You're A Man...

My husband was fake crying in a high-pitched falsetto voice and Mr. Dramatic said:

"Dad stop it! You're a man!"

Even Mondays...

" Jesus Christ is the same Monday, today and forever."

(Quoted by Mr. Independent when asked to recite our memory verse--Hebrews 13:8-- for the week)


I guess we all need to be reminded that Jesus is the same...even on Mondays! :)


"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen."

Hebrews 13:8

Vocabulary

My son, Mr. Independent came up to me yesterday morning and stated:

"Mom, my brudder is antagnizin' me again."

Me: "Your brother is antagonizing you?"

Him: "Yes, he is antagnizin' me with the blanket."


What can I say folks? I love using big words in everyday conversations. LOL :)

Colorful Minds

Last night as we were saying our bedtime prayers with the boys, Mr. Querido asked them to pray in Spanish with him. We gently encouraged them to follow along after us.

"Gracias a Dios" *a pause as we wait for them to join in*
Silence.
"Don't you want to pray in Spanish?" Mr Querido asks.
"But I'm not brown like you yet, Daddy!" was the reply from Mr. Independent.

So there you have it. My inability to speak fluent Spanish is in direct correlation to my skin color!

Gardenin' Angels

The other day, I was discussing God's protection with Mr. Dramatic and Mr. Independent. We were talking about how God is always there for you and He always takes care of you. Also we discussed angels. Guardian angels.

"Gardenin' angels?" Mr. Independent queries.

"Not gardenin' angels, GUARDIAN angels." I correct.

"What's a GAR-dee-yun angel, Mama?" he asks me.

So I proceeded to explain.

(Kids are so cute when they try to make a new vocabulary word fit into the old vocabulary repertoire..lol!)

Losing Our Minds but Not Our Sense of Humor!

Last night we had a friend fly in late (11pm) from Mexico. So we waited with his family to greet him. After all the hugging and back slapping (men..lol!) it was time for him to go home with his wife and baby daughter. We parted ways in the parking garage.

Toting three kids, my beloved and I wearily walked to our van. As we headed into the elevator, we realized that we didn't remember what level we were parked on. There are only six levels so how hard could the process of elimintaion be? We pressed P3 and whooshed up to that level. As we stepped out we immediately saw that our van was no where to be found. Although we found the white truck we had parked next to. Panic started to set in. Then we realized that it was the WRONG level. Whew! Our vehicle had not been stolen. Thank God! The only thing was is that we were hopelessly lost and had ABSOLUTELY no idea where our van was parked! So with a prayer and some humor we pressed P2 and arrived on the rental car floor. Definitely the wrong one. OK, for the sake of not boring you to death, it took us HALF AN HOUR of whooshing up and down the floors to find out that we were parked on the OPPOSITE SIDE of the parking garage!

I tell you, we could not have felt more dumb going up and down in the elevators with 2 tired toddlers and one very hungry baby. I imagine that airport security would probably have come to find us eventually...
Actually, I wonder what would have happened if we hadn't found out about the different sides of the parking garage.

The best part is that we had paid prior to reentering the garage and because we took SO LONG to find our vehicle, they wanted to charge us another $3!!! We pleaded insanity and they let us off the hook!

LOL! These are the kinds of situations that could have escalated into a full blown argument, blame-shifting, etc. But we both managed to see the humor in it...how many adults does it take to find their vehicle?..and we maanaged to stay happy with each other and just look at it as a really great workout!

I am so cracking up as I think about what the security footage must have looked like!

Mr. Independent thought that the whole fiasco was great fun. "Mama, we're silly!" he told me on the one-hundredth run up the elevator.

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

When We Get Bigger And Other Lessons

Right now my two sons are discussing the benefits of getting bigger...
"Mom, are we gonna have kids when we get bigger?" JM questions me.
"After you get married, I am sure you will have kids." I reply
At this point JM and IE are laughing so hard they can barely speak (apparently having kids is funny...lol)
"I'm going to have two boys!" JM enthusiastically announces.
"Me too!" IE chimes in.
At this point I get the distinct impression that they are planning to marry each other when they grow up...(ahh brotherly love and such innocence)
"But you have to marry a girl when you grow up." I clarify for them.
"I'm going to marry AJ!" JM states matter-of-factly.
"Um, you can't marry your sister honey."
"Why not?"
"God doesn't want you to marry your sister. He wants you to marry someone else."
"What is her name?"
"I don't know, only God knows."
The boys laugh and move onto other pressing matters, like what car we are going to buy for them when they get older...hah! (I informed them that they would be buying their own cars.)

It just made me think of how family truly prepares us to love other people. And also, how you can start building solid family values at any age. They don't need to know about homosexuality or incest right now. All they need to know is the basics: you can't marry your sister or your brother no matter how much you like them and only God knows who you will marry.

Actually, it made me kind of proud that they had even considered marrying their sister...lol...at least the lesson of loving your siblings has set in!

Feeling "Crumby"

JM and IE have been asking their aunt JR to go to the park since she is staying with us. She started to feel a little under the weather too. This morning, the dialogue went something like this...
JM: "Aunt JR, can we please go to the park?"
Aunt JR: "No, not today."
JM being the ever-so-inquisitive-one asks her why (he asks why about EVERYTHING!).
Aunt JR: "Because I'm feeling a little crummy today."
At this point my youngest son, IE, responds: "But I like crumbies!"

Ah, kids...