tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42336704270762239692024-03-05T12:11:35.002-08:00McBride LinksMichael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.comBlogger1024125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-27432378854491823422015-05-05T20:40:00.002-07:002015-05-05T20:40:52.044-07:00Too many golf pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The anatomy of a golf swing. Consider the shot. (Also consider you just woke up from a nap and this may not be your best shot.)</div>
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Set up<br />
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Realize you are the only lefty in the family and are going to have to make do.<br />
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Analyze it with Grandpa<br />
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Three generations<br />
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Lotta golf around here.<br />
I don't mind.Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-8912119198743941932015-04-15T17:32:00.002-07:002015-04-15T17:32:38.894-07:00Round the 'hood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This guy/gal and his family have lived over our neighborhood for almost the whole time we have lived here; although, we have not seen them recently. In fact, we are pretty sure they had a nest in our neighbor's tree and some crows chased them away from it. We found a huge nest on the ground under the tree last year. Though, now that I see his size again, I wonder if it was the crow's nest - we have some large crows around here.</div>
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Pretty sure his is a red shouldered hawk. <br />
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A neighbor hired a face painter for their daughter's birthday.<br />
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Face and arm painter that is.<br />
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And the Walkabout. This is a bit of a hodge podge post, more for my benefit - just some little scenes I want to remember that remind me of other things. The Walkabouts happen four times a year. All the businesses stay open late. There is often live music. This trolley runs from one end of the neighborhood to the other. We usually walk one way and ride back the other. For some reason Mike could not go with us, probably sermon prep, so we rode the trolley both ways.<br />
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And this is Carlos' gigantic squash. It weighed more than Henry at the time. Carlos lives three doors down and leaves bags of avocados on our door step about 10 times a year. Awesome, huh?<br />
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Just some stuff around here. Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-66777892144043723082015-04-10T08:16:00.002-07:002015-04-10T08:16:49.476-07:00Summer Vacation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I think it was actually summer break, not spring break like I said previously. I can't remember now where we met up with the cousins...Huntington Beach maybe? Somewhere up the coast. Sometimes I can't believe we live so close to such beauty.</div>
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Camille and Rachel flew out with their grandmother to stay with her cousin, Sherry. Sadly, I failed to take a picture of all of them together. For some reason I was just taking pics of the kids. We probably spent 3 hours at this park, everyone found something to do. Henry even walked a stranger's dog.</div>
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I would suggest that these two were separated at birth, but look at them - clearly they were not. But they are two peas of a pod.</div>
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Thumbs up and peace! Who knows??</div>
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-22234826758534067052015-04-10T07:17:00.000-07:002015-04-10T07:17:07.623-07:00Personality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Last year we met up with the cousins for Spring Break. I have more pictures of that, but wanted to post this little photo shoot (oldest and youngest girls) because it is so representative of Greta's huge personality. I still do not quite understand her - What makes growl and stomp her foot and burst into uncontrollable tears and what makes her skip off yelling, "I love you so much, I just can't stop!" It is easy to over think your parenting with one like this, constantly wondering if you are doing something wrong. And it is easy to focus entirely on their behavior and forget that there are rough edges the Lord is intending to rub off of you through this kid. </div>
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These girls. Let them love the Lord fiercely!</div>
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Some of my most favorite things we have found dumpster diving. And mostly they only need a little care to make usable. Thankfully Mike doesn't (mostly) mind being in charge of that.</div>
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But this post is as much about these curls as it is about the cute chair!</div>
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I always wanted one with curls.</div>
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Not sure why Sister is helping nakey.</div>
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-24414902329435333422015-03-31T16:06:00.000-07:002015-03-31T16:06:05.128-07:00Safety first<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-40809588489702607242015-03-31T16:05:00.002-07:002015-03-31T16:05:27.451-07:00Look Scrappaw!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-55066738913704216652015-03-31T15:59:00.000-07:002015-03-31T15:59:08.593-07:00Will work for food<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I recently skimmed and article in the Wall Street Journal about the benefit of chores for children. I skimmed it because it really seemed like a waste of time to read an article about something that already seemed so obvious. (Not to mention a waste of grant money to study and write about something that seems so obvious.)</div>
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Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-45508116606565658722015-03-24T16:22:00.003-07:002015-03-24T16:22:39.311-07:00The time she had an afro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you have stick straight hair and you want curly. Get your hair wet. Braid it. Sleep on it. Then brush it out in the morning. <br />
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And it will be curly. For ten minutes.<br />
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-48288019523678465172015-03-24T16:09:00.004-07:002015-03-24T16:09:59.940-07:00Dating <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-27598472348476014242015-03-24T16:01:00.000-07:002015-03-24T16:01:00.632-07:00Happy Father's Birthday<br />
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Have you ever seen those "Nailed it" photos on Facebook? They usually show a photo of some sort of Pinterest craft or activity and then show a second photo of your Average Joe's attempt at the same thing. "Nailed it!" (But not really.) Sometimes they are hilarious. And sometimes I look around my house and feel like we are a constant display of that second photo. Our birthday bunting looks awfully cute when it is blurred in the background, but up close it is a genuine hack job!</div>
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And then I see my mad skills and taste being passed down to the progeny. Check out Sister wrapping the June birthday boy's gifts in Christmas paper! But aren't they cute? All secrety and sly, up late wrapping for Daddy.</div>
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I'm not trying to slam Pinterest. I would say 40% of our homeschool curriculum comes from there. But does this look like a man who cares that his birthday gifts are wrapped in Winnie the Pooh Christmas paper?</div>
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And pre-used bags with another person's name written on it in Sharpie? It's not that I have given up mircro-managing all together. Don't get me wrong. But occasionally I recognize, before it is too late, that everyone has a lot more fun when they get to take a bit of their own initiative.</div>
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He thinks they get this stuff from me.</div>
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I beg to differ.</div>
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So what do you think? Nailed it? It's supposed to be a serene family scene - picnic breakfast of homemade granola, yogurt and berries. Quite possibly the bunting should have been hung between two shade trees, but those were about 100 yards away. And maybe the van should not have been in the photo, but we were parked by the side of the road because that is where the trail head was. (Never mind the cars whizzing by on the mountain road beside us...hence the reason the baby is strapped in the stroller.) And you can't see my coffee because I had already kicked it over and I am pretty sure someone stepped in their bowl and sent granola flying everywhere. Good thing these things are pictures, not videos. You can hide a lot in a picture. The things we do for other people. I am pretty sure he would have been happy with Larabars and bananas served a la carte in the van on the way up there. But look at him...serving yogurt to his babies on a blanket spread over dirt and rocks by the side of the road on his birthday. Nailed it!</div>
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So on to the birthday hike, fueled by a yummy, roadside breakfast. This was up at Laguna Mountain and it has been one of my favorite hikes. </div>
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Prickly Poppy</div>
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Mariposa Lilly</div>
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Not all of them are willing hikers yet. But we are getting there. Thankfully Dad is strong.</div>
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The sky was so blue.</div>
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The beauty of this hike that you can't quite appreciate from these pictures is the opposing terrains. As you ascend you look down on the Anza Borrego desert on one side and a evergreen forrest on the other. It's not quite the evergreen forrest I know from Tennessee. This one gets very little water and has been ravaged by fire. But it is still quite beautiful.</div>
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See that monstrous lizard?</div>
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This one was even bigger. It looked like a giant turtle/lizard. We have no idea what it was. You might have to enlarge the pictures.</div>
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It was SO hot.</div>
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Not sure what that purple flower is.</div>
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Not sure about about the bird either.</div>
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I know that bird, though.</div>
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Conquering the peak!</div>
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Signing the book in the can.</div>
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Draggin' our sorry selves back down. Did I say it was hot?</div>
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Letting the baby run out the end. Sit down...here comes the action sequence.</div>
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Every year, in Spring, Mike takes the other kids to explore Balboa Park while Olivia is in ballet. Last year Olivia was able to be in the same class as Avery. Avery's family goes to our church. This is the girls after their Spring Showcase. </div>
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The rest of the crew plotting their hour long attack of the zoo.<br />
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-40775893392513889012015-03-06T22:08:00.002-08:002015-03-06T22:08:59.971-08:00What kind of mother are you?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Well, maybe you did not notice that I skipped right past May 1st to June 10. If anyone other than my mother and mother in law are even still looking at this little blog, you probably won't notice either that my resolution to do one post each morning also skipped a few days. I was just telling Olivia the other day to strive to do something difficult every day, something you can't possibly do in your own strength. Apparently regularly blogging is that thing for me. But I love this space. With no photo books any more, this is my memory.</div>
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So, Joe Joe. I didn't actually forget his birthday, just to post it in the right place here. In these pictures he is turning 7. In reality, he is about to turn 8. He is the most consistent, easy going kid. Occasionally he tries to be ferocious by yelling at Mike or me when he is really frustrated, but mostly his emotions are of the Eeyore variety and quickly pass.</div>
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You like how he wears a collared shirt to breakfast on his birthday?</div>
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After breakfast and presents we spent a sun shiny morning out back. He is so easy to please.<br />
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He even humored me with the birthday crown at lunch.<br />
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We did not do an official party this year, but invited his baseball team over instead since several of them had birthdays the same week. This is the little sister of one of them...now that I think of it, maybe I posted this already with the other baseball picks. Anyway, Greta is telling "Clara" (her actual name is Claire, but Greta either does not get that or does not care), "Don't look at her." Like I am some crazy paparazzi.<br />
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I am looking forward to eight. Joseph is definitely not an early bloomer. He is innocent and fun. He is not self conscious in the least and has no real sense that others could think anything more than kindly of him. I would be happy if that rolled into 8, even 9.<br />
<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-55939656481707101242015-02-26T08:00:00.004-08:002015-02-26T08:00:56.572-08:00Birthday Hikes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On birthdays, we try to do the things birthday person likes best. So, in June last year, we did a lot of hiking in June. This was my birthday. We took my new pair of binoculars and went bird watching at Lake Cuyamaca.</div>
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Some birds you don't need binoculars to see, only a bag of bread.<br />
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Stare down. She held strong.<br />
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Sadly, I can't remember what this was.<br />
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This is one strange part of hiking in the west - the burnt out forests. <br />
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A little oriole bathing. Sorry, I will try to crop pictures better in the future.<br />
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Happy Birthday to the Momma.Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-81368078476477840882015-02-02T16:05:00.000-08:002015-02-02T16:05:27.115-08:00Another be with-er<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I often wonder if I generally have a look of being out of control or just out of it when I am out in public with our kids. I pretty regularly have people reminding me where my kids are and what imminent danger awaits them. Now, I will be honest, there has been a time or five when one of them slips under the radar for a minute. Like the time we all got off the tram at the Wild Animal Park and went one way and Joseph went the other. Actually, poor guy, that has happened to him a couple of times. But those times aside and despite the look on my face in public, I do have a pretty good grasp on our kids and what they are up to. </div>
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I heard the other day of a friend of ours, a dad who also homeschools, saying how he does not feel like the years are slipping by. You know the sentiment - the kids are growing up so fast, etc. He said, "We are with them constantly. I am not missing a thing." I have to say I feel the same way. I do not feel at all that the days are passing too quickly (too slowly sometimes, but that is another conversation). </div>
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Anyway, that is my point in all this. Despite the look on my face, I do know my kids and in general what they are up to. For example, one might think the kid in the first 5 pictures is under fed, always begging for food. On the contrary, he just likes to be with. Wants to be doing what we are doing. And while one day I will miss this little beggar, I do not think I will feel like I will have let these days slip by.</div>
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-57106361073384613852015-02-02T13:02:00.001-08:002015-02-02T13:02:31.449-08:00Last Year's Tears<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Well, with three quarters of a year behind us, these emotions are quite as fresh. But imagine a balmy, June evening, just after dark. Two best buddies are soaking up every minute they have left together before one of them flies off to Germany for the summer. Playing ball under the street lamp. </div>
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I love these boys.</div>
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-22414476177103065972014-11-01T21:47:00.001-07:002014-11-01T21:47:17.400-07:00Making masterpieces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
These girls take their arts and crafts very seriously. Like everything else they do, it is full contact.</div>
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And he does what his mother would do...try to make order of the chaos.<br />
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-21772544874047268292014-11-01T21:41:00.000-07:002014-11-01T21:41:07.526-07:00Guess who got glasses?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This is old news for most of you, but if we are going with a chronological blog update...here she is. Our little four eyes. Henry has already ripped the ear piece off twice. He also managed to do this to my friend Bonnie's glasses and a pair of my glasses. You should see how everyone in our family jumps up and dives for a guest's glasses when they casually lay them on a table.</div>
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What a pair ;)Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-73835843907042615982014-11-01T21:35:00.000-07:002014-11-01T21:35:11.135-07:00Toothless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This may be my favorite age.</div>
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<br />Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-47148383275940150672014-11-01T21:32:00.000-07:002014-11-01T21:32:07.081-07:002014 Backyard Concert Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We had intended to do three of these, but the summer got away from us with only two. Sometimes I can't believe who I have "lucked" out to call friends. And I'm not just talking about the musically talented ones like these guys. The compassionate ones, the hospitable, the caregivers, the organizers (I am pretty confident we could not have pulled off our wedding with those ones.), the funny ones. I would not be sane without the funny ones. People make life rich, maddening sometimes too, but mostly rich.</div>
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What was this about again? The music. These guys play for us on Sunday mornings, but they can also put out some mad flamenco style skills on Friday evening. (Not promoting a sacred/secular split here. Just noting that most hymns are sung in flamenco rhythms.) </div>
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Didn't get a shot of the listeners, but the backyard was pretty packed. We even had a couple wander over from around the block, heard the music. Irma's husband, Frank, made a crock of nacho cheese and sent that over with the fixings and even the cute little red and white checked nacho boats. </div>
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This will definitely be a summer tradition.Michael and Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269501232742800738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233670427076223969.post-1794371787251897542014-10-25T21:38:00.002-07:002014-10-25T21:38:49.347-07:002 thumbs up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I've got to remember these moments when I want to send one of them to bed hungry because of comments like, "What's that smell," or "I don't like that," or "I'm not really in the mood for this." I really try hard to help them understand how good they have it. They have no idea. I mean, we aren't living high on the hog here by any means, but they are Americans. They have a lot. A lot more than they even need. I still struggle to communicate that message without saying lame things like, "There are plenty of children in other countries who would give anything to eat this meal. A meal. Shoot, there are kids downtown who would love to eat this."</div>
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But mostly, I must admit, they humor my cooking and food choices. We do eat some weird stuff around here sometimes.</div>
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And this is why he does not get to eat out of Great Granny Olive's vintage glasses.<br />
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Having a kid brother in school with you is sometimes fun and sometimes not.</div>
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So, part of the problem was he had a cold. His bandwidth for frustration was minimal. The other part of the problem was - sharpening pencils on the bottom shelf was not really a good idea. Not enough room, clearly.<br />
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The guys cleared off the shelf for him. That helped a bit. This kid, by the way, would sharpen pencils for hours. That is only a slight exaggeration. One day he sharpened for 45 minutes.</div>
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Our friend, Margy got new wheels.</div>
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