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Name: Sarah
Gender: Female
Interests: Loving Jesus, Spending time with my sweet husband Stephen, Being a mommy, Adoption, Scrapbooking, Home Schooling, Reading, Watching NCIS and Cooking (ok they did not have a spot for "Addictions" so I'm adding my own category: Addictions -- totally addicted to Adoption!)
Expertise: Cleaning up messes!!
Occupation: Stay at home Mommy
Message: message me
Member Since:
8/5/2006
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| It seems like my baby Ben has just exploded with new vocabulary in the past few weeks. He is like a little parrot and repeats EVERYTHING we say. In fact a few weeks ago Stephen was holding Ben and gave him something that he wanted and I looked over at him and said, “sucker”. And little Ben immediately repeated…..”sucker”. It was so funny and awful all at the same time!
But last Wednesday nightI realized why Ben is talking so much. On the way to church I hear from the back seat:
Natalie: Ben say…… hair
Ben: heeeer
Natalie: Ben say…… Tarlos (Carlos)
Ben: Har-wos
Natalie: Ben say…..moon
Ben: Noon
Natalie: Ben say…….Apple
Ben: Bapple
And back and forth they go for the longest time until Natalie runs out of words for Ben to say or until he’s tired of says what she wants!! So that’s how my little guy has learned his vocabulary!
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|  Just some random pictures from our fun afternoon at the park. After what felt like 2 weeks of rain, we finally had a beautiful sunny day…..and it was actually pretty warm too! My camera is on the blink…. .ok, way more than on the blink…..it will barely take pictures worth anything……thus the lack of new pictures on my blog. But I’m hoping Santa delivers early…..a nd a little birdie said he was…….and I can’t wait to see what that jolly fellow brings me.  Enjoying a quick snack  Mr. Crazy eyes
My baby is getting so big!!
No trip to the park is complete without throwing a few rocks into the river
This takes skill and concentration
She finally found a Natalie-size rock that made it to the water! All the other big rocks only made it to the grass.
How many rocks can one little boy throw!
We had a fun afternoon!
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| **See update below!
I don’t do texting. Literally it drives me crazy just adding a contact to my phone’s address book. But I received the following numeric “text” on my white board last week.
And since I also stink at puzzles, I had no clue how to figure out this secret message. Good thing the author of my numeric text was willing to help me out! By the way, the 131.5 at the top has nothing to do with my message.
Actually Stephen has left me several messages on my white board over the past couple of weeks. My favorite was an eye, a heart and a sheep. I thought he was quietly telling me that I should really work on loving my little lambs (kids) that day.....but he was actually saying "I love you" (as in ewe, female sheep). It’s so fun getting surprise messages even if I can’t decode them to save my life!!
***Edited to add: My secret text message said, "I can't wait to see you tonight!"
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I was determined to get some of my 1.5 bushels of apples peeled, cored, into freezer bags and finally into the freezer. Carlos helped me by washing the apples and Jeremiah and Natalie were content to help me by handing me the clean apples, so I could peel and core them. But after so many apples, little hands are tired and little minds are bored, so off they went to play. After a little bit I realized that it was super quiet around the house…..not a good sign. I finished up the apples I was working on as quickly as I could….when all is quiet time is of the essence!! I found my little scalawags diligently working. They were so proud and pleased that they were “helping” mommy.
Sitting on my bedroom floor is a laundry basket filled with neatly folded clothes….waiting very patiently to be taken down to my basement and stored away in the various “clothing size" totes. This job I have been procrastinating on for about 6 weeks (I’m really very ashamed to say that this basket has been in my room that long). But this job ranks right down there with scrubbing the shower! Since I have 4 children there are at least 4 different sizes of clothing in the basket and since two of my children wear different size pants and shirts that will make at lease 6 different sizes in the basket and since I was cleaning out their closet and decided that every article of clothing that was not the correct size should be removed from each closet and drawer……there are probably 8 or 10 different size clothing in that basket. (did I just write a run-on?). Whew, just thinking about opening up 8 or 10 different totes has worn me out!! Now you see why the basket is still sitting on the floor in my room. And let me not forget to mention that the totes are stacked on top of each other and the sizes I need are always on the bottom…..can you explain to me how that happens?!?!?!?
Ok, so back to my darlings. So proud. So pleased. Yep, they have taken those neatly folded clothes and spread them out on my bed and are neatly re-folding them! I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, put a smile on my face and asked, “whacha doing?” Jeremiah happily replied, “we’re folding the laundry for you mommy and we’re doing it so nicely.” And God gave me the grace and wisdom to say, “yes, you are folding the clothes very nicely.” Because indeed for a 2-year-old and a 4 year-old the clothes were folded very neatly!! So in that instant I decided, they were happy, they were helping, they were working (and really the “damage” was already done)….so I let them at it and I returned to my apple freezing project. Working together Natalie and Jeremiah folded laundry for about 30 minutes and I was able to get 12 quarts of apples in the freezer!
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Last week in school we were reading our history read-a-loud book Castle Diary The Journal of Tobias Burgess, and the young page Tobias was observing that “many servants came in to aid” the Lady of the manor. After a minute or two of reading Carlos stopped me and said, “wait mommy, I thought they were eating the Lady of the manor?” It took me a minute to figure out that he heard, “the servants came in to ate the lady….” Thankfully I did not bust out laughing because it was so funny, but I did explain that aid meant to help someone, not eat them!!
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