Wise Beyond Years

I have this little boy.  He is 7 years old.  He is funny, energetic, silly, compassionate, caring, and smart.
Over the last 7 years, we have worked really hard to raise a polite, responsible, caring, honest little human.  (Pssst... raising kids is hard work, especially if you don't let them get away with everything!)

Anyway, sometimes I just wonder if the things that I say and do actually take hold in his little heart and mind.  More often than not, I think that what I have been trying to teach is going in one ear and out the other.

Today, however, I was proven wrong.  Happily proven wrong, at that.

I got home from work, and started asking The Boy how his first day back at school went.  See, I started work over the holiday break, so this is a new beginning for us all.  The Hubs is driving him to and from school, and our routine has been altered quite a bit.  Well, I found out that The Boy hadn't started his homework yet, so we sat down and began the process.

I pulled out his agenda first.  (An agenda, for those of you that don't know, is a journal-type book that the teacher uses to communicate how your child is doing in school on a daily basis.  Behavior, studies, upcoming events, etc.)  In bright red ink, I found this note from the teacher:

"In class today, we created a journal page.  The first question was 'What was your favorite gift that you got for Christmas?'  His answer was : Love.  The next question was 'Who was it from?'.  His answer was: From my mom.  I was very impressed.  Every other child in my class named a toy as their favorite gift.  Good job, Mom!"

I almost cried.  He got it!  I was so terribly worried that with all the financial stress we were enduring, that he would feel cheated somehow at Christmas.  God provided and we were able to get the kids most of the things on their rather small lists, but I was so worried that he would be upset that a couple of bigger items weren't under the tree.

I couldn't be prouder of my little man.  The hard work has not been in vain.

Have a great day!

Ms. L

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Couponing

I am an avid coupon lover.  Now, I'm not one of those psycho people that goes and buys 1,294 boxes of rice and puts it into their basement for a rainy day.  Mainly, because well, I don't have the space for that, not to mention I don't think I'd use that much rice even if it rained every day for a year!

I do love to hunt the good deals down though.  I have been planning to share some couponing tips here with you.  However, sadly lately there have been very few deals.  So just know that eventually when the coupon deals start to come along again I will be sharing with you all.  If you don't care that's cool, but I know there are some of you out there that would love the tips so I'll keep you updated!

Have a great day!

Ms. T

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A Good Book (Part 2)

I am done reading "The Help".  I promised when I was done I would write a review on the book.  Well, here it is:

"The Help" is a very good book.  I enjoyed it so much!  The author has a way of making you feel like you're in the room with the characters. 

The characters are diverse and colorful.  You want to love them or hate them, really there isn't any in between.

As for the story line itself, it is enthralling.  I became so wrapped up in the story I couldn't put the book down.  Everytime I had to do something else I would find myself wondering what the next turn would be in the story line. (A mark of an excellent book in my humble opinion.)

There you go, a non-spoiling, honest review.  Sorry if you wanted more of a book report.  I'm not all about giving away the ending ;).

Hope you all have a great day!

Ms. T 

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Grief

I have a very good friend who lost her Mom Wednesday very unexpectedly.  My heart aches for her.  My Mom, who is here visiting and also knew the woman well, and I went to my friend's house to try and comfort her.  We wanted to show her how much we love her.

Our grief took many forms. We hugged on my friend and cried with her.  Oh did we cry.  We talked about good memories of her mom and laughed a little.  We reminisced about her cooking, she made the best cakes you would ever taste. We talked about their last conversation.  And we cried some more.  

Today, I have spilled more tears for my friend.  I love her dearly and can't even imagine the pain that she is experiencing right now.  The relationship between Mother and Daughter is such a special one.  One that cannot be duplicated.  

If you are able to, go hug your Mom today.  Love on her, tell her you love her.  Never take your Mom for granted.

I hope you all have a good, love filled day!

Ms. T

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A Good Book

I love to read.  I don't do it very often though, because when I get into a good book I feel like a bad housekeeper.  I get so enthralled with the book that I don't want to put it down.  I'd rather read another chapter than clean the bathroom or do the dishes.  And I'd much rather read than do the laundry.... goodness, who wouldn't rather do almost anything than the laundry?!

On the mothering front I don't do much better.  I find that when I'm reading a good book the Firecracker watches more t.v. than I normally would allow, because it entertains him and I can read.  See, now you're thinking it's a good thing I don't read much too.  Ha ha ha!

Well, the Hubs knows that I've been wanting to read, "The Help" for some time now, but haven't allowed myself to do it.  Last night when he came home he brought me a present =).  He put a sweet card on it and then said, "you can't open this til tomorrow!"  Talk about getting to me!  I jumped out of bed this morning (ok, ok more like crawled out, geesh ), and opened my present and what awaited me?  "The Help"!!!  What an awesome Hubs!!!  Do you wonder why I love him? 

Needless to say, I've started reading it and I'll be writing a review when I'm done.  However, it's hooked me for sure.  I have a feeling my house won't be super clean this week.... although I am making a concerted effort to make sure to play with the Firecracker so Iwon't win the "awful Mommy of the year" award.   

Hope you all have a great day =)

Ms. T

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Major Boar

I don't know if you have seen any of the shows on TV about the Wild Boars or Hogs that are taking over the state of Florida, but I have.  I actually find these shows somewhat entertaining, but think that they probably are blowing the hog population a little out of proportion.  I still think they are somewhat entertaining, and they make me think that Ms. T and I should go into the Hog Huntin' business.  I haven't run that by her yet, but I am pretty sure she would be cool with it.


So anyway, this morning, on my way to work, I came face to face with my very own Monster Hog.  Ok, ok, it was more like Snout to Grill (and by Grill I mean about 6 feet away from my car).  This joker was big!  And from all my Hog-show-watching experience, I would say this hog weighed in at between 150-200 pounds!  Wowzer!  That's like one of me in Pig Size, which is kind of like dog years but only in pounds, not years.


This hog was not alone either.  There were about 4-5 other hogs hanging out right at the tree line, while this lead hog was testin' out the road.  I think that they were like the Hog Support Group, or maybe they were like a bunch of West Side Story Hogs and there was a whole lot of snapping going on once I passed by.  But really, I think they were about to perform their very own Pig rendition of Grease (because what do you get when you fry up bacon? That's right.).  And I was staring down The John Travolta of Hogs. 


At first, I was like, "Where's my gun?", but then I remembered that I'm not in Georgia anymore, Toto.  So then, I was like, "It's John Travolta, maybe I can get an autograph!"  But that didn't work out either.  In the end, I didn't even take a picture to share with you all.  I just drove on and let them get back to singing "You're the One That I Want" in their spandex leggings that I am sure they were waiting to change into as soon as I gave them their privacy.


In the end, it just made for an eventful drive to work! 

Hope you had a good one today!

Ms. L


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Imagination

The Firecracker impresses me with his imagination some times.  He really is a little sponge that absorbs everything he's exposed to right now.  Which is awesome, and a little bit scary to me.


After reading the story of Peter Pan and Captian Hook, Firecracker is constantly telling me to, "get on the boat, Mom!  Tick- Tock- Crock is in the water and coming!" (Wherever he is sitting at the moment is the boat).


Another example would be Firecracker tells me he is "Lightning Mcqueen, Mom is Mater".  Then we proceed to run around the house and obviously Mom has to be slower, because Mom is Mater.... duh!


We role play alot: Larry Boy and the giant lie (from Larry Boy and the Fib from Outerspace, a Veggie Tales movie that if you haven't seen you should! It's a great movie that teaches kids it's never ok to lie), Buzz and Woody, Phineas and Ferb I could go on, but because you don't really care for sake of time I won't.


It's really neat to me to see my Firecracker using his imagination.  It is something so few kids have any more.  It makes me smile!


Wishing you an imaginative day!


Ms. T


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