Want to see me drive like a crazy woman?

Issue a freakin TORNADO warning in my area and watch me fly down the road praying like mad!!!!!!! Do we live in Kansas or Oklahoma? This is New England for heavens' sake! What if Mem doesn't bring them in the basement fast enough? What if the windows are open? What if my car gets sucked into a funnel cloud never to be seen again? What if Jonathan gets hurt? The list of my wild imagination goes on and on...... Oh it got cancelled 15 minutes later.

Quotes from my Kids

Me: "What's your name?"
Eliana: "Princess."
AJ: "Eliana, I can't understand you when you're whining."
Me: Eliana, who loves you the most?"
Eliana: "Bob and Sue" (our neighbors).

The People's Court

What could this post possibly be about you might say? This morning I went to the municipal court to contest a 100 dollar parking ticket. I managed to get it reduced to 30 dollars. On the annoying side the judge didn't arrive till 20 minutes after everyone was already there and we were interrupted by a cop and 2 guys in handcuffs who for some reason got to cut the line so to speak and go ahead of everyone! What the heck is up with that? Shouldn't the people like me who had very minor violations get to go 1st while the people in handcuffs wait? I certainly didn't appreciate all of that. We weren't being filmed today......too bad, I could have flexed my acting skills for public access television.

Big Night Out

Last night Grandma called and said she would love to see the kids and would we like to go out for awhile? Of course we would...come on over! So what did we do? Went out for ice cream and to Benny's to buy a new sprinkler. Then we ran to Target to get boring stuff like undershirts and deodorant. I did get a cute little sundress on clearance but gosh, are we getting old or what? We were home and asleep by 10:00. Well Jonathan was anyway...I seem to have insomnia lately!

Here they are ...the beach bums!

We all finally got to go to the beach together and it was a beautiful day! Never mind the fact that everyone and their grandma was trying to get there too (it took us about an hour and a half when it's usually a 45 minute ride). It was also nice not having to ask a stranger to put sunscreen on my back like I have to when it's just me and the kids. The other cool thing that was going on were preparations for a triathlon happening tomorrow. Jonathan is now inspired to do that one day and I will cheer from the sidelines! Our friends Sean and Dianne and their kids were there too so we hung out with them for awhile. Here are some snapshots from our day!

I'm a Proud Momma

On Sunday at church all the kids were upstairs in the sanctuary instead of downstairs for Sunday school. It was a fun and interactive service for them and AJ enjoyed it. After talking about the gifts God gives us to use, Pastor Sean asked us all to write down 5 gifts we think we have and to have the children write theirs down as well. When I asked AJ what he thought he was good at the first thing he said was, "Taking care of Eliana." Followed by sharing, puzzles,reading and dancing. What a cutie huh? It's things like that that make me feel like the values we are trying to instill in our children might actually be seeping in.

What I've been thinking about/doing lately

-Why do we play the 1812 overture at fireworks displays? It was written by a Russian composer celebrating a victory against Napoleon and has nothing to do with American history.
-The Olympics! Anyone else watching the trials? My favorites are track and field (gotta love those male runners bodies ;) gymnastics and swimming. I remember being a little girl thinking I would be an Olympic gymnast someday!
-How much I love dancing in the summer! There's nothing like sweat dripping from your arms and legs during rehearsals. Aaahhh, warm muscles feel so good.
-"So you think you can Dance." My favorites are WILL, Mark, Katee and Joshua! But especially WILL...be still my heart I think I have a crush. Anyone else watching this show?