On Sunday afternoon we were listening to an Odessy CD. They were saying 'and the angel appeared to Mary, a v*rgin who was engaged to Joseph, saying that she would have a baby and name him Jesus...'  but Mary replied' but how can this be true for I am a v*rgin."

5yo dd turns around to me in astonishment and says,

" I didn't know Mary was allergic!!"

(and, eh-hem, I just said "oh really, they said that? and left it at that! LOL)

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And just moments after this.... (while I was still trying to stiffle my laughter).....

I was contact papering a bookmark dd made recently. She asked "WHAT are you doing to my bookmark??!" 

me-- " I am putting contact paper on it to make it stronger."

dd-- "Can you put some on me too?????"

Then she grabbed the scraps of contact paper and stuck them on her wrists-- "Look! I'm stronger now Mommy!!"

Conversation from tonight~~~

My 5yo dd yells out:

"Mommy mommy!! I just read two books!!!"

me- "oh yeah?" Good job!"

"Yeah I read them in Spanish....or Japanese..... I don't know which one..... but it was one of them!"

A little while later............

7yo dd "Do you want me to read you those books now?"

5yo "Sure!!"

"OK, Do you want me to read them in Spanish or Japanese?"

"Spanish"

"Oh good, cuz that's the only one I  know!"

And off they go to "read" something sounding like Spanish like words.....

Here is a simple craft of making a pilgrim hat for girls. And for boys.

I got tagged by Crystal so here goes, my first quiz.

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.

From a devotion book, the Secret Place:    " Colonel Sanders was sixty years old and living in his car with a $120-a-month pension, a recipe for fried  chcken, and a vision; he bacame a millionaire and a devoted Christian."

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What can you touch? 
my 5yo daughter

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? 
     Ruff on PBS Kids with the girls.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is. 

  4:45pm

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 
    4:46

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? 
    Oldest dd saying "How big is _(littlest dd__?!  How big is ___?!"

 7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? 
   Yesterday in the backyard. Cleaning cobwebs and sticks out of the kids treehouse!

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? 

    Reading a Clifford book to toddler.

9. What are you wearing? 
    Green shirt and tan capri's.

10. Did you dream last night? 
     Don't remember any last night.

11. When did you last laugh? 

    When I put a sweater on youngest and she started twirling around showing it off.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? 
     Lots of bookshelves (what else?!) and our weather and calendar/days charts.

13. Seen anything weird lately? 
    Opened a bottle of Oberweiss milk and there was whipped cream on top!

14. What do you think of this quiz?

    Making me laugh :)

15. What is the last film or video you saw? 
    Pirates of the Carribean that dh was watching.

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? 

  Set aside retirement and kids college $$$$. I guess with 3 girls I better set $ aside for weddings too huh! LOL

  17. Tell me something about you that I do not know. 

         I love to eat Kit Kat bars dipped in peanut butter.

 18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? 
  Aww-- I know this is special on Crystal's heart today, so I think I will just leave this as is >>>>" I think I would get special needs children and adults involved in Christ loving churches.   Just where are they on Sunday mornings anyway?"

 19. Do you like to dance? 
   Not much. Pretty goofy at it. Fun for kids to laugh with me though. 

 20. Comment to George Bush: 
      Thank you.

 21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her besides names you’ve used? ???

CAN be.... That is unless I completely forget to get the supper ready and going before 12 noon!  Oh, I think about it around 9 but we are having breakfast or cleaning up from it, hurrying on to get school in before toddler gets fussing at me. I think about it a bit later too...gotta get that food in soon!! And like today, we go from school to preparing lunch....get lunch eaten...by now I have completely forgotten the crockpot.

I don't use it too often but I am wanting to at least once a week now. Well, I just came inside from sweeping out the treehouse and thought EEK it's 2:10...Guess we won't be having crockpot supper tonight either! sigh.... so, now for supper, I guess it will be uh, um....food. Yeah, that's it. Some sort of food. My chicken is frozen. Ground beef is frozen. Once again I think I will nuke thaw the chicken and oven bake it in some manner. Hmmm

 Math-O

I like to hit random blogs. Found one today called Wings of Eagles. OK- I start reading it since Isaiah 40:31 is my favorite verse. If the Grass Is Greener, It Must Be Astroturf  talks about what it seems like out there in blogging world-- and the reality of it.  Good points in there.  I struggle with what what a REAL persons home looks like. My friend who has 4 children and has a house same design as mine is quite cluttered like me. And then I see the other side of it all with someone who is 63yo her children are grown, she is a ministers wife and also has larger house. She is home much of the time. So her house is very clean. Two very different ends to see.  I love seeing that, what my house is like, really quite often IS the norm out there.  

We have just started Kindergarten yesterday and Adventures in My Fathers World today. I havent' had time to do any cleaning at all except to keep the kitchen table cleared. I am trying to really focus on school. We'll get to the house. If I try and work on the house also, then school will get set aside time and again.  OK, honestly, If I try and work on the house, I don't wanna and I sit down here at the computer again. LOL 

Time to get back to schooling. My 18month old isn't wanting to take her nap and of all days when we need to be somewhere in less than 2 hours to meet friends for an activity and then to the park. yikes. It's not going to be pretty.

Told you my blog would be rambling thoughts!

Decided tonight to finally enter the blogging world. Don't know how much I will post here since I am trying to cut back on computer time, but I found a wonderful wonderful blog on here tonight that just made me want to join in. The blog I found is "Create in Me a Clean Heart"  She nailed CHAOS and CLUTTER exactly. Much better than Flylady's definitions of them I thought.  I have struggled with those for a long time and I am hoping Amy's site and devotionals will really help me out  Hmm, not sure if I am doing this right or not. This will definately be a trial and error thing! 

So, here goes my post into blogland..........

Jenn