Jude who is 6 said to me this morning, “Mom, can I tell you something? When I’m 7, I’m going to be almost 10!”
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Asher’s Quote of the Day
He came to me holding a Wintergreen Life Saver and said, “Can you break that choking hazard in half?”
The Never Tired Jude
Jude will never admit to being tired. But, if he asks to snuggle with me, it’s a dead give away. Last night he told me, “We’re not going to go to bed, since it’s only 10:29 [p.m.], we’re just going to snuggle.” Sure enough, I snuggled him right to sleep.
Jude’s Quote of the Day
“I like lemons because they make the best lemonade.”
Notable Quotable from My Mom
I grabbed a sheet of paper from a legal pad that I hadn’t used for 5 months. I found a quote I had scribbled down that my mom said that had really got me laughing. She told me several months ago when she heard I had been using socks only on my treadmill desk for …
Asher’s Quote of the Day
“I can’t find my butters! [meaning brothers]” (I just love it when the boys get along like best friends.)
What Jude Did this Week
Jude wrote a list of what he did this week: BuilD some of my sNowfoart. StAy HoMe. PlAy. Go to Kraty.
Cleaning Cure Failed
With a husband and kids who do not pick up after themselves, I feel like I spend half my life cleaning. Â I figured that maybe I could make myself feel better about our disasterous house if I watched an episode of Hoarding: Buried Alive. Â Nope. Â Didn’t work. Â In fact, it had the opposite of the …
Jude’s Pet Wish List
After I brought Jude and Levi to Petco for a free trip to the zoo, Jude wrote a wish list that he appropriately named “Judes WiSH LiSt”: A ginney PiG A parret A LizarD Some FiSH. Â 11 TO 20 Some turtles 1 to 2
Fly and Die
This weekend while I was putting away baskets of laundry, the boys decided to try out a sport they believe they invented — sliding down the stairs in a laundry basket into a pile of pillows. I can hardly stand to watch, but saw enough to immediately insist that they put on bike helmets or …