Connor earns Arrow of Light!

Raspberries

Ok I realize that most of you will not be as excited at this vision in red as I am. These are raspberries from my own garden! I have been trying to grow them for 4 years and I finally have success!! Much of this success is due to the fact that Kirk built me a raised garden bed in the backyard! He does not like that it is filled with food plants, he pictured it a neat orderly place with rows of flowers. But I am trying to show him how great it is with all the food we've grown this year. the raspberries being the highlight of course. However this is difficult to show him when he doesn't eat any of the things I grow. I have green beans, tomatoes, strawberries and several herbs. So anyway Goergia is filled with wild raspberry plants but none of them produce, I tried cutting them back to see if that helps but it is no use, such a tease! My mom and sister who live in WA spent the afternoon picking blackberries on the side of the raod to make jam, how fair is that I ask you?? I who would love wild berries on the side of the road have barren plants. But to my extreme happiness I have successfully started a raspberry patch and here is the first fruit of my labor! I look forward to yummy fruit for years to come! Guess I am stuck in this house forever!

Kids

Don't get me wrong, my kids are great! They do soo many things right, but occasionaly they do things that probably aren't right, but maybe funny. I don't put those things on my blog page to make fun of them or anything. But to share a smile with everyone, kinda like the smile or cry. If I smile maybe I won't cry, you know what I'm saying? So thats why only a few days after my Matt post here is one for Connor. I wish you could see the picture because it is exceptionaly funny! Connor got in trouble for burping in the lunch room. So the lunch room lady made him write an apology letter to her which I now have to sign, here it is...
Dear Ms Dorsey, I am sorry you don't understnd that I couldn't help it! I had to burp. The burp was loud so they taught me to say excuse me! And then you got mad at me for burping!
It then has a very funny picture of him burping and then saying hah hah. Nice one. I don't think i will send berry juice boxes to school with him again.

Matt

OK so i can't give you the exact wording so this may not sound as funny as it is, even though really it's probably disturbing... but i have to laugh. Matt has been begging to quit band at school, he is tired of the trumpet and his band teacher won't let him switch instruments and there really isn't a lot of fun incentive to be in band, they only play twice at school and never travel anywhere fun to play. I've been trying to keep him from quitting. One night he was having one of his drama mama meltdowns and tried to get kirk to let him quit Spanish, band and scouts. So he brought a paper to Kirk to have him write a note so he could quit. Kirk wrote really funny, maybe slightly rude letters that he and I laughed and laughed over. The Spanish one was like Buenus tardas, Matt is running for the border and thinks he knows enough Spanish to survive so he will not be needing Spanish class. the band one was something like we regret that Matt wants to quit band how we will miss his angelic trumpeting floating through the hallowed halls of your school. SOO Matt tells me after he gets home from school today that he got his new schedule, and I said why? it's not time to switch schedules? He Totally turned in the band note and quit!! He told the office I'm sorry my dad wrote kinda a funny note, and the secretary said they get a lot of odd notes, the accepted it and took him out of band! What can I do?? I said well I'm bummed you will miss out on the learning opportunity, I think you would have fun playing the trumpet and you are good at it, but if you don't want to play that's your choice. I called Kirk and of course he almost fell off his chair laughing when we remembered what things he wrote! Gotta respect the inititive right??

2 birds

OK here I am showing 2 items i mentioned in previous posts. First this is AJ's favorite outfit, the cute plaid shorts with the bright tye die shirt, he would wear it daily if he could! It is cute, and he does like it.... Next this is my carpet, you can see it is light but there are dark flecks in it. Kirk liked it as a sample but he can't get over the feeling that it looks dirty because of the flecks, so it will have to grow on him. I am loving it! Although I did clog my vacuum twice yesterday andmy kids get off the carpet looking like we have a tan cat!

carpet

OK the drama of my week was we got new carpet in the whole house! It was over 10 years old and really needed to be put to rest! We went with a company that gives you a discount if you sign up to do it the same day they measure your house and if they can come the next day to install! So I had one afternoon to move everything off of shelves out of drawers off walls everywhere! I stuffed everything in bathrooms making 2 unuseable, the kitchen counter was wall to wall books, the basement, the garage... it was chaos! Then I couldn't leave while they installed so I sat on the blankets in the laundry room and called and texted everyone I knew to keep myself occupied. Totally worth it, after 8 hours the house looks great!I am slowly putting things back so maybe some of the stuff won't make it back! I am really enjoing the kids rooms with nothing in them but beds, however I assume I will eventuallu want the bathrooms again and so I will take the toys and pets out.
maybe i'll take the pets out, like all the way out and set them free!! The hamster, the snake, the 3 difffernt lizards, the turtle currently swimming in the bathroom sink, the 2 birds and the partridge in the pear tree!
I will post a pict of carpet once I can find my camera, and children...

Peanuts our bird/dog

Press pause on the music below before you hit play on the video so you can hear it. This is Connors bird Peanuts, sometimes I think he is a dog. He screetchs when he hears Kirk come home or wake up and come down stairs and when he is feeling neglected he makes this noise that sounds like a puppy crying. Sorry you can tv in the background, I couldn't get it off before I started recording.