Luke's Art

My 7 year old brought this home from school yesterday. I sometimes wonder about this kid....

I had to laugh at his thought process. It says below "I am counting my muny (money).

Have your kids ever done something unexpected like this?

Valentines Day

We had another year and another valentines day has come and gone at my house.

My husband is so not the romantic type. I new this going into our relationship and I still married this man anyway. I guess since I new this I can't complain.

Saturday, my next door neighbor was out on the roof of his house spray painting a big red heart on his snow covered roof. OK I would have yelled at my husband for doing something foolish, but how cute. My husband sees what my neighbor does and comes inside and say's "our neighbor must still love his wife".... yes this is what I put up with.

My husband finds it more fun to poke fun at love and our relationship than to ever profess his love. He doesn't mean he doesn't love me he just would never do anything like this and he thinks it is very gross. I would say he is more like an 8 year old boy who finds girls gross or at least anything romantic is considered gross.

With that said, valentines day came and went and nothing romantic took place in our house. Typical but just once it would be nice to be surprised.

We did however host a beautiful valentines day lunch at our Church yesterday. The kids hosted it and we all had a wonderful time.

How was your valentines day?

Oh and remember my post on all the things that have been breaking and going wrong in my house, I woke up Friday to find my ruby has fallen out of my wedding band wrap. Yep... the hits keep come.

AND THEY KEEP COMING

Why is it when you have a plane to put X # of dollars away per pay check for the next couple months so you can get that new door for the front of the house that I want so.... bad that everything seems to go wrong.

First my electric oral-b toothbrush stopped working. OK use a regular toothbrush and all will be fine. I have tried that but after using an electric one for so long I just don't feel like my teeth are getting clean. That will cost me $60 for a new one.

Second item would be my steam mop. Just stopped working mid-mop the other day. The light wont come on and it wont steam. I use my steam mop a lot so this also makes me mad. A new mop... $100.

Third item would be our insurance deductible after my husband got into a fender bender with his car. Cost.... $250

OK, things are supposed to go in threes but the problems just keep coming.

Fourth item, my two year old hit our one year "new" TV and busted the screen. Cost to fix $1100, or I can just buy a new one for about the same. It was not a very nice couple days in our house after this one happened. These new TV's are just not made for kids.

Fifth item, our furnace keeps shutting itself off. It will be working fine and then just shut off. I think, I hope, it is the digital thermostat that is the problem here and not the actual furnace. A few times we turn it on and off and it works again. Today it is being more stubborn and it is in the 20's outside. Currently running but I don't know for how long. Cost to fix.... I don't know yet but I am sure it wont be good.

So could anything else go wrong?????

Oh How They Look A Like

I have often talked about how much my boys look alike. Just the other day we were in the preschool where Luke went from the age of 2 until kindergarten and all the teachers that new Luke said how much Thomas looks just like him.

One thing I don't know if I have ever mentioned is how much Luke looks just like his father. It blows my mind how much they look alike. This year at Christmas time my mother-in-law gave me a photo of my husband when he was in kindergarten. Have a look at these two photos and tell me what you think?


I am sure you can guess who is who based on the photo quality but the first is Luke and the second one is his dad. If I didn't give birth to Luke I wouldn't think he was mine at all. There is nothing on him that is me it all goes to his dad.

THE MISSING GLOVE

I am going to stitch Luke's gloves and hat to his body. OK, not literally but he keeps loosing things. In the past month Luke has lost one of his snow gloves at least 5 times. I will show up at school to pick him up and he will say, mommy I lost one of my gloves. So we dig through these three huge bins of lost and found and we don't find it. I tell him to keep checking back and sure enough about two days later it appears in the bins. He then will have two gloves for about two days and we go through the same process all over again. It is literally making me crazy!

I ask him what are you doing with your gloves? He sticks them in his pockets. Pockets that are obviously not deep enough to keep the gloves inside of them. I then tell him not to take them off until he is at his locker in his class room. As you can see he listens to me so well since we keep repeating the same ordeal every few days.

He has also lost two hats. The hats have never turned up in the lost and found bin but I don't ever see any hats in the bins so I am thinking if a hat is lost it gets tossed. Probably for the prevention of spreading lice, that would be my only guess. Either way we have lost two really nice (NEW) hats and I don't think they are coming back.

What I find interesting is how easily young kids can loose things. Luke it is constant with the hats and gloves. But as I said before the bins are crazy full of shirts, gloves, lunch boxes, etc... Where are the owners of these things. We were walking out of school last week and a really nice brown girls sweater was just laying on the side walk.

Do your kids have trouble keeping track of their things? Any suggestions on how I can keep Luke from loosing his gloves all the time?