Gift for Grandma Mary

I have spent a major chunk of time the past week gathering and assembling a scrapbook for my Grandma Mary Mix's 90th birthday. It has been a labor of love. I finally put it in the mail today for my sister Tiffany to add the final touches. I have taken pictures of all the pages and if all goes well they will load and be visible on a slideshow here. We will see. This project has stretched my computer skills, which needed to happen. For all those who contributed, Thank you, and I hope you are as pleased with the outcome as I am.

Sunbeams

Today, in the spirit of conservation, I hung out all of my laundry to dry in the sun (what is a pool fence for anyway if not to just white-trash it up). One of the items I washed was Heidi's special blanket. As soon as she saw it, she wanted it. She grabbed it and when she realized it was wet she asked me to put it in the dryer. I told her the sun was going to dry it. She was skeptical. I finally convinced her to just give it a try. When I asked her how long she thought it might take for the sun to dry her blanket she said 8 minutes. So we went inside and set a timer. By the time it went off she of course had forgotten all about the blanket. When I reminded her what the timer was for she ran out and got her blanket and you know what? it was dry.

Tonight at FHE Tanner started to cry during the opening song when he realized we were not going to sing Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam. He was slightly consoled when he was told he got to choose the closing song. Six minutes later when we hit the closing song (we keep it short for everyone's sanity) he was so excited to jump up and down and be a Sunbeam. We got the kids in bed and Reed was laying by Tanner (a bad habit we need to break). Reed fell asleep before Tanner did (not uncommon) so Tanner was left to put himself to sleep. I happened to be walking by (returning the last of the sun dried sheets to the beds) and heard him singing to himself Jesus wants me for a sunbeam. I sat outside his room and was impressed with how well he knew the words. He kept getting louder, and I started to think I was going to have to intervene, and then it just stopped. He sang himself to sleep. Too cute.

On Saturday evening Zoe lost her second tooth. Reed recorded this.
Zoe in her prayer "Please bless that the tooth fairy will bring me 1000 dollars."
After her prayer "I said that because last time she did not bring me a 1000 dollars."
Zoe is my child with a keen interest in and understanding of money. Dear TF failed to make an appearance on Sat. night.
Reed "Do you think it would be possible for the tooth fairy to come during church?"
Zoe "No, because then people who are not members of the church would see him."
This morning when she was checking what she had received she counted out the quarters and seemed very unhappy. When questioned Zoe said it was because she didn't get 1000 dollars.
I guess it was Zoe's turn to be little black raincloud (she hates it when I call her that).