"Mama, my thumb hurts right here when I color." Nathalie holds out her hand to me.
"Thats because you wont stop sucking your thumb, its chapped there."
"Oh, well I guess I will color with my left hand."
"Why dont you just stop sucking your thumb?"
"Oh no, that wont be necessary, I will just become left handed." Oh great, now why doesnt she just suck her left thumb? I mean she hasnt been thumb specific, its just the right one thats chapped. I guess it healing will take longer than her becoming ambidextrous.
Earlier in convo heard here:
"I just lost a sewing pin." Tad is searching the carpeted area.
"Find it." Me
"Its lost." Tad
"I know, but nobody wants to step on it."
"But if they step on it we will know where it is and it wont be lost." Tad says. I now give him a look that says clearly that isnt going to work and he gives me his question eyes.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Jesus
"Mama, could Jesus have changed his mind?" Tad
"About what Tad?"
"Dying, dying on the cross to save us from our sins."
"Yes Tad, he could have." My son turns to look at me from the spot where he is laying on the floor listening to Christmas music. He looks at me long and his eyes fill with tears. They dont spill. He looks away.
Its pretty neat when the gift of salvation becomes more than words. I marvel that my near 8 year old just felt it. And on thanksgiving day.
"About what Tad?"
"Dying, dying on the cross to save us from our sins."
"Yes Tad, he could have." My son turns to look at me from the spot where he is laying on the floor listening to Christmas music. He looks at me long and his eyes fill with tears. They dont spill. He looks away.
Its pretty neat when the gift of salvation becomes more than words. I marvel that my near 8 year old just felt it. And on thanksgiving day.
Diaper art
So this is something I am proud of, I am an instant gratification kind of person. So I make diapers quickly, if a diaper takes very long, I wont make it twice. Which is why I dont make 40 $ a diaper and yes, some people do! I make form and function, not fancy. I do feel proud that this one is so pretty. The top picture here is a double layer wool wrap.
This is the fitted diaper, the wool wrap and the topstitched insert. There are tiny leaves all the way around the insert, the sulky thread on this breaks easily so it was 30 min just topstitching that while paying attention for a break. You can see this set in my store on hyenacart, www.hyenacart.com/jolisart
I ordered some cheap linen drawstring bags in a coop, just because you never know when you might need them. Each child earned 2 of them for turning them all right sides out (they came unturned) and tying off the drawstring ends so we dont lose them. I didnt ask them to do this, it was Tads idea and they had fun. They spent about an hr on it, I bought 50 bags!
These are knits I ordered for diaper outers, knit diapers dont pill up as much as flannel but they are much more expensive because of the knit prices. Some of these are the kids. The spider one at bottom left is for Tad pjs, the horsie knit and octopus knit are for Nathalie's new nightgowns (nowties) and then some are for my new nephew due in april.
Guinea dinner
Tad was speaking about a friend who called him this am from SC.
"Her sister had 2 guinea hens as pets. Their dog ate it."
"What? Why?" Nathalie asks, I was also feeling surprised by this
"I know right? She was well fed!" Says tad, its funny the way he says things so matter of fact. He often says things that are kind of "duh" and Nathalie (like me) is simply stunned and startled by the world and its unexplainable things.
"Her sister had 2 guinea hens as pets. Their dog ate it."
"What? Why?" Nathalie asks, I was also feeling surprised by this
"I know right? She was well fed!" Says tad, its funny the way he says things so matter of fact. He often says things that are kind of "duh" and Nathalie (like me) is simply stunned and startled by the world and its unexplainable things.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving, 2 min ago.
Sometimes I feel sorry for myself, having to be without my husband. Tonight I was listening to 3rd day Christmas music and he was singing about an orphan girl in the cold on Christmas because she couldn't go to her family yet. He was singing for HER not those missing her.
So this thanksgiving, I am thankful for the man I married. He is the best man I know. And it is him who is away for the holidays, not me. I am here, where he was, in his home. With his pictures, his hat and his boots. Most of all, his children.
I am thankful for this. Thankful to God for my blessings, for salvation, for my children, my husband, my family.
Thankful to the soldiers who serve away from home on the holidays. I don't think you have days off deployed, even if you are having down time, time spent with a gun at arms reach is not time off. I am grateful to all of them for the chance to be here safe.
Thankful that my children are here safe, not a child soldier, not an orphan, not unloved or neglected.
To my soldier, thank you for being the best man I know. For being a wonderful daddy, an amazing husband, a strong leader and my best friend. I love you.
Sometimes I feel sorry for myself, having to be without my husband. Tonight I was listening to 3rd day Christmas music and he was singing about an orphan girl in the cold on Christmas because she couldn't go to her family yet. He was singing for HER not those missing her.
So this thanksgiving, I am thankful for the man I married. He is the best man I know. And it is him who is away for the holidays, not me. I am here, where he was, in his home. With his pictures, his hat and his boots. Most of all, his children.
I am thankful for this. Thankful to God for my blessings, for salvation, for my children, my husband, my family.
Thankful to the soldiers who serve away from home on the holidays. I don't think you have days off deployed, even if you are having down time, time spent with a gun at arms reach is not time off. I am grateful to all of them for the chance to be here safe.
Thankful that my children are here safe, not a child soldier, not an orphan, not unloved or neglected.
To my soldier, thank you for being the best man I know. For being a wonderful daddy, an amazing husband, a strong leader and my best friend. I love you.
Conversation
"Nathalie you need to shower, you kind of smell bad and tomorrow is thanksgiving."
"Oh man, I am clean mama!"
"No you're not. Come on." I walk in to start the shower and she undresses. I know (as I do laundry sometimes) that she only has one pair of solid white panties. Now, I remember a morning, and not this one or yesterday her wearing these, I am sure of this.
"Nathalie," who has wet her bed until a few weeks ago and thus always took off panties at night, "Do you change your panties every day?" Blank stare from her and then,
"Mama, I havent wet the bed. I had one accident at night 4 nights ago."
"What... but you... I mean you really dont... did you not know... I mean, Nathalie! You are supposed to change them each day even if you dont shower every day. You didnt shower night before last?" They shower every other in winter.
"No because I fell asleep remember but I put these clean panties on 4 nights ago when I woke up in my bed wet. "
Oh my. I am flailing about in the sea of single parenthood! Help!
"Oh man, I am clean mama!"
"No you're not. Come on." I walk in to start the shower and she undresses. I know (as I do laundry sometimes) that she only has one pair of solid white panties. Now, I remember a morning, and not this one or yesterday her wearing these, I am sure of this.
"Nathalie," who has wet her bed until a few weeks ago and thus always took off panties at night, "Do you change your panties every day?" Blank stare from her and then,
"Mama, I havent wet the bed. I had one accident at night 4 nights ago."
"What... but you... I mean you really dont... did you not know... I mean, Nathalie! You are supposed to change them each day even if you dont shower every day. You didnt shower night before last?" They shower every other in winter.
"No because I fell asleep remember but I put these clean panties on 4 nights ago when I woke up in my bed wet. "
Oh my. I am flailing about in the sea of single parenthood! Help!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Puzzles
Nathalie did this, it is a number puzzle I bought for Frank years ago. Its easier to put it in order from 1-15 which is what Tad was trying to do for days. He is like me where puzzles are concerned, not great... She is like Frank. She once told me that she sees things as pieces of a whole which is why by age of 3 with one thumb in her mouth, she could easily work 50-100 piece puzzles that Tad and I had struggled with during her nap. She told me that I am poor at puzzles because I see a whole picture rather than pieces.
She did this number puzzle backwards after lunch yesterday, just sitting in the floor working while I cleaned up. She brought it to me and set it on the cabinet. Since then Tad has tried again but gave it up and instead went outside to chop wood.
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