Off We Go

I am beginning to realize just how little time we have left with our little girl. . . Less than 2 weeks until we drop her off at BYU Idaho in Rexburg. . . It seems like just yesterday, or not so very long ago, that she was bouncing around, waiting to head off to preschool, and Kindergarten. . . It’s hard to believe that time has gone by so fast, also that so much of it is gone. We bought our first home, our ‘starter/fixer upper home’ just 14 years ago, just after Tommy was born, and now he’d a strapping lad of 14. . . Right now, at this moment in time, Laena’s working away at Dairy Queen, Clint’s been called off to work, Jeffy’s riding his newly refurbished bicycle past our front yard, Eric’s run off to his favorite store, Tommy’s dressing up like a Book of Mormon hero, and Aleia’s just finished her 2nd attempt at Oatmeal Cookie dough. School starts tomorrow and I am experiencing separation anxiety. . . In less than 2 weeks this will all be a memory, and life will be irrevocably different. Lincoln will the only one left at home. . . Change, something with which I am somewhat unfamiliar, sometimes tears at the heartstrings. . . Our eldest child will be only 4 or 5 hours away, but it will be so different not to have her here. . . Aleia and Jeffy will be calling her at all hours of the day and night, and I don’t know what I will do without my favorite babysitter. . . But here we are! It’s time to move on. . . On to the next phase of our lives. . .

That of ‘in between’.

Neither young nor old, childless or empty nesters, finished with school or just starting out. . . We march ahead toward new horizons, always hoping for better things, clearer understandings, more beautiful memories. . . .

Fun, Fun!

The other day, Tommy was hanging out with me in the laundry room. I commented that the dryer vent needed to be ‘de-linted’ again outside. . . I asked him to help with that. This was his response:

“Why would I take an opportunity like that away from my own Mommy? What kind of a teenage boy do you think I am?!” 

Followed by his obnoxious, contagious laugh. . .

Tommy’s so much fun!

I’ve decided to document all the hilarious things my kids say, and share them here on my blog. : ) It could be, like, a ‘kid log’. Maybe I’ll call it a ‘klog’!  : )

Six - Going on Sixteen

Jeffy took it upon himself to gas up Charlie’s truck yesterday. . I glanced out of the window just in time to see him toting a 5 gallon gas can across the yard, on his way back to the garage.

“What are you doing?!” I yelled, momentarily taken aback.

“Putting gas in Daddy’s truck!” he answered calmly/patiently, as he bounced along, (as if I needed to have this explained. . .) “He was out of gas.”

One of those moments, I guess, when you realize that your ‘just out of Kindergartener’ is growing up a little faster than you would like and there’s nothing you can do about it. Or maybe he just thinks that he’s TEN! Either way. . . Mama’s gonna have a talk with the little guy. . . .

Pioneer Day at Grandma’s!

Pioneer Day weekend, Charlie took five of the kids up to Grandma’s miniature horse farm in Idaho. They had great fun seeing Grandma and Grandpa and some of their cousins, and also a fabulous time riding and caring for the horses. It was sort of an unusual weekend, however, because Laena and Eric stayed in Utah to work, and I was in Missouri at my HS reunion. Vacationing in three different states. . Don’t know if we’ll be doing that again!  : )