Spring Break

Spring Break is here, and we have been enjoying the time off to be together as a family. Friday night we cleaned up the yard, because we knew rainy weather was on its way, and we wanted to make good use of the nice day. Saturday we hit all 5 yard sales that were in town, and then we came home to hang out and have fun. Sunday was church, and we had the Butlers over for food and games. It was fun. Yesterday the rain began, and it is STILL RAINING! We are hoping that Thursday and Friday will be nice weather as we are going to K.C. for an overnight trip. We really don't want to hang out at the zoo in the rain. (sigh)

Our roof is still leaking, and it is getting worse. It keeps me up at night. I am hoping that we can get someone to fix it next week. Once it is fixed, we can finish up the back of the house!

I love the time off with our kids. Even though we didn't really go anywhere this year, we are still having a great time.

Kids say the funniest things

My children cause me to laugh a lot. Their actions and their way of thinking can be quite humorous. For example, one time a few years back our whole family went to eat at a restaurant called "Gauchos" where they feed you a LOT of meat. As we were sitting around the round table enjoying the time together as a family, Molly took a bite of steak. She chewed and chewed and chewed. She finally looked at her Dad with a strange face and said, "Is this meat gum?" Meat gum! We laughed and laughed, and we still will talk about meat gum anytime one of us gets that piece that seems to never go away. (We have all had those, huh?)

Most recently, we were eating together again (good things happen around the table) when Dennis was asking the kids about feelings they have about growing up. He asked Sammy, "What are you looking forward to about turning 18?" Sammy quickly replied, "Entering sweepstakes." Dennis and I erupted in laughter. I can see Sammy watching things on TV that state, "You must be 18 or older to enter...", and him thinking, "OK, when I'm 18, I'm going to enter those sweepstakes." Funny stuff.

When Shelden was about a year or year-and-a-half old, she was looking through some books on our shelves. One of them happened to be a cookbook with a picture of chicken on the front. She called chicken, "Gaga." I looked over at her, and she was licking the front cover of that book. I asked her what she was doing, and she said, "Gaga," and licked it again.

I love my kids' humor.