“Mommy, would you please come sleep with me? Â I’m starving for you!”
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Jude’s Other Quote of the Day
In response to me telling the boys to go outside and make noise in the backyard and see how long it takes for their friends to start showing up, Jude reclined back with his arms behind his head and said, “If my friends come over, I will play with them. Â But, I’m not doing any …
Jude’s Quote of the Day
“So if Adam and Even hadn’t sinned, would we be running around naked?”
Body Image Quote of the Day
Some lady at church to me, “You’re getting nice and big.”
Jude’s Quote of the Day
“I sense anger here.” Â (Said in response to a non-angry, but slightly panicked, comment I made when seeing him drag something over the new hardwood floors.)
Jude’s Quote of the Day
“Someone threw up in the sink and it’s still in there! Â (Usually I’m the one who finds whatever horror the boys left for me in whatever room I enter. Â There is always something — smeared poop on the toilet seat, chocolate fingerprints all over the white kitchen cabinets, pencils or toothpicks or similar hazard scattered …
Dirt Cake
For my birthday this year, I dreamed of having dirt cake — crushed up Oreos, chocolate pudding, more crushed up Oreos with Cool Whip on top. Â I must have failed to share my dream because Andy and Asher came home from the store with a chocolate layer cake — not what I would have picked. …
Penny
Levi came to me tonight with a penny in his outstretched hand and said, “Here you go. You can have this.” I said, “Why don’t you put it in your piggy bank.” He said, “You can have it to buy a house.” What a little darling! Jude finally convinced Levi to keep it saying, “You …
Early A.M. Call from Ivan
At about 8:30 a.m. this morning our iPad got a somewhat surprising Facetime call from 8 year old Ivan and his 6 year old brother, Jonah. Â Ivan said they’ve been up for an hour and their mom and dad are not waking up and probably won’t be up until 10. Â Ivan said, “We were actually …
Jude’s Quote of the Day
In response to me asking him to do some of his German lessons today, “Mommy, I’m smart enough!”