R.I.P.

We lost a beloved friend and family member yesterday.  Yes, he was a newt but he was OUR newt.  Tim bought Professor Klump shortly after moving here 13 years ago.  He went through two moves with him, our marriage, adding a cat then getting rid of the cat (Tim was allergic) and getting the dog.  He also was with us when we became parents.  Twice.   Ultimately he went into Cinderella's big girl room before Sleeping Beauty was born.  Cinderella took it the hardest.  He was her roommate, after all.  Prayers for a little girl and her broken heart.  "I'm sad he's gone."

I know he can't read and have thoughts like you and I do but I wanted to share this anyway.

Professor Klump,

Thank you for always being there for Tim and being so sweet to the girls and the neighborhood kids.  Everyone loved you.  You would always allow them to play with you and get you out of your abode.

Love,
Your People Family

And yes, I cried too.

My Heart Actually Hurts

It wasn't until this school shooting on Friday that I realized just how unsafe our country has become.  Yes, there have been other shootings and yes they have even been in schools.  But this one in a Kindergarten through fourth grade school has shaken me to my core.  The children killed were Cinderella's age and a year or two older than Sleeping Beauty.

I grew up in a Navy family.  I was always aware that there were bad people in the world, people who would want Americans dead if they were given the chance. But I always felt safe.   When I was about Cinderella's age we lived in Italy.  I went to school on base AN HOUR AWAY from my house.  I was in first and second grade during this time. There were guards with guns that rode on the bus with us.  I am thankful that I was unaware of that until I was older.  Once at school, it wasn't uncommon to have bomb threats and have to hide.  Libya was all sorts of crazy then and I remember vividly being crouched down and praying.  AT SCHOOL.    On a Navy Base.  No one can ever tell you that you cannot pray.  You can do so in your head and only you and God will know.

Deuteronomy 31:6
New King James Version (NKJV)
"Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”

One thing I have ALWAYS taken with me and that I will instill in my girls is that GOD IS ALWAYS THERE and you can always talk to Him.  The WORST thing they can do is kill you and if that happens, and you are a child who is innocent,  you get to go to Heaven.  That is where everyone is trying to make it to anyway.  To not be sad about those left behind because God will take care of them too.

I am still anxious and do not like my oldest being at school today.  I have cried and prayed about her safety and the safety of other children in schools across our country and even overseas.  I would not be OK at all if something were to happen to either of my girls but I will not stop living my life because of fear.  Then evil has won and evil doesn't win.  I've read the end of The Book.  :)

Halloween

Me and my Dorothy at her school

Complete with Toto in basket :)

Super Doggy!

Elphaba (AKA Wicked Witch of the West)

With her Maleficent pumpkin.  Like the "person" buried next to her?

With her Cinderella pumpkin

A new favorite picture

The best we could get of all the girls.  We couldn't see the witch's face, so this is what she did:

:)  See?

Who knows?!

Silly girls

"The Brawny Man."

Maleficent lit up

Cinderella lit up

Pumpkins!

Sleeping Beauty and her villain pumpkin: Maleficent.  :)

 Cinderella and her Princess Cinderella pumpkin.  :)

Almost...

...Ten years of marriage.  

And look at the straight-up-craziness we produced.  ;)

Olivia Pumpkin

Cinderella's school has a contest each Halloween - make a pumpkin into a book character.  She chose Olivia the pig.  It turned out so cute!!

My Birthday

This is what thirty-five looks like.  Twenty-five, eat your heart out.  :)
(Sleeping Beauty was told right before this picture that she had to clean her room before she played with her friends.  Haha)

Sisterly Love and School Party

 I cannot believe my baby is five.

Fun with Thirty-One (and Mustaches)

 The girls decided to do a Thirty-One party for themselves (with drawn on mustaches.)    It was hilarious.  :)

Sleeping Beauty's First Day of Pre K

 Sleeping Beauty's first day of Pre K  :)

School Days

 Cinderella started second grade today.  Sleeping Beauty starts Pre K next Tuesday.  They are getting so big so fast.

It's All Fun and Games...

Until someone ends up in a "lamp shade."

But don't worry - he can still drive!  ;)

My mom and dad's dog, Gizmo, got a corneal abrasion (eye scratch) and then an ulcer on top of that so he has to wear a "comfort cone."  My mom thought it was looking worse and the vet said they may have to remove his eye if it doesn't get better.  So he went back to the vet this morning and we were worried.  While he was there I overheard Sleeping Beauty pray:

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank you for this day.  Please help Gizmo's eye to get better so he doesn't have to be a pirate.  ARGHHH!

In Jesus' name,
Amen.

I love that little sprite!  The prayer worked because the vet said it was looking better!  Also, please don't mention you saw a picture of  Gizmo in the lamp shade to him.  He's very embarrassed by it.

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The girls were looking at their necklaces this afternoon and Cinderella said, "I didn't know Santa shopped at Forever 21."  (If you know how she talks when she's trying to figure things out this will be even more funny to you.  :)  )

Awkwaaaard...

St. Augustine Beach

:)

I "Mustache" You to Look at This Post

Check out her shirt: 

 :)  HAHAHA And both of their faces...

Sense a theme?

March Funnies

March 2012

When two people got baptized at church Sleeping Beauty said, "Are they going to Heaven NOW?!?!?!"

My mom watched the girls while Tim and I had a late afternoon date. Cinderella was worried about dinner and said to her Nana, "I don't want my mom to create a disaster and I don't want to have to eat it."

...




Sleeping Beauty: "I don't like the way this room smells."
Me: "Maybe it's you." (I was kidding.)
She smells herself and says, "It IS me!!"


Sleeping Beauty, name some words that start with "T:" Tire, Tooth, Tim, Tiny, Tall, Toot (hahaha) Bottom.
Um....No


My back was hurting and Sleeping Beauty gave me her blanket "Liney."

We were too afraid to ask what she meant but at the prayer at dinner Sleeping Beauty included the following: "And thank you for killing all the bad people so we won't be kilt."

Sleeping Beauty came out of her room with her makeup Caboodle saying, "Let's see if I can pretty this mess up."

Sleeping Beauty: "Mommy, Riding my bike makes my heart feel happy." ♥

Should I be concerned that my 7 year old is typing "Intervention" on her computer?!

Sleeping Beauty was in her nose up to her elbow and she looked at me and said (dead serious), "Mommy? Did you know princesses don't pick their noses?"
All I could do was stare at her.

Sleeping Beauty to Tim : "Do you know clowns paint their faces so they can steal stuff from people?"


Sleeping Beauty's prayer one night: "Dear God, thank you for this food. Thank for the whoooole world (she says this every time), thank you for stores so I can shop and thank you for Nana and Pa leaving on an adventure so we can have their Sassy (dog).  Amen."


Sleeping Beauty and I heard about the Michael Jackson Cirque du Soleil on the radio. They then said, "Of course, he won't be there because he's dead."
Sleeping Beauty: "WHAAAAT?! He died?!"
Must be hard to be four years old.

I love how Cinderella is seven and still says "Campbell" for camel.

Sleeping Beauty gets funnier every day. Tonight at dinner she spilled some chili on her dress. "OH! I've SHAMED myself!!"

Me: "Sleeping Beauty, please stop hanging from the door knob."
Sleeping Beauty: "You'll never take me alive!"
Me: "..."

Random Funnies Lately

Antics from the past couple of months are below:


A couple of weeks ago, on the way home from VBS Sleeping Beauty was counting.  She got to "40, 41, 42, 41, 41...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!  I CAN'T COUNT?!?!"


Tim asked the girls if they wanted to watch "Pete's Dragon."  Sleeping Beauty said, "Is it Rated G?"


Me: "Girls, Daddy is sick with a man cold.  What do you want to do for dinner?"
Cinderella: "Did you poison him so you wouldn't have to cook?"


Let's file this one under Another sentence I never thought I'd hear:
Cinderella: "What do you think I am?  Some fancy girl with a mustache?!"  This was said while she held her finger under her nose like a 'stache. 


Me: "Almost time for lunch."
Both girls: "NOOOOO!"
Only my cooking would elicit such a response.  :/


This one is hilarious and we still laugh about it.  This is from June.  At dinner Tim said to the girls, "I don't know how your mommy tricked me into marrying her (if you're family you'll know why this is funny) because I was really, really ridiculously good looking."  (Think "Zoolander.")   Without missing a beat, Cinderella said, "Ridiculously good looking like Jason?!"  Jason, is my brother - HER UNCLE!  HA


Sleeping Beauty: "People become obsessed with me and then they follow me around like zombies.  But it's OK, I don't mind.  Who can blame them."  Is she for real?!


Cinderella stuck a price tag on Sleeping Beauty from Bath and Body Works.  Sleeping Beauty got angry, pulled it off and yelled, "I!  AM!  PRICCCCE-LESS!!!!!"


The girls have figured out how to record themselves on their computer.   This further confirms Sleeping Beauty is a NUT.


Sleeping Beauty: "Mommy, Sometimes when we go get tacos I see guys with a shell and then green boogers on it and then THEY EAT THE BOOGERS!!"
Me: "Dude, that's guacamole!"


Overheard- Cinderella: "They are called 'board games' because they are BORRRING!!"


Back in June I couldn't find my cell phone anywhere so I called it from the land line.  It was in Princess Furry Pants' little tent/doghouse!  WHAT in the WORLD?!


They do not make crazy pills strong enough to deal with this craziness in my house! Sleeping Beauty told me earlier today that she had "Aliens in her panties." I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried!


On the off chance that you were not aware - Sleeping Beauty says chips are made from ducks and chickens. Then Cinderella corrects her with, "NO! Chips are made from french fries!"


Molly (Princess Furry Pants) went to bed early. She is in OUR room, on her pillow, barking EVERY TIME we say A WORD! In her defense, she is sick. But still!


Sleeping Beauty (back in May) had her stage debut with her graduation.  She nailed the performance and at the end blew a kiss!


"Wardrobe change?!" She's four. Yet she said it was time for an evening gown...


(May 2012) I was looking through Sleeping Beauty's about me in her scrapbook.  Her favorite drink is COKE?! WHAT?! I give her little sips left in the can sometimes (when I drank it occasionally) but she kills me.


We saw another "topless" man walking around today. Sleeping Beauty said to Cinderella, "He's naked!!" And Cinderella said, "That's not naked. That's just gross."
HA!

Sleeping Beauty has developed a ridiculous fake laugh when watching funny animal videos.

More to come...

Junie B. Jones Day

A couple of weeks ago our local library had a Junie B. Jones Day.  The kids cut out glasses and wore them for a minute (see above).

We listened to a story about Junie B. Jones and checked out some books.

They also posed with Creepy Junie B. Jones  It was great.  Kids began to cry and scream and if I wasn't an adult I probably would have as well.   Truth be told, I screamed on the inside.  She was just scary-looking.  Sleeping Beauty said it best when she said, "I was scared but knew we needed a picture!"  HAHA

Old School Internet

This just makes me laugh.  I have told my girls that we got a computer when I was in second grade. (I think.) It was a  Commodore 64 and I later blew it up.  Don't ask.  I won't tell.   I also told them that we were really the only people I knew that had a computer.  They were BAFFLED by this idea and could not believe iPods, iPads, and the Internet weren't around when I was a child.  Even more so when I told them the iPods/iPads were fairly new inventions.  It makes me wonder what things will be like when they are grown.  I fully expected to be living on the moon on this day in my life but, alas, I am not...


Back to the comic strip (I love these, by the way) - When I moved across country after high school and away from Tim it was in the days of dial up Internet.  Go here to listen.  Ah,  the memories.  And by memories I mean nightmare. It was truly a nightmare.  Not only did I miss him and want to talk to him as much as I could but I'd be on the phone and hear someone trying to log on to Prodigy.  He spent hundreds of  dollars ( I am guessing) on calling me long distance.  We were apart a couple of years and several of those months we were dating.  What I wouldn't have given for cell phones on the same call plan back then.  ;)


What are some old school Internet/computer things you remember? 

"Eloise" Moment

When we went to my Mamaw's funeral a few weeks ago we stayed in a hotel.  The girls loved eating the ice from the ice machine (hence, Sleeping Beauty's wet dress) and riding on the luggage cart.  It reminded me of those "Eloise" movies.  :)  Also not sure why Sleeping Beauty looks like she has bangs in this picture.  ;)

Sailing Away...

The tropical storm has flooded our entire street and some homes.  This afternoon Tim had to sail the girls down the street so my mom could take them as we dealt with stuff around here.  Our kitchen flooded yesterday and our garage today.  All is OK for now and we are bracing for more rain.   We cannot drive out and have been trapped.  Please pray for this to pass quickly.