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| Monday, March 31st, 2008 | | 10:33 am |
Corrie's funny
Corrie stories for 3/31/08
- Corrie frequently comes up to us and has conversations that go something like this:
Corrie- Can you open this for me?
Mom- Sure. Oooh, your hands are cold
Corrie- say 'then go put a jacket on"
Mom- Then go put a jacket on
Corrie- Okay, Mommy
- Corrie often tells us about "girls in her class" or things "her teacher told her she should do". The funny thing is she has never been in a class, never had a teacher, nor has she ever had boys or girls in her class. | | Saturday, March 15th, 2008 | | 6:55 pm |
So cute
Today, i went into Corrie's room to give her the blanket she had dropped. I saw that she had all her dolls lined up on their backs on her mattress. I asked her if they were sleeping. She said "No. They are on American Idol!"
Hehe | | Friday, February 29th, 2008 | | 2:41 pm |
| | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 10:51 am |
What a month
A month ago I posted about needing something to smile about. It was a rough day because we were in the final hours of the life of Therese. She passed away early the next morning. Her funeral was absolutely beautiful. SHe chose all the readings and hymns herself and it contained so much of her personality. Another homeschooling mom came to me right after and said that she wanted everyone to know that if she is not given the time to plan her own funeral Mass, that *this* was exactly the one she wanted. I told her that I was just getting ready to say the same thing to everyone. So, let this be my noticed to everyone now: If it happens to be that a funeral Mass must be planned for me, please contact my church and tell them I want everything exactly like Therese had it. And, life goes on. Tennis lessons to take Evan to, chorus for Gianna, doctor appointments to keep up with, retreats to prepare for, homeschooling activities to attend, grading to finish, meals to plan, .... Oh Bla Di Oh Bla Da | | Monday, January 28th, 2008 | | 8:02 pm |
| | Thursday, January 24th, 2008 | | 7:54 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 | | 3:10 pm |
A quick cutie
Corrie Grace, 3, is currently calling overalls "eyeballs". She's been doing it for weeks and can't seem to remember they are not eyeballs. It's a riot when she says she's going to go put her eyeballs on, or she needs help pulling up her eyeballs. | | Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 | | 11:29 am |
Long time no see
Nope. Not gonna give you a lame excuse as to why I've been MIA. Just haven't been around much, I guess. We started a new homeschool program that is much more time intensive, yet way, way more fun and informative for the kids. That's pretty much where my time has been going. On Thanksgiving weekend, we had 7 of my family members over for two nights. It was so delightful seeing everybody together, enjoying each other's company, and doing fun things. We are expecting friends from Ft Myers to come visit us next week. I really love having all this company coming here. It's so fun! We had a lovely Christmas at home. The kids played in two of the plays put on by my parish. Little miss Mallory got to be Mary in the Christmas pageant. It was so cool seeing my kids participate in all this. This year, everything feels so much more like home to me. We've been enjoying traditional holiday foods from the two countries of my origin- Holland and Canada. We've had everything from French Canadian Tourtiere to Dutch Olie Bollen. Evan, especially, delights in all the various foods he gets to try out because of his heritage. We just got our first snow of the year last night. Just and inch or so, but it's sticking. It'll probably be gone in a day or two. If I have to do snow in my life, this is the perfect kind: Infrequent, sparse, and fleeting. Of course, I'd prefer no snow at all, palm trees and warm beaches, but mountains are pretty cool too. Tara goes back to AMU next week. She goes back without a car this time. She totalled her second car in 7 months a few weeks ago. She's totally fine, but we won't be buying her another. She won't need a car on campus, so she should be fine for a while. Well, that's pretty much our life right now. Hopefully some day I'll have another digital camera so I can start posting pictures again. Cathy | | Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | | 9:33 am |
| | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | | 3:35 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | | 3:20 pm |
Are you tired of hearing about Corrie?
I'm not tired of writing about her!
A few Corrie cuties-
1- Miss Corrie almost never fails to thank me for cooking dinner or Daddy for taking us out to dinner. She does this all on her own. We'll get done saying grace and she'll almost always add "And thank you Mommy for cooking this dinner" or "And thank you Daddy for taking us out to eat" She's only turning 3 this weekend. What a darling!
2- The other night we were eating dinner and Corrie leaned over and let out a huge toot. Everyone looked at her and she just very matter-of-factly said "It was Mallory. She farted" We joked around and said we knew it was her. "Nope. Mallory" Still with no hint of a smile on her face. Very serious. A few mintues later, she let another big one go. Without us saying a word she just seriously said "Mallory!" What cracks me up the most about this is how serious she is about it. Not a hint of a smile or smirk. She really thinks we'll fall for it. Silly monkey.
3- On Friday, a friend of our's from Florida took us to the Georgia Aquarium. When we sat down to lunch he said to Corrie that she should save her crusts for him. He was joking, but she took him seriously. She dutifully handed each crust to him as she got done. He dutifully ate them (I know....EWWWWW) Well, last night, we were out with a different family and were having pizza again. Corrie just automatically started handing her slobbery crusts to the dad of that family. He kindly declined the kind offer and I just cracked up when I realized what was happening. She must think that men who eat pizza with us want her leftover crusts. LOL | | Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 | | 12:22 am |
So, what might have happened?
Corrie Grace (almost 3) came into the kitchen, walking backward, very slowly, very determinedly saying "I'm NOT saying sorry to anybody!" Hmmmm. "Anything you'd like to share, my dear?" | | Friday, August 3rd, 2007 | | 8:04 pm |
Lots of changes.
In my most recent post, I mentioned how everything has been the same so that's why I had not posted in a while. Well, things have changed for sure now. First off, Joe GOT A JOB! A good one, too. He applied for the branch manager position with an employment agency. We used to own an agency, so it seemed like a natural fit. Well, the VP of the company took one look at his resume and said he was over-qualified for the position. He then told him that he has an opening for a district manager and asked him if he'd be interested. He's over four office locations. His main tasks are to do the hiring of the permanent employees, overseeing the branch managers and spending a week at a time with them helping them get their numbers up, etc. Two of the offices are more than 2 hours from our home, one is about 90 minutes away, and the fourth is about 45 minutes away. It's a lot of traveling especially since he has to be there by 6 am, but he doesn't mind. He's enjoying the work. Tara update- At this point in time, it looks like Tara will be staying up here when the school year starts. She's considering going part time at the Catholic College nearby so she can bank some money to go back to AMU in a few semesters. Karina- Miss Karina fell in a river this week and fractured her wrist. The kids were playing in a neat little river nearby and Karina slipped on a rock. She was sore but didn't seem too badly hurt. At first it didn't seem she needed medical attention. I poked and proded at her arm, but it was just a bit sore to her. The next day, I turned her hand in my hand it it caused a lot of pain. So, off for xrays and, sure enough, she has a buckle fracture near her wrist. She only needs to wear a splint. She's bummed. She wanted a cast! Silly rabbit. We've been having fun getting visitors here. So far, a good friend of Joe's from Florida has been here a few times and may be coming back in a few weeks (I think he likes it here, LOL) We've also gotten a family from our homeschool group in Florida come visit for the night on their way home from their camping trip in NC. I've also hosted a friend I met in my online NFP community. She had the honor of being the first NFP board member to set foot in my house. My parents have been here a few time as have my brother and his wife. My aunt from Holland came with my parents last time. What a dear she is. Oh, I have some sad news to report. A while back, on November 11th, I posted about "Eleven Eleven". In that post, I mentioned a friend of mine whose birthday is on 11/11. I am very sad to report that this dear friend has since been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer of the kidneys. Terminal. It has spread to her lung as well. She was given 6-9 months to live. That timeline ends at the end of this summer and into the fall. It breaks my heart to see the mother of seven dear children, the youngest being 6, be taken from her family in this way. Please keep Therese and her family in prayer. Well, I think that's it. Is anybody still reading this blog? I sometimes here that people notice when I don't post, but I haven't really gotten many comments in the "comments" section. Are you all still out there? Cathy | | Friday, June 15th, 2007 | | 4:26 pm |
More sameness, some differentness
Haven't updated in, like, forever. You are surely tired of me promising to get better about it and then not doing it. Mea Culpa. Main reason is that nothing much has changed. Joe is still looking for a permanent job while delivering pizza in the evenings to try to make ends meet. It's not quite making ends meet, so we've gone through almost all the profit from the Florida house sale. That bites. We're not sure what is up with this job market. We're hearing about a lot of people around here having trouble finding work. Must be a localized job drought. Tara is home for the summer. YEAH! We had to replace her car because her old one bit the dust when she rear ended somone with a trailer hitch. With the insurance money, we were able to get her a nice little Accura. It's not her sporty little Avenger, but it's a very good car. She's working at a very nice restaurant in town. When we ate there back in February, we knew it was just her style. So I asked the manager if they hired for the summer. He said they definitely did since their major source for servers, the college in town, dried up during the summer. So, I got his business card and had her call him. They are tickled pink to have found her, she's real good at what she does. She's tickled pink with the job because it has really good tips. She'll probably go work at Dominos just to fill her time in and get a few extra bucks on top of it. We had a bit of a scare with Mallory. A few weeks ago, the girls came running up from the basement with her saying she had swallowed a safety pin. I asked Mallory about it. Sure enough, she had been holding one in her mouth and accidentally swallowed it. YIPES. She said it was closed. I called the doctor and she wanted to see an xray of it to be sure that a) it was indeed closed, b) it was not in the lungs and c) it was not stuck in the throat somewhere. So, off we went to the ER for xrays. Thankfully, it was closed and had made it's way to her stomach. We were to go home and look for it. Lovely. Three weeks later we still had not found it so we had to go back for more xrays. It was gone. She had sneaked to the potty a few times, so it must have made it's exit on one of those occasions. She promises never to put things in her mouth anymore. Hey, I just found this post in a blog entry this afternoon. I thought it was pretty funny. If you're up for a good giggle, take a look http://maliavale.com/?p=726Well, folks, it's been a great visit. Hope to hear from you soon. I have no idea if anyone is reading my blogs, but I keep typing away. lalalalala Cathy | | Thursday, April 19th, 2007 | | 2:36 pm |
| | Friday, March 30th, 2007 | | 1:10 pm |
Maybe I really don't want to know
I won't be posting pictures for a while. My digital camera broke and $$$ is not available to buy a new one. So, just stories for a while. Had to tell ya this one: The kids are in the kitchen cleaning up the lunch stuff. I'm sitting at the computer catching up on my boards while Evan is not using it for school. I hear the noise level go to an excited level. I went to see what was happening. Two of them are walking around the kitchen, still doing their work, but with couch cushions strapped to their heads. I started to ask what was going on but realized I really didn't want to know. The work is getting done. Why do I need to know why they need couch cushions on top of their heads to do it? Whatever floats their boats, I guess. LOL | | Thursday, March 15th, 2007 | | 1:19 pm |
| | Thursday, February 1st, 2007 | | 9:58 am |
What is this white stuff?
My, oh my! We awoke this morning to a blanket of white covering our little piece of Heaven. The news said we'd possibly have 1-4 inches of snow overnight. I brought a ruler outside and we got SIX inches of it!       Our fish pond almost disappeared  Check out JESUS!  The kids got out in the early morning light and had a blast   DUCK!  Ready? Aim!  Snowman time with Dad!    We were wondering how Bridget would handle the snow. SHE LOVED IT! She was bouncing all over the place with her tail wagging wildly. This is her first snow ever.  Corrie Grace, on the other hand, was none too thrilled. "You have GOT to be kidding me"  "Nope. Still no like it"  "Uh huh. Go ahead. Make a ball out of it. I still don't like it"  "Ahhhhhh. Now this is more my speed"  So, our first real snow day has been a blast. We cannot go anywhere because our road is blocked. Everything is cancelled anyway. I made a big pot of oatmeal for everyone when they came back inside. Now they are all doing their schoolwork. Cool. | | Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 | | 7:14 pm |
Super cool thing happened to me at the store today
I went to the grocery store today with Corrie Grace. As we came in, we passed the shelves with toys on them. She pointed to the little dolls and very sweetly said "Those are cute dollies". I agreed with her and went about my shopping. A few aisles later, an older woman comes up to me and gets my attention. She asks me for Corrie's name. I tell her. She tells me that she was so touched by how cute Corrie sounded when she saw the dolls. She then pulls a doll from behind her back and gives it to Corrie. She hands me the receipt for it. She told me that she has raised 25 kids and can totally tell when a child has a sweet nature and that my darling had that. As she spoke, she gently stroked Corrie's blond hair. I asked her how she came to raise 25 children. She said that poor women used to drop their babies off at her house for childcare and then never return to get them. She ended up raising 23 such children plus two of her own. What a neat lady. I hugged her and thanked her, then she was on her way. Her name is Sandra. Could you all lift this dear lady up in prayer? She has a heart of gold. | | Sunday, November 26th, 2006 | | 8:41 pm |
The Thanksgiving and Birthday that ROCKED
This has been one of the best Thanksgiving weekends in history. Seriously! Two dear friends from Florida, Michelle and Mary Jane, drove up to spend the weekend with us. They also gave our dear Tara a ride up so she could be here too. We spent the weekend having such a wonderful time together. We enjoyed walking around our town square and visiting the neat little shops (something I rarely get to do since I usually have little ones with me) We made Smores on the outdoor fireplace. We tried to go to a vineyard for some wine tasting, but they ignored us so we figured we'd better go elsewhere. We played board games several of the evenings. Wooonu and Beyond Balderdash are a blast with a group like this. We also took everyone to a really neat waterfall not too far from us. Quite a hike, but a lot of fun seeing the sights. Here are a few pictures of our day at the falls      Today is Evan's 15th birthday. We took him out to eat last night while our visitors were here. Today he took dinner and a birthday cake with him to youth group at church. The cake features a picture that Gianna took of Evan while he was skateboarding and the store put on the cake for us. It turned out really cool! Check it out.  The best part, though, was being with such great people for a whole weekend. It was so relaxing and wonderful. Here's a few of us at the table. One has all three of the visitors, and one has me included.   It's going to be hard to return to normal life tomorrow morning. |
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