rainy day

this morning it rained and rained and rained some more! it was the perfect day for cuddling up with a good book, but unfortunately today was a work day! no cuddling for me!

since half of our garage is now covered with boxes, my car is parked outside in the driveway. normally that's not a problem, but when you keep your umbrella IN your car and it's pouring down rain......you have to get creative. did you know that an empty wal-mart sack fits perfectly over your head?

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recycling

after school the boys and i went to barnes and noble to find us all a new book to read. spencer was searching for the 3rd book in the eragon series. they didn't have it so he got another ranger's apprentice book. he likes that series, and more importantly, it will work for his book report!

colby, on the other hand, had no idea what book he wanted. he hasn't really decided what genre he likes yet, so it's always a long event when we go to a bookstore. he thought he wanted a book about dragons, and we finally found one that was on his level. as we were walking out of the kids' books to find me a book he spotted some non-fiction books about animals, the earth and sea creatures. he always tends to lean towards those kinds of books, and so of course he put the dragon book back and got one about sea critters. i told him he should be a marine biologist.

for some strange reason, i bought a biography. i don't think i've ever gotten a biography. i'm sure i've read them for assignments, but i really don't think i've ever chosen to read one. maybe it was the cover that struck me, or maybe it was the person. i ended up getting the story of charles shultz's life. in case you don't know he's the creator of the peanuts comic strip. i've always liked that comic, so i thought it would be interesting to learn about the guy who brought it all to life! i'll let you know.....

quote of the day: "I wouldn't exactly call it trouble....." ~Colby's response when Daryl asked him if he'd been good at school today.

sleepy

i stayed up too late last night reading, but i finished the book!!! and it had a happy ending!

this is the only picture i took today, so it gets the honor of being my photo of the day by default.

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welcome

quote of the day: When your mother is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?" it's best not to answer her. ~

Megham, age 13

tonight

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pig and a book

nothing to tell you about today except the maintenance guy at school FINALLY believed me about there being something wrong with my air-conditioner!

that book and pig are calling my name, so i'm turning in early tonight! i can't wait to finish reading that book to see if kathleen and johnny end up together! no, it's not quality literature, but i do enjoy a sappy love story!

quote of the day: “All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.”

~Walt Disney (1901-1966), animator, film producer

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i couldn't think of a title for today's post, so i'm going with blank. nothing earth-shattering happened today. just another monday in my world.

around 8:00 tonight i was scrambling around here taking pictures trying to find something that would be my photo of the day. first i went in the back yard and took pictures through the holes in the fence, hoping i'd get a really cool pic....not really. {although i did discover a removable knothole!}

then i came back in the house and decided to mess with colby by taking a picture of him in the bathtub! he kept screaming and hiding behind the curtain and the bottle of soap! {finally......he's becoming modest!}

then i went outside in the front, but all i got was a picture of these flowers. that wasn't speaking to me either tonight because i've taken lots of pictures of flowers lately.

so i came back in the house and heard squirt squeaking. i know i've taken pictures of him recently, but he's so stinkin' cute!!! i sat down in the floor right in front of his cage, and rocky didn't like that AT ALL. he kept barking and jumping up to see squirt. but when i picked him up and held him high enough to reach squirt, he couldn't get out of my arms fast enough! little, hairy chicken!

after all those photo shoots i thought, surely, i would find something worthy of being called photo of the day. when my photos uploaded, the perfect picture all but slapped me upside the head! duh!!! i already had my photo of the day from early this morning!

when spencer went out to feed rocky, he noticed a small piece of a rainbow in the morning sky. he ran in the house shouting, "mom!!! hurry, you gotta see this! get your camera! it's a rainbow and the sky is beautiful!" {smile.} i know i've said it many times before, but i absolutely love that my boys take time to notice all the beautiful things god has created! so here it is....

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morning rainbow

quote of the day: “Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things.” ~Josh Hinds; motivational speaker, author

new beginning...

today was the first time we worshipped with the family at adams blvd. in bartlesville. someone was already lined up to preach, so daryl didn't preach. next sunday is his big debut!

after worship we had lunch with 2 really sweet families.

this afternoon i just spent my time reading and taking a nap. ahhh......i love sunday afternoons!

then we had dinner with a bunch of our friends from here. i'm just so thankful for the blessing of friends!

when we walked out of jason's deli tonight, the sunset was beautiful! even though it was behind the clouds, the rays were spreading out in all directions. this picture doesn't even begin to show just how amazing it was!

while spencer was taking out the trash tonight, he found this little guy hopping around. i've always thought frogs were cute, so i had to get a picture of him! i wasn't planning on catching him, but he hopped on my foot... of course as soon as i picked him up he peed all over my hand!!! you can see that my pinky finger is wet in this picture! nasty little thing!

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ribbit

quote of the day: “Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.” ~Laura Schlessinger (b.1947); radio host, author

unsolved mystery

tonight spencer and colby went out front to play. they'd been gone a really long time, so i went outside to check on them. their scooter and bike were in the driveway, and i could hear their voices. i looked across the street at the house that's under construction and saw spencer coming around from the back with a hoe in his hand. busted.

i almost just turned around and walked back in the house because i was afraid to ask what they were up to. but curiosity got the best of me, and i asked, "what are you doing?"

i got the same answer from both of them....looking for colby's shoe.

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digging for a flip flop

i'm still not real sure how it got lost, but here's the story i got:

they were chasing a rabbit, and he went behind that house. the rabbit went into a tunnel (hole), and when colby stepped on top of it, the tunnel collapsed. his foot went down in the dirt, and when he pulled his foot out, the shoe was gone. they dug a trench looking for his flip flop! i went out there and helped a little bit with no luck. i was still just dumbfounded about the whole story! it made NO sense! it was almost like he'd stepped in quick sand!!

i sent daryl out there to help. i told him that since he's a boy, maybe he could better understand what happened to the shoe and could help them find it. about 15 minutes they all came back. daryl was just shaking his head, and colby was crying. they didn't find the shoe, and colby had to throw his other flip flop in the trash. for some reason he loved those flip flops!

(this is how he looked the rest of the night...mad!)

i still don't understand how it just disappeared like that!

quote of the day: "A boy's story is the best that is ever told." ~Charles Dickens

friday.....wow!

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morning dew

why couldn't my day have been as peaceful as the dew on the grass this morning?

everything was fine until lunch. i checked my phone and i had message from a principal in bartlesville wanting an interview. so i spent my lunch break frantically trying to make arrangements to have someone cover my class and finding someone to watch spencer and colby. i rushed home, changed clothes, took the boys to gina's (thanks, geeg) and made it to bartlesville 20 minutes early! and no, i didn't even speed!

the interview went well, but the principal decided to hire someone who could start on MONDAY! after thinking and praying about it on the way home, i really believe god was watching out for me. there were some things that just didn't seem right, and i'm truly thankful that i didn't have to make the decision about whether or not to take the job if it had been offered to me.

on the way home, though, something really cool happened..........i finally figured out how to roll my tongue!!!! i have NEVER been able to do it, and i don't know what possessed me to try again on the way home. the only way i could do it, though, was to put several pieces of sonic ice on my tongue and wrap it around the ice. i tried it many times without the ice, but i couldn't do it!!! i know, i know. i'm completely weird!

quote of the day: "I can roll my tongue!!!!!!" ~me!

captain

have you ever been so tired that you literally couldn't keep your eyes open? that's how i was last night! i started watching spongebob with colby at 7:30, and the next thing i knew i was in dream land! i vaguely remember doing bible reading with the boys in my bed, and then a little while later i remember spencer running in reminding me that i hadn't blogged yet. but that's it. i was out!

so spencer took care of me and took yesterday's photo of the day! it's a picture of his safety patrol captain's badge. he's pretty proud of it!

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safety patrol captain

quote of the day: "Is it bedtime?" ~me

1st day of school

things were back to normal today. the boys and i went back to school. although i should have taken pictures of the boys with their teachers, i didn't. maybe i'll get them tomorrow!

i did get their pictures in the car, though. so i do have 1st day of school pictures.....just not at school!

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back to school

quote of the day: "A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste. "~Principal Jacobs....from the movie Mr. Holland's Opus

the day before school starts

tonight spencer and i took a little stroll down to the ponds because i didn't have any pictures taken yet. {i left my camera at home when i left for work!}

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my spencer

these purple flowers were so tiny that my camera didn't want to focus in on them! this is the best shot i got of them. i think i'm going to have to back and try harder to get a better picture!

i also wanted to get some of these before they were gone for the summer!

quote of the day: "Mom...my bed's not working!" ~Colby......when he tried to get under his covers to go to sleep, he couldn't get his legs in because Spencer had short-sheeted his bed! wow!

p.s. there's supposed to be a meteor shower tonight. i'm going to try to see it! maybe if i'm really lucky, i'll get a picture....yeah, right!