Rabbit Trails

When we moved here 25 years ago, I said I would plant flowers. I did. And they grew. So did other things. The trees. Weeds. Kittens. Puppies. And our kids. Caleb turned five years old the day we moved. It was his birthday. Sara was 7. Olivia was 3. Daniel was 6 weeks old. Happy birthday Caleb. Caleb could read before he was in Kindergarten. He has a scar on his forehead and on his arm from bike wrecks. He likes to do transmission work on cars and trucks. He teaches the boy Sunday School class upstairs. I teach the girl Sunday School class downstairs. Sometimes on the way back, we ask each other if we have a lesson prepared.  Knowing that we do. He's our Song Leader. He preaches every Wednesday night. He has a lovely wife from Alaska, and three little girls. I've always been thankful for Caleb.     Except for a few minutes the day he was born. He weighed 10 pounds. Caleb turns 30 today. Today we've...

Saturday morning. My sons. Caleb----Pastor/Preacher Daniel----Policeman

it's all we have........... my 3 guys me in my favorite top Jolly playing horses with A. and L.

I have never seen anybody doing Formica. I only see the finished product. It was pretty neat to see all the steps. I must admit I missed them cutting the top......but I did see them paint the glue on the board. Ugh. This is nerve wracking to me........I would never build tall buildings, put more than ONE car on a trailer to transport them from city to city, I'd never make tall slipper slides or 6 foot deep swimming pools, and I HATE people wedging things in doors, dragging things around and moving things that are too big to be moved. This is on the kitchen side...........we don't want to just paint it, but nobody in the family wants anything weird either.........so we're going to think on it for a while. I already know what I would do......I'd get some thin sheet tin.......cover it just like you would tin foil on a cookie sheet, and screw it on. I think it would look neat, and boy would it ever take the wear and tear! I imagine we will get some kind of wall...

thinking, planning lifting, stretching drilling, finishing this would be an optical illusion, or just a messed up picture.......it is the ceiling of the kitchen totally ready for paint and yes, it is osb board. we like it. We did the walls of the office with it and the front bathroom ceiling. It paints up really nice, and it looks like a log jam.

One of these days, YOUR kids will grow up. I'm glad all of ours still like to sit on our couch with us.

I've been involved in another discussion on what to do with boys.........here are more things I thought of. I cannot claim that I won't repeat myself. It hasn't been that long since I blogged about boys, so forgive me if you read something in this blog that you read in the other...... The things I list are not in order of importance. They are pretty much in the order they came to me in. boys should take all trash out and keep all trash cans clean do all yard work, mow/weed-eat/trim/yard trash/sweep sidewalks/sweep street in front of house/take care of yard deco/take care of lawn furniture/rake/move bricks/pull weeds or at least take them to the side of the road for mom/poop scoop.......there should never be dog stuff in your yard if you have a boy.... boys should take care of bikes........tires, seats and general care......let it be their job to make sure they are all in the garage at night.....they can start looking out for things early on and then they'll get used...

ride bikes in dangerous places have good friends (this is our other son)

This was before Lydia...........we took a school outing one day to different places in Freeport. The girl with the hat can now play Fur Elise on the piano with her eyes closed. The girl in pink has three kids, two of them being twins. She keeps her home neat and tidy. The girl in the blue t-shirt writes articles for popular Christian women web sites. She also makes cheese cakes that weigh 8 pounds. The boy in the white top finished a model of the Titanic for a friend........and now has a display in our library of all the Titanic things he has collected. He LOVES his riding lawn-mower. The kid in orange is buying a house on 1st street here in our little town. He leads singing at our church and teaches the boys upstairs on Sunday mornings. He also has quite a collection of ties. We enjoyed our little kids, but big kids are great, too.!!!!