Creativity

Because my boys are creative, and would find ANY excuse not to fold and put away their laundry, they have devised a new way of transporting their clean underwear from the laundry room to their room. You see, all you have to do is put on every stitch of clean underwear OVER your jeans (that's 15 pairs for Ben and 6 for Luke)and then just walk back to your room and then put them away. Of course you need to run around the house and giggle a while BEFORE you put them away.....Have a good weekend! Jill

My friend, Hammie

We have a visitor at our house...his name is Hammie. He's a cute, little hamster. We've really had a good time with this little guy- he has so much personality. Now we've had gerbils before, but this guy is VERY different. For instance, he sleeps in the top of his cage and if we lift up the lid, he'll lift his head up and with one eye still closed, he will check us out, squinting to see who it is and what exactly we want. He LOVES his plastic ball to run around the house in....he can really move fast--we've been so impressed. Neither of our gerbils could get the hang of making the ball go. If you open the bottom of his cage, he will climb out into your hand...we get a kick out of the fact that his body is so long and he's so furry. A joy to have around....until next Monday, when his Mommy and Daddy come back from a 10 day cruise... poor things... Jill

Wordless Wednesday... Mom Rocks on Guitar Hero ....on Easy

Ugly Sweaters

For years I was a part of our church's MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) group. This year I came back to be a "mentor" for one of the groups. My group met here last night (without kids)for a nice little dinner full of conversation and laughs! I had a little contest with these ladies. I asked them to wear their ugliest sweater. Many of the ladies went to Goodwill to find their beautiful sweater. One, the winner, actually found hers in the back of her closet. WOW! It was a braided leather vest that she wore in 7th grade!! How funny!! Anyway, here's a picture of us with our ugly sweaters. The winner is next to me in the back row.

A good weekend

Just a normal weekend around here...full of drinking hot chocolate...


Dogs sitting on heads...


and putting babies to bed...

I would call that a good weekend, wouldn't you??? Jill

The Big News...

THIS GUY JUST GOT HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE TODAY!! WAY TO GO!!
He was just as excited about eating this as he was getting his license...

And now for the results....

Because you all have waited so patiently, here are the results of the "grape to raisin project" (See Feb. 12th post.) Here's the latest picture...

Grapes 1 & 2 On a ledge in a southern exposed window

Grapes 3 & 4 On a ledge in a southern exposed window enclosed in a container with water

Grapes 5 & 6 In a dark, cool linen closet

Grapes 7 & 8 In the refrigerator

Wow! We've learned quite a lot from this experiment! I thought the grapes in the window, exposed to dry heat would turn to raisins faster than those exposed to no heat or light. Very interesting. OK, we're done with our Science lessons for the day, class.

On Monday, Andrew had a day off of school, so we happened to wander over to Panera bread for lunch. No sooner had we pulled into the parking lot, he started going crazy with all sorts of comments like, "oh, that's awesome," or "wow". I had no clue what I might see if I looked, but here's what he saw in the parking lot.


For those of you who DON"T have teenagers, I'll explain. This is a van from a store that sells video games and they have had a scene from HALO (a popular game) painted on the side.....OOOO, AHHHHHH. See, that IS "awesome", hey??

We have our last 7th grade basketball game tomorrow. We're in a tournament and we're playing for "winner of the consolation game". In other words, "Winner of the loser's bracket." Good thing it's not the championship game because our high scoring player (size 15 feet, 6 foot tall) just broke his ankle. Bummer! Oh Well, we'll have fun anyway!!! Have a great weekend!!! Jill