't be blogging much these next two weeks. My family and I are going to be working at Granger almost every night. These pictures are from my classroom. I only had six children tonight and one was Amy. We had SO much fun. I am really looking forward to these nights!! We usually have about 35 children every Thursday night. I forgot how much I truly miss small numbers.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
An eventful Saturday
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Friday, February 23, 2007
Friday night is here!
Tonight is THE Friday night sleepover that they all have been waiting for. Everything is going so well!! We really need to do this more often. The kids are all getting along without any trouble. We have Joanna, Joshua, and Mary Maines for this special night.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Colorful
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Chicken Stuffing
This receipe is one of the easiest I do.
You will need a 9x13 in. pan
1 can each of cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup
2 boxes of Stove Top Stuffing (I use the off brand)
3 or 4 cups of cooked cut up chicken pieces
2 cups of cheddar cheese
Make the stuffing as the box directs. Place stuffing on the bottom of the 9x13 pan. Sprinkle chicken pieces on top of stuffing. Spread undiluted soups over chicken (make sure that all chicken is covered). Bake for 30 min. at 350 degrees. Pull from oven then add cheese on top and let it sit until cheese melts. It is now ready to serve.
A different way to make this and get the vegetables in the meal is....add cooked mixed vegetables at the same time that you add the chicken.
Emily was having fun with Joel today. She tucked him snuggly in the laundry basket. As you can tell....he LOVED it!
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Nothing exciting happened
Today was pretty uneventful. I woke up at 6:30...showered and spent time with my Savior. Around 8:30 I fed Joel breakfast. Did school with the children all morning and fed Joel lunch around 1:00. The girls went to basketball practice with Jeff. Daniel played out in the snow all afternoon. During this time I cleaned the house, did laundry and wrote Thank you notes to our supporters. When they came home, we all had supper and watched a movie. Jeff is upstairs tucking the children in bed as I write this. Now I can clean the house again, do more laundry and probably go to bed. Tomorrow I will come up with something more exciting to write about. Maybe I will give you a receipe to try.
PS- The children are VERY relieved that their friends do get to come over this week. I wish you could have seen the looks on their faces when I told them lastnight. PRICELESS!!
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
I am SO bad!
My mom would do this to me ALL the time. She would come up with some falsehood and convince me that it was true. She loved playing with me like that. My whole family did it to me. I believed some really funny things. At one point in my life, my Uncle Harvey had me convinced that I would become a BOY when I grew up!! He was a hoot! He was always coming up with something to convince me of. I loved it when I was little and I still do. Now to carry on this strange (but oh so fun) tradition I do the same thing to my children. Today's joke is so much fun. The children have had a sleepover planned for this Friday night, but things have "kind of" changed. Lauren and I have convinced Emily, Daniel and Amy that congress has passed a new law. There will be NO Friday this week. Their freinds will not be able to come over this week and spend the night, because Friday has been canceled. (You really have to be good at keeping a straight face during these times of convincing them. It is a great ability that I have gotten from my mom! She is one of the best at this art.) Well you may be asking yourself, "How did she convince them of something so silly." Good question, for those that asked it. I just told them that too many people go out and party on Friday nights and don't spend enough time at home with their families. So congress canceled Friday so that people would stay home! Daniel said, "That is a great idea!" He and Amy believed us in no time at all, but they are very disappointed that they "have to wait until next week". Emily was a little harder to convince, but she fell for it. Don't worry.... I will tell them the truth at supper tonight! I am sure that we will all get a great laugh out of this one.
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Karen and I survived!
Saturday the 17th of Febuary, 2007 was the ABSOLUTE BEST day of shopping I have ever had!! Karen and I left home at 10:00 am and did not return until 11:30 PM!! 13 1/2 hours of being away from our HOUSE and just being together. At one point today, Jeff accused me of running away from home, without him knowing it. He said, "I was leading him to believe that I was just a half hour away shopping for the day, but in all acuality I was half way across the country!" (I must admit, we were gone long enough to pull that one off!) I love his sense of humor, he makes me laugh everyday!
I have never felt so good while shopping. I know that a GREAT part of my awesome time, had everything to do with the excellent sales that we found! I feel like I do when I have found a great garage sale. Today was better than a garage sale day. Probably my best bargain of the day was the $84.00 coat for....... $5.97! My favorite buy was my $2.00 shower curtain hooks. They were the EXACT ones that I have been praying for!! The next super buy was... next year's winter coat set for Joel (hopefully he will be able to wear it for two years, I got it big enough). The set included a coat, snow pants, gloves and a hat!! I got it all for FREE! Well....I did have to open a charge card, purchase it on the card and then they took $15.00 off my total. The total for the set came to $13.67, so I had to charge the pairs of gloves that I was also buying. I charged them, then I paid the bill right there with cash, I owe them nothing. Now all I have to do is cancel the card when it comes in the mail and cut it up!! I love the way these things work! Next, my lunch and dinner didn't cost me a dime. My wonderful mother saw to that. She sent all 7 of us a gift certificate for our favorite resturant for Valentine's Day!! She also set $5.00 extra in my envelope. I used up my gift certificate and the extra $5.00 today. Thank you Mom!!
I bought a few other special things, but I won't bore you with anymore details. I need to get to bed now, it is 1:40 in the morning.
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Checking In
Not much is going on here. Well to be totally honest, today the house could burn to the ground and I wouldn't notice. I am already half way through my book!!! I will be putting it down for the night and not picking it up again until tomorrow night. I am going shopping for the day with my great friend Karen. Unless something funny happens tomorrow, you will probably not here from me again until Sunday. (I will be done with the book by then)
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
I did it!!
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day
Today was the BEST Valentine's Day I have ever had!!! Jeff took the day off from work and just spent it at home with us. Then some VERY wonderful gals offered to watch our children for the evening so that Jeff and I could have a date. These gals took care of all five of the kids (and twenty other children:) for FREE and fed them too!! Jeff and I had a fantastic time!! I can't imagine a better Valentine's Day!
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Monday, February 12, 2007
As it should be
Today was a great day. Joel took two naps and he was MUCH happier...and so was I!! Lauren and Emily decided to get along today. They wanted to dress alike and do their hair the same way. I have been praying for their relationship. Today was just a glimpse of what could come in the future. YIPPEE!!!
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
I was wrong!
I don't think that Joel is ready to give up his morning nap. He fell asleep in his highchair after breakfast this morning. Tomorrow we will go back to two naps!
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Friday, February 9, 2007
Sleepover
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Labels: all five children, God is teaching me
Thursday, February 8, 2007
He asked me to do it
I am not one of those parents who thinks all has to be fair in regard to my children, but Daniel asked so nicely I had to do it. He asked me to please take his picture while he was sleeping and post it on the blog like I did of Amy! I went into his bedroom lastnight and took a couple of pictures. I hope you don't mind me posting another picture and making my son happy. He will be thrilled to see it on here.
The weather is getting warmer here. Well I haven't actually been outside recently, but I assume it is warmer because the ice is off my windows!!
Amy is working on getting another tooth loose enough to be pulled. I don't think we had one loose tooth last year. This must be the year of the TOOTH!
I said that I would keep you posted about the weight lose, I will also keep you posted on the weight gain. I don't know how, but I gained a pound. I wanted so badly to be able to read my book this weekend, but I won't make it to five pounds by tomorrow. I will keep working at it though. I am going to win this battle!
Joel has dropped his morning nap. We are now down to one nap a day! I really like it this way. He sleeps one long nap instead of two short naps. He is getting so big. Any of you that know me well, know how excited I get when my children are no longer babies. I love watching Joel learn new things and become more independent! Life is good today!!
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
He keeps us on our toes!
Here are some pictures of different things that Joel has done recently. The first one is a picture of Joel stuck in the lid of our kindling box. The next one is him playing in the laundry basket. Emily giving Joel a piggy back ride is the next one. They have so much fun together. Amy is the sleeping child with the hat on. She wore that hat all day and didn't want to take it off lastnight. The last picture is of Joel finishing his breakfast. We thought he was done. I got him out of his highchair and let him go play. I forgot about him until I heard one of the children yell, "Look at Joel!" He was sitting on the floor feeding himself. I guess he wasn't done! I hope that I am not boring you with all these photos. It is just so hard for me not to share them with you.
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Labels: Amy, Joel, weight loss
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
More pictures from yesterday
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Monday, February 5, 2007
How we survive the cold
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Sunday, February 4, 2007
Funday
Today was a fun day. We were given tickets to a Notre Dame basketball game. After church, Jeff took Lauren, Emily, and Daniel to the game. They had a great time. I was so proud of Jeff. His team, the Chicago Bears, was playing in the Super Bowl during this basketball game. He chose to make a memory with the children instead of staying home to watch "THE" game. His brother Jimmy taped the game so that Jeff could watch it when he got home. We are watching
it right now. The Bears are losing at the moment.
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Labels: all five children, Jeff
Saturday, February 3, 2007
We are back
We didn't actually go anywhere, but I have been too busy to post the last four days. I have alot of to get you caught up on.
Well, Joel is learning sign language. He can now sign please, thank you, more, and done. These four signs come in VERY handy at meal time! All my friends children sign these words, but Joel is our first child to use them. Probably because he had four siblings very determined to make him learn and repeat over and over again. He is so cute when he talks to us!
We got a new computer desk. It is SO nice. Headquarters was selling their "old" furniture at a silent auction. We won the desk for $25.00! It is bigger than our old one and MUCH nicer!!! It is our plan to sell our old one at our garage sale this summer. We figure that we can get $25.00 for it.
I was MADE to drive in the snow yesterday! My dear husband forced me to do it. I was SO angry with him that I wasn't even afraid to drive. It was the neatest thing, I had no fear, only anger! After making me driving for about two minutes Jeff asked, "How are you doing?" I said, "Except for being angry at you, I am fine!" He was so amused at that, that he couldn't stop smiling. Then he asked, "Do you want me to take over now?" That stinker just wanted me to try it!! Well I didn't have him take over. I was actually enjoying not being afraid and I continued to drive us to our destinations. After we were done driving to the bank and the library, Jeff leaned in for a kiss. I wanted to refuse him, but he was so cute smiling back at me, I kissed him and forgave him. Don't tell him, but I was and still am glad that he made me do it! I hope not to ever fear the snow again as much as I have in the past. Maybe this experience was life changing for me!!
Lauren, Emily, and I went to see a play at a local college. We saw the Miracle Worker. It was the story of Helen Keller. They did an excellent job and we LOVED it.
Today was Daniel's first basketball game. It was more fun to watch than I expected. He did a good job.
Our internet has been having trouble. I hope to post more tomorrow, as long as we are able to get online.
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