While sitting in on Peter’s and Phillip’s sunday school class yesterday, I observed them coloring. Peter was working very slowly, being so precise, and coloring each tiny piece of the picture a different color. Phillip, on the other hand, was just scribbling all over the page. His page filled up pretty fast, and still he scribbled and scribbled until Ms. Christy said, “Phillip, your page is full. You may choose a stamp to decorate your page.” Peter’s head came up quickly. He looked at his page, leaned way over around another little girl to see Phillip’s page, looked at his crayon, and went to town scribbling all over his page!! It was hilarious!! He was rewarded by being allowed to choose a stamp to decorate his page! Meanwhile Ms. Christy and I had to hide our laughter behind our hands.

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Well, it finally feels like winter here in Rhode Island. The ground is frozen and probably will stay that way until Spring. It even snowed a little today!! I am learning why scarves were invented. The kids wear one everytime we go out. It’s funny to see them with a hat to their eyebrows and a scarf up to the top of their noses, allowing only their eyes to peep through!!  Unfortunately, I keep forgetting my scarf, so I get to walk around with a frozen nose!! I plan to get a winter hat, too!! It’s cold outside!!

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Today I heard AM say this to Peter, “My eyes hurt; Peter, I think it is your feet.”

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As usual when we check out movies at the library, the librarian took our colorful movie cases into a back room and exchanged them for cases that actually held the DVD. These cases had a run-off copy of the picture included in the cover, leaving the color ones to display empty on the shelves. After she took our color cases and exchanged them for black and white ones, Anna Marie said, “All she did was turn the picture to black and white!” We then heard a little chuckle from the “magic” librarian.

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While driving home from Nashville last week, we noticed a beautiful sunset that just had to be photographed. I mean, it just had to be done. The sunset was kind of behind us a a weird angle, so I took my seatbelt off, turned around backwards, and hung my head out the window to get the shot. I thought I had done a great job until I came back in and hit my chin on the closing window. I had been leaning on the “window up” button and was about to shut my own head in the window!

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Actually, I said it wrong. So if you didn’t here it wrong, you heard it wrong.

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Peter walked into the room carrying a ruler and said incredulously, “Mom, did this break off a measuring tape?!”

This morning I had the hiccups and walked over to stand beside Peter. He said, “Mom, will you not stand next to me? You have the hiccups, and I don’t want the hiccups.”

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Peter: Tell him to “Turn on your lights.”
Phillip: Turn on my lights.
Peter: No, tell him to turn on his lights.
Phillip: Turn on his lights.
Peter: No, not my lights. Say “Turn on your lights.”
Phillip: Turn on my lights.
Peter: No, his lights.
Phillip (in disgust and triumph): Turn on the lights!

I have read that dish detergent takes out stains, and now that I have tried it, I am convinced!! The other day I got a grease stain (veggie oil) on a favorite shirt and was very disappointed because I have never been successful at getting grease stains out of clothing. I remembered reading about using dish detergent, so I put dawn on the spots and tossed the shirt in the laundry to wash later. When it came time to wash it, I re-treated the stains with Shout stain remover and washed it in cold water. The stains came out completely!! I don’t know if the Shout was necessary, but I was excited so I shouted!! 🙂 Seriously, though, I put the Shout on just in case. Maybe when it isn’t a favorite shirt, I”ll take a risk and try it without it! 🙂 Meanwhile, I am glad to say that I have been successful at removing grease stains!! Now I shall wait for the next challenge that crosses my way!! Don’t worry, it probably won’t be a long wait!

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Here is Phillip’s solution to night time:

“When dark gets on the windows, we’ll wash it off with a wash cloth.”

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