food

Today when I told the kids we were having spaghetti for dinner at least 3 boys cheered, "YAY! something edible!!" : (

also, I poured myself some rhubarb lemonade that I had made and drank a sip. it looked odd but I thought that was because it was the last of it and it was starting to freeze in the fridge and it was rhubarbish. no. It was full of feta cheese. That was 10 minutes ago and I still feel like barfing.

strange days - or are they normal?

Yesterday, Titus found a dead mouse and brought it through the house to me holding it with my tongs. Silas let a toad loose in the dining room. and I found my bra in the driveway. and two boys ran around the house slapping each other with fly swatters. Yuck. hmmm. at least no snakes.

Chore Time

Some one has some extra time on his hands while he is putting away the silverware....

Where is mom when this is going on?

Dad must be in charge.

Camping

We went camping this weekend. It was beautiful and the kids had so much fun. The campsite is at a lake only 10 minutes from our house. Nobody got hurt. I made Michelle Laffans famous smores. They weren't the same without her. : ( and I didn't have her specialty mochas to go along with it. But still yummy. And we had fun.

Boyd Family

Things to do with chess pieces

more snakes

This one was in the roadway in front of my house when I came back from town. I stopped the car about 30ft away and went to ask my neighbor to do something about it. He didn't answer the door so I drove around town looking for a brave soul to do something with it. I didn't know what kind of snake it was and I certainly didn't want a rattlesnake getting away to live in a nearby bush.

I finally reached one of the boys' friends dads on the phone. I asked him "Do you have a gun?" (who in lagrange doesn't?). He said, "what do you need it for?" I said, "A giant snake." He said, "I'll be right over!" He brought a bunch of other grown men with him. They seemed to hide their excitement. The first jumped out of the car and ran up to it. (Where is the caution?) He walked right up to it. and kicked it. Bummer. Already dead. It must have been run over. And it was a bull snake - a good kind - not even poisonous. They were clearly disappointed and threw it into a bush. only I wanted to keep it to scare Matt. So they climbed around in the bush till they found it and handed it back to me.

As they handed it to me, I thought in my head, "Be brave just take the snake. Its no big deal." I nonchalantly reached over to take it. No big deal. But as soon as my hand wrapped around that thing I could feel the scales and the backboney thing and it was so disgusting and gross, I screamed like a girl and dropped it. I totally humiliated my sons. yes. I did work up my guts and picked it up later. But unless I can help it I will move it with the toe of my boot.

Embarrassing Moments

This Sunday Gideon dressed himself. I was so proud. All I had to do was help him with his overall straps.

Gideon needs to be reminded to use the potty or else he has an accident. So, during Sunday School Matt took Gideon to the bathroom and then dropped him back off in his class. When Matt got back to the adult class with me, he whispered in my ear that Gideon had made it to church without underwear. I thought it was funny and only a little embarrassing because nobody would find out.

During church time I didn't take him to the nursery and let him sit with Matt and I. Gideon laid down on my lap and fell asleep.

About halfway through the sermon I looked down to rearrange him and saw what the entire right side of the church had had in plain view the whole time. Matt hadn't gotten the crotch of Gideon pants completely snapped and he was hanging out in full view. All the parts. and no underwear. We were sitting in the front section at the edge of the pew. So all the people up the diagonal pews had the sight completely unhindered.

So much for nobody finding out.

Rattlesnake Den

We went to lunch at a friends house. We got the wild wyoming treatment. Rattlesnake lunch. no not really. We had BBQ chicken and burgers. But they had just gone to get some rattlesnakes at a den not far from their house. They brought 4 dead writhing ones home. They were still pretty fiesty. One dead one kept try to strike. They chopped off and buried the heads. And Abbey held one of the rattles. Wow. Makes me really not want to go hiking unless I have a 22.