tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793260081560880012024-02-06T23:27:07.084-06:00Duerksen Family NewsShelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-44210795302865584832015-03-02T10:09:00.001-06:002015-03-02T10:09:06.755-06:00Random Happenings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So lately here at the Duerksen hacienda, we've been maintaining chaos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">And by we, I mean </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="color: red;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been maintaining chaos. (Chad doesn't often think our house is chaotic, he's pretty even-Steven about things.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, just to give you a little glimpse, as if you were a fly on my wall, here are some things that haven happened around here lately.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. I found chocolate pudding splatters 6 feet high on my wall in the dining room. No biggie, except.....I couldn't tell you the last time the kids had chocolate pudding. Hmmmmm....maybe I should amp up my cleaning.....or just get rid of the things causing the mess! </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Macey doesn't wear pants. And argues over the shirt she HAS to wear. It's become so bad, that to cut down on the arguments, I tell her that if we are staying home, she can wear whatever shirt she chooses and doesn't have to wear pants. But if we go somewhere, I get to choose what she wears. And she's okay with that agreement. (I'm telling you, the bargaining skills in this house could single-handedly end the Middle East crisis.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Molly continues to think that bath equals poop time. One time, when I was getting her ready for the bath, she started passing gas as if she was revving up her engine! </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Josh wrote something squiggly the other day. He proudly showed me and said, "Look Mom! I can write my name in Spanish!" He meant cursive, but said Spanish, and it was neither. (P.S. If you ask him now, he knows its cursive.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. I am so tired from getting up with Molly at night, I tried to 'microwave' something in the cabinet. I knew something wasn't right when I went to punch the numbers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. The other day, Macey somehow threw a foam sword on top of the ceiling fan in the living room, right above her sister! She came and told me, and yep.......got a work out trying to get that one down!</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. And.....we've caught 2 more skunks in the last 3 days. 2 in 3 Days people! Yuck!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. And lastly, even the dog is in on it. Or, more accurately, she's just caught in the crossfire. I dropped grape jelly on her back the other day, as she was standing under me while I made a sandwich. I decided that it was a small spot, she was getting a hair cut in a week anyway, and it just wasn't worth the effort or time to give her a bath. Poor dog......</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's more.....but that's all I can think of at this point. I'm sure you've seen this before, but it's becoming more and more true every day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just for the record...I was vomited on twice by 8 am by Miss Molly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monday....you can TAKE A HIKE!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-46431516225678623822014-11-23T14:22:00.001-06:002014-11-23T14:22:29.505-06:00Mommyhood<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ran across this list the other day and sat in amazement, nodding my head as I read the list. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me, and I can only speak from my experience, this list is exactly RIGHT ON. (Except for #4 and #11.) The other 10 things I experienced, but maybe not every item on the list was with each kid, but I've experienced every item on the list at some point with all my 3 kids. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was found <a href="http://www.scarymommy.com/things-i-thought-about-babies/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. Maternity Leave will be a nice break from work.</strong> I mean yeah, I don’t miss conference calls, commuting or having to dress up everyday, but this isn’t quite the vacation I imagined. Because now I work 20 hours a day, without pay, while being covered in vomit and poop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. It’ll be easy to get out with the baby.</strong> Except that it first involves packing for approximately two hours, changing the baby five times (who undoubtedly will throw up on herself while being changed), folding up the stroller using magic origami and ninja skills to get it in the car, all while attempting to not get covered in baby puke as you execute prior steps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. I won’t need that much help.</strong> Unless you count <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">always</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">all the time</em>. I want help 24 hours a day. I want help for my help. I want constant assistance in all things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">5. Post-partum depression and emotions won’t be a big deal</strong>. Unless you consider debilitating sadness and despair easy to handle on no sleep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">6. The fatigue isn’t as bad as people say.</strong> No, it’s WORSE. As my brother reminds me, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">sleep deprivation</span> is a form of torture for suspected terrorists. So, no biggie. You’ll just LOSE YOUR MIND.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">7. I’ll be ready to go back to work.</strong> See numbers 5 and 6.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">8. It’ll be easy to get back in shape since I’m not working.</strong> Not only is there no time, there’s no energy or desire. I’ve been a fitness addict most of my adult life, which makes it even more alarming that I could not care less about it right now. I have zero desire to exercise, and if I did, I wouldn’t have the time or energy to do so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">9. I won’t be influenced by things I read online.</strong> This one might have stood a chance if there weren’t 20 hours a day spent feeding a baby where your smartphone is your only outlet to the world. Enter Google madness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">10. I will naturally be good at being a mom.</strong> Maybe on some levels I am, in that the baby is healthy and thriving (hooray!), but I doubt myself constantly and generally feel like a total mess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">11</strong><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Nursing will be magical.</strong> It was, and then it wasn’t. And ultimately it <span style="-webkit-transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out;">wasn’t the best choice for us</span>. And that was a tough pill to swallow, since society kind of shuns formula. I was amazed at how supportive momma friends were about this though, and I’m grateful for that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">12. I won’t rely on other moms for advice because I’ll pave my own way.</strong> Let me say this: I wouldn’t have made it without the love, guidance and advice of my friends and family. I mean that wholeheartedly. I am so, SO blessed to have a huge network of helpful moms and dads in my life, who have become the village I so desperately need to raise my daughter. They understand exactly what I’m feeling and fearing at any given time and are constantly offering reassurance. We all wear the same badge of honor and battle scars, forming a critical bond. I’ve also had amazing support from friends who aren’t parents, but still know just the right things to say and the best ways to help me feel better in the toughest moments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked outside while Daddy, Macey and Josh were cleaning out the shed for the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see Macey riding her broom......literally.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then a minute later, after the wagon comes out of the shed at warp speed.....I see this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's pushing HIM in the wagon!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How on earth did he talk her into that?!?</span><br />
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<br />Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-55594651717324678572014-10-27T09:09:00.002-05:002014-10-27T09:09:27.696-05:00So Thankful<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though it's not quite Thanksgiving yet, I wanted to share how Thankful I am.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm especially thankful right now for my Grandma and Grandpa.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grandma generously offered to take me shopping to buy new clothes for my kids. </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Initially I thought we'd be okay, but as the cold season approached, and my kids were evidently taking lessons on how to grown out of clothes quickly, I decided to take her up on her offer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It doesn't look like much, but it was A TON!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best part of it all was I got to buy what I KNEW my kids would love and wear, not what was the cheapest. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I was smart enough to have the kids actually try on each and every piece of clothing. Because holy cow.....they both went thru a growth spurt!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josh is in a 6 and Macey is in a 4T. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought those sizes would be too big, but no, they were just right!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after a while, the kids got fussy. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, a good parent bribes to get good results.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After they tried on a piece of clothing, they would come to me or Chad, have it looked at, then get a Skittle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thats how we got thru it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And thanks Rockin' Grandparents!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-76048102633182362702014-10-27T08:46:00.003-05:002014-10-27T08:46:52.517-05:00Painting Pumpkins<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, I bought some Tempera Paint to keep at home. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought I'd start doing more art with the kids.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And like typical kids....the messier the better.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this year, when my wonderful Sister-In-Law took me to "THE BARN SALE", I bought some small pumpkins. Three for $1! </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I'd have know how much fun the kids would have painting them, I'd have bought $5 worth!</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So one day, when I was in a fabulous mood, the kids were both home, and the stars aligned....they painted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually, there wasn't enough blank pumpkin left, so we elevated them on coffee mugs. White ones no less.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And even though it didn't last long because they're fast painters (and messy painters go faster), they still enjoyed every minute of it! <br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Halloween!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-48710324185514777492014-10-07T13:42:00.000-05:002014-10-07T13:42:04.441-05:00Future Shirt for Chad<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This would make an excellent Christmas present for Chad in about 10 years.......</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I'm where I'm supposed to be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wiping butts, noses, cleaning, and most importantly-shaping the future.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so lucky to be a stay-at-home mom.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chad and I worked H-A-R-D to get here. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We saved, scrimped, did a trial run financially to make sure we could make it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We W-O-R-K-E-D to have me be home. It wasn't easy, but we're here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So....somedays can be overwhelming. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overwhelming because my life is 3 little ones. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only adult interaction I get is with Chad and Dog the Bounty Hunter on TV.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So somedays it's easy to focus on the here-and-now. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The kids that are loud and wake up the baby. The kids that won't play more than 10 feet from me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The baby who refuses to go back to sleep at 3:30 like she's going to miss something.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The baby who has decided that 4:20 she'll cry for no good reason.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's easy to lose sight of why it was important for me to be home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ran across this blog. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The post about</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "if my child marries yours" </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had me in tears.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was great to have another mom, in the trenches with me, give me more purpose and focus. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">refreshing</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm ready for those loud, clingy, crying kids that I love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Bring it!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-29971324490202933722014-09-25T18:12:00.003-05:002014-09-25T18:12:56.588-05:00Funny Animals<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw this the other day, and all I could think about was Zoey.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh how I wonder how many of these she'd like to try on the kids.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://news.distractify.com/megan-mccormick/animals-who-arent-thrilled-with-kids/?v=1</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poor girl has gone thru so much.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting a kid at age 7.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A loud rambunctious kid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember her hiding on the back of the couch to get away from him!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then another kid at age 9.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A kid who wants to squeeze and kiss you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then, just when you think all is well.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we moved her houses.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then added another kid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a wonder why we don't constantly have 'retaliation poop' on our carpet.</span><br />
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<br />Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-5598875791894448372014-09-24T08:00:00.006-05:002014-09-24T08:00:56.105-05:00Take Time To Slow Down.....<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lately, I've been so stinkin' busy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And nothing has really changed!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Except I have a baby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who needs to eat every 2.5-3 hours. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which requires me to be present.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have 2 other children, whom the M-O-M-E-N-T I sit down with the baby.....scramble to get a view of her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm getting claustrophobic!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes I just want to yell, "BACK UP! LET ME BREATHE!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it's times like the ones I'm about to tell you, stop and make me realize that this is MY LIFE. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not just a list of things to do, not just people walking in and out of my life, BUT MY LIFE!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other night we were all sitting down to do the devotional that goes with Josh's Wednesday night program.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chad was leading it and we were supposed to be quiet and think in our head about how we can have more Jesus in our lives. (Or something like that.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chad asked Josh and he had a good answer. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he asked Macey, "What were you thinking about?'</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And without missing a beat, she replies, "Bubble Guppies!" (It's her new fave cartoon.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We both just giggled.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then later it came time to pray and he asked Macey if she had anything she'd like to ask God for.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And again, without missing a beat, she replies, "A Mermaid!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh golly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the next day, we were practicing our school stuff (sight words for Josh and letters for Macey),</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told Josh to say the words outloud as I point to them. (We have them on our cabinets in the kitchen.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So he starts YELLING his words!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stop him after a few and ask why he's so loud.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Well mom, you said to say them out LOUD."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh boy........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">But those are my kids. That </span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><u><i><b>I</b></i></u></span><span style="color: red;"> made. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">And I'm so proud of them.</span></span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-7358012278899508542014-08-20T13:50:00.000-05:002014-08-20T13:50:00.281-05:00First Kindergarten WORK!<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josh got on the big, bad school bus today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it's not the big, bad school bus, but it is big. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it did take my kid away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josh was scared and started to balk at 7:15, but we talked through it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The school bus picks Josh up at the end of our driveway!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bus driver seemed nice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cried as I walked back to the porch because he looked so scared when I looked at him thru the window. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted to go yank him off the bus and yell, "Oh screw it. It won't be that hard to load an infant, an opinionated 3 year old, and Josh in the care at the butt crack of dawn every day to take him."</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I didn't. I just went back inside and sulked in my bed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he made it to school. How do I know? Chad picked him up! Ha!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I checked his book bag, there were a couple of things in there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here was one of them:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's right ladies and gentleman!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a year and a half practicing at home with mom....</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And ONLY ONE DAY IN KINDERGARTEN.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Josh F-I-N-AL-L-Y knows how to write the "S" in his name!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">He wrote it correctly on all 3 pages!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">And then here was the last page of the assignment. He had to draw a picture using all 3 shapes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">And notice the hearts for me!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">I'm so proud of him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">He did say that today wasn't as much fun as the first day because they didn't have as much time to play and more work to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Welcome to life, Buddy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Welcome to life......</span></span></div>
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<br />Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-48322529770051025622014-08-18T10:10:00.002-05:002014-08-18T10:10:10.268-05:00My B-I-G boy....<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew today was coming.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heavens...I knew it when he was born! The days were already numbered.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day would come when he would leave for school. </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">REAL</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> school.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not preschool; only a couple of hours a couple of days a week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> R-E-A-L</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> school where it's every day. And in this case, starting in October, all day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And Josh did great! Until he realized it was FOR REAL. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His little eyes got red. You know the look when you're about to cry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But by golly....he did great. He held it in. He tried to be brave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Seeing your baby cry and be scared is hard. But then you see he's grown. And he's trying to be brave. Which makes him look even more mature</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then I tried to be brave.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kiss on the cheek. A hug. You'll do great. And let's leave. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I even saw Daddy tear up. Although he'll probably never admit to it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was tough. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even Macey on the way home asked, "Where is Josh?" </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only one happy to see him 'go' was Zoey. A 3 hour break from pestering. Ha Ha!</span><br />
<br />Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-61874156703050521702014-07-15T22:19:00.002-05:002014-07-15T22:19:49.406-05:00Last 24 Hours.....<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chad has worked 3 out of the last 4 days. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I figured it up, he is home less than 24 hours inbetween his shifts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel sorry for him, but am thankful that he does so much to provide for our family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HOWEVER......</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do my own duty at home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the last 24 hours, I have dealt with a blackout at bedtime and splinters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sounds innocent, right?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WRONG!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night at 8:30, the lights went out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE WHOLE FREAKIN' TOWN!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kids had just went to bed and had only been in bed a short while, long enough to settle down, but short enough not to be asleep.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then everything went black.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you should've heard the screaming coming from all ends of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to Macey's room first because I know that she'll just lay in bed and cry. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was hysterical and as I was coming into her room, and Josh ran up the stairs with his lovey and dog. Crying, but not hysterical.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So......we made the best of it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Called the electrical company and "based on historical averages, your power is supposed be on by 1 a.m."</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read a couple of books on my bed with each of us having the flashlights. And by miracle among miracles, the electricity came back on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, now Macey is TERRIFIED to sleep. She keeps calling out "Mama-my 'lectricity's doin' sumptin!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's not.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then around 10 today, if you would've peeked in my back door, you would've seen me in the sunlight digging a splinter out of my son's rear end. LITERALLY. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No metaphors there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I couldn't help but say, "Son, you know if you would've been wearing underwear under your shorts, this probably wouldn't have happened."</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh what tomorrow, what'cha gunna throw at me?!?!?</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-35889652400997471802014-07-12T11:26:00.001-05:002014-07-12T11:26:09.342-05:004th of July<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had the BEST 4th of July this year!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grandma Evie and Papa Hoyt were generous enough to give the kids some firecracker money.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We made a HUGE production over getting them!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it's much more fun when you get to go to a couple and stretch it out!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we went over to Mimi's for an excellent BBQ dinner...ribs, grilled chicken, pea/lettuce salad, festive jello, etc. It was great!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I enjoyed it so much, I rolled in it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone had a great time.</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-4157923960126901332014-07-09T07:25:00.000-05:002014-07-09T07:25:01.271-05:00Okay, okay! I get the hint!<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I'm sitting here eating breakfast, Josh has been talking with me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then all of the sudden, he looks at me so seriously and says, "Mom, do you think sometime we ought to clean the table?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me - "Lunch meat, hot dogs, sandwiches, nothing big because I'm cooking a big dinner. Fried chicken, fresh green beans, mashed potatoes, etc."</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy - "Oh. So we're going over to your mom's for dinner or YOU are cooking?!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Point taken. It's been a while since I've cooked</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I overhear Macey say this from the living room-</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"These stickers will NEVER EVER come off the couch!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep. That's right. Ariel stickers all over our leather couch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While watching cartoons, a commercial for Chuck E. Cheese comes on. (You know that annoying playplace with horrible pizza and even worse behaving children?)</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when the commercial ends, Josh turns to me and says, </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What's Chuck E. Jesus? Is that a real place?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not for this family it's not!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-15089816755037956522014-06-30T21:37:00.001-05:002014-06-30T21:37:02.871-05:00Water Park Fun<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're so lucky to have a water park so close to our house. It's just a little drive in the car, but OH SO worth it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a zero entry with a small dog shaped slide for little ones, there's a lazy river to float around on, there's a giant swirly slide, there's even lanes for lap swimming!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since Daddy has been gone so much lately with harvest and working overtime, he decided it was time to do something big and fun as a family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after naps today, we loaded up and went to the water park.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a look at all the twists and turns. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think he went on it at least 10 times!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think Josh might have lapped Daddy and Mace. He moves quickly in there! (And Daddy drags the bottom.....)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh but I almost forgot!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a hairy and proud man with a neon speedo. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you look <b>VERY </b>closely........he even has bar piercings on both nipples.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yes, I stood there and took a picture. Me in all my preggo glory. Who's gunna say something?!?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to my family, who was appropriately dressed I might add.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then Daddy carried her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so tired of unwanted house guests, I can't see straight!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-21640040219540798882014-06-11T20:49:00.001-05:002014-06-11T20:49:21.973-05:00New Sign<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think I'll make this for the front door.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And adding something about "if you wake the child, you take the child!"</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-71499602000567963062014-05-23T20:31:00.003-05:002014-05-23T20:31:42.958-05:00The Lord's Prayer<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josh is so stinkin' smart.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He and Daddy work every night on memorizing Bible verses. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's something that just he and Daddy do together. Just the two of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They've memorized Psalm 23 and John 3:16 and Luke 10:27a.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now they've memorized </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Lord's Prayer</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's had it memorized for at least a month now; its just taken me this long to record and post it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last spot was the park. We first hunted eggs, then dyed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josh had a bucket, but Macey didn't. So....we improvised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I lost track of how many cups of dye my kids spilled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a good thing we did it at the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was perfect weather!!!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-81279467895478131282014-05-18T20:03:00.003-05:002014-05-18T20:03:59.663-05:00Easter 2014 -Continuted<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then it was GAME ON for the scavenger hunt. There were at least 10 kids. About 4 to a car.....so maybe more like 12 kids? I don't know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had my 2 kids, plus 2. Thank goodness for my 3rd row seat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first stop was at Granny's to get a golden egg. It had a dollar in it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second stop was to go to Aunt Tera's parent's house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Josh caught on right away.....at least to the running part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took Macey a little longer to catch on, but once she did.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there was one more stop....the park to dye Easter eggs and hunt them!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-49439227269045696622014-05-18T14:33:00.001-05:002014-05-18T14:33:16.435-05:00Easter 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year we spent Easter in Tulsa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's my favorite place to go. Well, Aunt Charlene's is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We left early in the morning (by 8:30) and the kids were real Road Warriors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We treated ourselves 2 1/2 hours into the journey with ice cream at McDonalds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stopped by Aunt Charlene's for a quick lunch, then off to Aunt Tera's for cookie decorating and a scavenger hunt. (Tera's not <i>really</i> an Aunt, but it makes more sense to call her that. I'll explain the genealogy some day when my kids ask.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't 'cha just love Josh's crazy hair?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is the picture I get from Josh when I ask him to smile. He can't take his eyes off the excitement!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopefully the blue icing by his eyebrow WILL come off......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there was just a <i>little</i> bit of time to go outside and play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Macey just LOVES Kendell. She also loved their 2 dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I love that the Brown kids are old enough to play with my kids, but not too old that they think my kids are "too babyish" to play with! It rocks!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've had some W-I-N-D-Y days lately!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with that, we've had some problems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At first, we thought that the air conditioner blew off the cement slab and was banging the side of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then there was a day when the wind was so strong, it broke a tree of ours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kids love them. And we only buy kites that are cheap. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cuz really.....are they going to last long in Kansas?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But all the hassle of shingles and trees and figuring out how to fly kites is worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For these two.</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-77450098700689887152014-05-01T08:19:00.003-05:002014-05-01T08:19:18.795-05:00NOT THAT TALK YET!!!!<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So.......</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone knows that there is a farmer that has tons of cows on our way home. Usually they're by the street and this time of year, they have calves!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kids have recently picked up that there's cow poop there, too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We drive by and the conversation usually goes like this (from one kid or the other):</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Mom! The cows are out!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Look there's babies!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Look! Cow poop! EWWWWWWW!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And for a while, then they would say, </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The farmer has to clean that up!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we had a talk about how the farmer doesn't clean up the cow poop.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now it's just, </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"EWWWWW!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But as we were driving home the other day, we added something new to the conversation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Look Mom! There's two cows walking with each other!" (These cows WERE NOT walking if you catch my drift.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Mom-I'll bet they're best friends!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"They'll be friends forever."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this point, I wasn't sure how much longer he would spend talking about the cows 'walking', so I punched it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I sped up, he said, </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Mom, why are you in a hurry?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me-</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Oh-I just had to speed up to reach the speed limit."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me-</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Look! We're almost home!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are SOOOOOO not having that talk yet!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979326008156088001.post-78839532886272600772014-04-25T09:02:00.007-05:002014-04-25T09:02:50.415-05:00The Mind of a 5 Year Old......<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So.....</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't had a sip of coffee and have barely been out of bed 4 minutes when Josh says</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Hey Mom! Remember when I threw sand and it got in my eye."</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"No," I said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Yeah, back when we liked at our old house in G town?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Yeah"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Well, don't worry. I got it out. See?!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Insert eye roll.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh how the mind of a 5 year old works!</span>Shelley Duerksenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10294439253797450916noreply@blogger.com0