On the way home he gave me a hint that he was bringing something "White, square and absorbent" as souvenirs.
A pile of napkins from Carl's Jr. Apparently there was some debate from another member of church as to whether taking this many napkins would be considered thievery.
And all those aren't mine. I have to share with ds1 and dh.
Way to go with the souvenirs, Kev.
Until next time.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
My Son Went to California and All I Got Was...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
When Pastor Loses Kev
Labels: ds2
I got a frantic phone call today from the Pastor Raw Justice. It went something like this:
"Rawmilkstar, hi, this is Pastor Justice. I can't locate Kev. He seems to have been abducted. OR something. I don't know where he could have wandered off to. This is a big place, he could get lost anywhere!! Can you give me his cell phone number so I can call him? We're trying to get the next sermon started."
"Oh, Pastor Raw, oh my goodness, heaven sakes alive. Here is Kev's number. Please have him call me as soon as you find him. Someone could have hit him over the head and drug him off someplace!"
"Oh, my goodness, no I don't think that could have happened."
"Right. I was only joking." (Actually the logistics were intended to make that a hilarious statement on my part, as Kev is a large man and if someone hit him on the head and knocked him out, they wouldn't be able to drag him anyplace, he'd be dead weight. Hey, Kev inherited his sense of humor from someplace, didn't he?)
Within moments, I got another call.
"Hi, this is Raw Justice. I found Kev. Sorry to alarm you. He was sitting on the other side of the pole, out of my line of sight. He was here the entire time. The lost sheep has been found. Sorry again. We're having a great time here, not to worry, not to worry. At least, we're having a good time. I don't know about Kev. I think he's having a good time, but I can't tell you for sure. Bye now!"
I was relieved to hear the little flock had been restored.
Until next time.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Kev Runs Away
Labels: ds2
No wait. He hasn't run away, he's on his way to Bible conference in California.
He's called me a couple of times already, in tears. He misses his mommy and daddy and BroMan. I told him, "Suck it up, you're a man now!" And then I texted him five times with "Are you there yet?"
I haven't had time to miss him yet. But maybe after dinner, when there's no one else to ask to put away the food. Or the chilled goat's milk.
No one to sit silently with while we both make blog posts about our lives. Maybe we can reminisce about the old days when he was hopelessly addicted to the Internets, stuck in his room and we'd instant message each other.
No one to ask to go out to the car and get my purse. Or my asthma bag. Or my laptop bag. Or my crocheting bag. Or my knitting bag. No wait. I could ask my husband to do that. Okay, that's okay. I'll survive.
Maybe he will be so happy to be home when he gets back we can do hoof trims and blood draws on the goats on Monday.
Have fun, son!! Can't wait until you get back home to help me with those hoof trims!!!
I love you!! Be a good boy!! Uh, be a grownup adult man!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Just Some Pictures of My Daily Life
Labels: auto maintenance, ds2, LJ
The odometer reading was 233,333, I'm driving 70mph, the rpm's were 2600, tank half full and 144 miles since buying gas...
Ds2 scrubbed the oven out by hand. One day I'll add in the before picture. No chemicals were used! It's not perfect, but it's much cleaner than it was to begin with and did I say no chemicals were used!?
A cloudy day outside my office window.
Ds2 on his laptop and his cat in his favorite spot.
Dh in bed with just barely enough room due to LJ curled up at his side and Vicious laying on top of him.
And last but not least, LJ sleeping in bed. When he heard the camera he started stretching and then fell back to sleep.
Until next time.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Leaving The Nest
Labels: ds2, Memory Lane
Our baby is beginning to venture from the nest! He started talking about attending Wednesday evening services a couple of weeks ago, and decided to try it last night. This was his third time out driving all by himself. The first time he's driven this far all alone (~45 miles to church). The first time by himself where he'd be driving home in the dark. The first time grocery shopping all by himself.
He looks so handsome in his Geoffrey Bean dress shirt and tie.
Uh, sonny... your pockets are hanging out.
I asked him to call me when he got to church, when he left church, when he got to the grocery store and when he left the grocery store. He did as I asked.
It was a little bit nerve wracking. Due to my sleep being interrupted I was extra tired this morning and needed coffee right away (3am) to help me wake up and get going for the day.
I'm very proud of this guy. He's been a great blessing.
His father and I love that his life is so different than ours at his age. We laid in bed last night talking about how different our lives were at his age. Dh had been living on the streets for years... I had been living with Mrs. So and So who told me I was too stupid to learn to drive stick shift. Of course it was just her way of keeping me from driving, from having to pay insurance for me to drive, and to keep me homebound as much as possible.
Neither of us had our driver's license as teenagers. Neither were allowed that right.
I'm so glad we have been able to give him a different life than we had.
I love you, son. You make a mother proud. And thanks for humoring me and calling me all those times, even though it interrupted my sleep. But see, I'd rather have my sleep interrupted, than worry for not hearing. Yeah, I could have called him on his cell phone, but I didn't want to interrupt the bible study, nor have him answering the phone while driving. Although I did call him twice and catch him while he was driving.
Until next time.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Be Careful What You Ask For
This post was written by me originally on April 24th, 2005.
This is a really funny story of a blessing and a sign to me that God cares for us and answers our prayers.
Ds2 needed a new pair of pants. He's a big boy, and we do our shopping in a small town which doesn't have a "big and tall" men's store. Ds2 measured himself at home and told me over the phone that he needed pants with the waist size 58". When ds2 told me that, I said a prayer that God would help us find him a pair of pants that would fit. His only pair was pretty well worn out. I knew that Kmart or Walmart only went up to 50" so we decided to take our chances at a closeout mall. I asked the salesperson if they carried pants that big. She said they only went up to 50" but I could look on the rack of the pre-worn returned Levi's. I was standing right next to it, and started looking through the pants. I was so surprised to find ONE PAIR of 58" jeans!! I immediately gave thanks to God for this blessing! It really made me feel so cared for!! The other option would be to drive into the big city for a pair of pants. I was so happy about this. So we got home a little later, and I showed ds2 the pants and told him about the blessing.
Ds2 looking at the pants: "Don't you think those are a little big?"
Me: "You said 58", didn't you?"
Ds2: "I said 58"? I meant 48"!"
So the morale of the story is to be careful what you ask God for, and be specific. :-)
Until next time.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Boggle To Go!
A few posts ago, I blogged about a secret, well I can let the cat out of the bag now. Ds2's birthday was on the 6th and I was wrapping presents for him that evening.
One of things I impulsively picked up for him was a Boggle To Go! game. I mostly shop for my children from a wish list they have given me, so buying something totally off the list becomes impulsive.
Ds2 has not played Boggle before, and he every night he gets better and better. Tonight we played 2 sets of games. Three games made the first set. He scored 38, I scored 31.
The second set we played four games. He scored 53, I scored 31.
He found this site mh-z Boggle/Tangleword Solver which allows you to put in the letters and the computer gives you a list of all the possible words. Sometimes when we get a bad bunch of letters we'll look up what we could have found, if we were computers. ;-)
It's very interesting to see how many words we come up with that are separate, and how many words there are right before our eyes that we didn't see!
Until next time.
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