A couple of years after my initial cooking woes, I was no longer working outside the home. We didn’t have any children yet, so I spent much of my time planning and preparing for my husband elaborate meals, which he thoroughly enjoyed. Even if I didn’t like a dish, he always ate it–except on two… [continue reading]
Funny Kid’s Quotes #2
I yelled upstairs to Joy and told her to quiet down. “What? Mom? Say again because I think you say blah blah blah!” This post it linked to Mud Pies for Mommy.
Newlywed Cooking Lessons
When we were first married, I set out to be the perfect wife. Only my new husband’s definition of the perfect wife and mine were immensely different. So for several months, okay years, I labored on my own mission and he set out to tell me how he wanted me to be. Fun, fun, fun!… [continue reading]
A Little Carried Away with My Veggie Tales Music
We had just taken the kids to Krispy Kreme, and maybe I was just a little high on sugar. I had the Veggie Tales Madame Blueberry song stuck in my head and sang happily on the way out to the car. While Jason was getting the kids in the car, I came to the end… [continue reading]
Bathroom Confusion
Jason and I are helping with the three-year-old Sunday School class on Sunday mornings. At bathroom time I take the boys’ bathroom while a different group takes the girls’ bathroom and each class sends all the kids two by two into the bathroom. It is my job to make sure that hands get washed and… [continue reading]
My Nebraska Dating Experience
The adventures from my first year in Nebraska after I had graduated college seemed to prove to me what I thought I already knew from past experience. First, that all men from Nebraska are strange, and second, I would never marry anyone from Nebraska–I actually said that! I was “stood up” for the first time ever. … [continue reading]
Funny College Midnight Bathroom Run Story
I have never been very coherent when I first wake up. I’ll be the first to admit that! One particular time when I was in college, I had gone to bed early and was in a deep sleep, but woke up needing to go to the bathroom. My best guess was that it was three… [continue reading]
The Case of the Missing Keys
After one of Jason’s soft ball games one day, one of the guys on the team couldn’t find his keys. Jason stayed late to help him look all around the bench and all over the field. He even asked some of the little boys if they had picked up some keys. He knew he had… [continue reading]
Marriage
The other day Jason and I were talking about our dating relationship versus our marriage relationship. I told him that marriage was quite a shocker for me because I expected him to be just as interested in my views, desires, and wishes as when we dated and…uh…he wasn’t. 🙂 He didn’t really say much after… [continue reading]
Clang, Clang, Clang
Jason and I were at a nice, candle-lit restaurant enjoying the quiet and the food – in that order. When all of the sudden I heard this loud clang, clang, clang. It sounded like it came from underneath our own table. I looked up at Jason, who sat there eating normally, and then I looked… [continue reading]