Another smorgasblog

Here's a bit of background info. We accidentally had some name brand cereal. Mark and the girls were having a bowl of Cocoa Pebbles on Sun am. They all prefer the generic brand and were discussing the differences.

Mark: "Wonder why they taste so different?"

Emily: "Probably it's the iron."

Mark almost died laughing, then came and told me. Meanwhile Emily is warning Hannah about the cereal.

Emily: "They taste weird because of the iron."

Hannah almost dies of laughter. That Em, who knew she could read the labels on the boxes or listened to boring commercial info. So funny. Hooray for generic cereal!!!



On another note, I ended my sedentary ways today. I went for a little jog. Of course this has been the warmest January on the record books in KC. Tomorrow is supposed to be 62. Yes, I WILL jog again. And of course, real winter weather is due to return this weekend. Too bad I didn't take advantage of the warm days, but I will NOT allow it to sidetrack me again.....Hannah is trying to drink more water, so I'm joining her. That's the news around here.

Back again

Here I am, back again after another whirlwind. We had a LOVELY weekend with our cousins from Branson, Joy and Wayne. They had to go to a wedding at Union Station in KC on Sat night, so they rolled into our neighborhood on Thurs night. We stayed up too late every night. We ate too much good stuff and visited and laughed and hated to see them leave. If anyone was wondering if we played any dominoes, thanks for asking! YES, I beat them them all by a very small margin, but I was the winner before they creamed me good at golf. At our last round of golf, I was winning when they all quit, scared probably. It was fun!!! We took them to Kat's bb game. OF course, Wayne ran into someone he knew. One of the girls has grandparents that served on the retirement board with Wayne. Such a small world. Joy and Wayne has always treat us so special and we gain so much encouragement from them. They are role models to us in so many ways. Always fun to have them around.

Today I'm hanging out, doing a bit of laundo and will take H to the chiro later. All for now. If you are a regular reader who has their own blog, feel free to update yourself.....that means you, Pattie and Joy K...... :) Amie, ask Joy about Dick Cheney's hearing. Such a Joy moment.....

A Mini Lesson and a mini Wow!

Sometimes it's good to be reminded of facts you already know to be true. Such as only calling the drs office AFTER one has gotten ready for the day. Hmmmm. I think it was 8:05 am when I called for some meds for Kat, thinking that they would call in a RX for us, since we had 2 cases of strep last week. WRONG!!! They wanted to see her in at 8:40, Em was still in bed. Amazingly we were rolling down our street at 8:31 after a quick shower, blowdry, makeup and clothes. We got there at 8:42 and waited in the waiting room for 1/2 an hour. Thankfully Kat was really sick, it's such a bummer to take a well kid to the dr. As we were waiting for the strep test to come back, Em said, "I hope you have strep, Kai (her nickname for Kat) so you can stay home and play with me." Em got her wish. Kat is good at vegging on the couch either with her Harry Potter book or the remote. She will prob stay home tomorrow and be ready to play ball on Sat.

The big event of the weekend is the baby shower for a young lady at church on Sat. Alissa is the daughter of my local, Indep friend, Donna who is also Mark's twin sister of another mother. (Mark and Donna were both born on Aug 15, 1958). Anyway the shower is at the Patek's house. Freddie Patek is a former shortstop for the Royals. I have been to their house once before and couldn't get enough of Freddie's amazing collection of baseball awards, pictures, trophies, etc. It's so COOL!!! Their house is beautiful too, so it will be a lovely place to honor Alissa and her baby Ava, due next month. (Side note: Mark performed the wedding for the oldest daughter last summer, and will perform the 3rd daughter's wedding this July---I am learning TONS about weddings from Donna---did you know that you can get brand-new wedding dresses on e-bay for less than $50? Amazing!!!

Mark is reading out of the grim Grimm's Fairy Tale book. Must go listen!!

Survived Parts 2, 3 & 4

Here I am, back at the computer again (the font is very small on this blogger-deal). When I last blogged, we were wondering if we were headed home for a couple days. We left after a minor adjustment to our fuel line. I guess a clogged line would have stranded us somewhere near St. Louis. We had a lovely, whirlvind visit with the Stinnetts. We got to meet our new baby nephew, Joshua, born on Labor Day. He is as cute as his parents think he is. There is always lots of fun and food. We got to visit with our Texas friends, Dale and Lesa. We always take a picture of our kids sitting together on the front pew at the building. Our big ole kids fill the whole pew now--all 9 of them. Lees and I always wonder how this could happen to two such nice girls.

We raced home to have company for New Years. Adam and Amanda Bledsoe came from Conway, AR. They used to live in KC until Aug and we adopted each other at church. They had things to do, shopping and friends to visit, plus lots of cards and fun here. We picked up Jess' friend, Kyle at the airport, and ran into our college friends, Matt and Pattie Blake, Rachel and Joanna, too. We took them home with us and enjoyed a great day, visiting and laughing etc. We let the teenagers loose in Indep. and went to Red Robin. Such a treat to get to see our old friends and still like them as friends and people.

We had a few couples over for New Years. We had a ton of good eats, played cards and dominoes. Hannah and Jess rang in 2006 by running up and down the street barefoot, yelling Happy New Year. So crazy.

We enjoyed meeting Jess' friend, Kyle. Mark and I totally don't understand the semantics of modern relationships. They looked like a couple, but I hear that they are "just friends" which is ok with us. Even though we are confused, we'll take it---the 19 year old young man, must also be confused, but I can't help......He was very nice, even folded up his bedding. He played endless games of Dora Uno with the girls and let them vall him crazy nicknames. Bless his heart.

So the girls went back to school last Wed. Abby was home on Friday with strep. I think she was sick earlier in the week and didn't have anyone to take her to the dr. Kat played ball on Sat. We got Jess's clothes washed and her sent to AR yesterday. Her friend, Erin, drives a Mitisubishi Spider (sports car) and it was packed FULL when she pulled up, not realizing that Jess had filled the back of our van herself. But they squished it here and there and off they went. I was glad they left yesterday as today had winter weather between here and Springfield.

So today was the first day that Em and I had to ourselves since Dec. 16. We goofed around some, went to Story Hour and did our volunteering at Blackburn. Nice. I still have all the Xmas decorations up in the living room and kitchen. Hope to get those done and those rooms put back in order soon. (The tree is down---that's the biggie).

I have a bunch of newly learned lessons from my life's experiences this last month. I'll share those later. Just thought I'd catch everyone up on the Stinnews. I'm headed to the kitchen now to put some cornbread in the oven for the Mr. to go with his pot of beans. Even sounds good to me! Need to referee in Polly Pocket world, too. Argh!