Category: Elena

from the house of us

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We have just discovered our favorite form of entertainment during supper.  See, Elena is into singing. Major.  Every day she sing and sings and well, bellows her way through all her favorite songs.  So at supper she’ll start singing and then we add little repeats and refrains. And it drives her nuts.

Her: THE FARMER AND THE DELL

Us. The dell dell dell boom ba-da boom dell

He: “NO NO NO THATS NOT HOW IT GOES.

Her: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE

Us. The farmer takes a knife (Because singing the wrong words sets her off too)

Her:  NO, A WIFE!!

Maybe we’re just really cruel, but I think supper so far has ended with her being happy, so we’ll probably just keep on doing it unless we see that were scarring her more than what is the norm.

Now todays dilemma:  I need to go buy things.  We are out of stuff.  Like computer paper,and Shampoo, and milk.  But, I just can’t make myself go pack up the kids and go to Wal Mart. I’m not in the mood for Great Value, and Rollback prices and standing in line for 25 minutes and kids that want to ride that little car thing and trying to smile at the greeter, and finding a parking spot beside that cart carrell and blue blue blue aprons with yellow smiles.  What a pickle I’m in.

And I just re-read my paragraph and wow, only in America do you have a brat like me who has to complain about how nice I have it. Maybe we’ll make it a family outing tonight.

Elena Quotes

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  “Where’s Bill?”  This morning after she woke up and didn’t see her grandfather like the last several mornings.

   “Let’s go on the jumpaline.”  The trampoline, her favorite pastime.

  “Mom you have to cry like this, Waaaaagh, Waagh, you want to mom?”  She loves when I fake cry.

  “Jesus is not helping”  When I told her Jesus could help her not to be scared at night.

  “Making a mess”  When I asked her what she was doing this morning while I was in the garden picking beans.

 

 Now, just in case everyone is breathlessly wondering what I got Gene for his Birthday:

I played it safe. And got him a gift card. To Circuit City. Where he can choose a toy. He said he’ll probably go with the Ipod. To save our Cd’s. They are always getting scratched. We don’t know why. I say it’s the drywall dust. He says not. I say what then? He says nothing. Short sentences are fun. Well, that was just a tiny update. I have to go. Tomorrow we are going to Ohio. For a week.

Goodbye, 
Andrea