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| smiles from this cutie pie have been few and far between this last week we're a bunch of sickies over here a lot of "downtime" has been had..... and I can't say that's been bad sure, the sickness (me included) has been no fun but the extra time just chillin with the kiddos has been snuggly |
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| Justin captured this candid moment with Matthias and me I was looking at some school papers for his big brothers and he just helped himself to my lap and curled his little self around me LOVE |
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| I've loved the extra moments we've had to just chill.... (what else do you do when even the tv gets boring and not even your energetic children can get off the couch to do anything?!) there's been a lot of chillin a lot of meds a lot of OJ a lot of vitamins a lot of extra pj wearing a lot of cuddles and kisses a lot of tissues a lot of "you're going to get better soon" a lot of my prayers going like this: "help, please Jesus!" {as I peel my weary self off the couch to meet needs...} |
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| my fav conversation came this morning as we missed church for the second Sunday in a row..... I attempted to hold a church service of my own for my children complete with a few moments of Charles Stanley on tv {it's okay. Justin laughed at me, too given the audience was our 8, 5, 4 and 1.5 year olds!} and spent time memorizing our new family Bible verse {Jeremiah 29:11} and spent time talking about heaven. no more sickness there! woot. woot. everything new. some of my fav 'new things' the boys wish for in heaven: Jon: new sports Caleb: new liquids! {I'm guessing they're talking about liquids at school. he's been pretty fascinated lately} Matthias: new socks that say M-A-T-T {he was wearing his brothers socks today because most of his have holes and he needs, yet again, some new ones to wear out!} Jon was pretty excited for me that there's probably going to be new coffee in heaven, too bring on heaven. |
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| we didn't actually stay inside every minute of this last week the boys school had their costume parade. caleb called himself the 'oh no' doctor "you know, the one who gives shots all the time" {ooooh. scary!} |
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| {Luuuuke. I am your father.} this is precisely why Justin wouldn't allow me to give one of our boys this name (though I loved the name Luke) Jonathan rocks both the Vader suit and the shoes with bright orange laces classic costume meets third grade |
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| we cheered on our parade participants and then the youngers and I headed to the school library for our own little party complete with goldfish crackers and McDonalds orange drink and spider-themed bookmarks to color |
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| what does dinner look like when you feel like youknowwhat? throw a spaghetti squash in the crock rock it for 5ish hours on low (I turned it a couple of times) cut it in half, remove seeds and use a fork to remove the 'noodles' that magically appear top with a jar of spaghetti sauce and you could call it dinner {or overachieve like I did by baking some refridgerator biscuits sprinkling them with parmesan cheese for 'breadsticks' and then boil up some pasta to add to the squash for those who think noodles should really be 'noodles' partypoopers. oh, and I think I microwaved up some edamame, too cause even though I give my kids poptarts I really value nutrition.} and that's us. sickies. lounging on couches try not to be jealous, k? |
