Well, my little mountain man, you’re now 11! I can hardly believe it. You are such a wonderful son, full of life and enthusiasm, my personal reminderer, faithful to help me recollect my many resolutions. I wonder sometimes if this is such a good thing! Can’t you forget some things once in a while?! But on the other hand, you have encouraged me with your uplifting comments. So as long you do that I guess it’s okay if you want to remind me ONCE IN A WHILE! I love your friendliness towards others and the ease with which you make new friends. Not being that way myself, it just…

Friends4Tea is having a contest.  Share your most embarrassing moment and you could  win a beautiful little teapot. My memory is so short (which is probably a blessing sometimes) that this is one of the only moments I could recall.  My husband, who is the song leader at our small church, was having some of the children read Scriptures of their choice aloud to the congregation. Beautiful, inspiriting verses from the Bible had been chosen. Then my son WE, who was about 6 or 7 had us turn to I Kings 1:1-2 for his choice of Scripture.   “Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with…

  How do people make it through life without a sister?  ~Sara Corpening    

Math Problem: Mom says, “Simplify 11/2.” Instead of saying, “Two and one half,” WE answers, “Two and one-twooth.” (tricky one to learn, but thanks for the chuckle, WE) SH describing a time she went skiing – She was with her brother, “waiting at the um, I can‘t remember. I think it‘s called the ‘rabbit’ hill.” (actually it’s the bunny hill, dear) JM, 3 years old, putting Vaseline on his lips while sitting on the bed says, “Mommy, I’m putting gasoline on my lips.” Ohhh… This little boy soon will be able to say his words clearly, not broken or half-pronounced. Word meanings will not be confused. Let me treasure these…

Tonight we played a game called SUDOKU. It is a puzzle that usually comes as a 9×9 grid and within that are 3×3 grids called “regions”. Certain squares already have numbers in them. The objective is to fill all the empty squares with one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1 to 9 only once. We printed off a copy of one of the puzzles in the book for each family member. To our 8-year-old girl we gave a simpler puzzle. The rest of us had the same puzzle. My son wanted to be sure we didn’t have it too easy so he…