Happy Birthday to You!

To my niece & goddaughter, Melissa!!!

Happy 5th Birthday!

(I can't believe you are 5 years old already~we hope your day is very special!)

A New Adventure...Part 1

When I wrote this & said "Scott & I will, hopefully, be towards the end of the beginning stages of a new journey that we have decided to embark on with our family...", I had no idea that those plans would be postponed. I had planned on writing about them by now because I thought we'd be almost 1/2 way through the process & that I would have more of an idea of what we are getting ourselves into, but "the best laid plans..."

Confused?

Well, here's the deal, Scott & I have decided to pursue foster care parenting. We were to start classes 2 weekends ago, which we did, but they were cancelled before we could attend our next set of classes due to low numbers. No big deal really, we just had to reschedule, but it's kind of like when you're right in the middle of a great show/movie & then, for some reason, you have to wait several more weeks before you can see the ending~it's annoying :)

Our classes will resume towards the end of April & our journey will continue then, but until that time I guess I'll just have to post some posts about the various thoughts that have been going on in my head about this new adventure, what it means, how it feels, etc until we can see "the end." ;)

To be continued...

"Here" "This"

Recent Conversations heard around our house...

Saturday morning after he had disappeared during our cinnamon roll making...

Me: "Luke what are you doing in there?"
Luke: "I'm doing this."
Me: "What are you doing?"
Luke: "I"m doing this."
Me: "What 'this' are you doing?"
Luke: "THIS!"

Later that day after Scott had returned from grocery shopping...

Scott: "Luke, where are you?"
Luke: "I'm in here daddy."
Scott: "Where are you?"
Luke: "In here."
Scott: "Where's here?"
Luke: "HERE, daddy!"
Me (having listened to this conversation, after having had the previous conversation, & feeling just a bit ornery): "He's 'here,' daddy, doing 'this!'" :)

3 1/2 year olds are sooo forthcoming with details when being asked for them ;)

Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday wishes going out to my little niece, Lucy!!!

We all here at Faith, Hope & Poop hope that this your 1st birthday is very special! :)

In 4 weeks...

*Volleyball will have been over for at least 2 weeks already...

*It will "officially" have been spring for several weeks & hopefully, will feel like it too...

*I will be in St. Louis preparing to finally participate in that 1/2 marathon that several of us have been training for...

*Scott & I will, hopefully, be towards the end of the beginning stages of a new journey that we have decided to embark on with our family (more on this in future posts)...

It all leaves me thinking...what will I be doing with all of my "free" time 5 weeks from now?! :)

Bedtime Conversations...

Mommy...what if a monster is in here?

No monster would come in here, they're too scared of your bears...plus I don't let monsters in the house.

But Mommy...what if a crocodile comes in?

Crocodiles need lots of water...there isn't lots of water here so crocodiles won't come in here either.

Mommy...can Maggie (grandpa's dog) come in here?

Nope, sorry, I think Grandpa would miss her too much.

Mommy...can you stay in here and sleep with me?

No, I have my own bed to sleep in.

But, why not? It is fun to sleep in here.

I'm sure it would be, but I need to sleep in my bed.

Okay, but can you sing me one more song?

Sure! [song is sung] Now, goodnight Lukey...sweet dreams & I'll see you in the morning.

I'm loving this age right now [even more so once he finally decides to use the potty all of the time, but that's a topic for another day ;)], especially at bedtime. He seems to finally have settled into what his bedtime routine should be & for the most part, doesn't have to get up 1,000+ times in the process anymore. He's just always looking for one more reason to keep us in there with him, yet still goes with the flow of the reasons why we won't/can't. He's definitely growing into a sweet little guy. :)

That's his argument...really?

The other week we were headed off to somewhere...really, I can't remember where at this point, as it seems I am always going somewhere these days. I digress. Let me pick up where I left off...

We were headed on our way to somewhere. I believe I may have been driving, but again I'm going to apologize to you the poor reader for all of these overwhelming details :)

Anyway, at some point, I said to my dear husband..."Well, aren't you a cranky, old man!"
(I know, I know, my sweetness is sometimes overwhelming...please don't gag on the overall sweetness of my endearments!)

Without even hesitating, my dear husband says, "Hey! I'm not cranky!"

To which I replied, "Really? That's all you have to say to that? 'I'm not cranky!' You don't even care that I called you 'old' too?"

He states, "Well...I am old, but I'm not cranky!"

All I could say was "Well, that's good to know...I'll keep in mind that you're an old man at the age of 34!"

As this conversation took place somewhere closer to Valentine's Day~Aren't we just the "picture" of all of that mushy, gushy love stuff !!!
He makes it extra difficult to harass him when he picks the wrong adjective to focus on at times ;)